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POPSBlowout Remorse: Team Seeks Forfeit of 100-0 Win "At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite. "We don't play to win, we play to have fun," said Lauren Click, a junior on the team. "I was pretty relieved the game was over." "
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POPSSEC's Complaint Against Billionaire Cuban The SEC accuses Mark Cuban of avoiding big losses with a dot-com stock by selling on non-public information. According to the SEC complaint, Mamma.com told Cuban that they would be issuing stock that would dilute the value of existing shares. Cuban allegedly agreed to keep that information confidential but then sold his stake in Mamma.com before the stock offering was revealed to the public. According to the SEC, Cuban avoided losses of over $750,000.
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POPSThe Internet is dead FROM ARTICLE It’s no longer an exciting platform for societal and business change. It’s a utility. It’s something that is exciting to people who remember the old days of the internet. The only way to change that is to upgrade the platform for bandwidth transport across the country to a minimum of 1 gigabyte per second throughout to every home. At that point kids will come up with new and unique applications that we can’t imagine today. That’s when it becomes exciting. Until then, it’s dead and boring.
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POPSMark Cuban, Facebook and OpenSocial Tim O'Reilly is one of the smartest independent thinkers on the web. I really like his point here -- that what we should look for is not merely a proliferation of tiny apps across every web-based application, but how to make use of social data. The full post is worth the click.
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POPSShape Up, Poor People "In 2007, the United States finds itself at a moral and demographic crossroads. It cannot expect the upper class to provide strong moral leadership because the upper class is filled with people who work for Halliburton. It cannot expect the middle class to assume that burden because the middle class has always suffered from a certain moral flabbiness as a result of commuting long distances to jobs they hate. Realistically, only the poor are in a position to provide inspiration to the rest of us because they have the most time on their hands.
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POPSHow to marry a billionaire? I thought the part about the cars they drive was the most interesting. Similar to what the author of the Millionaire next door states in his books.
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