“Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent,” - Old Testament Keeping silent and being in a state of inaction is the worst thing to happen for any individual.

An interesting scenario of google’s future: Via BusinessPundit : Society is only beginning the transition into all this collectivist business nonsense (yes, I know I was guilty of it too), so we still have a way to go before people realize the value of expertise and the flight to quality begins. The web has its fads, just like everything else. But back to Google…my prediction is that someday they will offer a premium service that has no ads, a nice junk site filter, and will charge a monthly fee.

A totally wierd concept, but seems to be working Via FARK.com: During all of 1999, Fark got 50,000 pageviews. During all of 2004, Fark got over 400 million pageviews. We’re not sure what we’ll get during 2006, but at this rate by the end of the year there will be more people reading Fark than will be alive on the planet at that time. It will be interesting to see how that works out.

An article in wsj quotes that there are a number of trading platforms available for helping peripatetic customers stay in touch with their money like www.thinkorswim.com , www.siebertnet.com , E trade, Fidelity, www.mbtrading.com ,www.alphatrade.com . Here’s another side of the story : Most online brokers offering software-based trading applications that an investor downloads and installs have packages that run only on a Windows-based machine. So, there is a clear gap for a firm to provide these services

“Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” - Charles Scribner, Jr