by Zack Miller on September 27, 2010
Last week, I wrote about Kalengo, a site that enables investors to plan, research and invest using social intelligence from the cloud. Kalengo is a U.S. firm with R&D in Asia. What’s interesting is that I’ve also interviewed the Antony Ma, founder of Investomy platform — another social investing site with roots in Asia. This [...]
by Zack Miller on January 20, 2009
Gone are the days where reputation alone drives sales for an investment newsletter. Successful newsletter publishers understand that it’s become much harder to get investors willing to pony up a couple hundred dollars per year for stock research. One technique that well-marketed investment newsletters are using to drive more sales is by giving away a [...]
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. [...]
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 October 26, 2008
StockTwits.com launched last week after a well-telegraphed development period. Built on top of Twitter, users can use filters to hone in on the type of information they’re looking for and use a search function to search by stock ticker. Read a quick (if not overly smug) review of the site here and Roger Ehrenberg’s take [...]
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 July 28, 2008
I’ve just begun writing about the New Rules but part of the thesis is that expert communities can and will play a bigger role in investment decisions and idea generations for savvy investors going forward. We’ve only just begun, as has MarketGuru, a new site focused on providing New Rules-type functionality for a community of [...]
