Gary Eckstein Management 0 ayn rand, Capitalism, daron acemoglu, democracy, Economics, freedom, government, heritage foundation, milton friedman, wall street journal
Daron Acemoglu, the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Department of Economics, has written an excellent article for Esquire titled ‘What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer’. The hypothesis that Acemoglu proposes is that political and economic freedom are the ingredients for poverty reduction. The argument proposed is certainly [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, Caffeine, chrome, clusty, gmail, google, google docs, Internet, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, news corp, Office, Outlook, windows, wolfram alpha, yahoo
The reason that the vast majority of people use Google as their preferred Search Engine over others (e.g. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Clusty, Wolfram Alpha etc.) is because Google does search best. Google has such huge Search Engine market share because it returns more relevant results to searchers and is constantly improving. Google does well because [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 5 amazon, business, core competence, core competency, data, data analysis, google, knowledge organizations, larry page, picasa
Data: A competitive advantage second to none! The ability of organizations to collect relevant data, realise meaningful information from that data and then act upon the information is the key to success for many ‘new-wave’ service and knowledge organizations. A core competence of data collection, analysis and action is what separates spectacular success from average [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 aids, annie lennox, Australia, cole porter, erasure, lyrics, music, sinead o connor, Sydney, thermometer, tom waits, weather
It’s too darned hot… Yip, it’s going to be a hot one here in Sydney today. Already it is humid and sweltering… Sydney, Australia Weather Forecast free online clock desktop clock Reminds me of that great song sung by Erasure on ‘Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter‘ – It’s Too Darn Hot [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 daniel radcliffe, documentary, hmd, holocaust, holocaust memorial, holocaust memorial day
Daniel Radcliffe (yes, of Harry Potter fame) has narrated a short documentary titled The Legacy of Hope for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMD). It is well worth watching…
