Comments on: SkyGrid Links Its Financial Firehose To Twitter

By: radius13

radius13 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:22:46 +0000

Another news aggregator could they possibly find a market.

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:31:45 +0000

So far as I can tell, SkyGrid is just vapor right now, which makes “nifty” and “useful” a bit of an exaggeration.

By: منتديات

منتديات — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:28:08 +0000

The one thing that does jump out at me is that “wow! the every day man can finally use RSS”.

By: jimjerky

jimjerky — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:52 +0000

How can anyone disagree with Richard’s comments? What’s going on here? SkyGrid appears to be vapor ware. They have been in business since 2006 and still no accessible site. Seems fishy to be writing about something as inane as twitter feeds.

By: Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:48:33 +0000

I’m sorry, but is SkyGrid paying you to promote their company? Are you good friends with the owner of the company?

1.) When you originally reviewed the company, there was no way to sign up for the service, even though your review claimed there was. It took over two days after your article before SkyGrid offered a Web page allowing people to “request” to sign up. Not a sign-up, mind you, just a request for an account. (BTW, on the day the request form went live, I requested an account and never heard a peep from them.)

2.) As of today, you still have to request to sign up, so what good is it? Why doesn’t the service simply have a sign-up page and create the user account right then and there? Are they cherry-picking their beta users? Why doesn’t the writer make this clear in the article?

3.) So they have a Twitter feed. So does every other major financial news site. If you want cutting-edge headlines about SkyGrid, how about this: they use Flash on their site. Or if you want a really big tech scoop, try this one out: they’ve got a backend database. News we can all use.

4.) What’s the likelihood that they’ll be around six months from now? Twelve months? Sure, it’s free (well, not really, because you can’t sign up), but do they have the financial resources and operational savvy to be worth my time and trouble? Are they just big talk and no walk? If so, why change our financial news consumption habits?

So far as I can tell, SkyGrid is just vapor right now, which makes “nifty” and “useful” a bit of an exaggeration.

Please, you folks at TechCrunch do so many great things. Please stop with the ads for your buddies at SkyGrid.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:51:56 +0000

Of course, a dozen people beat me to it, but..

How is someone piping an RSS feed to Twitter remotely considered NEWS!

“Google employees to use EMAIL to aid in corporate communication.”

“TechCrunch announces plans to use blogging software to publish content.”

“Prehistoric man eats wild animals and edible plants.”

By: Celia

Celia — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:55:25 +0000

This is great guys. So exciting to see…go Skygrid!!

By: RD

RD — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:50:07 +0000

Kind of lame that you can’t sign up. Really defeats the purpose of being “free.”

By: James McBride

James McBride — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:04:11 +0000

great biz news app for iPhone. thx leena.

By: TwitterCrunch

TwitterCrunch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:59:27 +0000

For all you startups out there, to get on TechCrunch you have to do one thing and only thing only:
Integrate with Twitter.

You could spend 5 minutes making a micheal jackson tweet thing to billie jean and you’ll get written up. Spend 5 months or a year working on a solid product and TC will ignore you unless you spend the extra 10 minutes to integrate with Twitter.

By: jonas324

jonas324 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:59:23 +0000

Wow! Some website RSS feed is redirected to a twitter account?! That’s huge news! Thanks TC!

By: Omri

Omri — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:41 +0000

Question: If SkyGrid can predict public markets, why don’t they change their business model and invest their VC funding to make billions and billions of dollars?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:32:43 +0000

good point, *most* streams like this are automated (and aren’t “engaging” Twitter streams)

By: Chris Wheat

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:31:41 +0000

So tech crunch plans on writting about every company that uses twitter to promote what the company does/offers???

Yes twitter is used by masses, yes twitter is a big deal to many, but does that mean you have to report on every company that starts using twitter?

By: Timothy Sykes

Timothy Sykes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:08:03 +0000

LOL skygrid and every other breaking financial news service is irrelevant, gotta love industry BS!

By: Chris Hoke

Chris Hoke — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:51:29 +0000

This is excellent news! Now I can check the latest financial news in any sector that I want, all while I eat rice out of my shoe with a comb.

By: About Time

About Time — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:46:24 +0000

WOW, it probably took them all of 5 minutes to write a script using the Twitter API to get their news onto Twitter…

Congrats on getting on TC, BTW their are thousands of businesses doing this already and have been doing so for years now

By: Omri

Omri — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:36:13 +0000

If their service is so great, why doesn’t their “In the News” page list this article, or this (http://www.tech...oose-on-skygrid) other TC article? Epic fail.

By: Ivan Lazarte

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:13:48 +0000

NONONO. It’s sourcing the crowd and citizen journalism. Colbert can’t POSSIBLY be spot on AGAIN.

By: Trader Bots

Trader Bots — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:06:59 +0000

I find it odd that what seems like any old twitter integration is covered on this blog. Not sure why this is a big deal from reading the article.

The one thing that does jump out at me is that “wow! the every day man can finally use RSS”.

Twitter is pretty much the modern day RSS feed reader

http://www.traderbots.com

By: igniguy

igniguy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:47:50 +0000

In other (twitter) news: Stephen Colbert bashes twitter for fake reports of Jeff Goldblum’s death

http://www.colb...-will-be-missed

By: Deal.y.zer

Deal.y.zer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:30:55 +0000

Good use for my iPod Touch. Thx.