500 Million isn’t enough.
Why?
Mobile Search/Maps + Local Reviews = Mobile Killer App. Mobile is the next great search frontier and credible local information is what people want when they’re mobile. A Yelp acquisition with proper intergration into mobile map application leapfrogs an acquiring company light years ahead everyone one else in the industry trying to […]

Here are odds to win ESPN’s Streak for cash if you pick games at a certain percentage. Simply put 1 over the number the corresponding number below
Percentage Picked At    Odds of winning (1/x)
1%    999,999,999,994,598,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
2%    7,450,580,596,903,720,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
3%    131,137,265,239,473,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
4%    55,511,151,231,182,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
5%    134,217,727,999,855,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
6%    977,048,763,927,751,000,000,000,000,000,000
7%    15,217,836,705,778,700,000,000,000,000,000
8%    413,590,306,276,374,000,000,000,000,000
9%    17,196,982,334,544,700,000,000,000,000
10%    999,999,999,999,728,000,000,000,000
11%    76,277,684,443,836,000,000,000,000
12%    7,279,580,562,773,440,000,000,000
13%    838,551,012,603,546,000,000,000
14%    113,381,718,887,296,000,000,000
15%    17,600,945,796,604,000,000,000
16%    3,081,487,911,019,060,000,000
17%    599,624,159,593,424,000,000
18%    128,127,502,907,420,000,000
19%    29,761,360,072,800,800,000
20%    7,450,580,596,922,820,000
21%    1,995,625,488,461,580,000
22%    568,313,035,695,592,000
23%    […]

Fed aims to become counterparty in commercial paper market…. Necessary to normalize short term business lending during crisis, But introduces undesirable government control and intervention during non-crisis periods. This is *very* interesting. Bernanke power grab?
The TED spread is probably the most telling *leading* publicly available metric to measure how significant the impact of the Wall […]

I have a bone to pick with valley entrepreneurs. If you’re working on a project/startup and it hasn’t been announced to the public and you wish to keep said project or startup under wraps
I’ve had too many conversations at conferences/meet-ups that have gone like this
Me: Ahh, so what are you working on these days
Them: New […]

Question is not if, it’s when… Don’t believe me? Let’s look at some charts
NASDAQ

Housing

Oil

My prediction? We’ll be seeing sub 90 dollar a barrel oil by the end of the year sub 3 dollar a gallon gas by the end of 2010 if not sooner.
-N

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“The inevitable has happened”
Gabe Cheng’s famous words are eerily relevant amidst the current economic slow down.
With mainstream media widely reporting that the American economy has entered a recession, inflation at its highest level in years, the Bush administration calling for an extension of it’s tax cuts and the Fed heavily rumored to cut interest rates […]

For those of you that read my blog, you’ve probably already seen the doc… but in case you haven’t here’s a hot link.
Warning, contents are *hot*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTSXdXS15U
We’ve gotten some attention, most notably Mashable and Valleywag… we’ll see what else pans out…
Already moving on to the next NMM project…
Oh and if you blog, hook it up with […]

Earlier today Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a strategic partnership with EMI to release DRM-Free Music through it’s successful itunes electronic music distribution channel.
Too little, too late? I often wonder what would have happened if the music industry would have accepted the changing music paradigm instead of fighting it. Digital music, for all intent and purposes […]

I was fortunate enough to get an Impromptu Demo of OLPC’s Children’s Machine (aka $100 dollar laptop) by Håkon Wium Lie Chief Technology Officer at Opera Software . The group responsible for the initiative gave the Opera team a working prototype of the laptop so they could test Opera’s software on the machine. This […]