Investors continue to cozy up with blogs for investment advice. Kudos to Dominic Jones for uncovering a recent survey that shows young investors rely heavily upon the Internet to manage their portfolios. I’ve embedded the survey below.
The survey shows that:
Turning to the Web: financial websites and blogs were the most influential external influences for both [...]
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 and [...]
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 other social media [...]
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 other social media [...]
As reported yesterday, Seeking Alpha, the largest aggregator of financial content from blogs, asset managers and investment newsletters, raised another round of funding yesterday. The raise of $7 million represents a B round financing from existing investors, Accel and Benchmark, along with new investor DAG.
There’s been speculation about what Seeking Alpha’s going to do with [...]
While stocks are still suffering after last year’s smackdown and previously virile research houses are left impotent, we do find ourselves in the throes of a bull market for investment research.
It’s not the broker-calling-his-client-with-a-hot-pick type, but rather just tons of great research work being done on stocks daily posted to the Internet — much of [...]
For those reading these pages for some time now, you’ve noticed that I believe strongly in the rise of the financial blogosphere’s influence on investor decision making (see our New Rules of Investing), the power of long-tail content (blogs writing about stocks) and how investor relations is changing in its wake (see Dominic Jones’ IR [...]
