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Here’s my list of things I have done (for better or worse) in 2006

My equity rose around 30%+ this year which is not bad if considering the Fed interest rate is hovering between 5-5.25% and Indonesia’s central bank rate is somewhere under 10% (is it? Sheez… I miss using Google or Yahoo to do a [...]

Since my last semi-hiatus post on searching for the holy grail, I’ve made some progress on fiddling with how options work. Not much but not small and I’ve decided to work on the following things:

Covered Call Strategy. I know that my background is fundamental analysis and it will take a great deal of time before [...]

If you see my work on this pictures below, you will see how messy I really am. I mean, both are practically the same work but the first is the first draft and the second one is the cleaner draft. Does that mean I’m a chaotic thinker?
The messy one:

The “cleaner” one:

Please note, those are not [...]

A while ago, I promised you that I will write a more thorough article about Meebo VC funding. This is yet another web 2.0 company that receive a VC funding even when the company doesn’t have a revenue yet and the money is only projected on the business plan. To keep this entry as objective [...]

StealthText has released an SMS technology that can self-destruct like in an old Mission Impossible movies. They argued that this technology can be used to protect privacy and sensitive data from leaking to the undeserved people. They also argued that this technology is completely harmless because you can only command the system to add this [...]

Yes, that sounded like a book title by Paul Surowiecky but I’m referring it to Digg after successfully matched Slashdot and will eventually outdone them. This is a very clear form of the wisdom of the crowds, the thing where web 2.0 should be headed.
It’s not about people telling other people what to submit and [...]

Just a quick post and addressing some of the comments (and emails) regarding my previous entry. Here are some comments and my (additional) arguments:

Google uses AJAX extensively. Yeah, so what? Web 2.0 is not about java script worm scrambled everywhere. It’s about usability where users now have power on driving the content of the site. [...]

Today I actually wanted to continue my unfinished writings about OBSM, but then I got this message from some mailing list that stated Google *is* web 2.0 and a link to I, Cringley. Of course the statement is very bold, Google supercedes the rest of web 2.0 services.
I disagree with that. Infact, I think Google [...]

Imagine this, how if a conventional business is teamed up with an open-source business models? I’m talking about webhosting giving away their products for free, music artists literally giving away their records to be downloaded (free!), or a book writer giving away a free copy of his/her book (I’m quite an imaginative person and you [...]

After bought new domains, Google is heading towards a new internet capitalisation. The rate of expansion of this company is extravagant and sky-high. From galactic venture partnership (googlegalactic.com anyone?) and many business fear that Google might someday eats their business chunk.
Will your business be eaten by Google’s next move? Let’s take a sneak peek of [...]