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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 21/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:44 AM on Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s August 21 and we’ve found 5 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! :-)

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Avion Resources – TSX-V:AVR $0.30
  • Stratabound Minerals – TSX-V:SB $0.25
  • Geologix Explorations – TSX-V:GIX, FSE:GF6 $1.25
  • Composite Technology – OTC BB:CPTC $1.06
  • Heartland Inc – OTC BB:HTLJ $0.27

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 20/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:46 AM on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s August 20 and we’ve found 7 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! :-)

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • **Debut Broadcasting – OTC BB:DBTB $0.26
  • China Yida – OTC BB:CYID $1.60
  • Castle Gold – TSX-V:CSG $0.40
  • Adriana Resources – TSX-V:ADI $0.72
  • Acadian Mining – TSX:ADA $0.23
  • Kalimantan Gold – TSX-V:KLG, AIM:KLG $0.10
  • Merrex Gold – TSX-V:MXI $0.255

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AGORACOM Story Takes Top Spot On Yahoo Buzz On First Day!

Posted by AGORACOM at 7:05 PM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

AGORACOM is very proud to announce that our story covering the Aurelian Resources Online Shareholder Revolt has taken the top spot on Yahoo buzz today.

As of 7:40 PM EST the story is ranking as follows:

#1 in Business Category with 118 votes (#2 = 60 votes)

#9 in All Category with 118 votes (Only 164 needed to get to pass Obama/McCain story in spot #6)

This is an incredible achievement and full credit goes to the entire Aurelian Resources self named “Crew” on AGORACOM. After posting the story this morning at 6:50 AM, the Crew mobilized, spread the word and began to the story.

This also serves as another example of the power of community. Specifically, a properly fun financial community in which investors are given the opportunity to amalgamate and communicate the pro’s and con’s of a company within a moderated environment free of spam, profanity, bashing and hyping.

Finally, this achievement is truly special because it took place on the very first day that Yahoo buzz was opened to all publishers. We’re going to relish this one!

Regards,
George

p.s. For those of you wishing to vote on the story and buzz it up on Yahoo, please find enclosed the following instructions that we posted to the Aurelian HUB:

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Good evening to you all. Yahoo Buzz! is a brand new feature released by Yahoo (just last night) in which users are able to submit stories.

The power behind the system is that the most popular stories are promoted to the FRONT PAGE of Yahoo, bringing millions of eyeballs to the story. If everyone votes up the story, it could provide greater attention than anything we’ve done to date.

I submitted the Aurelian story this morning and it is now the #1 “Business” story on Yahoo Buzz with more than 120 votes. It has graduated to the actual “Top Buzz” page as editors at Yahoo authenticated the story.

As such, I ask that each and every one of you (that have not yet already done so) to vote for the story. If you already have a Yahoo ID, it is as simple as the green thumb votes here on AGORACOM. If you don’t have a Yahoo ID, please take 2-3 minutes to create one and vote on the story.

Look for this button when viewing the Aurelian story and click on it to register your vote.

Spread the word!

Regards,
George

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SEC – “Financial Disclosure Meets The Matrix”. IDEA Unveiled By Chairman Cox

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:53 AM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Good afternoon to you all. I just finished up listening to the SEC’s News Conference this morning and the quote of the day is “Financial Disclosure Meets The Matrix”. Quite frankly, this wasn’t an overstatement. You can watch the archive at the link above, read the Twitter entries, or review my notes as follows:

  • EDGAR will be replaced by IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications), an XBRL-based platform.
  • EDGAR is dependable as a Model-T but you don’t want to be driving one today with all new car technology now available to drivers.
  • EDGAR was a system based on mainframe computing.
  • IDEA is now the next step, web-based system of 21st Century Disclsoure.
  • IDEA will provide faster, easier, cheaper and better data analysis.
  • IDEA is global, with 40 languages to be supported within data tags.
  • IDEA is good for small companies because it will make filing cheaper and easier.
  • The 21st Century Disclosure Initiative will host a round table discussion on October 8th
  • IDEA will allow investors to use search and search engines to gather and analyze data
  • SEC recognizes that it is simply easier for investors to get data via the web.
  • EDGAR is form-based, making data extraction extremely cumbersome. Requires searching through documents and cutting and pasting data 1-by-1, making mass comparisons difficult, expensive and only possible to experts or highly-paid third parties.
  • EDGAR doesn’t even allow investors to export data to Excel or other spreadsheets.
  • SEC expects third-party developers to write data extracting programs (AGORACOM will !)
  • There will no longer be an intermediary provider such as EDGAR. Investors will simply grab information and data.
  • Excellent example are sites that allow travelers to compare prices on hotels, air fares, rental cars, etc.
  • SEC Chairman Cox also appeared to bring up a screen shot of Zillow, the real estate comparison site.
  • IDEA will operate side-by-side with EDGAR for a while.
  • SEC is looking for ways to better communicate with retail investors using Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter. All Web 2.0 tools are available, including those that will come in the future.
  • WEB WEB WEB WEB WEB WEB!!

