May 8 2013

Why email is STILL the killer app, RSS is not dead and Twitter will help you find it!

Death of RSS

This whole post was sparked by a blog post written by Andrew Chen - particularly the graph he used - I can understand Andrew’s intention to get readers to subscribe with an email, there’s a bit of give and take (feedback loop+lock in) which helps him as a writer. But I don’t agree that RSS is dying right now… the creator of RSS, Aaron Swartz is dead (or alive through Dave Winer) but that doesn’t mean RSS is dying and using Google Trends is probably not the best way to make a decision.

There’s no point in trying to justify email over RSS, when all you want is people’s email id (hope…

Apr 20 2013

Time To Buy Gold (Again) or Hedge with $DGZ or $DZZ?

I’ve been a fan of gold for some time, not a gold bug, just an admirer. I also published a small article for premium members on why I believe GOLD will continue its bull run and as with all such super cycles, this is one such. Either you need a good correction or a long consolidation to get things going again. That’s the nature of markets.

So while gold has been in the news for its’ largest ever 30 year drop. I was busy trying to find some to buy… and guess what, in Bahrain, the main distributors were out of stock! Yes, out of stock!

Anyways, getting to the question. Is it the right time to buy gold again? Yes and no. It all depends on how much youR…

Jun 13 2013

Quote of the day ✱

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started, but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving.

- Tim Ferris

Jun 3 2013

Quote of the day ✱

Yet as long as there are computers, proffessionals will try to anticipate prices and markets. Some will succeed, most will fail, and that’s enough to gurantee investment opportunities for personal investors who can see the forest for the trees.

- Jim O’Neil