One of the hardest things about managing money is finding good ideas. The Real Time Financial Idea Network we’ve built at StockTwits helps solve this problem and the new Chart.ly makes it even easier. Two of my favorite features of the NEW Chart.ly are screencasts and pattern tagging. Built using the ridiculously easy to use [...]
One of the great things about StockTwits is that it makes it so easy for those involved in markets to communicate and share ideas in real time. It levels the playing field so people can converse or just listen in on those who share their best thoughts. More and more we are finding that companies [...]
This morning’s weekly jobless claims, probably the best ‘real time’ indicator, have… Source
Truthiness is a great word. Don King wishes it was his. I am CEO of Stocktwits which is about sharing real-time information, yet I invest in early stage ideas that if I am lucky…will take years to achieve a liquidity event. News does not matter to me, yet I love passing it [...] Source
Mathew Ingram has a great post up on ‘Does the World Need Another Twitter ‘. I responded that the world already has more Twitter’s, they are just very niche, like Stocktwits . It seems that everyone that uses Twitter is an armchair Twitter CEO. Lat year I wrote about the tech/web blogging phenomenon of ‘ [...]
My latest research paper reviews efforts to supplement the declarations by the… Source
For Blackberry and Stocktwits enthusiasts we have our Blackberry app live so take a tour and download (model 8130 or higher for now) . It runs off our own API and all tagged $ tweets are now fully streaming in the app. Our customizable widgets are also live It’s exciting to be pushing products and [...]
The new Velocity search application for market pros on the Bloomberg terminal includes The StockTwits All Stream . The Bloomberg app pulls in message postings real-time from across the Web, including StockTwits, and uses a proprietary Bloomberg algorithm to detect abnormal spikes in tweeting volume related to specific public companies. Check out the screen shots [...]
The WSJ Real Time Economics blog has posted the letters for and against the health… Source
It is a fun day for us at Stocktwits.com . We have been working really hard for 6 months thinking through the features and design that would make people that love talking about stocks in real-time go WOW. We are receiving some great feedback. This tweet made my year from someone I have not ever [...]
This morning Stocktwits has launched a new and vastly improved website. It is running at beta.stocktwits.com in parallel to the old site as we want your input on key things we might have missed. The ‘NEW’ Stocktwits is just as easy to use, but the killer features should be easier to manage. Most importantly, the [...]
Registered Express™ (RegEx) Special Invitation Registered Express Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the live public beta version of the company’s proprietary electronic document delivery system called RegEx™. Now you can send your valued digital content (files, documents, etc.) to your intended recipient, and get verification of delivery in real time anywhere in [...]
Recently, I sat down with John Borthwick , co founder of Betaworks (wicked cool real-time companies). John and his partner Andy Weissman build things, buy things and they invest in things….bitly and chartbeat , Summize (Twitter $twit search). We chat about all of the above, managing a fast growing business, chaos, disruption, the early web [...]
First off, Tadas, the founder of Abnormal Returns, will be live with me at 5 pst on Stocktwits.TV to talk about his passion for this news project. Passing news link is still the main shizzle when it comes to Stocktwits, Twitter and blogging. When I stumbled upon Techmeme in 2005, it became an instant favorite [...]
I finally am thinking that the future is priced into Apple $aapl…the stock. With the Apple Tablet, the world and it’s bloggers are ALL truly watching in real-time . That’s pretty crowded. Throughout the stratosphereic run of Apple, few have truly believed. With the Apple stores, nobody believed. iTunes was mocked. The iPod was old [...]
On yesterday’s episode: Follow the $$ – I look at trend following funds, the real time stream, and Twitter and the Twitter Ecosystem. IBD Weekly Roundup – I go through one of my favorite publications Investors Business Daily and look at important articles, statistics and tools that I use. What Hot on StockTwits – I [...]
I read on twitter, so it must be true , that the average lifetime of an S&P 500 company (how long they stay in the index) has dropped from 75 years to 15 years. Al Gore talks about ‘Global Warming’ and though it makes sense, I have never bought in. Too overwhelming to think about. [...]
Entrepreneurs who can take risks and form new businesses are critical to stimulating job creation. This is because new start ups and small businesses are the source of more than half of all new jobs in the US. Unfortunately, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, in many developed nations the number of people starting new [...]
Lot’s of work and learning for me to do as we roll out a new show on the new Stocktwits.TV. I know what’s wrong, but you can chime in anyways . It’s a major work in progress, but unless we do this in real time, all the time, we can’t learn. On yesterday’s show: I [...]
We are happy to announce that StockTwits has closed a 3 million Series B financing round led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures. Since launching a year ago, we have been moving very quickly to build a real time financial media company amid a landscape of transformation within the industry. If you’ve ever [...]
