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August 22, 2007

Stocks.us: A TechMeme Clone For Stock News

Michael Arrington

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Stocks.us recently surfaced in the TechCrunch Forums. It’s an aggregator around public company stock news that has a suspiciously similar approach and look/feel as blog news aggregator TechMeme.

The site groups news items from major media (Reuters, WSJ, USAToday, etc.). Lots of stories = higher placement on the site. Newer stories are linked in the right sidebar. It updates every 15 minutes.

Like TechMeme, this will be a killer resource for people tracking breaking public company news.

The difficult part of building an aggregator like this is figuring out what stories are related and grouping them properly. TechMeme uses links between blogs. Since major news sites don’t link to each other, Stocks.us must be using keyword and semantic analysis.

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  1. WEB

    August 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Google News is using a similar technology. It is probably a form of Concept Search Algorithms.

  2. Anand

    August 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    The site updates from media every 15 minutes..And the meda themselves might take quite a few time to report the major breaking news on their website. Not a good idea to depend only on this when you are trading..I would rather stick to the Business News Channels on TV..

  3. Deelip

    August 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    The site seems quite organized.
    Its a good site, I must say.

  4. scmfinance

    August 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    As an active trader, in it’s current form, I don’t see the use in the site.

  5. Deals and Coupons

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Good start!

  6. luca

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Hey, this is really cool. I don’t think it is going to be a MAIN resource for traders, anyway it can surely help.

  7. DeuceMania

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    I don’t know if it helps at all, but it’s cool

    DM
    http://DeuceMania.com

  8. Michael

    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    You need context and compliance. Seeking Alpha is a much better choice.

  9. Don Wilson

    August 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Anand - This is clearly, by no means a up to the second news station for stock traders, but more of an interesting homepage to keep up to keep up to date with stocks. Probably a good place to go after the market’s closed and browse around news listings for said stocks.

  10. G.M. Borisov

    August 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    They must be using either Ticker based or registered company names filtering present in all articles. Many companies filter by these two elements. Look at boardcentral.com - extracts messages from major boards based on the ticker, and compiles popularity indexes based on tickers’ popularity, good resource too.

  11. Nik Cubrilovic

    August 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    For traders it is most important that they get breaking news as quickly as possible - so having the stories in chronological order rather than showing the ‘biggest’ story at the top is more important

    It would be more interesting to scan blogs for any company news that is market-sensitive, then having a Techmeme-like system to break this news rather than relying on one of the big sites or agencies to pick it up first and then only showing it 15 minutes afterwards. Most traders are subscribed to one of the wire sources anyway, so they will know this news before Stocks.us displays it

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