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This is an awesome tool, particularly the section called key statistics. I've never been able to figure out what all the measures mean, but Yahoo actually defines them:

Enterprise Value
Formula: Market Cap + Total Debt – Total Cash & Short Term Investments
EV is a measure of theoretical takeover price, and is useful in comparisons against income statement line items above the interest expense/income lines such as revenue and EBITDA.

PEG Ratio
Formula: P/E Ratio / 5-Yr Expected EPS Growth
Forward-looking measure rather than typical earnings growth measures, which look back in time (historical). Used to measure a stock's valuation against its projected 5-yr growth rate.

Operating Cash Flow
Formula: Net Income + Depreciation and Amortization, Total + Other Amortization + Other Non-Cash Items, Total + Change in Working Capital
Net cash used or generated in operating activities during the stated period of time. It reflects net impact of all operating activity transactions on the cash flow of the entity. This GAAP figure is taken directly from the company's Cash Flow Statement and might include significant non-recurring items.

Levered Free Cash Flow
Formula: (EBIT + Interest Expense) * (1 – Tax Rate) + Depreciation & Amort., Total + Other Amortization + Capital Expenditure + Sale (Purchase) of Intangible assets - Change in Net Working Capital + Pref. Dividends Paid + Total Debt Repaid + Total Debt Issued + Repurchase of Preferred + Issuance of Preferred Stock
Where: Tax Rate = 0.375
This figure is a normalized item that excludes non-recurring items and also takes into consideration cash inflows from financing activities such as debt or preferred stock issuances.

Forward P/E Ratio
Formula: Current Market Price / Projected Earnings Per Share
A valuation ratio calculated by dividing the current market price by projected 12-month Earnings Per Share.

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Calvin told me about this incredible program called Google SketchUp which lets you do 3D modeling. If you have Google Earth then you can have them in the real world and even share them in something called Google 3D Warehouse. Amazingly cool and fun.

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Click fraud sounds like an amazing scam. Make $300 a year by clicking on various links. Sign me up!

Don't get along super well. Many of the blocking lists, block out alexa.com which makes sense as you can consider it spyware. The problem is that when you look at Alexa rankings, then the page doesn't display properly, so you should set adblock plus to not be enabled for alexa.com only.

Talk about an insidious threat, Media Motor hijacks web addresses like alexa.com by installing as a domain thingy in the registry. It is very hard to find. Ad Aware didn't find it, Spybot doesn't find it. Only Yahoo's toolbar (which is Webroot) found it.

The behavious is strange, it gives you pages that sort of look like Alexa, but which have their advertising on it. As Panda Software explains, it is downloaded with various freeware silently.

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When we are working on companies, it is often times useful to see what's related to what, here are the tools that I use:

• Google Sets. This lets you type in a bunch of related ideas and see from the web, what else is related, so if you type in Microsoft, Ignition and Oracle, the related terms include Oracle, IBM, Novell, Intel, Cisco, Netscape in that order.
• Alexaholic. Once you have the related companies, its easy to see where they are ranking if they are consumer sites.

Read a good piece about identity theft. One thing they mention is pulling your credit reports every year which is a pain. Annualcreditreport.com seems to do this and makes it easy.

Wow, I found this site by looking at a Canon Rebate form and seeing the web-rebates.com URL, it turns out that if you put your last name and address in, it will find lots and lots of different rebates. At least Canon, PriceGrabber, Vonage and Samsung all use the same service. I could check on the status of two years worth of rebates. Very useful.

I picked these butter cookies up on the way through Narita, I have to say they are just awesome. You can buy them in America at Neiman Marcus or Saks, but they are from Japan and get gret reviews there.

Yoku Moku
Yoku Moku produces some of the finest all natural butter cookies developed in Tokyo with no additives, preservatives or any chemicals of any kind. The name Yoku Moku comes from JOKK MOKK, a quaint village on the Arctic Circle, 500 miles North of Stockholm, Sweden. The founder, Noriichi Fujinawa was so impressed with the beauty of the village and the heart of the people, he borrowed the name for his company.

In any case, if you ever get a chance, they are a great gift!

Is it just me or do there seem to be just so many social and other networking sites arriving on the network. With the amount of venture capital going into consumer web things these days, I can only guess what the explosion will be like. Anyway, continuing the campaign to get the username "rich" on every web 2.0 site or at least get a logon, here we go again:

• Web 2.0 Awards. At lest this is a shorter list. Just 300 top websites.
• Blogniscient":
• Wist. This is a wish list like delicious I think. Decent search, like I found the Motorola Q review for it.