Comments on: Tip’d: Social Media for Money News

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:41:32 +0000

I signed up for an account as mbhunter.

What will be key is how they combat blatant self-promotion, vote-up cartels, etc. Otherwise it will lose its value pretty quickly.

By: ABCs of Investing

ABCs of Investing — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:20:30 +0000

A friend of mine pointed out that the personal finance blog community really isn’t that large so he questioned the need for any sort of digg-like site.

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:18:40 +0000

I have to agree with Nickel on this one. We’ve seen it a few times before. It might not have the big names like other sites, but it doesn’t seem fundamentally different.

By: Nas

Nas — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:04:14 +0000

Good luck to them. Wonder if Bankaholic.com being sold for $15m had anything to do with setting up a financial news site.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:50:09 +0000

Ok, ok, I took a look at the site and I can see how it offers something different, but its success will rely on the site growing a large contingent of contributors without being overrun by “make money now” articles and SEO “experts.” It will need wide acceptance to make any effort spent on participating worthwhile.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:39:01 +0000

What value does this provide above and beyond digg, et.al.? Finance news stories in a “social media” setting is already covered by the big sites, and a niche focus has been attempted many times by smaller sites. Do they bring something new to the table, or is it just another clone?

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:04:57 +0000

This is like the 4th or 5th attempt at producing a Digg-like site for financial news. I hope they have more success than those that have gone before them.

By: Cap

Cap — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:49:56 +0000

there’s definitely a potential since they have veterans behind it.. but it definitely wont be easy to grab users that are truly interested in financial news from whatever source they’re already used to (whether its marketplace, wsj, yahoo finance, etc.).

being a social media type site, the community has to not suck too. heh.

although I’m not much of a social network/media person, I signed up at the very least to secure my username. muahaha.

look for me under blueprintforfinancialprosperity.