I am not sure I love the term ‘Social Web’, but it is better than Web 2.0 and less creepy than The ‘Alive‘ Web which my friend Om coins in a great post.
Phil, Ivan and I have been thinking hard about ideas, but the Stocktwits 50 is our bread and butter. We love strength and all the great leaders show up on this list.
That said, the ‘Social’ web is in it’s infancy. I know this for sure because of the names on our first Index are dominated by big brands. Maybe Amazon will buy Twitter and Facebook will buy Equifax, so you have to just start thinking about it and get it out there.
I chose this Monday because of the panic. It’s a great day to start tracking just about anything so we pushed it out. HERE IT IS, we call it $SWEB on the stream. I think the $SWEB will and should be volatile, because it will be filled with leaders. The outlier winners will carry the losers. Turns out we picked a great week as the Index was up 10 percent.
Ten years from now, maybe all the great Technology and Consumer brands will continue to dominate this list because they integrate ‘social’ into their fabric, but that would not be awful. They would just continue being great leaders. I don’t mind owning $AMZN and $AAPL and $GOOG ten years from now.
We WANT and NEED your help though. This index is a work in progress. It’s going to be a community effort. So you can hit me up anytime with your ideas for inclusion or exclusion.
Howard, thanks for making Stocktwits interesting from my first log on. Obviously not by yourself. I kind of think of Stocktwits as the precipice of the $SWEB pajama party where all the players are staying over, but the host is the secret pizza-guy who shows up in technicolor sleeping gear… That’s Stocktwits.
awesome man. thank you
When you inspire and feed that is the type of response you should get on a post. The ten years down the road is not such a far fetched thing. I wonder if by compression or rotation of the media will we even recognize the change. Leadership will be the time capsule and then memory.
$SWEB may be an even stronger value than esoteric notes of property. Because we don’t control the media. Like my granddaughter (3 year old) knocking down Legos as we build together. The blocks are still the same, but the structure is malleable as long as the physics and conditions allow. I can see government eventually recognized as consensual networking. Open sourced and available to all who accept it. Those who choose not will merely rewrite the rules much faster than we can read them. The creators as we all are will reap good and bad, but it will be more intimate and vulnerable at the same time. Big brother may just be you looking in the mirror. Fearless profit may end as something akin to Bitcoin.
indeed. thanks for reading and sharing. I love thats grandpa’s read me and share
Great, great and more great. You should turn this ticker into a basket of stocks and IPO it. :) Question, why $V and why did you choose $V instead of $MA?
No one reason. Square deal
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I think online advertising names, such as $ICLK and $VCLK, could make the list. Behind the relationships between brands and consumers is a vast amount of data being mined and redeployed with the help of their technology/expertise to drive “social” aspects of the web.
Thx for the leads
Howard, Gree symbol 3632 in Japan,,,, all time breakout, social networking site… the universe is much larger than names trading in the U.S. these days…
Interesting
What about adding some of the big names that trade on SecondMarket (FBOOK, TWIT, StockTwits?) Also, this index should fast track to be an ETF.
Too hard
ross…too hard to value and people cant index it
Hi Howard. Please have a look at the German social network called “Xing”. It’s listed in Germany and has recently profited alot from the LinkedIn IPO. Should be included, or is the market capitalization of 250m € to small?
thx