I’ve been writing about the financial content bull market from the early days on this blog through the publication of Tradestream last summer . Aggregation sites like Seeking Alpha (of which I was an early employee) are still ramping their content and even finding ways to remunerate their contributors. With AOL scaling back resources in [...]
January 28, 2011 – 1:21 am
In this week’s podcast, we interview Mick Weinstein, head of content at Covestor, a new investment platform that allows investors to shop for investment advisor like shopping for Pez on eBay. Mick was previously editor-in-chief at Seeking Alpha.
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I’ve discussed Covestor and its do-it-yourself model at length both in my book, Tradestream, as [...]
December 23, 2010 – 12:10 pm
The latest edition of Tradestreaming radio is out and it’s a good one. You’re not going to want to miss
an in-depth interview with leading financial ad network Investing Channel’s founder/CEO, Nikesh Desai
Nikesh shares his view on where the industry stands today and where it’s headed
we discuss strategies on how to better monetize financial content
new [...]
October 21, 2010 – 6:45 am
Jim Grant on the formative experiences of building his own financial subscription, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
Beyond his captivating views on the Future, it’s interesting to hear how hard things were initially building his own firm, ex-Barron’s and Dow Jones’ corporate cover.
He tells entrepreneurs in the investment content space:
I tell everyone that in 20 years after [...]
October 14, 2010 – 7:39 am
The Bloomberg juggernaut continues to impress. Not satisfied with more static, unidirectional programs on Bloomberg Radio and TV, Bloomberg is layering in more experiential type content.
Accompanying Bloomberg Surveillance, a popular radio program hosted by Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt, is a new program called Inside Surveillance.
For listeners and those interested in the show and [...]
October 11, 2010 – 8:53 am
From David Jackson, Seeking Alpha’s founder and CEO:
After eight months in development, I’m thrilled to officially launch Seeking Alpha’s Investing Applications today and tell you a bit about why we launched them. Investing Apps are professional-grade tools to research stocks, and manage, track and analyze your investments. These apps are [...]
October 6, 2010 – 11:45 am
Yahoo Finance announced today that they’ve launched an Android app.
From the announcement:
With Yahoo! Finance for Android, some of the great features customers get include:
Real-time quotes from BATS Exchange
Customizable stock watch list
Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios
Company stats and news
Tech Ticker videos
Users outside the U.S. will still have to wait a bit to get access to the [...]
October 4, 2010 – 11:30 am
Tired of the print-is-dead-meme, I decided to dig a little deeper. Specifically, I’ve been looking for tools to measure how well investment advice is dispensed by major (and minor) publications.
Print is Dead is Dead
While print may be in its death throes as a business, it’s clear to me after digging around that some publications are [...]
September 20, 2010 – 6:46 am
Lots of interesting stuff going on in financial services. I recently had the opportunity to chat (email, really) with Carol Yuyi Zhou, Director of Marketing for Kalengo. Kalengo is really a hybrid of a lot of what’s interesting in today’s online investing environment: social, analytics, financial content curation, cross-platform, etc. It’s kind of a cross-breed [...]
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Just penned some thoughts about the recent news that Yahoo Finance is getting into blogging and curation over at my book’s website (migrating much of my writing over there — head over and sign up!).
Money quote:
This is a risky strategy. In essence, the financial portal is pitting itself opposite all its content partners — [...]
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Also tagged aggregation, crowsourcing, curation, forbes, investing, long tail, new rules, piggyback investing, seeking alpha, tradestream, yahoo finance
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