{"id":15351,"date":"2011-10-01T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=15351"},"modified":"2011-10-01T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:00:01","slug":"links-for-october-1st-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/links-for-october-1st-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for October 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for October 1st :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110930\/delicious-struggles-through-relaunch-under-new-ownership\/\">Delicious Responds to Longtime Users Angry About Its Redesign &#8211; Liz Gannes &#8211; Social &#8211; AllThingsD<\/a> &#8211; The social bookmarking service Delicious, now owned by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen&rsquo;s AVOS, this week relaunched with some new features &mdash; and according to its existing users, too few of the old ones. And they seem to have pretty good cause for complaint.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110930\/are-zyngas-second-quarter-results-anything-to-worry-about\/\">Are Zynga&#8217;s Second-Quarter Results Anything to Worry About? &#8211; Tricia Duryee &#8211; Commerce &#8211; AllThingsD<\/a> &#8211; In the second quarter, Zynga said its &ldquo;bookings,&rdquo; which are sales recorded during the same three-month period, dipped 4 percent. Additionally, it said three million fewer people played their games on a daily basis than in the previous quarter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424052748704900704576594980843663232.html?mod=BOL_hpp_dc\">Here&#8217;s to Simpler Times &#8211; Barrons.com<\/a> &#8211; Remember those simpler times in the markets, a couple of weeks or a month ago, when investors&#039; sole day-to-day focus was on whether the officials of 17 European Union nations could begin speaking the common language of steroidal money-printing to bandage a gaping wound in the banking system?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/stocks-dive-for-worst-quarter-since-crisis-2011-10-01?link=MW_story_latest_news\">Stocks dive for worst quarter since crisis &#8211; NewsWatch &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; European stock markets drop sharply, leaving the main European index with a quarterly loss of 17% as banks, car makers and luxury-goods companies all fall. See full story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/us-government-bond-funds-surge-in-q3-2011-09-30\">Bond fund investors waltz to Fed&rsquo;s Twist &#8211; Weekend Investor &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; CHICAGO (MarketWatch) &mdash; It was a history-making third quarter in financial markets, which were routinely rocked by volatile events that renewed investor demand for the relative security of bond funds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203405504576603120580952858.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">Gas Prices are not going down<\/a> &#8211; The U.S. benchmark oil price, which is determined by trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, or Nymex, has tumbled by almost a third since April. That raised expectations for gasoline prices to drop just as quickly at the pump.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/02\/world\/europe\/in-greece-barter-networks-surge.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">In Greece, Barter Networks Surge &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Mr. Mavridis is a co-founder of a growing network here in Volos that uses a so-called Local Alternative Unit, or TEM in Greek, to exchange goods and services &mdash; language classes, baby-sitting, computer support, home-cooked meals &mdash; and to receive discounts at some local businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for October 1st : Delicious Responds to Longtime Users Angry About Its Redesign &#8211; Liz Gannes &#8211; Social &#8211; AllThingsD &#8211; The social bookmarking service Delicious, now owned by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen&rsquo;s AVOS, this week relaunched with some new features &mdash; and according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-15351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}