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by Zack Miller on December 29, 2010
Dealbook has an interesting article out this morning entitled Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook. The success of secondary markets for private company shares like those traded in Sharespost may actually f0rce leading startups like Facebook and Twitter to go public. A surging shadow market in the privately held shares of Facebook is making [...]
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by Zack Miller on September 28, 2010
An interesting new study on influence in the social web was published by the Smart Data Collective and analyzed by RWW. What’s interesting here is that the study drills down to identify the most influential phrases in social media posts and even the best windows to post during the day for maximum exposure. From Farnam [...]
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by Zack Miller on March 16, 2010
Stock Twits rolled out a refresh of their website yesterday with some nice new functionality for users. One thing that really jumps out at me is that there are even more ways to filter the tradestream: in addition to filtering for authors and stocks, users can slice and dice the stream according to asset classes [...]
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by on March 16, 2010
With the explosion of content on the Internet, particularly in real-time social media, investors are beginning to get access to tools to trade sentiment. Where old-school investors knew — and profited — from buying on the rumor and selling on the news — the participative aspect of social media is changing the ways news/rumors/sentiment is [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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by Zack Miller on March 24, 2009
Small business, especially ones that cater to local customers, have been slower to adapt to doing ebusiness. These prorprieters gripe that entirely local businesses don’t stand to gain much from going online, other than providing a small web presence for customers and prospective customers. Small businesses have the ability to absolutely “own their geographies” (see [...]
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by Zack Miller on February 15, 2009
Bruce Carton is a smart guy. If you are interested in anything related to securities law, you’ve gotta be reading this guy. In fact, I named his site as one of the 3 best sites to uncover the next financial blowup. On February 17, 2009, Bruce’s Securities Docket is sponsoring a webcast that will look [...]
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