by Zack Miller on December 16, 2010
A lot of work is going into developing the next generation of financial powerhouses. Where traditional brokers/banks controlled the locus of power in the investing game, it’s not clear exactly who is going to take their place as their assets and influence have waned. Here are a couple of ways that firms are going at [...]
by Zack Miller on May 25, 2010
Interesting little announcement from StockTwits this morning. The distance between financial content and trade execution narrows as Stock Twits embeds broker Zecco’s Zap Trade into their site. From the announcement: Zap Trade is a little “widget” that appears wherever you see a ticker symbol on StockTwits. Clicking the Z launches a pop-up trade ticket that [...]
by Zack Miller on May 2, 2010
The evolution of investment newsletters Investment newsletters have been around as long as investments have. Never mind that they used to be delivered snail mail. Then fax. Then email. Given the lag time between publishing and delivery, these old-school newsletters, like the Motley Fool’s Hidden Gems or Al Frank’s Prudent Speculator, mostly gave paid subscribers [...]
by Zack Miller on February 11, 2010
With much fanfare yesterday (they even arranged a blizzard for much of the U.S.), Google announced its social media offering, Google Buzz (see video below). What is Google Buzz So, what is Buzz? I like Matthew Ingram’s description on GigaOm of the Google Buzz service: Google’s new service looks and feels a lot like many [...]
I’ve been thinking about what the future has in store for investors and I’d like to use this post to help clarify my thinking. Essentially, I’d like to hone in on what 2010 portends for online finance. I’m looking for some broader trends, as well as some company-specific prognostication. AOL’s ascension, Yahoo Finance’s continued domination, [...]
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 April 20, 2009
Twitter certainly has gotten some great free press as of late, with Ashton Kutcher and Oprah all entering the fray. All this excitement has not been lost on investors. Traders have been using a service called StockTwits to trade breaking news, ideas, commentary and data on the broader stock market and individual stocks. I like [...]
by Zack Miller on November 26, 2008
Interesting how an investor relates to a deeper understanding in a portfolio company after making the investment. Roger Ehrenberg is an investor in StockTwits. As Roger mentions in a recent blog post, StockTwits recently release a new version of StockTwits where users can insert a ‘$’ sign before any mention of a specific stock, effectively [...]
