Introduction
Welcome to Bryan Blum's Blog for BIT 330. My topic will be the Investment Banking Industry. Over the past year, beginning with the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the investment banking industry has gone through a world of changes. Over the semester, I will be providing you with a background of the industry and update you with the many on-going events that will occur. Most importantly, I will provide you with the best information-retrieving tools to be able to follow the industry and all the news associated with it.
How To Use This Site
Using this site is extremely easy. Here are the different ways to navigate it.
Side Menu: Using the side menu, you are able to navigate to the welcome page and to the indexes of background information articles, on-going events, and important resources.
Top Menu: In the top menu, you can find drop down menus for quick access to my BIT330 blog entries, background information articles, on-going events, and important resources sections.
Essentially, there are 3 main sections on the site: my BIT330 blog entries, ongoing IB news, and important IB resources. Just below, you'll find the most recent updates in those three sections - click away!
Recent Updates
BIT330 Blog Entries
| Title | Last edited |
|---|---|
| The Eternal Quest for Images | 1229439758|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| I'll admit it. Like most people, I am "Google Image Loyal" when it comes to searching for images. Why shouldn't I be? It's fast, it's easy, it's well laid-out, and I can always find the picture I'm looking for. So when Professor Moore suggested alternative means of picture searching today in class, I was definitely skeptical. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," I thought. | |
| YouTube Competes? | 1228144269|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| I like to think that I have pretty good top-of-mind awareness regarding web tools for certain functions, especially after completing the most part of BIT330. | |
| blog:New Ways to Search? | 1228096820|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| “ ‘Other Search Sites’? You’ve got to be kidding me! There are more search sites than the hundreds we’ve already gone over? It never ends!” Those were my thoughts as I glanced at the schedule before last week’s “Other Search Sites” class. We’ve already covered news, information, pictures, videos, people, maps, and music. What is there left to search? | |
| Thoughts On the Google Visit | 1228077040|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| I’ll be completely honest here- as a senior student who is graduating in a few months and is in the home stretch of 16+ long years of class, it’s pretty difficult for me to pay attention and stay interested in class. Of course, I am talking about other classes, and not BIT330, which is always interesting. | |
| In A World of Customization... | 1225832232|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| In a world of custom everything - customized cars on "Pimp My Ride", custom t-shirts with any phrase you'd like, custom stir-frys at Mongolian BBQ, and even customized labels on bottled water - it makes sense that custom search engines would exist and be an increasingly popular tool for "search enthusiasts" and web-designers across the world wide web. | |
Ongoing IB News (View All)
| Title | Last edited |
|---|---|
| The Federal Reserve and its Plan for AIG | 1228709041|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/20/2008) | |
| Merrill Lynch's Sale to Bank of America | 1228709015|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/14/2008) | |
| Bailout of Fannie and Freddie | 1228708944|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/7/2008) | |
| Big Month of Job Cuts | 1228675149|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (12/1/2008 to 12/5/2008) | |
| Citigroup Bailout | 1228674434|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (11/24/2008) | |
| Obama Has His Work Cut Out for Him | 1228673902|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (11/6/2008) | |
| Banking Bonuses Under Fire | 1228673294|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (10/29/2008) | |
| US Injects $250 Billion into Banks | 1228672715|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (10/14/2008) | |
| The Week from Hell in the Financial Markets | 1228670884|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (10/6/2008 to 10/10/2008) | |
| Citi vs. Wells Fargo: The Battle for Wachovia | 1228670787|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (10/5/2008) | |
| Washington Mutual's Share to JP Morgan | 1228670750|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/25/2008) | |
| The Treasury's Bailout Plan | 1228670395|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/25/2008) | |
| The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers | 1228670279|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| (9/15/2008) | |
IB Resources (View All)
| Title | Last edited |
|---|---|
| Directory-Based RSS Feed Search Tools | 1228717894|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Directory-Based RSS Feed Search Tools" resource: | |
| Google Custom Search Engine | 1228717842|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Google Custom Search Engine" resource: | |
| Google Scholar | 1228717572|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Google Scholar" resource: | |
| RSS Feed Databases | 1228717249|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "RSS Feed Databases" resource: | |
| List of Useful Websites | 1228709216|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "List of Useful Websites" resource: | |
| Tag-Based Sites | 1228708400|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Tag-Based Sites" resources: | |
| Podcast Search | 1228704784|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Podcast Searching" resource: | |
| My Bloglines Blogroll | 1228702547|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of my "Bloglines Blogroll" resource: | |
| Finance Glossaries | 1228701993|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "List of Finance Glossaries" resource: | |
| Web Directories | 1228694048|%a, %m/%d/%y |
| The following is a review of the "Web Directories" resource: | |
