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- Wikinvest Launches On The iPhone
- Okay, Now Facebook Has Officially Made It. They Have A Turkish Music Video
- HighStranger Is Chatroulette, For Stoners
| Wikinvest Launches On The iPhone | Top |
| Wikinvest , a Wikipedia for investing, launches its mobile initiative with its iPhone app going live in the Apple store tomorrow at 9 a.m. As brokerages and the finance industry in general are notoriously late to the mobile and Internet game, the Wikinvest app will be a boon for iPhone users looking for easy mobile access to their personal portfolios as well as the latest crowdsourced investment news. Wikinvest will be the first iPhone app that pulls in stock info as well as aggregates information from a user's brokerage and investment accounts. Aside from portfolio specific content, the app will provide market data, quotes charts, news, currency info, etc. It will also aggregate 100 different international exchanges for those international and internationally-interested users left out of apps that only incorporate exchanges in US. The app can aggregate portfolios from over 60 supported brokerages and provides a user with realtime market data for their entire portfolio. Currently Wikinvest customers have an average 3 portfolios linked to their web account. Wikinvest has done extremely well in its web incarnation, tracking over $3 billion dollars in assets, despite the fact that people are still weary of anything crowdsourced. And the launch of an iPhone app will only encourage the company’s ongoing growth, “ We’ve more than doubled the number of brokerages we support in the past few weeks,” says founder Michael Sha. CrunchBase Information Wikinvest Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Okay, Now Facebook Has Officially Made It. They Have A Turkish Music Video | Top |
| Facebook is big — massive, really. But I don’t care if a social network has 100 million users, 500 million users, or a billion users — and I don’t care if there’s a major Hollywood movie coming out about it. You haven’t made it until you have a Turkish pop music video about your service. That’s exactly what “Cilgin” by Ismail YK is. I have basically no idea what is going on in this video, but it’s awesome nonetheless. It appears to take place in two IKEA showrooms that have been completely whitewashed. In these rooms, a man and woman seem to stalk one another on Facebook, and then start chatting. Are they using WebTV? I’m not sure, but I’m not ruling it out. Actually, those are Mac keyboards — maybe it’s the first sighting of the new iTV product ?! Then the main characters put on colorful shirts and go dance in another completely white room. And then they invite some friends to dance too — and use their computers. Then the action moves outside in what I can only describe as a version of TLC’s “Waterfalls” with men in ski masks. Yep. Not speaking Turkish, the only word I can understand is “Facebook” — though I think I caught an “Internet” in there. Someone please clue us in. The video is actually a bit old — from January, but BuzzFeed just picked it up a couple days ago and it’s now traveling around the Internet as it should have the first time. Enjoy it below. [thanks Sarah ] CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| HighStranger Is Chatroulette, For Stoners | Top |
| So I’ve been waiting for the new Chatroulette to go up for three days now and no dice. In the meantime I’ve been getting a slew of emails and tweets from people trying to get me to switch over to their to their random “chat with strangers” services (Hi Omegle! ). However none have been particularly compelling, UNTIL NOW. We’ve been running in stealth for the past few months, as we’ve negotiated deals and developed software (that’s done), but it seems you’ve broken the seal on the jar of kind bud, so we’re announcing on TechCrunch: http://HighStranger.com “Chatroulette for High People!” Peace, Dude PS: We’re in LA and we’re looking for our head of marketing, PR, and social media. Maybe a hot designer, too :) The above comment is from (where else?) last night’s “Dude I Am So High Right Now” post, the venue where Dude, who I am assuming is the HighStranger founder, has chosen to announce his “Chatroulette For High People!.” But wait, isn’t Chatroulette a “Chatroulette for high people” ? I’ve emailed Dude for further information, and have not yet received a response, which is not surprising. A quick trip to the homepage reveals that HighStranger is currently in beta (if not a complete practical joke) and will be launching officially on November 2nd. And they’re hiring! While Chatroulette spinoffs are a dime a dozen , this one seems noteworthy if only for the inevitable cheesy pot jokes that will ensue in the comments. Like, “This might be the first employer to require that you fail a drug test,” or whatever. I’m sure you guys can come up with something better. They basically write themselves. CrunchBase Information HighStranger Chatroulette! Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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