If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, resources, search engines and ‘time-saving’ tools out there, why not be?  Since I have been politely asked by the folks at AltSearchEngines to give a list of favoured search engines, I am happy to do...

By Stephen Wolfram Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science (NKS) are ambitious projects. But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project — called WolframAlpha . And I’m excited to say that in just two months it’s going to be going live: Read the...

Hi, we’re Swingly. We’re here because we think you deserve a better search engine. We know you love your favorite search engine. So do we. We’ve always been big fans of Google and Yahoo!, we told our friends about Ask, Clusty, and Powerset, and we like what Microsoft’s doing with Live. But i...

This guest post is written by Jack Arrington, who contributed 50% of the genetic material required to produce TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Jack was around at the very beginning of what we today call the Information Technology business. In 1950 pure business necessity drove Bank of America, ...

L.McDuff: This is a sequel to a video parody I made in December 2007 entitled Wall Street Meltdown (also on YouTube) that chronicled the developing financial crisis of 2007. Redux picks up where the original left off and covers the deepening crisis in 2008. It is scary the prophetic nature of the fi...

Marshall Auerback is a Denver, Colorado-based global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital plc and a Fellow with the Economists for Peace and Security (http://www.epsusa.org/). He is a frequent contributor to the blog, Credit Writedowns, and the Japan Policy Research Institute (www.jpri.org) and a ne...

I don't know about you but I love reviews of trade shows from an exhibitor's perspective. In that vein, we have a report from April Femrite who recently exhibited her line at the . If you're producing items for the active or outdoor market, this show is a must. This report is even more valuable beca...

Mr Mortgage is a 20-year residential mortgage banking veteran, specializing in wholesale and correspondent sales and sales/operations management and bringing financial institutions into new lending markets. Since 2006, his primary focus has been upon his work as an independent research analyst at hi...

Note: Mrs. Parker is not for children. -editor. In 1919, her career took off while writing theatre criticism for Vanity Fair, which she began as a stand-in for P. G. Wodehouse. At the magazine she met Robert Benchley, who became a close friend, and Robert E. Sherwood. The trio began lunching at the ...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. ~~~ This month, as promised, we give gold and the Fed a break from our raves and rants for a more diverse menu: 1. Lee’s Tier-One, Non-Risk Adjusted Paella 2. Put us in Coach, We’re Rea...