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.
I'm kind of proud of this:
my first man-on-the-street video in almost 10 years
. Farnoosh Torabi and I went out to the Apple store on Wednesday in NYC and I interviewed the people who had been waiting there since Monday.
Dan Quayle just won't go away. Ever. Now you can
.
Stockpickr's
include trades on
Fifth Third Bancorp
(FITB) - Get Report
and
Pinnacle
( PNCL).
Financial Skeptic weighs in on the
:
Adidas
vs.
Nike
(NKE) - Get Report
.
Freakonomics notes that there seems to be a
between users of Facebook and MySpace, owned by
News Corp.
(NWS) - Get Report
.
Super-activist Bill Ackman just bought
of
Legg Mason
(LM) - Get Report
.
Unusual stocks of the day:
stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday
, and stocks with
. These are all potential breakout plays.
Jeff Matthews recounts his
first experiences with Warren Buffett
back in 1979.
Check out my
five favorite value-oriented hedge funds
whose positions I like to piggyback. Click on each fund on the list to see their top positions.
Information Arbitrage
is sick and tired
of
Blackstone
(BX) - Get Report
and the iPhone.
Notable Calls wonders whether
Jones Soda
(JSDA)
.
If you don't want to surf the Web or make phone calls with your iPhone,
here are some other interesting uses
.
Lehman upgrades
Intel
(INTC) - Get Report
, and
.
It's actually a shame about the Rigas family. They were once billionaires. Now they are going
to be in jail for the rest of their lives
.
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