Archive for October, 2009

• Twitter Lists…What do YOU Think?
  Posted by Howard on October 31st, 2009 at 7:59 pm, Comments: 49 comments

  We all navel gaze in the era of the social web. I remember I used to check my stats when I started blogging and obviously [...]

• Attention…Is There a Playbook?
  Posted by Howard on October 31st, 2009 at 9:07 am, Comments: 4 comments

  I have gotten a little Attention lately…Stocktwits too. I would like to think that attention just gets in the way of hard work, good ideas [...]

• Stocktwits Suggested List…Expanding and Dissecting
  Posted by Howard on October 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  There is no one reason that traders love microblogging. If there was, we would not have such a long list of suggested traders to follow. [...]

• Falafel and Foursquare…A Match Made in Hummus
  Posted by Howard on October 27th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, Comments: 28 comments

  it’s no secret…Howard loves his falafel. There is no doubt that Howard will run the biggest falafel network when the time is right. If you [...]

• Loving Glue…Here is Why…
  Posted by Howard on October 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm, Comments: 8 comments

  Glue is the easiest social network and recommendation engine on the web. The best part is that you don’t have to do anything– simply install [...]

• Nasdaq Launches iPhone App that Includes Stocktwits Streams
  Posted by Howard on October 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, Comments: 31 comments

  TechCrunch has obviously got more inside info than I do and has broken the story on Nasdaq’s super cool iPhone app . We are excited [...]

• Deep Spam Thoughts…Media is Free. Attention is Priceless.
  Posted by Howard on October 25th, 2009 at 8:38 am, Comments: 39 comments

  Spam owns my physical mailbox, but not my digital inbox and social world. I think about spam all the time and have been wanting to [...]

• Don’t Fear the Social Web Bubble…Embrace It.
  Posted by Howard on October 24th, 2009 at 6:05 am, Comments: 36 comments

  I am pretty sure we are still in a bubble phase. It’s a bubble of bubbles world we now live in. Since the 80’s we [...]

• The CME and Stocktwits…Da Merc!
  Posted by Howard on October 22nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm, Comments: 21 comments

  Back in the heyday of trending stocks in 2007, the CME was the shizzle. I know this because we Wallstripped them in one of my [...]

• Yahoo and The Biggest Loser…Shedding Fat
  Posted by Howard on October 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm, Comments: 15 comments

  Yahoo ( $yhoo ) gets no respect. Today, they announced earnings. No one cared. Yesterday, Apple announced earnings…EVERYONE cared. After Yahoo announced a tripling of [...]

• The Inconceivable Rally 'Part 3'…The Upside Crash
  Posted by Howard on October 19th, 2009 at 8:31 pm, Comments: 19 comments

  The major rally underway is now upside crash. It is glorious. It is gathering steam, not slowing down. There is insane fuel provided by global [...]

• Bank of America – F#@k You, Eat S*#t, Die…REPEAT!
  Posted by Howard on October 17th, 2009 at 11:42 pm, Comments: 64 comments

  I am a tad perurbed. It seems Max will be broke in 14 months… You see, he has a SAVINGS account at Bank of America. [...]

• The Science of Web Traffic…You Better Add it to your Arsenal
  Posted by Howard on October 17th, 2009 at 7:40 am, Comments: 21 comments

  Web sites are a commodity. Despite everyone being on the web, traffic that matters is scarce. I have learned how to do most of the [...]

• Bloomberg is Toast…NOT!
  Posted by Howard on October 16th, 2009 at 1:06 am, Comments: 55 comments

  It’s a pretty quiet giant that Bloomberg. Today, Stephen Baker of Business Week (Bloomberg), said that Bloomberg does not get the internet and their terminal [...]

• Deep Economic Thoughts…The Four F's – Friction, Flexibility, Frustration and Fear
  Posted by Howard on October 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pm, Comments: 11 comments

  I did not watch television today, but can guarantee you that CNBC was cheerleading Dow 10,000. I know they were cheerleading 10,000 in 1998 as [...]