Social investing has now crossed the pond. Les Echos – a leading French business publication – has just
published an overview of social investing tools. The article entitled Investir
2.0: l’accès aux marches financiers se démocratise (Investing 2.0: access to
financial market is opening up) features Cake Financials, Covestor, TradeKing, Vestopia,
and Zecco, even ...
Some of this summer’s events provide interesting hints about the potential pitfalls of
social investing. Market neutral hedge funds (e.g. Goldman Sachs Global Alpha fund was down 23% for
the month of August) went down in flames when they tripped upon themselves
trying to unwind highly levered bets in illiquid markets that had ...
The Techcrunch 40 conference added a bit of enthusiasm to the social finance space
this week by selecting Mint as the startup competition winner. Mint consolidates users’ personal finance
information across financial services (credit cards, banks, etc.), aggregates
financial services offerings, and presents/ contextualizes them. Cake Financial
– a social investing site – was also ...
-Trusted conversations have fragmented to the social web --shifting the balance of power to communities -To regain trust, corporate websites will look more like a collection of real-time customer discussions --not just product pitches
This trademark application is a great find!The trademark description seems to cast a wider net than just price comparison. Amazon reviews have started aggregating reviews not just at the product level, but also for key product attributes (e.g. camera's attributes like picture quality, lens quality, and ease of use). You could see 1-click compare becomin […]
I'm surprised someone would even make the argument that newspapers shouldn't be engaging a community of readers, especially in times when readers' loyalty is so critical (and regardless of spam and trolls).Comments are particularly important for the segments of the news industry that will emerge stronger from the current downturn, such as loca […]
Tweetie for Mac is the cleanest Mac desktop twitter client, despite less functionality than tweetdeck or seesmicI also like twt.fm a lot. Very clean and simple app for #MusicMondays!
You (and a few other bloggers) convinced me to give it a try. Here's a side by side comparison of Google and Bing on a simple product search on the Palm Pre. http://img.ly/XO Let's say it's rather illuminating!
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