Comments on: SaneBull offers cool ajax financial desktop

By: ideAjax » Blog Archive » Why I like SaneBull

ideAjax » Blog Archive » Why I like SaneBull — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:30:41 +0000

[...] Sanebull is the result of my daily experience on thestreet.com, marketwatch.com and Yahoo! Finance. I spend a few hours every night on those sites researching what I need to buy or sell the next day. During a long weekend, SaneBull was born. With SaneBull as my desktop stock monitoring application, it takes me much less time to monitor my stocks. Thanks to Marshall Kirkpatrick from http://www.techcrunch.com, many other investors found the site useful after his exceptional review. [...]

By: Webizen » Startoldalak

Webizen » Startoldalak — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:14:47 +0000

[...] Az RSS olvasóknak van egy érdekes mellékhajtása, mégpedig az oldal hatalmas sikerére tekintettel immáron csak netvájbszosként emlegetett megoldások, amikor dobozokat ráncigálhatunk össze-vissza az oldalon, bennük RSS tartalmakkal, időjárás jelentéssel, és még ezernyi más bepakolható dologgal. Már nem is emlékszem, hogy vajon hol tűnt fel ez a lehetőség legelőször a Web 2.0-s időkben. Igazából a dolog korábbra nyúlik vissza: "perszonalizált", dobozos-pakolgatós kezdőlapja már igencsak jópár éve a Netscape-nek is volt, ha nem is ilyen szofisztikált módon. Most a SaneBullról írt a Techcrunch, mely egy specializált változata az ilyen oldalaknak. A Netvibes-t én is használom, és valószínűleg jópáran használják hazánkban is (a Webizen látogatói közül a legtöbben külső weblapról érkezők Netvibes-t használnak), mert elég ügyes ötletek vannak benne. A hasonló Google kezdőlapot is látom néha, és lenyomok egy-két játékot (lásd a mellékelt Color Junction képet) mikor arra tévedek, mivel mindig bejön, ha a Google címlapra ugrok. Persze itt se fenékig tejfel az élet, hasonló problémák vannak, mint az átlag RSS olvasóknál: nincs olyan lehetőség, ahol gyorsan át tudjam tekinteni a friss tartalmakat. Végig kell kattintgatnom minden fülön, bár az segít hogy utóbb megcsinálták: az egyes füleken kinn van, hogy az adott oldalon hány olvasatlan anyag van. Egy másik, viszonylag nagy probléma: tíz fülem van, fülenként 15-25 dobozzal, s ha éjszakára, vagy hosszabb időre nyitva hagyom Firefoxban az oldalt, képes 600 MB memóriát is megenni, ami azért nem túl szimpatikus (akkor is, ha ez részben a Firefox hibája). [...]

By: dave

dave — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:21:11 +0000

I think it is a good demo of ajax or javascript, but really no business model in my opinion.

By: Jeof

Jeof — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:06:18 +0000

It seems what they’ve done is take basic XML feeds and redisplayed them using Ajax. Okay … so? That’s kind of the baseline for a good javascript developer. Where’s the mashup? Where’s the analysis? Where are fresh insights that Web2/Ajax methodology can bring? What’s the value? Making the same old financial data look shiny is one thing, but those who are heavy into this stuff don’t necessary care about such things. They just want the information … or they want new and better ways to filter and process the same old information.

The Google Finance chart is a good example of this – it takes your two basic, normal, normally boring types of data (news and chart) and mashes them together to create new insights on the old data (plotting news points on the chart to see possible influences). Sanebull is … kinda boring.

By: ideajax.com » Blog Archive » WHILE I WAS IN ISRAEL…

ideajax.com » Blog Archive » WHILE I WAS IN ISRAEL… — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:19:47 +0000

[...] My friends did it again… We are now featured on Techcrunch and as my bloglines subscription to Ajaxian pointed out today, we’re also featured on Ajaxian. Analytics shows hits in four digit range. The great thing about it is that IdeaJax and SinkMyShip are also targeted. We’ve got some offers already. We are sifting through them right now. Sanebull started with a small inconvenience and later an idea from Sam who was having difficulty using Yahoo Finance. He got together with Felix and wrote this neat web application in two days. Imagine what they can do with more time and more inspiration!!! Obviously we’ve brainstormed quite a bit on where we’re going with this and where we want to end up. We definitely do not see our source of income coming from ads like we did with SinkMyShip. Eventhough SMS is paying for itself, it is still not nearly enough to quit our day jobs. Hopefully SaneBull will turn up to be something more than just a weekend project. We’ve met last night to jot down a few ideas with what we’re doing next and unfortunately we have nada. I personally have a few things in mind but I didn’t “buy” Fix and Sam yet. Now a few words about IdeaJax. This is will the permanent blog area for all our blog entries. I’m assuming there will be alot of blogging to do with three current sites available and potentially a few more coming pretty soon depending on our inspiration. I see this blog as having a wide range of topics such as our projects and current developments and also other topics like reviews for books and gadgets. Our team is so diverse that we all have our own unique interests. I personally would like to put it on paper. Maybe I can inspire my friends to do the same. That’s it for now. Stay tuned for the updates. [...]

