Valley Chai

i wrote on my bold predictions about silicon valley’s unemployment forecast a while ago, concluding that
next question is, what’s the peak? my hypothesis is that it’d be less than the 9.1% of 2003. the 2003 cycle was the dotcom bubble, pinching the Valley harder than the rest of the industries and regions. since 2008 is [...]

the feeding frenzy that began a year and half ago, never really stopped. yahoo had an asset that the goliath wanted., and the boys from redmond are too battle-tested, too tech-savvy, too much enamored with the bounty and too powerful for the resistance to hold up. you knew how this movie would end.
the story is [...]

if you are a facebook user like me, take a good look at your email inbox.
in mine, i noticed five alerts from facebook, a few twitter follower notices. couple of alerts from mailing list subscriptions, and a few bills and account notices, and a few notices about content from specific sites i like to go [...]

ran through cuban’s post on blog maverick. the dude is eccentric but does come up with good thoughts once in a while. the main argument is that a company based on a free product is eventually doomed to fail.
i do agree partly. one nuance i’d like to draw out is that ‘free’ should be accompanied [...]

folks, if you have real estate in the california, you can claim reduction in property taxes due to the decline in home values. check out the county assessor’s office of santa clara.
they even have a neat PPT showing exactly what this is about, and an online form to apply – very helpful government, all done [...]