http://blog.wikinvest.com What goes on behind the scenes at Wikinvest Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:33:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last month or two, we've been working hard to connect some of the web's best financial bloggers. The result -- the Wikinvest Wire -- is here. The Wire syndicates related investing content and adds a mini news feed to the bottom of our blog partner's posts, ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/10/10/wikinvest-connects-bloggers-and-you-with-the-wikinvest-wire/ We've been working with the team at Netvibes to build a widget that lets you track your stocks directly from Netvibes.  Enter in a list of stocks you track, and you can get stock quotes, WikiCharts, and some Wikinvest analysis right from your Netvibes homepage.   It's still in beta, so ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/09/03/you-can-now-track-your-stocks-on-netvibes-with-the-wikinvest-stock-widget/ Today, Wikinvest launches the web's first-ever interactive, embeddable stock chart. The charts are as easy to embed as a YouTube video, and your users can click, drag, pan, zoom, and play with no page refresh. And it's all completely free. If you've ever tried to include a stock chart in your ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/08/01/finally-embed-a-real-stock-chart-on-your-blog-or-website/ Wikinvest top contributor Shawn Woodhull was recently featured as an expert on the retail industry in the Wall Street Journal.  Shawn was quoted in an article about Wal-Mart's plans to show new product lines at a fashion show in San Francisco on July 19.  Here's the quote... "With the economy being ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/07/04/wikinvest-in-the-wall-street-journal/ Wikinvest recently welcomed its newest and youngest employee! Say hello to Ajax: We had been talking for quite some time about getting an office pet. Well, a couple weeks ago, Parker took the plunge and picked out this cute little guy, who he named Ajax, ... um ... after the ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/05/14/ajax-the-wikipuppy/ We love hearing feedback from all of you -- we get rants, raves, ideas for new features, and everything in between. And that means EVERYTHING. A few days ago, this came in the inbox which we found amusing: Please tell gasoline station attendants to say THANK YOU when giving ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/05/12/amusing-feedback/ We have gotten a lot of positive feedback about the content on our site, but quite a few people expressed interest in seeing more data. A few months later, WikiData was born. We wanted the feature to contribute to the overall effort of providing community members with a ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/04/14/wikidata-has-arrived/ The NCAA tournament was pretty exciting this year...especially for Mike, who picked Kansas to go all the way and won the office pool. The final game was pretty exciting - how about that three pointer by Chalmers to tie it? Mike was curled up on the couch in ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/04/09/march-madness-at-the-wikipad/ Over the past few months, we've seen a lot of interest in the Bulls and Bears sections of articles. We originally envisioned the bulls and bears articles developing in ways similar to the neutral articles - one cohesive story woven together in a narrative. Sometimes we found people ... http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/04/04/vote-on-bulls-and-bears-reasons/ The award was really earned by the entire Wikinvest Community which has helped make Wikinvest into what it is today. Thanks to you all and congratulations! Here is Mike below with the award (yes, he's very very happy). http://blog.wikinvest.com/2008/03/08/we-won-a-2008-sxsw-web-award/