Session four as follows, including our live notes. Cake Financial Cake Financial is a social investment service that lets people track all their investment portfolios in one place. The service allows individual investors to track and analyze their historical performance up to ten years. Users can also view the real-time portfolios and performances of their friends, family and top investors all without disclosing net worths, shares owned, portfolio sizes, etc. Online investing service that offers social recommendations, without disclosing personal details. “There is nothing fake about Cake!”. Homepage provides all the information usually found at the brokerage firm, but provides aggregated data from multiple firms. Cake calculates annual returns across multiple brokers. Interesting: you can chart your success against others, friend, associates etc. Tools also allow you to look at trades other Cake members have made, the idea being that you can see what users with better results are investing in. You can also see who is investing in a stock, eg: you can see everyone who holds Cisco, and then see what they are buying and selling as well. DocStoc Docstoc is an online community and professional network around user generated, professional documents. Users can store their own files or documents from anywhere around the internet. The files can be categorized and shared with various levels of read write accessibility. The documents can be searched by categories or by keywords and then previewed online or downloaded. Search results can be filtered by views, downloads, ratings and comments. Learn more about DocStoc. Interesting introduction: fake customer testimonials from the audience. A professional document service, comes with comments, profiles etc… Docs can be found by keyword search, filters which include community filters, category search. Documents can be previewed via popup and shared. Includes registration for blogs as well. Teach The People Teach The People is a social network built around online education. The site lets anyone with specific subject knowledge or a useful skill set to share it with the Teach The People communities. Users can create individual profiles and contribute content to topics (computer programming, math or “Bob Marley’s Influence on R&B Music” are a few examples). The site encourages quality content by letting users become community creators and by giving users points for rating, referring friends and answering questions. Community creators help create content and run day-to-day community operations. They can charge other users fees for monthly community access, → Read More