Linked List: March 15, 2009

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Jon Stewart Confronts Jim Cramer on the Daily Show ★

It’s a great interview, but what’s of particular interest is that Stewart plays a clip of Cramer from December 2006 talking about how easy it is to manipulate Apple’s stock price — at that time by spreading baseless rumors that the then-not-yet-announced iPhone had been rejected by both Verizon and AT&T.

AIG to Pay $450 Million in Employee Bonuses ★

MarketWatch:

American International Group is set to pay $450 million of bonuses to employees of the unit that was largely responsible for the New York insurer’s near collapse last fall.

Outrageous.

Foursquare ★

Location-based social networking in the form of a game, and the “sequel” to Dodgeball. The 1.0 iPhone app is a bit crashy for me, but the design is very good.

Tech Book Published Exclusively on iPhone ★

Drew McCormack:

I happen to have a few book length manuscripts lying around, so I decided to take one of them — Scientific Scripting with Python — and undertake an experiment: I developed a basic book reader, reformatted the manuscript for the iPhone, and submitted it to the App Store.