Friday's Daily Blog Watch

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

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My friends who've worked in banking all say the same thing: the experience this guy had is completely normal.

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Modern Graham has Papa John's International (PZZA Quote) as the overvalued company of the week.

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Quant Investor examines the performance of the dogs of the Dow strategy. The dogs of the Dow are the current Dow stocks with the highest dividend yields.

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Will Google (GOOG Quote) or Yahoo! (YHOO Quote) buy Baidu (BIDU Quote)?

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StreetInsider shows some nice insider trading for Ibis Technology (IBIS Quote).

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Hilary Kramer is skeptical of Ralph Lauren (RL Quote), in part because you can now buy its clothes at discounter TJ Maxx.

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Great post from All About Alpha on why people don't need hedge funds.

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An interesting mashup/timeline of all Google's acquisitions.

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Value Discipline believes FTD Group (FTD Quote) is harvesting some flowers to grow weeds.

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Uber-activist Barington Capital heats things up at Lone Star Steakhouse (STAR Quote). When I met with people from Barington about a year ago, they mentioned that they hadn't had a down investment since 2001. Here's all of its top positions right now.

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HipMojo looks at the trends in online advertising and analyzes 24/7 Real Media (TFSM Quote) and Valueclick (VCLK Quote).

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Great advice from garage.com founder Guy Kawasaki for Web 2.0 startups pitching VCs.

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The Google Cheat Sheet. I kind of want a t-shirt with that on it.