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According to economists, there is ample demand for a social blogging service that targets stocks, trading, and financial information.  While there is already plenty of similar data all over the Internet, Stocial is different, working to make stocks social.  Its developers intend it to be, in their own words, a one-stop shop for all financial news, including stocks, analysis and financial journalism, all curated in a live feed.  It does this by having an updated news feed that incorporates Twitter, StockTwits and Yahoo! Finance, as well as similar financial news sites and tickers.  It goes even further, though, gathering information from your friends, family and followers as well. Read more »

Summer seems to be doing good things for some troubled, but popular, Internet businesses.  Facebook, whose stock had been dropping pretty steadily since its IPO, not only leveled off, but has begun a rebound.  In the streaming media market, Netflix, whose stock has had an almost year-long decline, bottomed out on June 1 at $60.70/share.  Since then, however, Netflix investors have had a lot to cheer about and their investment has been bouncing back in the right direction. Read more »

Every year, Time Magazine does a “Man Of The Year” spotlight feature in December.  While the feature article has morphed into “Person Of The Year,” “Woman Of The Year,” and “People Of The Year” over the decades and individual issues, the criteria for the newsworthy person to nab the prestigious cover article has remain unchanged.  The Time “Man” Of The Year is the person who received the most news coverage in a given year, which is why both beloved U.S. Presidents and despised world leaders have frequently made the Man Of The Year list multiple times (Joseph Stalin, for example, was a Time Man Of The Year twice and FDR received the honor three times).  If a similar principle were to be applied to the stock market, it is hard to imagine a Stock Of The Year for 2012 other than Facebook. Read more »