As a writer covering the tech industry, there are a couple of websites and services that I would classify as downright essential for my job, including some VoIP/IM communication tools and my e-mail application of choice (Gmail).
Apart from those, I consider an RSS reader to be such a vital tool for me as well, both on a private as a professional level. As I wrote before, I quickly fell in love with Streamy for that particular aspect of sifting through mountains of information on a daily basis, partly because it allows me to both track blogs and news sites I subscribe to and keep track of what Twitter and the people I follow on there as well as on Facebook and FriendFeed are buzzing about.
Add to that Techmeme, which has an algorithm in place designed to weed out the best and/or most talked about news stories related to the tech industry out there, and you can tell I have a pretty solid set of tools readily available that enable me to keep tabs on what I want and need to be tracking closely. Techfuga was another one, but it recently ground to a halt.
New to the arsenal of tools at my disposal free of charge is Tech Investor News, which despite its not-so-sexy name is exactly what it sounds like: a news site that investors in tech companies – plus industry pundits and reporters – should be made aware of. Glad to be of service.
TIN complements the websites and services described above perfectly, and competes with neither one of them. If anything, it saves me a lot of time and rids me of the pain of going to Google News / Blogsearch all the time to learn what the most recent stories in tech or centered around a company in particular are.
What I like about it? The big fat stock quote in the upper corner, the fact that you can filter down to 20 of the most discussed tech companies (note the Google Investor News screenshot below), the decent search function and the speed with which it updates news feeds (every 5 minutes or so, with some human editing involved). But what I also like is the fact that you can narrow your news consumption down to a specific set of categories which makes it very easy to find specific information (for instance, you can opt to display only stories about ‘Steve Jobs’ or ‘Rumors’ when browsing for news on Apple).
TIN is a project bootstrapped by a self-described ‘media nut’ / investor called Frank Cioffi, who spent decades working in such media as radio and television and turned to the internet after many years of consulting and trading stocks. Cioffi got the idea for Tech Investor News to scratch his own itch, and that’s always a good way to start something that other people – like me – could also find interesting.
Bookmarked!
This looks like a good site to aggregate all my tech news into one.
I want to create a similar news site for aggreagating news. Can anyone tell me what software is available to create your own TechInvestorNews type site, with all the bells and whistles of social media inttegration.
our software lets you create a techmeme for any vertical (eg: golf, motorbikes, startups)
ping me an email: peter@omgponi.es
Nice, but 15 mins…hmm, cum’on folks, you can do that up to the minute, “feed your brains” with the right infos, and you’ll get it. We are talking about the real time internet, don’t let Robin wait 15 minutes (that’s a lot ).
It actually updates every 5 minutes, with an auto-refresh of the page you’re on after 15 minutes – made that clearer.
Ok got it, 5 minutes is a pretty good time.
Actually, Tech Investor News updates news every 5 minutes, with a 15 minute auto-refresh for your convenience. Enjoy!
Yup, will enjoy reading and monitoring it, 5 mins is really good (the hardcore folk at popurls and another brain feeder update up to the minute). Nice work.
so basically it’s kinda like what TC used to be??
“it saves me a lot of time and rids me of the pain of going to Google News / Blogsearch all the time to learn what the most recent stories in tech ”
and this line represents all that is wrong with blogs.
To be fair, mainstream journalism isn’t any different. If a story is scooped the scooper doesn’t get very long before the story is copied everywhere.
So you’re saying it’s a bad idea to stay on top of tech news as a tech reporter?
no no no….what i’m saying is that I don’t need a content aggregator that is getting content from another aggregator that is getting it from somewhere else.
so while it might be nice for the TC bloggers to think of themselves as “tech reports”, you are more or less just paraphrasing a story you found elsewhere.
Since this TIN does what TC used to do, i’ll be going to TIN from now on…THANKS!!!
http://www.thef...ry.com/research
i’m glad you call what you do research. Gotta justify your job somehow.
I don’t know that the author made it clear that one can also focus on specific stocks i.e. APPL, GOOG, etc., then drill down for more info.
The site has been invaluable to me and thousands of other traders/investors. It’s really all that we need for up to the minute or (5min) news.
BTW, the genius behind the site is not “called” Frank Cioffi. He “IS” Frank Cioffi!
My initial critique was made in haste and I do regress. I had issue with the following statement by the author:
>can filter down to 20 of the most discussed tech companies<
It sounded as if one needed to sift through 20 companies, and then drill down for specifics on an individual stock. Upon a re-read I noticed this was not what the author to conveyed. Author did indeed made it clear that one could initially focus on an individual stock. i.e. GOOG Investor News example.
Lesson learned: measure twice, cut once.
My apologies to the author,
Bob
I use Frank’s Tech Investor News every day! This site saves me literally 10-15 hours every week. As an investor and analysts that follows the movements of the tech sector, there is no other source as useful as Tech Investor News!
-ernie