Here’s the mid-2007 update for my portfolio. All the quotes are from the close of June 1, 2007. As usual, I’m not posting my IRA investments.

(Note: This post’s title has hurt some feelings. It was not intended to refer to any specific blogger. In particular, Lonnie at OMB is actually a very generous person in his charity work. This post is an argument against an idea, not an individual.)
Recently, it seems there’s been a sort of obsession [...]

The major downside of taking on my current entrepreneurial project is the money that I’m not making any more. This pain has been further compounded by the fact that the stock I’ve been wanting to buy has grown by over 30% in the last two months.

I’m still waiting on a bonus I expected at work, so I haven’t been able to do as much investing as I had planned. I have been able to set aside enough to make a purchase, though. I picked up 130 more shares of Shanda (盛大).
Earlier I said I’d had my eye on [...]

With all the talk on my blog and others about search engines in China, it’s only fitting to post the market share and popularity rankings for 2005. Baidu is the clear leader, and Yahoo has lost quite a bit of popularity.

In related news, Baidu’s Q3 year over year revenue growth was 173%.

I just remembered a really neat thing about Bǎidù. Remember how you used to be able to get MP3’s straight from a search engine? On Chinese search engines you still can. Go to http://www.baidu.com, click on the MP3 at the top, type in the name of the song you want and go.

This second picture has [...]

At this point, just about everybody who follows the stock market at all has heard of Băidù, the Chinese search engine company whose shares rose from $27 to $150 on IPO day, setting a NASDAQ record. This same company’s site http://baidu.com is currently the 5th most visited site in the world. On top of [...]