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New community investing website WeSeed launches

January 5, 2024 By Dennis Bouchand

It’s no secret that successful stock traders have been confined to an exclusive club, and that consumers lose billions annually because they lack the skill and confidence to properly invest. WeSeed hopes to end that with its launch. WeSeed is a new community investing website dedicated to demystifying the stock market and enabling real, everyday, people to learn, share, grow and invest on their own terms.

Building on the “invest in what you know” principle popularized by Peter Lynch, former Fidelity Magellan Fund manager, WeSeed embraces the speed and power of the World Wide Web to bring that theory into the 21st Century. WeSeed is about community, not individualization; sharing, not greed; wisdom, as well as knowledge.

But it’s not just consumers’ basic interests or industry knowledge that can be utilized. At WeSeed, consumers also look past the everyday brands and products they’ve come to know and love and consider the companies behind them. WeSeed taps into the collective wisdom and insight of its community on preferred brands and products, helping users decide what stocks might be worth buying. WeSeed is the only online community that enables consumers to start with what they already know to get stock ideas and then test their instincts in a safe, risk-free, virtual-trading environment. The WeSeed site offers a safe place to learn and grow with absolutely no risk.

This video explains it all.

Originally posted on December 8, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

Pangea Media expands Quibblo.com functionality

January 5, 2024 By Dennis Bouchand

Pangea Media announced several updates to its popular Quibblo.com site. These new features provide Quibblo users enhanced functionality and offer marketers additional ways to engage users with innovative advertising products.

Highlighted features include:

Yahoo! Buzz. Quibblo users can propel their favorite quizzes to the Yahoo! home page by using the “Buzz Up” button on Quibblo. Advertisers can see what is most popular and then use this information for their own marketing strategies.

Virtual Gifting. Quibblo users can now send and receive virtual gifts including images, puzzles, accessories for avatars and ringtones by taking advantage of Pangea’s partnership with Viximo. Advertisers can create custom gifts and send them to their target market.

Collaborative Polling. Unique to Quibblo, this feature allows any number of sites/blogs/publishers/users to run or repost the same poll or quiz and then aggregate the results from the network of sites. The result is a truly “borderless” Web experience as content moves beyond the Quibblo Website and Pangea Network to other places not formally affiliated with Quibblo.

Badges. Users can create photo badges for quizzes, and post badges to their Quibblo profile, social networking page, or blog. Marketers can create custom badges featuring products, characters, messages, etc. which they can then distribute, or allow to be distributed virally, as part of an advertising campaign.

Additional features include a number of back-end enhancements designed to improve performance and provide advertisers with additional reporting options. Earlier this year, Pangea released the Quibblo iPhone widget and the Quibblo MySpace application.

Originally posted on December 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm

Dogpile.com users raise $100,000 for pets in need

January 5, 2024 By Dennis Bouchand

Dogpile.com has raised the first $100,000 toward its goal in raising at least $1 million to help pets in need. The Dogpile.com donations are being funded through its Search & Rescue Program, a creative online philanthropy program designed to aid pets in tough economic times by donating a portion of the revenue generated by the search engine to animal-related charities.

In addition to searching on Dogpile.com, a search engine that piles results from all major search engines into one (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, Ask.com), consumers can search using the Search & Rescue toolbar or invite a friend to help out through the Dogpile Search and Rescue Facebook application.

Dogpile.com’s Search and Rescue program has a goal of raising at least $1 million for pets in need through the end of 2009.

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

Finding love on social networks costly for some

January 5, 2024 By Dennis Bouchand

PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection laboratory, has found rising incidence of a new cyber scam that involves a personalized email sent by someone claiming to have interest in befriending the recipient as a means of initiating a fraudulent request for money. While variations of these scams raised a red flag for intended victims many years ago, the rise of social networks has enabled criminals to better target their messages based on publically available profile data.

According to PandaLabs, victims of the scheme are lured in by a female sender that initiates contact by sending the recipient, typically a male, an email stating that she has seen his profile on a social network and would like to get to know him. Once the recipient is engaged in the correspondence, the sender begins asking questions about his interests, establishing a friendship with the intended victim and informing him of the fact that while she currently lives in Russia or an Eastern European country, she is planning to move to the country where the recipient lives. Each email is accompanied by photographs of the girl in question to help assure the recipient of her existence and the validity of her impending requests.

Some years ago, this type of fraud tended to arouse more suspicions, yet now, with so many people participating in social networks, they have become more plausible The next step in this scheme comes just when the girl is about to leave her country to meet her new friend. Last-minute “problems” begin to occur, ranging from holdups with a visa to bribes that need to be paid before she can leave the country. To overcome these obstacles, the girl asks for a small sum of money, never more than $500. Unfortunately for the unsuspecting new-found friend, the girl doesn’t actually exist; she is just a device created in order to steal money from gullible victims.

Originally posted on December 9, 2008 @ 1:54 pm