I’d never seen this before on Kickstarter, but here’s a handy way of looking at how the projects you back break across categories. I’ve backed 16 projects in two years.
Yes! But might we suggest Passage New Orleans for Art? Or perhaps the very cool After the Ice? And there’s still a few hours left to back rad Comics project The Beast of Wolfe’s Bay! (We could go on…)
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Car Glut Debilitates Chinese Car Industry. Now Wait Until You Get To Detroit
Two days ago, Bloomberg brought harrowing news:
“Chinese dealers are struggling with the rising number of unsold cars that’s threatening to deepen price cuts. Dealerships for Honda Motor Co., Chery Automobile Co., BYD Co. and Geely carried more than 45 days of inventory as of the end of April, exceeding the threshold that foreshadows debilitating price cuts.”
Automotive News made the matter the opener of its Friday video newscast. Apparently, the sky is soon to fall in China. The situation is even more dramatic elsewhere.
Full Story: The Truth About Cars
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Dave Winer on the Bubble (via Om Malik)
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This is what bubbles do to us. Even if you’re not going to hit the jackpot, all that money floating around still makes it hard to focus on things that take time. Rush. It’s a game of musical chairs. The music will stop and you won’t have a place to sit. It’s all the more dangerous today because the employment situation, outside the bubble, is bleak. I think for most of us, the Facebook IPO is a transition, maybe to something better. A peak. It sure isn’t making us rich. And it’s not giving us much to hope either.
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Are Facebook Credits the key to the social network’s future?
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Last year, Facebook’s non-advertising revenue — the bulk of which comes from virtual payments using Credits (an estimated 12% of which came from game developer Zynga) — was $557 million, or about 15% of the total, according to the company’s S-1 securities filing. That was more than four times what the company pulled in from payments in 2010. And since that figure represents Facebook’s 30% take of the total, that means users spent close to $2 billion in Credits last year.
In short: less than 2% of users generated $500 million in revenue.
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Valued at $104.2 billion after setting its share price at $38 just yesterday, Facebook is currently worth: - almost the same as Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Nokia, AOL, Adobe, Groupon and Research In Motion, combined (sum of market caps: $104.57 billion)
- a Netflix more than Amazon.com (market caps: $4 billion and $98,38 billion, respectively)
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Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given
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Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.
You’re f*cked.
Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy.
First, you’re going to have a hell of a hard…
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