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API related to finance charts

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You can embed charts for particular stocks on your webpage using wikinvest.com APIs. Here is an example: Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now You can customize them even further using options given here: http://www.wikinvest.com/special/Embed_Stock_Chart Use google gadgets to get google finance charts to your webpage: Interesting way to pull in quotes. Neat! We can use Yahoo! finance to get the stocks data along with some customization options available. For e.g. This link with provide you with qoutes of GOOG, YHOO, MSFT http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG+YHOO+MSFT&f=snl1d1t1ohgdrp5 This link gives you information in .csv format. Details are here:  http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm Following information is from yahoo finance via google gadgets

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Podcasts @  http://manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics Solution to a Stalled Technical Career 35:22 27/06/05 Mike and Mark discuss a friend's stalled technical career.  What's the secret to reinvigorating his career? more technical expert => less people management, less public relations organization only advertises technical skills for IT folks, but not social skills these folks are intelligent enough to understand social skills, but they need to put their mind in this direction. we dont want him to be salesperson, but just good enough to communicate and get things done. relations in company are important: one can not improve his/her skills or organization position in short span. Rely on relations to grow I want to work with people I like, need not with smartest people Divide "success one gets" into two parts based on what leads to success 10% technical 90% relations How do I improve my relations? Ans: Communicate the way others want (quantity and