SocialPicks is an online financial services community where stock investors exchange ideas, track stock performance, and conduct research. Recently, SocialPicks announced its partnership with Reuters for Stock Buzz, a new social network product. SocialPicks is backed by Y Combinator, Bay Partners, and several Silicon Valley angel investors. The company has been given significant funding and raised $500,000 in its first round from Bay Partners.
Their service recently opened to the public and introduced Blog Tracker, a feature that lets users submit blogs which are parsed for opinions on future stock performance.
SocialPicks has been featured in The Washington Post and TechCrunch and has garnered mentions in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. In Forbes' October 2006 issue, SocialPicks was described as "a MySpace for investors." Weiting Liu, the co-founder of SocialPicks, was recently a featured speaker at the Money:Tech Conference in New York City where he spoke about the company.
Their service recently opened to the public and introduced Blog Tracker, a feature that lets users submit blogs which are parsed for opinions on future stock performance.
SocialPicks has been featured in The Washington Post and TechCrunch and has garnered mentions in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. In Forbes' October 2006 issue, SocialPicks was described as "a MySpace for investors." Weiting Liu, the co-founder of SocialPicks, was recently a featured speaker at the Money:Tech Conference in New York City where he spoke about the company.
ECONorthwest is a consultancy based in Eugene, Oregon.
ECONorthwest specializes in providing economic, financial, and land use planning analysis to public and private entities. It is the largest economics consultancy based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. While the firm focuses primarily on projects involving the Pacific Northwest, the firm has been engaged in projects throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Micronesia.
ECONorthwest was founded in 1974 by W. Ed Whitelaw, a University of Oregon economics professor.
ECONorthwest developed OregonHelps!, a website that won the Stockholm Challenge in 2004.
ECONorthwest economist Randall Pozdena first identified a crisis in Oregon's public employee retirement system that precipitated large-scale reforms of the system in 2003.
ECONorthwest specializes in providing economic, financial, and land use planning analysis to public and private entities. It is the largest economics consultancy based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. While the firm focuses primarily on projects involving the Pacific Northwest, the firm has been engaged in projects throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Micronesia.
ECONorthwest was founded in 1974 by W. Ed Whitelaw, a University of Oregon economics professor.
ECONorthwest developed OregonHelps!, a website that won the Stockholm Challenge in 2004.
ECONorthwest economist Randall Pozdena first identified a crisis in Oregon's public employee retirement system that precipitated large-scale reforms of the system in 2003.
Erin Tobey (b. 1981) is a member of the DIY punk community. She has been an active leader in said community both artistically and organizationally since becoming involved with punk as a teenager in the late '90's in her childhood home of Lansing, MI.
From 1999-2004, she played guitar and sang in the pop-punk band Abe Froman, thought by many to be an important offspring of the Lansing DIY scene. During her college years at Michigan State University, Tobey also organized a brief, news-making effort to revitalize the downtown East Lansing area by promoting locally-owned businesses.
Ater leaving Michigan in 2001, Tobey resided semi-permanently in Philadelphia, PA, Geelong, VIC, Australia, and Providence, RI. She made her home in Bloomington, IN in 2003, becoming involved with the vibrant punk community there.
Tobey has been a consistent contributor to the efforts of Bloomington's Plan-It-X-Records, whose staunch DIY ethos has set an important example for the sustainablilty and legitimacy of non-mainstream business and lifestyle. In 2005, she was one of the main coordinators of Plan-It-X Fest, a traveling festival that was attended by thousands of show-goers in thirty cities.
In 2002, Tobey began writing and performing songs as a solo artist under her own moniker. Her first solo show was in Little Rock, AR with Tem Eyos Ki, The Good Good, Matty Pop Chart, Boomfancy, The Insides, The Devil is Electric, and Defiance, Ohio. She has since released a record on Plan-It-X Records and Bakery Outlet Records, as well as several self-released recordings.
Tobey publishes a zine called Here It Is, as well as a website to showcase her artwork and writing. She also plays bass in Mt. Gigantic from Bloomington, and has recently joined the Richmond punk band Pink Razors as lead guitarist. She's also been spotted on some group vocals on Richmond's Antlers' latest recordings.
Erin Tobey currently lives in Richmond, VA.
