by Zack Miller on November 13, 2008
Just stumbled onto a Yahoo Media Innovation group project recently launched named Hot Stocks. Essentially, its an application that runds on either MySpace or Facebook. How it works Users vote their sentiment on stocks and can watch Yahoo Finance network videos. Once the social aspect is utilized by getting friends to sign up, Hot Stocks [...]
by Zack Miller on September 24, 2008
Covestor, a leading investment expert community site, announced yesterday that they have begun a program where Covestor members can write articles to appear on TheStreet.com site. These articles, after passing through an editorial filter, will appear in The Street Picks section on the large financial media site. In addition to expert content cross-posted to TheStreet’s [...]
by Zack Miller on August 20, 2008
Mike Arrington at TechCrunch has a great post this morning afternoon (where does the time go?) about a startup soliciting a private round of investment over Twitter. He’s got the whole scoop but the gist of the story is a CEO of a tech startup recently twittered soliciting investments in his firm. According to Arrington, [...]
by Zack Miller on August 17, 2008
Covestor, a leading investing expert community, recently announced a new feature enabling Twitter integration into its trading platform. According to the company, “When you execute a trade with your broker you can now keep your followers on Twitter up to date, per the other members following you on Covestor.” Because Covestor and other expert communities [...]
by Zack Miller on August 8, 2008
I’ve been mulling over the issue of describing risk in expert investment communities. Part of the value proposition of the community concept is the clearinghouse-like pairing of “advisor” to “advisee”. Users looking to tap expert advice in these expert networks need to be able to size up a potential advisor/guru on a variety of fronts [...]
by Zack Miller on August 3, 2008
Techcrunch had good coverage of Wikinvest’s launch of embeddable, annotate-able, wiki-able charts. Wikinvest, which like it sounds, is a wiki focused on building out user-generated company and stock information. Now, the site has developed charts that can be annotated and embedded into websites and blogs. If you check out Apple’s chart (sorry wordpress.com doesn’t allow [...]
