Trader’s Narrative

Sanebull.com is another new Web 2.0-ish stock market site. It aggregates data from various sources: thestreet.com, Yahoo! Finance, WSJ, etc. And since it is based on ajax technology, it is lightning fast.

Compared to instantbull.com, the interface is very clean and easy to use. Evenso, the offering is so light, I’m not sure if anyone will be seriously using it. A glaring oversight: charts!

I’m not sure how the creators of such sites plan on competing with Yahoo! Finance since even Google is having a tough time unseating them. More competition is better than less; I just wish rather than these aggregators and me too sites, someone would come up with a unique offering.

Bullpoo (yeah, I know the name is a bit weird) is a new online investment community built around blogs, dicussion board and a twist of video gaming concepts.

You can start a private blog, with you as the only author, or a public one, meaning anyone can contribute. Probably the best feature of the site is the ability to make and keep track of forecasts or predictions on specific stocks. I wonder what sort of sentiment data this would generate .

Bullpoo.com has an XP (experience) levelling system similar to many video games. This allows you to see very quickly how any member has fared with their forecasts.

As with all Web 2.0 applications it uses tags and integrates with delicious and Digg. But if anything makes it unattractive it is the lack of members and regularly updated content. Their discussion forum is pretty much empty. The interface and complexity of the site is also a bit of a turnoff.

You know that Web 2.0 has come into its own when killer apps like extortr show up (in beta no less):

The business model is simple, and yet fiendish: upload an incriminating or embarrassing picture/video, set a price and contact the person implicated via anonymous email then wait for payment. Extortr takes a reasonable 10% cut ($5 minimum).