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POPSClipcasts & The Shape of the Net to Come It's amazing how the press out there, and most of the public, seems to have missed the big picture of what's going on here. They think this is about social networking and internet advertising. They are dead wrong. We're all involved in a much bigger game now, and the pieces are the very building blocks of society's future. I've clipped a few of the puzzle pieces together to make my point: 1. Cold War: Open v. Closed software ...leads to... 2. Show down between Cloud computing vs. PC software ...meanwhile... 3. Microsoft (PC OS) muscles in on Facebook (Internet Platform for Web Apps.) ...and on the other side... 4. Google (the world's leading search engine) muscles in on Firefox (the world's leading alternative web browser.) ...and then... 5.) Clipmarks, total wild card, leapfrogs over facebook into decentralized internet platforms with Clipcasts! Something VERY VERY BIG is afoot!
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POPSPoor Hit Hard by Credit Crunch The poor have always had to rely on paying excessive interest on loans, Now they are being squeezed even there. Enter the moneylender sharks, the backstreet extortionists.
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POPSOil Is Well But, hey, don't forget the good news! Last week the stocks went UP and the Dow Jones has returned to pre-9/11 growth levels.
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POPSFinance Turmoil: Warnings Were There This is one of many voices unheard in February and before. The late J.K. Galbraith's "Innocent Raud" is still a salutary read for those who want to understand the risk casino that is global finance.