From 1999-2004, she played guitar and sang in the pop-punk band Abe Froman, thought by many to be an important offspring of the Lansing DIY scene. During her college years at Michigan State University, Tobey also organized a brief, news-making effort to revitalize the downtown East Lansing area by promoting locally-owned businesses.
Ater leaving Michigan in 2001, Tobey resided semi-permanently in Philadelphia, PA, Geelong, VIC, Australia, and Providence, RI. She made her home in Bloomington, IN in 2003, becoming involved with the vibrant punk community there.
Tobey has been a consistent contributor to the efforts of Bloomington's Plan-It-X-Records, whose staunch DIY ethos has set an important example for the sustainablilty and legitimacy of non-mainstream business and lifestyle. In 2005, she was one of the main coordinators of Plan-It-X Fest, a traveling festival that was attended by thousands of show-goers in thirty cities.
In 2002, Tobey began writing and performing songs as a solo artist under her own moniker. Her first solo show was in Little Rock, AR with Tem Eyos Ki, The Good Good, Matty Pop Chart, Boomfancy, The Insides, The Devil is Electric, and Defiance, Ohio. She has since released a record on Plan-It-X Records and Bakery Outlet Records, as well as several self-released recordings.
Tobey publishes a zine called Here It Is, as well as a website to showcase her artwork and writing. She also plays bass in Mt. Gigantic from Bloomington, and has recently joined the Richmond punk band Pink Razors as lead guitarist. She's also been spotted on some group vocals on Richmond's Antlers' latest recordings.
Erin Tobey currently lives in Richmond, VA.
Daniel Boyd, a West Virginian, has degrees in Communications (West Virginia University) and Filmmaking (University of Arkansas).
Beginning his filmmaking career making documentaries, Boyd’s early projects took him from the hobo “jungles” of the U.S. (HOMELESS BROTHER) to the war-torn mountains of Guatemala (MARCOS DE SAN MARCOS).
Several of Boyd’s short narrative films were featured on regional and national television in the early and mid-eighties.
His first feature film, CHILLERS, was released in 1988. Currently in international video and television distribution, this horror feature was awarded the Silver Scroll for excellence from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in Los Angeles.
Boyd’s second feature, a science fiction/comedy, STRANGEST DREAMS, premiered on the USA Network in 1991. It is currently in domestic and international video and television distribution.
Boyd’s third feature film, PARADISE PARK, a dramatic-fantasy, received Gold Awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival, and was selected for the Breckenridge Festival of Film and the American Film Institute’s American Independents series. It is currently distributed by Vintage Home Entertainment as HEROES OF THE HEART.
A professor of communications at West Virginia State University since 1985, Boyd has actively involved his filmmaking students in his professional projects. In 1994, Boyd established the Paradise Film Institute at WVSU for the purpose of supporting filmmaking in the state through resource services, production support, foreign exchanges and continuing education. PFI has had travel/study/production exchange partnerships with film schools in Tanzania (School of Fine & Performing Arts, University of Dar Es Salaam), Russia (The AllRussian State Institute of Cinema), the Czech Republic (Film Academy of Performing Arts), Venezuela (Escuela de Cine y Television) and Belize (Ministry of Culture).
As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Boyd taught the first filmmaking and screenwriting classes at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 98-99 academic year in East Africa.
Recipient of a 2002 Fulbright Alumni Award, Boyd partnered with the
University of Dar es Salaam on the pilot program TeleDrum (teaching
filmmaking to American and African students while producing films for
international aid organizations), resulting in the award-winning films,
DUARA and SOUND THE DRUM.
After life-threatening encounters while filming MAKUTANO on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2004, Boyd decided to take a break from filmmaking and move more into publishing. Returning to his still photography roots, Boyd and fellow professor, adventurer wife, Robin Boyd, formed VentureMedia. Boyd did the photography for Robin's book MOUNTAIN BIKER'S GUIDE TO WEST VIRGINIA (Quarrier Press), and since has written and/or photographed dozens of articles on adventure travel and extreme sports for numerous publications. The Boyds’ 2nd book with Quarrier Press, CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO WEST VIRGINIA RAIL-TRAILS, is due out in 2008.
