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Google finance launches

If you go to www.finance.google.com you can now enter your portfolio and track it. Or more precisely if you are in the USA you can. The rest of the world gets :- will support international symbols soon So Yahoo is still in the lead… Thanks to memeorandum and Silicon Beat for the story.

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Google finance launches

If you go to www.finance.google.com you can now enter your portfolio and track it. Or more precisely if you are in the USA you can. The rest of the world gets :- will support international symbols soon So Yahoo is still in the lead… Thanks to memeorandum and Silicon Beat for the story.

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An autistic evening…

Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though […]

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An autistic evening…

Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though […]

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Technology v DRM

Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown […]

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Technology v DRM

Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree

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Self rating in a minority

On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason […]

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