The web 2.0 expo is happening right now in San Francisco. If you live in the Bay Area then you might want to jump into the car and check it out yourself. If you can’t afford to buy a ticket right now and leave everything behind to get on a plane and get yourself in [...]
Monday, January 21, 2008
According to a man named Richard Peterson, who went to medical school to study Psychiatry for the sole purpose of decoding what happens on Wall Street, it is possible to use social media activity (like that on Digg) to accurately predict market activity.As he puts it, "I was looking for qualitative and emotional explanations for the way the markets move... I looked at the language that was making people buy stocks".In other words: "tracking the mood on Wall Street as it moved."Based on this hunch, Peterson started MarketPsy and developed software that "churns through the daily malestrom of" votes, chats, rants and clicks on blogs and social news sites, weighing each word and looking for telltale signs of "overreaction and underreaction".And here's the fascinating part that could start a finacial phenomenon and open up a new position at every Charles Schwab office across the country... the "Diggvestor".
Thursday, November 1, 2007
How to quickly become somewhat of a social media marketing expert yourself and hit the ground running with your marketing endeavors.
Monday, August 20, 2007
As part of the continued revamp of all Yahoo websites, Yahoo Local is the latest Yahoo site to get a major overhaul. The revamp of Yahoo [...]
Monday, July 2, 2007
It is fair to assume that regardless of a person's definition of Web 2.0 it is generally accepted that the web is constantly evolving and that there have and will be noteworthy changes in the technology used and they way the user interacts with the web.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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