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ShanaC — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:06:49 -0000

I still think that's a good match. For some people, it's going to be a good move to have a place they can immediately socially trade stocks with from information they find via Tracked- Pass from one place to another.

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ShanaC — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:13:45 -0000

Who says we're not all secretly talking ;)

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Tariq — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:19 -0000

The problem with stock twits is the conversation is more fragmented. I like message boards because the discussion is very centralized and can build on itself. Also, when you're doing fundamental analysis being able to break the 140 character limit is pretty good.

Stocktwits is good at getting a lead on companies to look into. If I see a guy talking about the ship leasing industry, an analyst who I think is good, I can send him a tweet asking for what else is worth looking at.

But for the actual sharing and discussing research, twitter's pretty limited.

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MikeYavo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:55:31 -0000

Hi everyone. I am the founder of Tracked.com. We very much appreciate the discussion here and are listening carefully. A few things about what we're trying to do:

(1) Building a massive database of Private and Public Company Data --- we already have much much more than Google Finance and are on par with Yahoo in many areas. Here's a prime example of data we have but they do not --- http://www.tracked.com/comp...

We already have more than 5 million pages already!

(2) We've built a communications platform called Messages --- we support groups (public or private) and a host of other types of filters. We will soon give people a way to communicate business information across the site and all over the web. We think this will be useful.

(3) A connections layer --- think Linkedin but again with more controls/pirvacy if that's what you require.

We think the big idea is to bring all of these concepts together into one site and it isn't easy but we're trying hard. Let me say one thing about our Data. We are only as good as the original data source is. We're here to tell you that a lot, too much, public and privately-available data is *dirty*, which means that it needs to be fixed. We are doing a lot of the cleaning but will eventually ask the citizens of the web to assist. With a little bit of effort from all of you our database can be the most accurate and useful out there.

Please keep the ideas coming. We have a good team and we will be very responsive.

Sincerely,

Michael Yavonditte

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:25:35 -0000

That's great to hear. Thanks

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:25:31 -0000

There will be an api too

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:25:12 -0000

What do you think of stocktwits for that?

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:05:58 -0000

when you say customizable, do you mean re-ordering where the stuff is on the
screen or personalizing the data you want to see
if it is the latter, then that is exactly what Tracked.com is working on
delivering to the market

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:02:02 -0000

right. they need to get their API out and then this will be a great platform

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:17:43 -0000

Its coming. I can assure you of that

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:17:12 -0000

Wikinvest is a wiki. People powered and peer produces. This is more of a data aggregation/filtering service with a social later

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:15:09 -0000

What do you think of stocktwits for that?

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:14 -0000

Yes. They got hit hard yesterday. Should be snappier today

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:13 -0000

They'll get better. This is day one. If you can, please tell them what's wrong it will accelerate them getting it right

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:14 -0000

Yup

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:13 -0000

I've made the intros to stocktwits and covestor. Now its up to the business people to determine a fit

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:52 -0000

That's funny

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:51 -0000

Coming from you carl, that is high praise. Do you think there's a need for this in the UK?

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:50 -0000

I intro'd howard to mike months ago. I hope they can find some ways to work together

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:49 -0000

My kids use wikipedia as a source for term papers all the time. Those who deride it are making a huge mistake. Perfect is the enemy of the very very good

The target is the every day business person. Anyone who reads the WSJ, uses LinkedIn, Yahoo Finance.

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:55 -0000

Covestor.com is just a front end. Go to http://cv.im to see the transactional/business model for covestor

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:53 -0000

The commenters on this blog

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:52 -0000

And much deeper way more ambitious

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:08:47 -0000

Yup. That feature request has already been made and its a really good one. Thanks!

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fredwilson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:08:42 -0000

I don't know the answer but I think 'suggest a blog' is a good feature request