by Zack Miller on September 12, 2010
(this post originally appeared on Tradestreaming) Just returned from a mini-tour for Tradestreaming which ended with an editorial of mine appearing on CNNMoney. CNN’s editors thought the tension between investing alongside guru investors (what I call, piggybacking) and following the crowd (which devalues individual expertise) was worth exploring (in 800 words or less). It was [...]
2009 saw crowdsourcing — as a movement — making big strides in practice and PR in a variety of different fields. For investors looking to purely crowdsource stock ideas, Piqqem has been on the forefront of helping investors tap the wisdom of the crowds. Having users rate stocks on a variety of different factors — [...]
by Zack Miller on December 23, 2008
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 4, 2008
We’ve spent time exploring expert investing communities on the site recently. Activity in these communities contribute to certain experts bubbling up to the top, thereby revealing and tracking those actions of a select few emergent experts. We now turn our attention to sort of the other side of the coin: crowd sourcing for stock picks. [...]
