SharePrice iPhone app - one of the stickiest to date?
Flurry.com recently published an interesting article about mobile app loyalty and frequency of usage. It can be read in full here; but in summary highlighted the challenge faced by any mobile app developer - that of cutting through the ‘noise’ of over 75,000 apps that are now available in the iTunes app store alone. [...]
PHORM? No thanks!
We today took the step of opting out all of our group websites and thereby protecting our users from having their usage analysed by the PHORM service.
For more information about PHORM and it’s risk to your privacy :-
http://www.inphormationdesk.org/
http://www.phorm.com/
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/250043/major-websites-urged-to-boycott-phorm.html
Spotted on the way down to the Waterloo & City Line this morning
A gentleman keenly watching his share prices on our iPhone application.
Great start to the day.
Google Finance Android App - ’streaming’ ?
Since I launched (still?) the only stock market application to truly stream tick by tick data on to the iPhone and Android I feel that I’m fairly qualified to comment on the continued mis-use of the term ’streaming’ which is used widely by my competitors and most recently by Google Finance who launched their Android [...]
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.co.uk update
v2 or shareprice ‘Advanced’ as it will be known is now available in beta at http://www.shareprice.co.uk/advanced/ -Â will be adding tutorial video later today.
Apple received our iPhone application binary for review this evening, so hopefully we’ll have our live share price app available in the iTunes store shortly.
Now on to Android.
New discussion board voting system and date search
A trip to our Discussions centre shows nearly 4,000 people have contributed over 23,000 posts to our discussion boards over the last 30 days. Â
In my opinion, a serious investor would be missing out if they chose to ignore boards as one of their information sources for research. There are loads of very knowledgeable community members out there…
But lets [...]
Medal Protest!
As ever, we can rely on the vocal protest from some of our users following changes to the site.
So, whilst many of you have welcomed the introduction of medals in discussion boards (more here); a number have raised concerns about them providing a false sense of security / offering credibility to the holders who [...]
I’m suddenly scared of dogs.
Even if Robocop was a favourite movie during my teens…..this US defence funded robot is just a little spooky.
When the ‘good times’ get tough
The level of UK consumer debt seems to be raising a few eyebrows. Finally.Â
May I suggest the following sketch forms the backbone of school children’s personal finance education, recently introduced in to the national curriculum.  Now excuse me whilst I go and find a better rate for my credit card.
