Thursday February 7, 2008 8:42AM
by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal
in Money:Tech
From Tim O’Reilly, LinkedIn Announces New Research Platform–”At the Money:Tech conference, Mike Gamson of LinkedIn announced their new line of business to provide primary research services to financial markets, the LinkedIn Research Network.”
From Jimmy Gutterman, Money:Tech Day 1: Best Lines–”There’s so much going on at Money:Tech today that I won’t try to cheapen it my squeezing it all into a blog post. Indeed, we’re planning a full issue of Release 2.0 in April to capture how much has happened in the collision of Wall Street and Web 2.0 since we first identified it last year…”
From Jimmy Gutterman, Jim Cramer, unplugged–”Those who know Jim Cramer only from the final segment on his nightly CNBC screamfest are missing someone as reasonable as he is entertaining. That more balanced Cramer spoke with Money:Tech conference chair Paul Kedrosky this morning about how technology has changed investing. Kedrosky noted that, compared to 20 years ago, “we’re all quants today” because we have so much more information. Cramer characterized it as a move from the anecdotal to the empirical.”