A Little Cameo on TheStreet TV

Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Gregg Greenberg of TheStreet.com, following from last week's fun discussion with Lindsay Campbell over at Wallstrip. The topic was Monitor110, examples of how our Institutional Investor clients use the system to make money and how we leverage domain expertise and real-time search technology to provide our clients with a more targeted, more relevant search experience. Gregg pushed me and it was good, coming at the issue of identifying tradeable information from a somewhat different perspective than most of our clients. But that was cool. I really like talking about what we do. Or maybe I just like talking.

Comments

[Yaser Anwar]

In my opinion- saying M110 is used to monetize from blogs sells the service short.

Should be more like Internet to generate alpha. Now that's some HF rhetoric.

Next stop Bloomberg?

[NitinK]

Fascinating! After listening to the interview, I was strongly reminded of Surowiecki's "Wisdom of Crowds" principles. In his book, he gives a specific example of how the market correctly penalized one out of three defense contractors (Thiokol) after the Challenger disaster - between them, traders had the appropriate *combined knowledge* to call it correctly, even though individual traders by themselves could not have predicted how it would come out. It sounds like you are doing the same thing at Monitor 110 by trying to aggregate the "combined knowledge" of the blogosphere.