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What a day – two

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jawwad

I can no longer wait for the rains to arrive and kill the heat. I give up, going off to sleep. Will call when it pours.

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What a day

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jawwad

First Governor State Bank resigns, then the old guard at NIT let go and finally the cyclone is a no-show because of a travel advisory against Karachi issued by the US government.

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Facebook restored-PTA challenges and cure

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Jawwad

Another Lahore High Court judge restores Facebook access in Pakistan showing that our Judiciary can set a wrong right much before the national telecommunication regulator can. Not sure who filed the petition but it was the smartest thing to do under the circumstances. Just wondering if the technology industry is going to take PTA to…

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Content or Technology – Who will win? A historical perspective

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Jawwad

I don’t remember when. August or September, I know it was New York from ten years ago, I was happy to be on campus, back within the familiar rooms I had recently left. But I don’t remember if it was hot or cold. Fresh from my start up land, pool and lake view apartment in…

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Technorati Top 100 – Cracking the Technorati code or a 500 Technorati rating in four weeks

Posted on May 30, 2010March 6, 2015 by Jawwad

While we wait for Traffic to climb and our Google search engine page rankings to move up and our Adsense revenues to break the three dollar barrier the upward movement in Technorati rankings has been a great motivator for the last few days. When you spend late nights tweaking key words and posts and ponder…

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Learning Finance debut onto page one of Google search results

Posted on May 29, 2010August 26, 2014 by Jawwad

Four months of sleepless nights and the Learning Finance blog is on Google search engine results page one. Details on Startup Insights. It as Zafar said when I spoke to him yesterday after his arrival back from the Google IO conference. Just like all mad quants head to Wall Street trading desks, all intelligent and…

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My Google Adsense Adventure – Traffic update

Posted on May 29, 2010March 6, 2015 by Jawwad

Here is the traffic update for the month of May, a full three days early before month end. Given the long weekend in North America, the origin of most of my traffic, there is not going to be much to write home about on the 31st. Last Saturday I wrote my 3 months Google Adsense…

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Finance – I-Banking Summer Internships – Prep Reading Guide

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Jawwad

As first year MBA and undergraduate business school students head for their summer internships and the graduating class pack up their bags to step into the real world, here is a quick and handy prep reference reading guide for summer interns. These are all free short online courses with simple examples that can serve as…

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Youtube is back

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jawwad

Finally, sanity prevails..

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Technorati Top 100 – Crude Oil Insights

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Jawwad

So before Technorati wakes up and tells me that it was all a cruel sad mistake and there is no way on this planet (or any other for that matter) that anyone sane is going to entrust me with a 550 rating, that too for a collection of really badly drawan excel graphs and equally…

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