🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-12-22
This edition celebrates our new sponsor, NexusTek, sharing who is #opentowork, and exploring hot market trends!
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🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)
🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)
🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)
✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)
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Last week, I recovered from the prior week in Las Vegas at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference. It was fun comparing notes with my NexusTek peers and attending post-event deeper dive meetings with Gartner analysts to discuss Agentic AI. 🔮🤖☁️🔐
LinkedIn #OpenToWork Weekly
Per our reader survey, each week, I’m going to be highlighting a newsletter community reader that is #OpenToWork.
This week I’m highlighting Chris Mojica.
Chris Mojica on LinkedIn: #opentowork
Hi everyone - I am looking for a new role and would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer…
More about Chris Mojica:
Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica on LinkedIn
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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-12-16
As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.
Last week…
This week, Yahoo Screener is now part of “Research Hub” which... appears to have changed the layout options…
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-17
Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 📊 No matter what you think is an impressive raise in the past... this tops them all. Amazing.
💰 + 🤖 When you consider how important it will be for the next wave of data-driven business to embrace embeddings of actionable intelligence — it highlights why the need to extract actionable insights is critical. If the rest of the 2020s play out to favor the companies that make better informed and timely data-driven decisions, it is likely Databricks will play an outsized role in the success of those companies that utilize these capabilities to their advantage.
Techmeme: Databricks is raising $10B from a16z, Thrive, and others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; docs show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue (Wall Street Journal)
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-12-18
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
A Fleet of Aging Cars Takes a Chromatic Turn in Fred Battle's Caravan-Sized Color Chart — Colossal
Once rusty exteriors shine with bold hues corresponding to an RGB color value, their codes written on the hood.
US city tells residents to stop sticking googly eyes on its statues | US News | Sky News
The Oregon city of Bend has spent $1,500 (£1,188) on removing googly eyes from seven of the eight sculptures impacted.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-12-19
What happens when the web forgets?
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Techmeme: A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase many media formats; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone (S.E. Smith/The Verge)
By S.E. Smith / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Just over a decade ago, a similar story played out in the press.
Techmeme: Link rot study finds 49% of hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions are broken (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
This story, by Adam Liptak / New York Times, appeared on Techmeme.
Even Wikipedia recognizes link rot as important.
Link rot - Wikipedia
Indeed, I’ve even written about link rot enough to create a topic / tag.
Plugins, Patterns, and Potpourri (2023) by Jay Cuthrell
A little bit of everything this week from plugins to pattern recognition to surveillance intelligence
(Yes, I finally fixed my hacked up og-image script)
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-20
The tech news story that caught my eye this week was that Second Life… is still around and thriving?
Techmeme: Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life, which debuted in 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has a ~$650M-pear-year economy (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
By Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.
In my early years going to SXSW, I remember seeing Life 2.0 back in 2010. At the time, Second Life was something I knew about but never fully grasped — much like many aspects of the wider Internet culture.
SXSW Review: Life 2.0
Do you remember a time during your childhood when all you wanted to do was run away and hide? Maybe you had done something wrong,…
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-21
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: The US FAA publishes 22 temporary flight restrictions for drones over parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity persists (Allyson Versprille/Bloomberg)
By Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: US hospital operator Ascension notifies nearly 5.6M patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen in a May 2024 Black Basta cyberattack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
By Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
By Hugh Son / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity (Reuters)
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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