While researching an article in the fall of 2004, Boyd was able to experience a life-long dream of working in professional wrestling. Three years-plus later, the article has evolved into a book in progress on working inside the world of independent pro wrestling. Since forming the tag team of "The Grapes of Wrath," Boyd (Professor Danger) and fellow middle-aged wrestler, Death Falcon Zero, have worked well over 100 matches, for nearly a dozen federations. Boyd also worked for Rings of Europe in Austria in the spring of 07.
A former National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Boyd has also won awards in documentary, horror, comedy and dramatic filmmaking, as well as screenwriting. He was named, "Filmmaker of the Year" by the WV Filmmakers Festival in 2003. Two of Boyd's archeology documentaries, RED SALT & REYNOLDS (04) and GHOSTS OF GREEN BOTTOM (05), won national Telly awards, and both were regional Emmy nominees. In 2006, Boyd was inducted into the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the music genre through his film work.
Beginning his filmmaking career making documentaries, Boyd’s early projects took him from the hobo “jungles” of the U.S. (HOMELESS BROTHER) to the war-torn mountains of Guatemala (MARCOS DE SAN MARCOS).
Several of Boyd’s short narrative films were featured on regional and national television in the early and mid-eighties.
His first feature film, CHILLERS, was released in 1988. Currently in international video and television distribution, this horror feature was awarded the Silver Scroll for excellence from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in Los Angeles.
Boyd’s second feature, a science fiction/comedy, STRANGEST DREAMS, premiered on the USA Network in 1991. It is currently in domestic and international video and television distribution.
Boyd’s third feature film, PARADISE PARK, a dramatic-fantasy, received Gold Awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival, and was selected for the Breckenridge Festival of Film and the American Film Institute’s American Independents series. It is currently distributed by Vintage Home Entertainment as HEROES OF THE HEART.
A professor of communications at West Virginia State University since 1985, Boyd has actively involved his filmmaking students in his professional projects. In 1994, Boyd established the Paradise Film Institute at WVSU for the purpose of supporting filmmaking in the state through resource services, production support, foreign exchanges and continuing education. PFI has had travel/study/production exchange partnerships with film schools in Tanzania (School of Fine & Performing Arts, University of Dar Es Salaam), Russia (The AllRussian State Institute of Cinema), the Czech Republic (Film Academy of Performing Arts), Venezuela (Escuela de Cine y Television) and Belize (Ministry of Culture).
As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Boyd taught the first filmmaking and screenwriting classes at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 98-99 academic year in East Africa.
Recipient of a 2002 Fulbright Alumni Award, Boyd partnered with the
University of Dar es Salaam on the pilot program TeleDrum (teaching
filmmaking to American and African students while producing films for
international aid organizations), resulting in the award-winning films,
DUARA and SOUND THE DRUM.
After life-threatening encounters while filming MAKUTANO on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2004, Boyd decided to take a break from filmmaking and move more into publishing. Returning to his still photography roots, Boyd and fellow professor, adventurer wife, Robin Boyd, formed VentureMedia. Boyd did the photography for Robin's book MOUNTAIN BIKER'S GUIDE TO WEST VIRGINIA (Quarrier Press), and since has written and/or photographed dozens of articles on adventure travel and extreme sports for numerous publications. The Boyds’ 2nd book with Quarrier Press, CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO WEST VIRGINIA RAIL-TRAILS, is due out in 2008.
While researching an article in the fall of 2004, Boyd was able to experience a life-long dream of working in professional wrestling. Three years-plus later, the article has evolved into a book in progress on working inside the world of independent pro wrestling. Since forming the tag team of "The Grapes of Wrath," Boyd (Professor Danger) and fellow middle-aged wrestler, Death Falcon Zero, have worked well over 100 matches, for nearly a dozen federations. Boyd also worked for Rings of Europe in Austria in the spring of 07.
A former National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Boyd has also won awards in documentary, horror, comedy and dramatic filmmaking, as well as screenwriting. He was named, "Filmmaker of the Year" by the WV Filmmakers Festival in 2003. Two of Boyd's archeology documentaries, RED SALT & REYNOLDS (04) and GHOSTS OF GREEN BOTTOM (05), won national Telly awards, and both were regional Emmy nominees. In 2006, Boyd was inducted into the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the music genre through his film work.