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What does “impactful” blogs mean?
When we announced our Blog Impact reports earlier this week – where we report on blog traffic and spikes for our users – I talked about how we use a set of algorithms we call FirstRain MarketScore to sort out […]
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Lehman blog volumes before and as the price declines
As you can see from our Blog Impact report announcement earlier this week, we’ve been watching blog frequency trends for our clients. I asked my team to do a review of Lehman’s blog stats vs. price and this is what […]
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Paul Kedrosky likes it!
I was delighted to check my blackberry at 4:30am this morning on my way to the airport and see a positive reference on FirstRain on Infectious Greed. Paul Kedrosky has been evaluating the system and he posted to his blog: […]
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Detecting blog spikes and market moves
We announced some important new capabilities to our service today: FirstRain Blog Impact Reports and Capital Market Reports. The key breakthrough is that we can now detect spikes in blogs – which are based on normalized trends over time so […]
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How much information is missing?
We’ve been doing studies of the volume of unique information on blogs and some interesting facts are coming out. With the exception of prominant tech blogs like TechCrunch, there’s a general lack of understanding/belief in the investment community about whether […]