“Hold on to your seat Dorothy because Kansas is about to go bye-bye.”

Financial Disclosure Has Met The Matrix.

Regards,
George

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What Is XBRL? Description + YouTube Video In Plain English

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:50 AM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

OK, so you’ve now seen the SEC is about to change the world of filing and disclosure towards pure web-based systems. On the filings side, IDEA is the system that will be replacing EDGAR. IDEA is an XBRL-based application.

Confused yet?

Don’t worry. The bad news is – unlike your PC and other digital gadgets – you can’t ignore XBRL and still operate as a public company.

The good news – AGORACOM is here to help educate and walk you through the process. To this end, let’s start with a basic description of XBRL, followed by a plain english YouTube video:

DESCRIPTION

The idea behind XBRL, eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is simple. Instead of treating financial information as a block of text – as in a standard internet page or a printed document – it provides an identifying tag for each individual item of data. This is computer readable. For example, company net profit has its own unique tag.

The introduction of XBRL tags enables automated processing of business information by computer software, cutting out laborious and costly processes of manual re-entry and comparison. Computers can treat XBRL data “intelligently”: they can recognise the information in a XBRL document, select it, analyse it, store it, exchange it with other computers and present it automatically in a variety of ways for users. XBRL greatly increases the speed of handling of financial data, reduces the chance of error and permits automatic checking of information.

Companies can use XBRL to save costs and streamline their processes for collecting and reporting financial information. Consumers of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions and regulators, can receive, find, compare and analyse data much more rapidly and efficiently if it is in XBRL format.

VIDEO

Hopefully, you are now on your way to understanding XBRL. There will be a lot more education to come – but this is a great start.

UPDATE:  Michael Brush over at MSN Money thought this post was good enough to help out his audience with explaining XBRL, so we hope it helps you too.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 19/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:48 AM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s August 19 and we’ve found 3 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! :-)

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

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EDGAR Dying – SEC To Unveil Future Disclosure System At 11:00 AM EST

Posted by AGORACOM at 6:13 AM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox will hold a news conference at the SEC on Tuesday, August 19 at 11 a.m. ET to unveil the information disclosure system of the future for SEC filings to help investors increasingly understand and compare financial information from companies and mutual funds when making their investment decisions.

You can participate in this historic conference via the SEC website.

We’ll be on the conference call and will provide an update here.

There is very little information available at this time but IR Web Report believes one bit of information was leaked to the Washington Post.  Specifically, EDGAR is to be replaced by an XBRL-based platform called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications.

In addition to recent news about websites and blogs being Reg FD compliant, these are exciting times for the entire disclosure system.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 18/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:50 AM on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s August 18 and we’ve found 5 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! :-)

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Sultan Minerals – TSX-V:SUL $0.09
  • Sharon Energy – TSX-V:SHY $0.23
  • Sancon Resources Recovery – OTC BB:SRRY $0.45
  • Lotus Pharmaceuticals – OTC BB:LTUS $0.56
  • Forum National Investments – OTC BB:FMNLF $4.75

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 15/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:31 AM on Friday, August 15th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s January 20 and we’ve found 6 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Aug 14/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:35 AM on Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s August 14 and we’ve found 5 great press releases and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time! :-)

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Opawica Explorations – TSX:OPW $0.57
  • **Torch River – TSX-V:TCR $0.155
  • North American Tungsten – TSX-V:NTC $0.76
  • Tanganyika Oil – TSX-V:TYK $22
  • EurOmax – TSX-V:EOX $0.33

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