Link Feed: Links of Interest
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June 12, 2008
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| 13:05 | Team building in paradise: Each year, Seagate Technology spends $2 million for 200 employees to spend a week hiking, kayaking, and adventure racing in the mountains of New Zealand. Is it worth it? |
| 13:04 | Power List: Where the private equity money is: Fortune's exclusive look at the country's most powerful buyout firms. |
| 13:03 | The year of the vulture: The private equity firms that will thrive in the year ahead are those that know how to profit from others' misfortunes. |
| 13:02 | Big tech: A shelter in the storm: You've seen the blowout earnings numbers. Here's a look at why growth remains strong. |
| 12:56 | The Wonder Fish: Yes, there is a toxin-free, sustainable, farmed fish. And damn if it ain't tasty. |
| 12:54 | Carbon finance comes of age: The cap-and-trade market for emissions - coming soon to America - is creating huge new opportunities for business. |
| 12:52 | Guess who's rewriting the rules of gaming?: Girls, office drones, and other non-teenage boys hooked on new, free-to-play online games, that's who. |
| 12:50 | Starting Salaries but New York Tastes "For a little while I only ate grapefruits for my lunch," said Mr. Driscoll, who pays $400 a month on his college loans, "because they have a lot of nutrients and they got me through the day." |
| 12:49 | Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer |
| 12:48 | Successful MMOGs can see $1-2 in monthly ARPU: Gaming stats are always interesting. |
| 12:48 | Management Fashion Pay-for-Performance: Interesting science paper. A bit cynical and black/white, but good food for thought. |
| 12:45 | MaxAllround: Dienstleistungsagentur München |
| 12:45 | The Average German |
| 12:44 | Biggest Drawing in the World: Pretty rad. |
| 12:43 | A Clear Look at Biofuels |
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May 24, 2008
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| 12:04 | Google Health: Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It's safe, secure, and free. Organize your health information all in one place. Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies. Keep your doctors up to date about your health. Be more informed about important health issues. |
| 12:02 | The Day There Was No News |
| 12:00 | Germany's strength lies in 'old economy' |
| 11:59 | Hunting for oil beneath the ice: There's a new rush for petroleum from Alaska to the North Pole. |
| 11:58 | The secret of enduring greatness: The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, "We are responsible for our results!" |
| 11:53 | Hairstyles of Highly Efficient CEOs: Buy, sell or comb over? |
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May 11, 2008
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| 7:25 | Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People |
| 7:23 | Talking Mavs: Straight from Mark Cuban. |
| 7:23 | GTA IV: Is The Game Really That Good?: To put it lightly, if the other things made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are called 'games', we have to come up with a new word for GTA IV. I think the word is 'platform'. By every measure, GTA IV is orders of magnitude larger than anything else on the market, including with the critical scores. |
| 7:22 | Gründertrip: Minenräumen als Startup-Opportunity |
| 7:21 | Fuji Kindergarten: Architects Takaharu and Yui Tezuka joined forces with Kashiwa Sato, one of Toyko's most respected creative directors, to build and brand, a novel kind of kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburban area of Tokyo. Monocle's Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson reports on the Roof House concept. |
| 7:21 | Monocle: design notes: Detailed account on how the Monocle website was done. Very interesting. |
| 7:20 | In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies |
| 7:18 | At Rearden Commerce, Addiction is Job One: "Rearden Commerce, is quietly emerging as major force among enterprise startups ... All in all, Rearden now offers its services to more than 1,700 corporations, up from 92 two years ago before signing AmEx as a partner. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline alone has about 60,000 employees on Rearden. Collectively, those corporate customers have about one million employees using Rearden to book flights, cars, hotels, dinner reservations, baseball games, theater tickets, conference calls, and even ground shipping." |
| 7:16 | The last days of Bear Stearns |
| 7:16 | Chaos on Wall Street |
| 7:14 | What's wrong with Wall St. - and how to fix it |
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April 15, 2008
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| 0:21 | What power looks like: They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass. |
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