Viral Video: Google Inside Out With Steven Levy

The Churchill Club posted this video of a morning interview session I did with author and journalist Steven Levy last week in Silicon Valley.

Levy talked about his new book, "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives."

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Uh-Oh: Is Shiller Defending the Failures of Economists?

Was it the hammers or the carpenters? That is the question alluded to this morning by Yale Professor Robert Shiller in the NYT. Shiller is one of my favorite academics working in the field of finance. He tries to (diplomatically) argue we can prevent future crises if only we had better econometric tools. I would [...]

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3 Ways to Look at Marketing

After reading “Is Any Publicity Good Publicity?” by John Mariotti, I started thinking (and rethinking) about marketing. � John says the�?news media spreads stories in a blink of an eye,? but if messages are so easy to spread, why do small business owners seem to struggle with marketing?

Could it be our mindset? Even though effective marketing is as fundamental to our businesses as the quality of the product or service that we provide, we small business ownersRead More

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3 Ways to Look at Marketing

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Ken Heebner's 30 Favorite Stock Picks

Insider Monkey submits:

Ken Heebner was one of the most popular hedge fund managers, with tremendous returns until the 2008-2009 crash. He managed to beat the S&P 500 index by 63 percentage points in 2000. In 2001, he returned 47% vs. S&P 500?s 12% decline. He beat the market marginally in 2002 and 2004 marginally. In 2003, he returned 67% and beat the S&P 500 by nearly 38 percentage points. In 2005 Heebner again beat the market by 20 percentage points. Even though he underperformed in 2006 marginally, he killed the S&P 500 by returning 80% in 2007.

These were amazing returns. Unfortunately he lost a lot of credibility in 2008 and 2009 when he returned -48% and 10.5% respectively. His 2010 performance isn?t enough to recover his 2008 losses. His portfolio gained only 16% in 2010. We like Ken Heebner because he isn?t afraid of betting against the market when most fund

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The Word Bubble

In all the posts over the past year or so outlining my thoughts on the financing and valuation environment in the internet sector, I've avoided using the word Bubble. It is intentional. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked...

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Blog Post: Converting Word 2003 macros to Word 2010 (or 2007)

Normally, I write about things that make many people, including my boss, head explode.  But today, I want to talk about Macros, not the C++ Macros, but rather the down to earth macros that the hardworking paralegals, administrative assistants or secretaries might use.

Why? My sister-in-law, Kathy, was visiting this week, and just before she left to return to the lovely land of Seattle, she ask a question:

The law firm I work for upgraded to Word 2010 and I no longer have my macros that I used in the previous version of Office (which I think was Office 2003, but could have been Office XP), what happened to them?  Is it Office 2010 fault?

The answer is pretty simple: Usually when a system is upgraded a proposal is written between the IT consulting firm and the customer, especially if it is for a law firm.  Often, the ?normal.dot? template is not part of the contract between the IT consulting firm and the law firm, or any firm for that matter.  However, the line workers, in this case the paralegals, often use recorded macros for efficiency purposes, but lawyers usually don?t use these macros.  After a number of years using Office XP, these paralegals build up a significant amount of macros that they are used to having.

When the new Office 2010 is put into place the normal.dot from Office XP or Office 2003 is not used to build the new normal.dotx.  Unfortunate since it is very easy to do, of course some macros will not translate because they may use features unique to Office 2003 or Office XP.  But most will.

Here is one way to do (make sure to test that everything works before committing to this as a consultant):

Change the name of the Office 2003 or XP to normal1.doc

Build Office 2010

Open Office 2010

On the ribbon, select View, Macros, View Macro, select or click the Organize button, then the dialog box below will show up:

In the box on the left select normal1.doc, select the macros you need to move to the new normal.

Close and that will do it, the macros will now be available for you to use in your documents.

So, you might ask, what about autocorrect?  Well I will describe how to move your autocorrect from an earlier version to a later version in a later blog post.

Finally, why hasn?t Microsoft clearly documented this procedure?  I have no idea, it appears to be an oversight that needs to be addressed by the Office team, frankly, I could not easily find the answer on office.com, so why should you?  And the user experience is that the end users blame Microsoft for the upgrades, etc. when the ease of fixing that dissatisfaction could easily be accomplished.

After all, Administrative assistance, secretaries, paralegals, etc. really make use of this kind of thing and they need to be taken care of as well.

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An Android WiFi App I Need

I use wifi a lot on my android phone. I use it in my office, my home, my beach house, cafes I frequent, and offices of companies I frequent. I save the profiles for all of these locations and replace...

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