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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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POPSMark Cuban On How To Get Rich I'm always amazed that people will shell out money for get-rich-quick schemes. Anybody that has actually earned their riches justly will tell the real way to a fortune is a lot of hard work.
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POPSCubs to Mark Cuban? Momentum in the bidding war for the Chicago Cubs appears to be heading in the direction of Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Cuban may be a bit of a renegade, unafraid to ruffle the feathers of league brass, but players love him and Dallas fans undoubtedly appreciate his efforts to revive a dormant franchise.
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POPSBillionaire Blogging Mark Cuban has long had one. Ross Perot launched one last week. Carl Icahn plans to start blogging today It's clear that the prominence and success of these billionaires makes others curious what they have to say. Perot's first post was only a press release announcing the site, PerotCharts.com. It's received 74 responses in a few days.
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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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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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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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POPS結局100%なんてありえないわけで…YouTubeビジネスモデルに悲観論 著作権の問題がYouTubeに付きまとうのはあたりまえ。論点はそれでもYouTubeのPVが多いのは何故かにしぼるべきだよな。結局のところテレビにかかわる全ての作品を、テレビで見るのが嫌になった人がYouTubeに流れてるわけで。著作権者は何故そういう事態になっているかを考えてもらいたいもんだ。調査会社としては客観的にYouTubeのビジネスモデルを評価するしかないんだろうけど、この結果から「YouTubeには著作権問題で裁判をしかけて勝てる」なんつぅ安易な結論に至る企業が増えないことを祈るわ
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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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POPSIce Rocket's method of tracking blog popularity perhaps a metric that would prove valuable here is how many people have created clipmarks from a blog. Or, to go one better, factor in how many other people add Clipmarks from specific blogs to their Clipmark Favorites list. Mark?