The Daily Blog Watch

Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

 

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

If you missed it, check out Cramer's take on each one of Buffett's holdings.


The founder of MySpace joins the game and makes an offer from Dow Jones (DJ).


Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day include trades this morning on Brocade (BRCD) and ValueClick (VCLK).


Eric Savitz gives the rundown on the latest rumors involving News Corp. (NWS) and Yahoo! (YHOO).


Here's Netscape founder Marc Andreesen's guide to starting a company.


Unusual stocks of the day: stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, and stocks with unusual option activity. These are all potential breakout plays.


BeyondVC believes LinkedIn and Facebook are on a collision course.


Big Ben likes to buy dips in all of the exchanges and brokers including Nymex (NMX) and NYSE Euronext (NYX).


Stockerblog finds the best Australian stocks, noting that Australia that has a per capita GDP higher than the U.K., Germany and France, and it is third in the UN Human Development Index (which takes into account literacy, infant mortality, quality of life, etc).


Blogging Stocks feels the luck coming on Smith & Wesson (SWHC) stock.


Super-adviser Yola Edwards believes Coke (KO) is it.


Congratulations to this waitress, who won $1 million in the CNBC contest. Now it's your turn in the Beat the Street contest. Good luck!


Compete.com does a nice analysis of the traffic at MySpace, YouTube, Digg and Facebook.


Crossing Wall Street takes a quick look at four years of Paul Krugman, and it ain't pretty.


In the "stocks I've never heard of" category, Hilary Kramer finds her bearings at Kaydon (KDN).


The Complete Growth Investor believes that Amazon's (AMZN) upside might be limited.


It's summer. People get married. But Zachstocks is skeptical that The Knot (KNOT) can take advantage of it this year.


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At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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