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So today is Wednesday and i’m bored, after the day the markets had yesterday all you can do is sit back and have a laugh, so i was introduced to a new service called today by a friend of mine Alisa called My Heritage, it’s a very cool service which allows you to map out your family tree amongst other things.

While doing some research on this company i found out that it was founded by Gilad Japhet who use to manage BRM Technologies’ anti-virus research unit until it was acquired by Symantec. My Heritage is actually based out of Israel and has a single goal of which is “Our vision has been to make it easier for people around the world to use the power of the Internet to discover their heritage and strengthen their bonds with family and friends”. A very noble goal to say the least.

The best part about My Heritage is the integration into other sites, i.e facebook, myspace, friendster and many more, the easier they make this the more viral there product will be, and let me tell you i can guarantee this is going to be a very viral product.

This is the viral part, the have one section on the sight called Face Recognition - Celebrity Matches, which basically takes a picture that you upload and then it looks in their database of celebrities and tries to find the best matches, while no means is this system 100% accurate it is pretty fun and this is the component that will make this site viral, think of all the myspace monkeys and facebook junkies telling there friends how the internet thinks they look like J-Lo or David Beckham or even god forbid Britney Spears.

Well i had to give this a little test so i figured who could i use that people would know so we could all judge the results? Then it hit me…… John Chow people all over the net recognize him and then we could all judge the results to see the accuracy.

So i uploaded this photo of John Chow

And now the magic happens, this is where My Heritage really shines, it goes and looks and looks to see who this guy looks like.

Well to my surprise it turns out John Chow is actually quite unique but dont fret ladies and gents, it did manage to find some results.

Drum roll please…………………………….

Now let’s go over the results, with the highest percentage and in first place we have

1. At a 68% match we have Gao Xingjian, if your asking who the hell is that? well go look him up in Wikipedia he is actually a Chinese Novelist who in 2000 won a pulitzer prize.

2. At a 64% match we have Tsui Hark he is the equivalent of Steven Speilberg in Hong Kong, at this point i seem to like the results, then something strange occurs

3. Also at 64% we have Song Hye-Kyo, she is a Korean model and actress, now no offence to John but this girl is cute and well i think there seems to be some error in the program, until i got the 4th result then i knew this was to good to be true, it was all the proof i needed.

4. At 58% and all the proof i need the man himself Kim Jong IL, at this point i realized that this software was not only accurate but also 100% correct, the man who throws stones at panda’s and other unspeakable acts is related to Kim Jong (or as i call him Kim John IL) IL himself.

5. If Kim Jong IL wasn’t bad enough apparently My Heritage thinks John Chow looks like Roberto Benigni the famous Italian director who gave that infamous oscar speech.

So all in all i would have to say that My Heritage is going to a great upcoming site and it will be all over the net in a few short months.

And the final conclusion is that John Chow has a 58% chance of being related to Kim Jong IL

After yesterday’s sell off the markets are starting to bounce back, the Dow is up 90+ point the NASDAQ is up 18+ point and the S&P is up 12+ points.

China is also up today in international markets, but you have to remember there is most likely going to be another couple of days of selling, the market doesn’t so quickly forget about a sell-off like it had on Tuesday.

So either tomorrow or the next week or two look for another significant move down, as the market corrects itself. This is going to be a good opportunity to buy for the long term as well. After the correction here comes Dow 15,000 Woo Hoo!

Well it looks like John Chow over at John Chow Dot Com is having a contest, the basic gist of it is that you have to guess how much income he is going to make this month from his blog.

Last month he managed to make $3,440.66, now the question is did he beat it?

I think he did, so i’m going to have to guess that he came in at a new record of $4142.07.

In a few days we will find out if i’m right.

You maybe asking well why do you want to guess this anyways?

Well because there is a prize, yes a prize a beautiful brand new watch. Not any old watch either its a brand new custom branded wristwatch from Abit Computer. This custom-made watch, with a face done in the Abit corporate color is given only to deserving Abit employees and visiting international media. It was presented to John on his last trip to Abit’s world headquarters in Taipei.

Now that’s a prize, if you want to win ladies and gents you must enter and for that, you must go to the website.

-Best of luck!

Is it me or are my eyes bleeding, all i see is red   =)

Unless you’re shorting stocks or using puts today was a little rough, as i speak the NASDAQ is down almost 4% same with the Dow and the S&P and even the mighty TSX is lower by 2.6%.

Why you may ask?

Because the China stock exchange fell almost 9%, oh plus Greenspan said some nasty comments about the possibility of the US economy heading for recession. I guess he forgot about the spending power of the baby boomers in there prime.

But the real reason the market is down……… PROFIT TAKING, this is a good reason why you should take your profits. This does happen time to time, but corrections are good, cause after corrections come opportunities, and that means more money to be made which i like =)

Some stocks which are tasty at this level (Full Disclosure, I do own these stocks, otherwise why else would i recommend them if i didn’t own them)

GS - Goldman Sachs sitting at $200 good buy

SBUX - Starbucks sitting at Just above $30 a steal of a stock

AAPL - Apple now that’s looking tasty at this level $83 yummy!

AKAM - Akami also another good looking stock.

The point is there are lots of deals to be found, not just only these stocks when the market corrects, look for these deals over the next couple of days,
-Enjoy

This is by far the best video i have seen to date about how information grows, i had to watch this 3 times just to get the data.

If you are considering joining a company or going back to school then you may want to watch this video, otherwise i would reccomend this video to EVERYONE!

Over the next few days there are going to be a flurry of posts coming, it has been a while since the site has been updated. Watch for a lot of content coming this weekend.

Enjoy =)