I still have six Pownce invites. Drop me an email at my gmail account, which is deepmarket (if you are a human, you should be able to figure out how to create the correct email).
I was over at Killer Startups - a site that has really taken off in the past couple of weeks - browsing many of the new Web 2.0 players for anything stock market related and stumbled on these:
Stock Cloud is an interesting data mining or data visualization experiment - they describe it as a
tag cloud like display of stock ticker symbols. The larger the ticker symbol the more frequent that company distributes press releases.
Wikinancial allows you to backtest stock picking and trading strategies.
iMiners tracks press releases - as does Stock Cloud - but it provides a search interface and then breaks the press releases into categories.
Wall Street Pop is another Digg-esque stock market site. I am afraid that the stock market is much too diverse to analyze or to get alerts from an interface like Digg’s interface. It is an obvious application of the Digg paradigm to the financial markets, but I don’t think it works.
Everyone needs a little help every now and again - your car breaks down - the dog is sick - a paycheck is late - and all the money you have saved up under the mattress has gone missing. When an emergency is truly an emergency (not a - I gotta take a vacation - emergency), then you need some help to make it to the next paycheck. If you have a need for cash to tide you over for seven to eighteen days - then the right answer might be looking into payday loans. You could go to a friend for a quick loan, but that can be embarrassing or potentially cause more problems for your relationship. Payday loans or a cash advance are a financial tool available to people who are employed, have a checking account with direct deposit and make over $1000 a month - and again - used for emergencies. A payday loan’s name comes from the fact that the loan is generally paid off on the next payday, which makes this type of cash advance a convenient way to cover unexpected expenses that surface in between paychecks. This also puts a lot of responsibility on the individual to ensure that they will be able to pay back the loan on payday, but still have enough money to cover their normal expenses until the next payday. This type of loan is a tool and like many other tools, can be dangerous if not used correctly.
Has a Google PR export started? That is the word on the street over at DigitalPoint. Stay tuned as webmasters the world wide query the countless PR checking sites for any indication of a change in PageRank.
If there is anything for certain in life when using the web, it is computer viruses. Which anti-virus software brand do most people think of first? If you said Norton - you would be correct. I still remember when Norton Utilities was one of the most important tools on my computer - back in the old MS-DOS days. Now you could say that Norton remains in that same position with their easy to use graphical interface and high quality anti-virus patterns, Norton Antivirus is well regarded by industry pundits.
But you don’t need to believe me - take a moment to get the free Antivirus download from Google. Yes - not only is the Norton AntiVirus free, but you can download it from a source that you can trust - Google - as part of the Google Pack. Google Pack includes 12 additional free programs and tools to help improve your computing experience. It is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, but most importantly - the Norton Antivirus now includes unlimited virus pattern updates forever for free.
