Review: ShortDaBull.com
ShortDaBull.com contacted me yesterday to do a sponsored review of their new site through ReviewMe. ShortDaBull is a new site with a great concept. It's a social bookmarking site tailored to the financial markets with the logo that says – An Online Community Devoted to Eradicating the Bull$%it From Wall Street News. For those of you not familiar with the social bookmarking scene, it is basically a website that allows users to submit stories or news. As the articles are submitted, users browsing the site can vote for the story. The higher number of votes, the closer to the top of the list the story becomes. In case of ShortDaBull.com, only financial stories are submitted/accepted. What ShortDaBull.com is all about:
Our goal is to build a community of investors who value quality stock market information. With so many stories out daily, it's hard to distinguish between what's hype and what really matters. By encouraging discussion and voting we hope that we can become a top news source for market information. After all, it's you that controls what is published on the site.
The Layout:
- Clean, easy to read layout as it has no ads. I suspect that ShortDaBull.com will eventually have ads on their site as traffic increases.
- The site has the ability to sort news by recently popular, top today, yesterday, week, month, and year.
What I like:
- Easy registration. Nothing worse than a registration process that takes precious time to complete. They just require a handle, email and password.
- Easy story submission.
- A new submission needs at least 3 votes to get published. This should help eliminate spam type submissions.
What Needs Improvement:
- Need to get RSS working.
Overall Thoughts: Once ShortDaBull.com establishes a large user base, I think that they can become a valuable resource for people interested in financial markets. I also think that this can be a great resource for bloggers to post their top financial articles to get some exposure. Show your support by visiting ShortDaBull.com, I have already added them to my daily reading list. If you guys join ShortDaBull, make sure to vote for my review here.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
1. CrunchMoney
I’m starting to see a bunch of sites like this….good idea, but easy to replicate…I think it’s based on the Pligg platform…here is another one that looks like it uses the same platform. http://www.stocknoise.net
Interesting to see how they turn out
Jun 7th, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
2. FourPillars
I think the benefit of that type of site for a blogger is economic. I’m guessing that if you have a site that gets 200 hits/day you probably can’t make much money and won’t have the leverage to solicit higher paying ads. If you band together with say nine other similar bloggers and create one site then if you can maintain the same hits then you would have 2000 hits/day and that would move you into another level of traffic volume so that in theory each blogger could make more money with a 1/10 share of the bigger site.
Of course if all the bloggers are from the same area (ie PF) then there’s a good chance that there only 200 people who visit all the individual blogs and the plan won’t work very well at all.
Jun 9th, 2007 @ 11:58 am
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