By: Artem

Artem — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:17:43 +0000

“C”, “I like it” is not a constructive criticism either. This site is a representation of what Ajax can do and those pointless comments just distract other potentially interested parties.

By: Rob Abbott

Rob Abbott — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:41:58 +0000

The use of web services to build a site or application like Sane Bull is a great example of a mashup. Now, there is a bit of confusion from some of the readers in regards to why it was “worthy” of a TechCrunch post.

I would assume it falls in the category of AJAX personalized home pages. This one happens to have a Financial theme and could be great for the general public but as mentioned in the article it is not for professional traders.

My concern is there isn’t a business model and most importantly it could be replicated over the weekend by a single developer, but why replicate?

I actually built the same type of site in 2004 when using a mix of Fidelity.com’s and Yahoo’s web services, but again there wasn’t anything to terribly special about it.

I would throw this in the “cool” bucket…uses AJAX (oooohh) and targets a niche (aaaahh).

Besides promoting Ideajax it’s hard for me to find serious meaning to this TC post….just my opinion.

By: c

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:31:26 +0000

In response to “Artem”. How is ‘I like it’ not an individual opinion, but ‘utterly pointless’ is? All these comments are individual opinions – you either take something out of them or just ignore them!

By: Artem

Artem — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:50:04 +0000

In response to “b”. If this site has made its way to techcrunch means it is not “utterly pointless” to some individuals. Can you please refrain from flaming products based on your individual opinions.

Thanks.

By: b

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:11:09 +0000

utterly pointless.

By: Gijs

Gijs — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:59:06 +0000

http://prototyp...com/themes.html

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:44:18 +0000

At first glance, I think it’s cool and sleek. Although the prospects of it making any money is blurry. It may be just an experiment of some sort that could lead to something more spectacular in the future. Well, hopefully at least.

By: howard lindzon

howard lindzon — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:37:50 +0000

People – YAWN

No offense

The bubble ended in 2000

By: howard lindzon

howard lindzon — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:37:06 +0000

People – YAWN

No offense

By: Urielo » Blog Archive » Monitor financiero

Urielo » Blog Archive » Monitor financiero — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:25:03 +0000

[...] Vía: TechCrunch [...]

By: sam

sam — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:03:23 +0000

Justin,
The functionality you are looking for is not available yet. We are looking to add user customization to the site this weekend. So you will be able to add custom feeds and select which feeds you would like to see.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:03:57 +0000

Is Brooklyn in the house! This is really a great use of Ajax. Very simple and clean. At some point I would like to be able to choose which financial site I would want to use to get the quotes and charts from. I would also like to add my own feed – maybe this is available and I am missing it?

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:49:54 +0000

Am I missing something here? How is this useful. If I close out of a window, how am I supposed to get it back?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:56:54 +0000

this is a tech proof of concept to prove they’re capable of handling a project of this caliber in the future for other clients.

By: Franck Mahon

Franck Mahon — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:25:30 +0000

Great interface but unfortunately Yahoo! Finance policy is “By accessing the Yahoo! site, you agree not to redistribute the information found therein.” so I’m not so sure the site will be up for a long time especially if Yahoo! is not allowed by its providers or by the stock exchanges to redistribute the quotes to other sites.

Disclaimer: I’m working for one of Yahoo! Finance data provider but don’t know what kind of contracts they have. So I’m only expressing my own guesses.

By: X blog » SaneBull Market Monitor

X blog » SaneBull Market Monitor — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:49 +0000

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By: Gautam

Gautam — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:15:16 +0000

Sanebull looks really cool!

By: Nick Gavronsky

Nick Gavronsky — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:11:19 +0000

I think thats a great idea, hopefully something like this could get used by the masses but I just dont see it happening. I love the use of Ajax on their design though. However, a lot of people may get confused. Do many people even understand or interact with Ajax that much?

By: fixanoid

fixanoid — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:46:14 +0000

Marshall, thanx a million!

By: Farhad

Farhad — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:35:00 +0000

It’s a really cool interface, but good luck making money out of this, especially since I get all of this data through My Yahoo.