links for 2007-09-21

• One of the most stunning bets Wall Street has seen in decades…
  As the credit markets fell apart over the summer, causing the prices of hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed bonds to plunge, Goldman Sachs (Charts, Fortune 500) had already positioned itself so that it would profit massively from a decline
  (tags: broker goldman sachs mortgage bond short)
• Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph
  No one company should own who you know and how you know them. OpenID, which was born at Six Apart less than two years ago, was successful by embracing a similar philosophy: no one company should own everyone’s online identity.
  (tags: six apart social graph openid privacy)

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