If buying WebVan stock at $800/share in 1999 wasn't dumb enough for you, read on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/business/23trading.html -------------------- Lexalytics, a text analysis company in Amherst, Mass., that works with Thomson Reuters, says it has developed algorithms that make sense out of Twitter messages. That includes emoticons like the happy-face :) and the not-so-happy :\. “This is where the news breaks,” said Jeff Catlin, the chief executive of Lexalytics. “You have a leg up if you are a trader.” -------------------- --Dave. -- Dave Mandl [email protected] [email protected] Web: http://www.wfmu.org/~davem Twitter: http://twitter.com/dmandl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
