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    Tom B
    Jan 17 09:04 AM
    YouTube Streaks Ahead in Online Video Market [view article]
    Yahoo's gotten way better than they used to be, and this may account for their 11% improvement. They used to be all obsolete formats, like Windows Media. More recently, they seem to be using Flash or something. Whatever they are doing, it actually works most of time now. Reply
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    Tom B
    Jan 16 08:38 AM
    Under The Radar News - Tuesday [view article]
    I thought BAC (Which I hold) was insane when they bid for Countrywide. Now, I think they are "crazy like a fox". Reply
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    Frank Li
    Jan 16 08:30 AM
    Under The Radar News - Tuesday [view article]
    You were spot on with the Apple-WiMax prediction. Cudos. Reply
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    Guy
    Jan 16 08:11 AM
    Under The Radar News - Tuesday [view article]
    Why would Facebook want to buy Plaxo? Plaxo is a service most people I know stopped using years ago.

    BTW, "Under the Radar" is really excellent.     Reply
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    Guy
    Jan 15 01:02 PM
    Is TheStreet.com In Play? [view article]
    December traffic doesn't look so good:

    siteanalytics.compete....
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    Guy
    Jan 15 04:19 AM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    nitadmin -- you're right, my bad. Marketwatch is linking out to 24/7 wall street, which is similar in tone and style to blogging stocks (they even share some of the same authors).

    How do you explain the decline in Bloggingstocks' traffic given the exposure it gets from AOL?     Reply
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    nitadmin
    Jan 14 10:49 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    I have not seen links from Marketwatch to Bloggingstocks. Furthermore, it does not make sense. Bloggingstocks belongs to AOL, Which belongs to Time Warner. A moderate-liberal company. Where as Marketwatch belongs to Dow Jones, which belongs to News Corp, a very conservitive replublican company. Alcohol and water do not mix. And neither does News Corp and Time Warner.

    Marketwatch is merger of serveral finanical websites, it provides its own, Financial News, Charts, Quotes, financial commentarty (which is often conservative and very replublican), Message Boards, blogs, newsletters for stock, options, futures traders, and educational trading website. It is ridiculous, for Marketwatch to send visiters to other finacial portals, when they are offering everything themselves.     Reply
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    sunrises
    Jan 14 03:03 PM
    Under The Radar News - Monday [view article]
    Thank you. The synopsis gives a great platform for future investments. In the meantime, may I ask about VMW? Vmw has solid accounts. Do you see the share price returning to 90s baseline anytime soon? Reply
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    Guy
    Jan 14 02:10 AM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    nitadmin, one other thing: even if its numbers were good (which they're not), bloggingstocks does not have its traffic counted under the AOL Finance domain. Reply
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    Guy
    Jan 14 01:56 AM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    nitadmin, Bloggingstocks can't be what's driving AOL Finance's growth. Bloggingstocks seems to have cut a deal with Marketwatch which must be generating a lot of traffic (I frequently see it on the front page of MarketWatch), and it's also heavily featured on AOL Finance. Between the two, MarketWatch and AOL probably account for most of Bloggingstocks' traffic.

    But despite being given all that traffic, the Bloggingstocks traffic numbers are horrible -- look at this chart:
    siteanalytics.compete....
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    forest
    Jan 13 10:27 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    Lisa was spot on about the linking to Bloomberg, etc being the real reason for the jump. Yahoo Finance is still king in usability (have you looked at how cluttered the AOL quote pages are?). As far as Google goes, I don't think they have rolled out enough features to justify the hype. I just don't get what they are trying to do, they are usually good at topping competitor offerings with better features (ex: gmail) but their finance site isn't that much different from Yahoo's. Reply
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    nitadmin
    Jan 13 10:22 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    Yahoo Finance is still a better site. The new AOL Finance does not allow you to check a stocks option chain. Yahoo Finance does. Reply
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    nitadmin
    Jan 13 10:18 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    The new AOL Finance is still Beta. The reason for its increased traffic is because of AOL popular blog, bloggingstocks.com. This blog is extremely popular and the number visitiers are increasing every day. It even has a mobile site which can accessed using smartphones, m.bloggingstocks.com. Reply
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    seriously ?
    Jan 13 05:00 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    I can't even begin to talk about how technologically superior Google is and how powerful and fast they can and will make google finance.

    I have said this too many times, but analysts just don't get why Google is able to monopolize the internet. Its the super-computer, stupid. ( server farms/ dark fiber etc )

    Google finance is not even out of beta, which simply means that they are refining and experimenting with their technology until they have something that is good enough for them.

    When google finance comes out of beta it will be so integrated with googles other "free services" ( eyeball catchers ) that it will make your head spin. Look at how much it has changed already.

    What/Who is stopping them ?


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    Lisa
    Jan 13 03:11 PM
    AOL Money & Finance Surpasses Yahoo Finance, MSN Money For Top Portal Spot [view article]
    The new AOL Finance is an interesting cross between Google Finance and Yahoo Finance. Google Finance tries to keep everything on one page, whereas Yahoo Finance uses a left-hand navigation bar to provide access to multiple pages. This looks like a hybrid.

    Notwithstanding the weird Comscore data, the key question is whether any of the competitors can de-throne Yahoo Finance. Google was probably shocked at the lack of market share it gained with its finance product. Probably because people just can't be bothered to move their portfolios, however easy you make it for them.

    BTW, does anyone have more reliable traffic data than Comscore?     Reply
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