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 ...
O’Reilly announced a new addition to its conference roll with Money:Tech, which will take place in New York in February 2008. This event brings some excitement back to a market that’s been out of favor with Silicon Valley’s cognoscenti since the burst of the Internet bubble and the e-brokerage consolidation. ...
Google Finance has just released new features for its financial portal. Overall, the redesign significantly improves
the homepage and delivers a lot more information in a much smoother way.
I found the “Popularity” feature in the top movers section very interesting. This feature uses Google Trends to rank stocks/companies based ...
Social investing has picked up my interest lately. I plan to review and track services in this area, as they become available and improve.
Few areas of web 2.0 elicit as much controversy as “social investing”, loosely defined as services that add a social network twist to online financial and ...
-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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