Archive for December, 2009

• What will the $USDX do in $TWENTYTEN?
  ppearlman, December 27th, 2009, Comments: Comments

• How The Economist Can Participate in Social Media
  ppearlman, December 23rd, 2009, Comments: Comments

  Earlier this week, The Financial Times reported that the The Economist plans to increase its social media presence significantly on Facebook and Twitter.  They write:
  Ben Edwards, publisher of Economist.com, hopes that Facebook will help his site acquire new readers and develop a “deeper level of engagement” with existing ones.
  “We have a mission online of being [...]

• StockTwits $TWENTYTEN Contest with CME GROUP
  ppearlman, December 15th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  A couple of weeks back we added a new stream to StockTwits with the tag $TwentyTen where our community can add their market related predictions for  the coming year. As well, bloggers and journalists who write prediction posts and articles can link to them using that tag.
  Many of the responses have been excellent so far [...]

• Welcome Thinking Trades to StockTwits Premium Blogs
  ppearlman, December 9th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  The first time Vinaya Dhabareeya contacted me back in June, I must admit, I wasn’t sure who @ThinkingTrades was on StockTwits.  He is a reserved guy and participated much less frequently than many others.
  But as I watched his stream more closely, I noticed  a couple things. 
  First, he was bullish while the rest of the [...]

• Innovating Streams: Predictions for $TWENTYTEN and $EXCHTALK with @CMEGROUP
  ppearlman, December 7th, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We continue to innovate our use of streams on StockTwits.
  To date, we have employed StockTwits streams mostly for assets and the Suggested List.  We started with US Equities but have since added a few international equity market symbols, Forex, Chart.ly, futures and recently the Options Force Suggested List with @CBOE.
  And while we have been planning [...]

• StockTwits Closes a $3 Million Series B Round and Looks to 2010
  StockTwits, December 2nd, 2009, Comments: Comments

  We are happy to announce that StockTwits has closed a $3m Series B financing round led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures as well as Brad Feld.
  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 [...]