Links for Friday, November 9, 2007
- Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Sloan Great Wall: Largest Known Structure? – “The labeled Sloan Great Wall spans over one billion light years, longer than any structure ever measured.“
- Nouriel Rubini: The Bloodbath In Credit And Financial Markets Will Continue And Sharply Worsen – “The amount of losses that financial institutions have already recognized – $20 billion – is just the very tip of the iceberg of much larger losses that will end up in the hundreds of billions of dollars. At stake – in subprime alone – is about a trillion of sub-prime related RMBS and hundreds of billions of mortgage related CDOs.“
- CNN Money: Real estate: Buy, Sell, or Hold? – “We’ll go into detail below, but the headline is gloomy: According to our calculations, prices in most markets will fall by double digits over the next five years.“
- Susan Reynolds: Cisco and the Search for Employees in Virtual Worlds – “I attended an event in Second Life this morning at which Mitch Wagner of Information Week – Ziggy Figaro in Second Life and @ziggyfigaro on twitter – talked about the Virtual Career Fair Cisco is holding today with their partner companies.“
- Working Worlds: The first Luxembourg Cirtual Job Fair on Second Life – “Join us on Wednesday NOVEMBER 28th 2007 from 8 am to 9 pm for the first virtual job market. Do not miss the opportunity to get in touch with international companies.“