by Zack Miller on May 12, 2009
Open social networks Don’t get me wrong: I believe in openness. I believe that social networks should be set free to self-regulate. I believe that in a perfect world, social libertarianism makes sense. I believe that good, quality, trustworthy content would bubble up and all that nasty, nefarious, spammy stuff would be drowned out. But [...]
by Zack Miller on January 20, 2009
This interview is with George Tsiolis, CEO of pure online IR firm, AGORACOM. George and I have conversed for years about the cutting-edge of the IR world. George is a forward thinker and an indefatigable executive and shares his thoughts about his firm, the state of the art in financial communications and the future for [...]
by Zack Miller on November 16, 2008
Just read an interesting article by the guys at Compete.com, the analytics firm. It’s worth checking out the whole article to see statistically what I think we’ve known for a while: the online banks are doing a good job with functionality. More and more people are using online banking and those services offered by the [...]
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 23, 2008
Today’s post was previously posted on another site I run. I’m consolidating my posts and anyways, it probably makes more sense contextually to be here. This post was the product of some of my work with the Tech Dirt Insight Community. ********************************* Using a similar framework to O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 definition, let’s first define what [...]