Announcing Bilgistic
Okay, we tried but it didn’t take. Our vision for Big Thinkr was to become a resource on local activities and startups. Our enthusiasm remains but our effort has petered out. So I’m launching a new blog at www.bilgistic.com on which I’m going to try and keep a fast and furious pace […]
When the other shoe drops
It’s now December 13, and the news this morning is that Citigroup has decided to face the music and take $49B in SIV exposure onto its balance sheet. Thankfully the “conduit” is dead, and other banks around the world will soon enough be forced to face the music too. So I think we’re almost to […]
Facebook’s Netscape Moment
Can The Google be denied?
The killer social app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined Yet Another Social Network. It’s the web as the ultimate social network.
“Google just needs to bring everything together. […]
Semantic web finally here?
The news is that Twine.com is about to release. If they actually pull “it” off, I think this could revolutionize the way organizations and groups use information. “It” is the oft-promised “semantic web”: using the MEANING of information to map relationships among topics and people. The Twine people call this mapping the “semantic graph”, of […]
When does the credit “Crunch” become the credit “Crash?”
Short answer: methinks November 2007.
This new “conduit” that the Treasury Dept is encouraging the big banks to form sounds like fools gold. The purpose is to free up the jammed commercial paper market so Citigroup and other big banks don’t get burned by the huge (hundreds of $B) off-balance-sheet Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) they’ve […]
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