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02.27.08

Very Interesting: Capture Carbon The Environment | (1)
See below: http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/new-materials-can-selectively-45139.aspx
02.26.08

GOOG at 452.34 Opinion, TheFunded.com | (1)
Well, not sure if this should make me happy, since I predicted it a couple of weeks ago, or sad, since it predicates some hard times ahead. If I were to guess, it will drop further when it hits the $449 mark in trading, but then rebound opportunistic buyers. Today will be a fun day on the market. Thankfully, it wont affect me at all. More thoughts to come on the market, but here is what I will say. Now is one of the best times to start and to finance a company. There are many, many reasons to ...
02.25.08

Vator.tv Interview TheFunded.com | (0)
A solid online video interview about TheFunded.com hit the airwaves moments ago at Vator.tv: http://www.vator.tv/news/show/the-funded-interview-adeo-ressi-2-23-08-4 This was probably one of the more "blunt" accountings of the site history, as I was a little under the weather that day. Enjoy!
02.25.08

MediaWiki and CotF The Environment | (1)
MediaWiki was just installed on www.youreco.com for the City of the Future project, and there the software is not sufficient. By the time that MediaWiki is customized to make it good for planning the City of the Future, a specialized application designed with the specific requirements could be launched. Unfortunate, but true... I am going to give it one more shot before I quit for good.
02.25.08

The Financial Times TheFunded.com | (0)
Peter Guest of the Financial Times wrote a nice article on TheFunded.com today, published in the European additions and online. See below: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4489550-e177-11dc-a302-0000779fd2ac.html TheFunded.com has taken a few hundred new Membership applications from Europe as a result. The site is also getting a lot of pension funds and endowment applications, which has long been the goal. Enjoy!
02.25.08

GOOG at $489 and Dropping Opinion | (1)
Google has not hit my price target of $450... YET, but it has cleared the invisible line of $500 per share today by a nice margin. My guess is that various funds are being forced to sell positions right now and the stock is hitting short targets, so I would expect it to drop further today. It will likely rebound with opportunistic buyers, but, if it stays below $500 for a couple of days, we are on the $450 downhill slide. Why do I care? Google at $450, in my opinion, will start a broader market decline starting in ...
02.25.08

City of The Future Planning Software City of the Future | (1)
There is a working prototype of the software for planning the City of the Future (COTF) written in Ruby on Rails. However, given the fact the design goal is a repository of information for concepts surround the planning and construction of any COTF by any government or organization, there may be massive benefits to use software already designed for a similar task, such as Wikia, which has many localizations. I am hoping to install and start testing Wikia on www.youreco.com as soon as today. The goal is to port all of the blog content from YourEco to this site ...
02.24.08

Ownership, Collective Ownership, and the Pitfalls of Our Time City of the Future | (2)
The modern concept of ownership is invented by humanity, but it does not seem to be serving the collective good. The unalienable rights of ownership and the lack of restrictions present deep challenges to the future. Here are three simple examples that we face every day: - A rural land owner likes to wear white clothing and uses an excessive amount of bleach, which pollutes the ground water used by his neighbors. - An urban land owner decides to take a central downtown plot and use it for a chemical factory, increasing downtown traffic significantly and pouring out excessive amounts of smoke ...
02.21.08

Sold the Gold / GLD Opinion | (2)
The extremely rocky waters of the market have been unsettling lately. I still believe that Google will hit the $450 per share range, but it does not seem to be slipping below $500 per share. We shall see. Meanwhile, I sold all of my gold (GLD) holdings yesterday, when the exchange fund hit an all time high in the $93 range. I had doubled down on my gold holdings early in the year and promised myself not to get greedy. All in all, the antiquated form of polished currency did well by me. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:GLD So, now, am ...
02.19.08

Visibility Grows on TheFunded.com TheFunded.com | (0)
Three great stories on TheFunded.com by three great writers hit within the last 48 hours. Some VCs learn to appreciate site that rates them Reuters - Anupreeta Das TheFunded.com irks venture capitalists (Commentary: Its goal to spark change in an insular world is laudable) MarketWatch - Therese Poletti Entrepreneurs turn tables on venture capitalists at TheFunded AFP - Glenn Chapman It has been an interesting time for TheFunded.com. More to come shortly.

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