Announcing Moneywise Personal Finance Network
Affiliate and advertising networks are nothing new. Site owners ranging from small blogs to huge media based operations have been monetising their traffic via such services for years. Google changed the landscape with Adsense, however for many the returns have been diminishing and the relevance somewhat limited. There are lots of other options to monetising traffic and, [...]
The life of a discussion board, in not so many words…
Played around with Wordle, a data visualisation tool (think TagCloud) this evening. Here’s how all the stuff ever written on the popular Desire Petroleum (DES) board on interactive investor came out.
Click to see full size.
User Voice - Customer Feedback
Interactive Investor would like to introduce a new way of posting your feedback. We’ve decided to trial a third-party customer feedback site called User Voice.
The Interactive Investor User Voice page can be found here.
We’ll be paying close attention to how it works and whether users find it of benefit. Please let us know your thoughts [...]
Shareprice iPhone app goes live
I’m pleased to announce the release of our live share price application, now available from the UK iTunes app store : search for ’shareprice’ or directly link to iTunes page.
The application is true first from a technical perspective, being the first approved native iPhone application to integrate with Lightstreamer (www.lightstreamer.com) in order to stream prices between [...]
shareprice v2 prepares for launch
We’ve put registration and login to streaming prices live today in preparation for the release of version 2 web client and our public beta of a streaming iPhone app.
Here’s a snapshot of two of the screens to give you an idea on what’s coming your way. Click to get a slightly bigger view.
Track multiple stocks, [...]
We’re dishing out the medals…
I’m told the cost of producing each Olympic gold medal this year will be around $400 , up from $155 in Athens. Perhaps Paula Radcliffe will think twice about stopping this time round…if there’s any air to breathe that is.
The raw cost, of course, will be irrelevant to the winners in Beijing. A gold medalist [...]
A trip to the TESLA showroom
Whilst back in Palo Alto for the Always On conference, I read about the opening of the TESLA show room in the local press.
In summary, the TESLA is a lithium-ion battery powered car with sports car performance (0-60 in 3.9 seconds), built on the Lotus production line in the UK.
It’s backed / supported by a [...]
SMS alerts launched on interactive investor
We expanded our email based alerts today on www.iii.co.uk, adding the ability for users to receive a price or news alert to their mobile (’SMS’).
Price alerts are available to any registered user, and work as follows :-
1. Ensure your master phone number in your Account profile is your mobile number. UK numbers [...]
shareprice.co.uk launched
Aims:
To become the leading provider of free (or at cost) real-time stock market data in the UK.
Ensure data is as accurate and timely as possible.
To utilise modern technologies to deliver a feature rich, highly functional desktop / mobile based service.
To provide simple access to share price data and research tools on ONE page per company [...]
An experiment with Google Maps.
Our main site has a very active stock bulletin board - Desire Petroleum - where the same old questions have kept cropping up over the last few years: When is drilling going to commence? What is the price likely to be when drilling commences? And, what are the chances of of finding a commercially viable source of oil?
Everyone [...]
