Affiliate Summit West
Affiliate Summit West is coming up in a month. Let me guess-it is a convention for affiliates. I can barely contain my excitement. I bet there will be a lot of industry gurus and experts in the field of affiliate marketing who will divulge their invaluable secrets to making money online. Maybe this time attendees won’t stand up and leave before the keynote speech and panel discussion is finished, like they did last year. The staff should give everyone helmets so in case you don’t suffer brain damage not from the presentation, but from hitting your head repeatedly on any hard, immobile objects. There should be a paramedic team ready in the event someone lapses into a boredom induced coma (BIC). I also recommend everyone bring yoga mats or a sleeping pad, since I imagine it would be more comfortable and beneficial for blood circulation to fall asleep on a pad as opposed to in your chair.
Cetin Hakimoglu
math work posted coming soon regarding infinite series and other crap
cetin hakimoglu
Microsoft proposes buyout of Yahoo. Facebook next?
On 1 February 2008 Microsoft made an unsolicited takeover bid to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion dollars in cash and stock. If this deal materializes it will be the largest technology take over ever.
But more interestingly is that this deal leaves the door open for google to make a large acquisition since Microsoft would be temporarily out of funds.
A couple months ago I hypothesized that Google could and should acquire Facebook for $30 billion dollars. Everyone dismissed me as being an idiot, but with Microsoft paying a 60% percent premium for Yahoo would it be so unreasonable for Google to buyout Facebook? Google, a $180 billion dollar company, certainly has the capital to initiate such a large deal, and it would give Google near dominance over the social networking market.
Google’s efforts to enter the social networking arena have been met with failure. Orkurt is only popular in Brazil, and Open Social hasn’t gotten off the ground or materialized into anything meaningful. Just like the acquisition of youtube in 2006, Google’s only option to make any meaningful inroads with social networking is to make a large acquisition, namely buying out Facebook for $30 billion or more.
Only time will tell, but I am 99 percent certain Facebook won’t be ignored…
slopeofhope.com is underwhelming and overrated
Aa frequent reader of Tim Knight’s slopeofhope stock trading blog I have noticed a trend, which is that very little if any of Tim’s ramblings actually help his readers make money in the stock market. He has a unique methodology where using funny log charts, shade-ins and lines he describes what could happen, but not what will. This isn’t useful because obviously in the stock market anything could happen. The dow could go up 1000 points in a single day, although this is exceedingly unlikely. By avoiding making any specific predictions or recommendations Tim can avoid ever having to admit being wrong, yet he will take credit in the unlikely even he is ‘right’.
He will write, for example, ‘the chart shows that a break above the neckline is possible’. If it does break above the neckline he will congratulate himself, but if it doesn’t he will never speak of it again.
Also, his recommendations are too complicated and arcane. When I tell people to buy EWZ at $72 anyone with an online trading account can do this. But Tim’s vague, vacuous advice is far more difficult to act on, which is why his blog isn’t helpful at actually making moeny in the stock market. EWZ has surged nearly right percent since I recommended it on my blog, where as Tim’s confusing recommendations are all over the map.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t stop thousands of loyal readers from lauding over his every word. True, his blog is a trading blog versus an investing blog, but it doesn’t do anyone any good if you can’t make any actual money with his advice. Maybe in time his readers will realize how his blog isn’t very useful and consider alternatives such as iamned.com and others.