Archive for April, 2008
Signs of a bubble bursting
I remember back in January a colleague of mine telling this story to a small audience.
“Sunday I was in bad with a bit of flu, and here he calls, the agent from XXX, asking me if I wanted to see some property to buy (he showed interest in buying a property weeks before). I [...]
300 adnetworks in US
This is crazy! I read this number on the WSJ, if I remember correctly. I am not convinced there is enough space to nicely run 300 ad networks in the US. Probably not even in the whole world. There is probably enough room for a dozen or so. Every sort of medium sized publisher that [...]
Don’t shoot Comscore
After Google reported strong Q1 earnings, people from all around the world started shooting at Comscore.
Quite wrongly, considering that Comscore numbers weren’t used in the most appropriate way. As Comscore points out in a blog post, it is necessary to compare apple to apple. And to know their product fairly well, before making any conclusions. [...]
BMW-Audi
I like this one!
The Clean Energy Scam - TIME
This is worth reading. Really. It’s about the perverse things that bio-fuels production is causing. Like de-forestation (which causes 20% of all carbon emissions), loss of bio-diversity and many other things.
“Some scientists believe fires are now altering the local microclimate and could eventually reduce the Amazon to a savanna or even a desert. “It’s approaching [...]