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followmyleeon Private equity firms are increasingly buying up doctors’ offices

Is this good for quality of service?

followmyleeon Woman sues Nasa for right to own moon dust ‘given to her by Neil Armstrong’

this is amazing

followmyleeon The trouble with text-only email

I hear you – but think of tracking as a form of payment for consuming the product / service / content. You are not paying them – their advertisers are, and ads are more valuable the more tracking and attribution they come with. Data is money, and by blocking their access to data you are affecting their monetization strategy. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying that's how the business model is set up because that's what consumers demand – paid browsers and media sites are niche or nonexistent.

followmyleeon Popularity in high school yields a 10% wage premium 40 years later

I feel like this is much more about the results of high school popularity (confidence, self-assuredness, dare I say getting laid?) than the actual implementation of popularity itself

followmyleeon Raising Money After Bubble 2.0

I find it funny that people are already assuming that the "bubble" has popped.

Yeah Zynga and Facebook are doing badly. So what? LinkedIn is killing it. There are other success stories. Maybe the bubble in these two company's valuations has popped, but they were overvalued to begin with, not a big loss for me.

followmyleeon Big Fish launches real-money gambling app in UK via Betable

And onward we march towards the Bingo Event Horizon... http://www.whatgamesare.com/2012/06/the-bingo-event-horizon-...