Video Showing a dancing parrot
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
The digital media offers new sets of ICT tools to facilitate communication and collaboration among people. They could be employed to strategically to improve innovative capability and productivity of an organization.
The slide presentation describes some of these tools and how they can be used within an organization.
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The slide presentation describes some of these tools and how they can be used within an organization.
Enterprise 2.0 - Efficient Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
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Dove's Evolution Commercial
Dove made a viral video that was viewed over eight million times. The video is catchy. It shows how an ordinary picture is transformed into a high quality bill board picture.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Retirement Dreams Disappear
The retirement accounts in the form of 401k suffered serious losses in the current financial meltdown on the Wall Street. Some people have postponed their retirements. Some are deciding to stay working way longer then they originally planned.
The CBS video shows real people who are suffering due to these losses in their retirement investment portfolios.
The CBS video shows real people who are suffering due to these losses in their retirement investment portfolios.
Story of Failure of the First Hedge Fund
The fund was established by the quantitative financiers also known as Quants, who use leverage to maximize the yield on the investment while hedging the possible risks.
Eric Rosenfeld a principal of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) talks at MIT about the failure this hedge fund. The fund was bailed out by Alan Greenspan.
Eric Rosenfeld a principal of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) talks at MIT about the failure this hedge fund. The fund was bailed out by Alan Greenspan.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Google Quarter one Earning
Goggle has a slight drop in the total revenue for the first quarter of 2009
2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides
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A Stunning New Way to See Scientific Data
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin an artist and musician demonstrate stunning data visualization through a tour of AlloSphere, a data visualization application being developed at University of California.
The techniques use a combination of skills from Science, Engineering and art.
The techniques use a combination of skills from Science, Engineering and art.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp Belgium
Video shows the central station at Antwerp, Belgium. The video required only two rehearsals to produce and went viral with views at youtube approaching one million.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Digital Darwinism
Internet was originally considered the great leveler and initially showed the seductive promise of digital equality. However, the emerging picture is quite different. It is creating even bigger inequalities.
In this video media critic and author of the book "The Cult of Amateur" Andrew Keen argues that we might see the emergence of digital fascism where few well known talented people hog all the limelight for themselves and emerge as the leading figures in the new emerging digital medium.
Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo.
In this video media critic and author of the book "The Cult of Amateur" Andrew Keen argues that we might see the emergence of digital fascism where few well known talented people hog all the limelight for themselves and emerge as the leading figures in the new emerging digital medium.
Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo.
World Builder
A video in which a man uses Holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Future of Advertising
A slidecast of a talk at Advertising Producers Association about the use of social media and social networking in advertising.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Golden Balls - £100,000 Split Or Steal?
A variation on the game of "Prisoners Dilemma" where the player who cheats will win the money. They swear to each other that they will not cheat and split the prize money by choosing the split "Option". Guess who cheats and won?
Any explanation for the choices made by the participants?
Any explanation for the choices made by the participants?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Google Container Data Center
Google released a video on its Data Center. These data center holds huge amount of data and perform calculations for the query. They will also be the foundation of future cloud computing.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Bill Moyer of PBS Discusses Banking Fraud
Ex bank regulator Bill Black on PBS show with the commentator Bill Moyer discussing the lax banking regulations and failure in the current Banking system. A men made crisis.
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Part 2
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
CEO Compensations Are They Justified?
Here is the details for the executive compensation for the CEO of GM Rick Wagoner
General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner's compensation package for last year is valued at $15.7 million.Google paid $1 in salaries and no bonus and no stock grants
That's 64 percent more than 2006 when the package was worth $9.57 million.
GM spokeswoman Julie Gibson says much of the increase is stock incentive awards that are based on future performance.
Wagoner earned $1.56 million in salary and no bonus last year, but he received $1.8 million in incentive awards and stock options valued at $11.7 million.
GM lost a record $38.7 billion in 2007, largely due to a charge for unused tax credits. Without the charges and other one-time items, the company lost $23 million. Source
Wall Street executives feeling harassed by taxpayers outraged at their pay might take note of how Google's ruling triumvirate fared in 2008: $1 in salary each, no bonus, no stock grants, and no stock options.
Google has offered co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt "market-competitive" salaries every year since 2005, but once again in 2008, the three turned it down, according to a company regulatory filing Tuesday. "Due to their own preferences not to receive salary compensation, Eric, Larry, and Sergey each rejected these offers and continue to receive base salaries of $1," the company said.Source
Also, Japan Airline CEO takes a voluntary cut to his salary to save money for the company and keep people employed.
Looking at this, is it safe to draw the conclusion that there is no correlation between executive compensations and the performance of the company?
The moral of the story is that look for companies that are not paying excessive compensation to its CEOs for future investment. Probably a good idea in choosing stocks for building an investment portfolio.