[21 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
It happened 20 years ago: July 21, 1990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin

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Art, Life »

[27 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Visiting with friends at Yale

Ad and I (with Josef on the right)

More of Ad and I

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Jean-Michel and I

Jean-Michel and I

Jean-Michel and I

Jane and I

Jules and I

Mark and I

Stuart and I

Vincent and I

Business, Life »

[15 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2011

24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Readers Digest, Kia Motors, Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG), Zale (NYSE: ZLC), Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), T-Mobile, BP plc (NYSE: BP), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH), Merrill Lynch, and Moody’s (NYSE: MCO).
24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a report of brands that are likely to disappear in the near-term. Last April, and again in December, we published our findings. Usually, it would take a full year before such a list could be compiled again. However, the current economic climate …

Business »

[15 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
How Will Facebook Make Money?

The company’s future depends on finding just the right balance between the privacy expectations of its users and the quality of the social marketing data it can serve to its business partners.

For many people, Facebook is the first stop in any Web surfing session. It has developed into a highly engaging combination of online bulletin board, personal scrapbook, and group communication network. But did you ever wonder why, being all those things, Facebook is free?
Well, it really isn’t. Facebook offers its service in exchange for the right to capture …