It’s been a while since I envisioned a simpler web site for consumers to identify the best checking, savings, and money market rates at local, national, and online financial institutions. Back when my brother sent me a link to join ING Direct, years ago, I wasn’t really that bullish about online savings accounts. [...]

I was digging around for videos from the Zeitgeist (I wish I had a login to that site), and finally found some new ones a few days ago. The founders of Google don’t often show up in presentations, but since the Zeitgeist is a Google event, it was fitting.
Sergey and Larry talk about some [...]

Food fighting has come a long way, and its quite intriguing to see how history repeats itself, and concepts continually evolve while maintaining an undercurrent of themes, values, rules, and such. Some are keen enough to identify those opportunities, quickly. Business 2.0 published an article, called “The man who started the foodfight“, highlighting [...]

The head of Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan, recently spoke at WWW2007. I didn’t attend the conference, but found some interesting notes (here). On one hand, he speaks to how it is important that we make data and the processing of data much smarter, so that we spend less time querying and deducing [...]