socialPicks, an interesting twist on a finance site
A few weeks back I met Weiting at a Lunch 2.0 event. He told me about a little app he was working on that was something to do with social networks and stocks which sounded pretty interesting; a few days later I got an invite in my e-mail so I checked it out.
Enter socialPicks, a social network + finance site. Basically, they built what Google Finance and Y! Finance should’ve built (and may be building as I blog…). The idea is that there’s a lot of community right in our brokerage accounts – people who buy the same stocks as you, your friends, your co-workers, etc. And there’s no good way to commiserate with them when stocks go down or celebrate together when stocks go up.
They’ve got cool ideas, like the ability to leave comments on stocks with your predictions, which anyone else can read over and then comment on.
We’ll put this in the “tools I wish I had before I lost a bunch of money in the stock market” bucket ;)
If you’re interested in an invite, let me know. As far as I can tell, I’ve got unlimited invites!
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June 16th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Please do send me an invite, would love to check it out. There are few other sites (e.g. flogz.com etc.) which are similar to digg, but they are pertinent to financial news instead of ‘picks’ per se.
June 16th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
I would love an invite. Thanks man, and keep up the good work.
June 16th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Can i get an invite. Thanks.
June 16th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
I’m intrigued, I’ll take one of your invites. Thanks!
June 17th, 2006 at 8:27 am
hey mark, i’ll take an invite. tho i don’t forsee much celebrating together with fellow msft owners at the moment. ;)
June 17th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Invites sent! I’ve got plenty more though; so leave a comment if you want one :)
Adam – I’m with you on the msft owners there. I’ve still got a bunch of MSFT from ESPP a few years ago… *sigh* should’ve sold when it was at 28 ;)
June 18th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Sounds great and I can invite you to Phuket, Thailand. ;)
June 18th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I would love an invite. By the way, are they “US-only”? (that is, NYSE and NASDAQ stocks only)
June 19th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I’d like an invite…sounds interesting.+
June 20th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
why phuket?
June 21st, 2006 at 6:55 am
Hello Mark,
Looks like a wonderful service; care to send me an invite?
Many thanks!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Buzz Technologies Inc. (BZTG) are building their IT centre in Phuket, Thailand.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:39 am
I’d love an invte as well….thanks!
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:53 am
hey mark – i’m interested to check the site out… can you send along an invite? thanks.
June 25th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Mark – Thanks a lot for writing about us!
So here I’m to try & take some load off Mark ;) … If you guys are interested in taking a peak at SocialPicks and don’t want to bother Mark, feel free to sign up via http://www.socialpicks.com or drop me an email at weiting at socialpicks dot com … I can also send you an invite.
Cheers!
June 27th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Invite please to mooret5@postmaster. co . uk
July 19th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Hey Mark, I tried getting an invite from the main page but it hasn’t sent an email yet and it has been several days. My email is hmyang@ucdavis.edu, can you sen dme an invite? Thanks
August 21st, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Would like to try this site, please send me an invite!
Jon
August 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
If you are still sending out invites I’d love one. Thanks!
August 26th, 2006 at 5:32 am
I’d love an invite too please!
August 26th, 2006 at 9:12 am
The idea looks very appealing. Please send and ivite if you have one. Thanks
August 29th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
i’d appreciate an invitation … thought the members might want to check out http://www.nationalresearchexchange.com for their free investment analytics
September 4th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Would much appreciate and invite!
September 12th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Please pass an invitation my way if your able to. Thanks a lot!
October 5th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
I just know about this website and wish to be invited as well. Currently I use http://www.wikinancial.com for this kind of thing. It’s pretty much the same, except the graphics is much better in socialpicks.
November 19th, 2006 at 10:54 am
I asked for an invite on the official site three times over the last three months, but didn’t get one. I need an invite, please!
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