October 2008
33 posts
Google, circa 2001 →
Gives you the results that you would have seen in 2001.
September 2008
28 posts
U.S. team wins 2008 Ryder Cup with new players and... →
Awesome, awesome, awesome. First time since 1999. And without Tiger!
SEC weighs broad move on short-selling →
I’m currently learning about short-selling in my financial economics class. Short-selling is a way to protect your portfolio in the event the price of a security drops in the future. It’s a great time to be studying finance!
My whereabouts
I’ll be at Om Malik’s Mobilize conference today organizing some volunteers. I had dinner with last week and now I’m helping out at the conference…oh the power of Om. This should be a great conference—the lineup is awesome. If you are interested in a free pass in exchange for a few volunteer hours, shoot me an email at patricktraughber [at] gmail [dot] com. I’m...
Lo siento
Posting has been light the past few days, as I was camping with friends, swimming in ice-cold, high-altitude lakes, and hiking egregiously winding trails in Yosemite. I’m back in Berkeley now, with two problem sets (econometrics and financial economics) due this week and I’m coordinating volunteers for GigaOM’s Mobilize conference on Thursday. I’m glad to have all this in...
WatchThese guys fly down Claremont, a street in Berkeley that I ride my bike down on half of my bike rides. As you can tell from the video, this street is steep—by the time I get to the bottom I can usually smell my brake pads. These guys are nuts!
Skip to 2:20 for the epic Claremont bomb.
Fewer US med students choosing primary care →
I wonder what health care will be like if this trend continues. Patients need doctors that know their medical history well and that’s what primary care doctors (including my dad) are great at. They bring with them not just a degree and knowledge of medicine—primary care doctors bring years of history with each patient and know more than anyone what works for each particular patient....
Armstrong returning to cycling, will try for Tour... →
Lance is back!
Today's agenda
I’ll be at TechCrunch 50 most of the day with Krutal and some other ST@B founders. It’s at the SF Design center near Adobe, iPhoneDevCamp’s home! I’m hoping to get a ST@B site up this week by the way, and you, my devoted readers, will be the first to get the link ; )
Last Wednesday's Poli Sci 179 Lecture
Last Wednesday I posted a photo from my Political Science 179 class (it’s not really a class, just a weekly guest lecture worth one unit) of Robert Reich, taken as he spoke to all 700 of us. The audio from the lecture has been posted to webcast.berkeley.edu. If you would like to listen, you can find it here. It is the September 3rd lecture.
CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies' →
While a lot of products are developed for the government and then make their way to the mainstream public, this time the path is reversed. It’s a great product of the web 2.0 movement. Here is the Wikipedia article for “A-Space.” And an excerpt:
“It’s a place where not only spies can meet but share data they’ve never been able to share before,”...
Google Chrome, please Macify yourself soon
Google chose to launch Chrome on Windows first, which is understandable as Windows represents a much larger portion of the OS pie, but according to the Google Mac Blog, the Mac version doesn’t seem like it will be ready for some time.
Platforms and Priorities:
Right now, both are in the “pieces build and pass tests, but there’s no Chromium application yet.” While...
Google on Google Chrome - comic book →
This will be exciting. Google is going to get into the browser space. And they chose a great way to release their project—they took a complex product (browsers) and explained it through a comic that explains how Google Chrome is going to be different from the other browsers out there today (Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari are the big three). The timing? They just inked a deal with...