Stock Information Systems Inc., a leading financial media company, announced today that it has transitioned its financial portal, Stockhouse.com, from its new beta test site into full release. The beta site was launched last October and attracted the attention of web-savvy investors with its new look, navigation, and social networking features. The site has since grown to over 1.1 million visitors per month, and the number of members that regularly contribute news stories, message board and blog posts is up 132 percent on the new site versus the old site.
As per the release Darin Diehl, publisher and executive editor of Stockhouse, stated, “Our Facebook for financial media design is being widely adopted by our community. We made great efforts to solicit feedback from the community during the beta process. The result is rewarding for investors who seek expert insights and stock tips from their favorite high-reputation community members.”
One of the features on the new Stockhouse.com community includes the unique and innovative Stockhouse Reputation System which assesses a member’s reputation score (on a scale of one to 10) that reflects the member’s overall credibility. The member will be given a reputation score based on the community’s quality assessment of the member’s contributed content, editorial rating of content, the member’s stock picking ability, and the member’s participation in the community. This will help Stockhouse generate high quality content from experts within the community, and filter out the spam and low quality content from questionable sources.
“Our brand is all about our community,” said Marcus New, Stockgroup president and chief executive officer. “Stockhouse is the go-to site for investors to congregate as a community and help each other uncover opportunities to make money in the markets. Our features help them stay one step ahead of the masses. We strive to provide the tools, information and facilities to enable our members to gain market advantage.”
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