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On Groupon
Good analysis of what’s going wrong over there. Fits nicely with what I wrote in October of last year. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Capital Economy As A Service
The Community Platform will provide direct, on-demand access to the entire NYSE Technologies portfolio of services, including Superfeed, a global trading platform providing microsecond data transmissions via a secure network; the Risk Management Gateway (RMG), a low-latency routing engine that … Continue reading
Spam Financiers
After examining millions of spam e-mails and spam Web sites—and making over 100 purchases from the sites advertised by the spammers—the research team found that just three banks were used to clear more than 95 percent of spam funds. The … Continue reading
Review: Low Town by Daniel Polansky
Low Town by Daniel Polanksy. I love all things noir, so I was interested when a fantasy riff came out on it. I’m not generally a fantasy reader however, though I absolutely adored the Dragonlance series. I appreciated that Low … Continue reading
iA Writer’s Sweet Feature
iA Writer has a great feature. It fades out previous sentences as you write a new one. In their words: Why? It’s a common pattern, that, instead of following the voice and fleshing out the text in one go, people … Continue reading