number three. i think that the bankers were genuinely surprised. i think in their heart of hearts they probably think that linkedin isn t worth quite as much. maybe it s worth the 10% richard talked about or 20% more. they price too well and people are too eager to get a piece of the action. and i think we are maybe in the middle now of a real boom in internet text dogs. we saw this week with the russian search company also having a really successful ipo. i think that they were just surfing a wave and the wave went higher than they thought. the other important point to note is for the actual owners and founders of linked in, you might think, did these guys get, i was going to say screwed, can i say that word? say it. did these guys get screwed by wall street? and actually, i think the answer is not so much because the truth is they still own most of the company. this has made them one of the sexiest companies on the street. and actually i don t think they are that unhappy with
so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush for the current state of the economy. so i don t think it s while it looks like a great number, republicans ought to be jumping in and saying, oh, wow, the president is really vulnerable. when you look inside the numbers, he is less vulnerable than that would imply. let s take a look at some of the notable republicans who have said no just for the month of may for running for the gop election. jeb bush, donald trump, mike huckab huckabee. indiana govern. both present clear contrast to president obama s view of how to fix this economy in the united states going forward. candy, do conservatives fear that they simply don t have a message that is going to resonate with voters on a national stage when it comes to the budget or particularly paul ryan s plan to overhaul medicare which does not seem to be gaining traction. i think conservatives are more worried they don t have the messenge
allison doesic with linked in, why is this a big deal? you know, linked in a blowout the first day of public trading, the social networking company closing the day closing the day at 94.25, talking about $94. some traders are telling me that such a big jump really means that the investment bankers miscalculated deet manned for the stock and really messed up by pricing it too low but i will tell you what it is really going to be interesting to follow linked in stock the next few weeks and months to see if it holds up and winds up opening door the for other social networking companies. i bet right now they are
captions by vitac www.vitac.com s. we re going back to it, more than likely, a lot in the hour as we wait on the attorneys to come out. attorneys were dominique strauss-kahn who we can say is the former world banker charged with trying to rape a hotel maid, former, we re saying here, because dominique strauss-kahn resigned as head of international monetary fund. he s going through a hear, as we speak. we did find out that he has in fact, been indicted in this case and charged in the sexual assault. you know this by now, the story by now that he s accused of trying to or accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid at a high-end hotel in new york city. we have a couple of reporters covering this for us, one being richard roth, outside the courthouse right now. richard what can you tell us about what went on inside that courtroom? reporter: the hearing is still going on. as the prosecution and announced, there s an indictment filed by the grand jury against dominique str
you can buy something, see something on the website. in this case it s giant nerd. you see something and immediately you want to tell your fred friend i want to buy this cool thing. you can do that immediately. it can be incorporated into your website. that s right. the key thing here is for online businesses to think about is to integrate and make it easy for people to message out to their networks onfacebook, on twitter, on linked in, et cetera, without having to open up facebook.com, twitter.com or tweet deck to message something out. you want to integrate it into your website experience so you get more of the types of shares, that you re putting yourself into the stream of tracking so you can see what the referral tracking is like, who your key customer base is. also, you can have an activity plug-in. so, on your site, you actually have this little area where anybody who s writing about you on the social network, that can be seen right there on your site. so, your site actual