http://disqus.com/people/19b738911ba8639e6dacbcf5dcafbf39/enFri, 28 Mar 2008 11:33:42 -0000http://socialtimes.disqus.com/zecco_stock_trading_goes_social/#comment-1574019Ehhh, I like the site and am a user but your comments are far, far too rosy.<br><br>They hood winked a lot of users by consistently scaling back their number of free trades and retroactively implementing a minimum balance requirement. That really hurt the small investors that had been taking advantage of their ill thought out business model. Frankly it was an embarrassing lack of foresight on their behalf by not anticipating the type of high volume, low balance investors that would become avid users.<br><br>That being said, I like the site quite a bit. They have enhanced a number of features and the community is growing. I was asked to become ac community rep and at the time declined, but since then the site has really improved in terms of organization and "cleanness."<br><br>The reality of the community isn't quite as great as you might think. The forums are somewhat useful but they lack the type of insight you can find at investors village, for example. The networking aspect should improve and I have interacted with others via the site and actually considered new trades based on their recommendations.<br><br>To summarize I like the company but I was very displeased with the consistent bait and switches they pulled on the community. If those are in the past I think they might have a future in an INCREDIBLY competitive industry.AdamMon, 14 Jan 2008 17:45:41 -0000http://theequitykicker.disqus.com/the_death_of_the_destination_site/#comment-4456019Adam L here from Hungry Machine Inc, the developers behind the Visual Bookshelf. First off, I want to say: great post. The recent upswing in widespread use of widgets and applications has definitely contributed to the atomisation on the web, as you phrased it.<br><br>We actually supported a shelf export from our application (it exported a working rolodex) but we have temporarily removed the feature as we've transitioned into version 2.0 of our suite (which includes the pre-launch of our external site, <a href="http://livingsocial.com" rel="nofollow">livingsocial.com</a>).<br><br>Regards,<br>Adam L<br>Hungry Machine IncAdamFri, 28 Mar 2008 11:33:42 -0000