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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 13/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:32 AM on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

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 13 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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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 12/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:31 AM on Monday, January 12th, 2009

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 12 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.

  • Colossus Minerals – TSX:CSI $1.27
  • Gammon Gold – TSX:GAM $6.01
  • Carpathian Gold – TSX:CPN $0.13
  • KIT digital – OTC BB:KITD $0.21
  • El Nino Ventures – TSX-V:ELN Halted (Pending News)
  • Azteca Gold Corp – TSX-V:AZG Halted (Pending News)

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2 Web 2.0 Companies That Each Make More Money Than YouTube, Twitter AND Facebook Combined

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:27 PM on Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Fortune Magazine recently published Web 2.0 Is So Over, Welcome to Web 3.0 , to which I call bullshit. On the one hand, the premise that many Web 2.0 companies have failed for lack of a business plan is absolutely true. I’ve been banging the table on this since the first Mesh Conference, on Twitter , TechCrunch (Web 2.0’s most destructive blog) and GigaOm.

But for Fortune to go the next step and say these are representative of Web 2.0 business models is utter bullshit and, quite frankly, lazy journalism. Yes, YouTube / Facebook / Twitter may be the most popular members of the Web 2.0 class – but pinning the Web 2.0 business outlook on them is akin to pinning the future of a high-school class on its most popular jocks….and I’m sick of it.

For some reason, Web 2.0 bloggers (i.e. Techcrunch) and writers (i.e. Jessi Hempel) insist on using traffic as a measure of success. Folks, if a million people use your services but refuse to give you a dollar, you don’t have a business – you have a hobby. Fortune and Techcrunch still don’t realize this – it’s as if they weren’t around for dot-bomb and are still star struck by Super Bowl money-burners.

2 COMPANIES THAT MAKE MORE MONEY THAN YOUTUBE, TWITTER AND FACEBOOK COMBINED

The fact of the matter is that if you took a minute to look past the popularity contest, you would actually find thriving Web 2.0 companies like Freshbooks and AGORACOM that have used Web 2.0 technology to deliver value-added services that customers are – gasp! – actually willing to pay for. No, we don’t have a zillion users viewing a gazillion pages and posting a gigazillion number of messages/photos – but we each make more money than YouTube, Twitter and Facebook combined.

TECHCRUNCH START-UP COVERAGE DESTROYED THE WEB 2.0 ECOSYSTEM

I don’t expect Freshbooks and AGORACOM to get more overall coverage than popular Web 2.0 sites – but when it comes to discussion about business models, we deserve our props and so do other real Web 2.0 companies that we don’t know about. Not just for notoriety reasons but as an example of what other Web 2.0 entrepreneurs should be doing.

Why?

The Techcrunch glamorization of cool but useless Web 2.0 companies has inflicted significant damage on the entire ecosystem by encouraging the development of free mass-market “me too” technology. In dot-bomb, companies were selling $1 bills for 90 cents. Today, they just offer stuff for free and don’t even bother asking for money. They may be burning through significantly less money – but the result is the same. For what it’s worth, it was more fun watching companies burn through $100 million in 6 months than the slow agonizing death of today’s money-less losers.

Covering companies that have taken the time to cultivate and succeed from real business plans, on the other hand, would have inspired many others to go this route – and we wouldn’t be reading articles titled “Web 2.0 Is So Over”.

If the bloggers and journalists can’t do their jobs, maybe you can. I’d love to hear about other Web 2.0 companies generating real revenues ( > $500,000) and real profits from real customers.

UPDATE: Mark Evans has jumped into the fray with a great post that also refers to this post.  You can read my comment and why I believe this needs to become a topic at the upcoming Mesh Conference.

UPDATE #2: Chris Anderson, Editor-In-Chief of Wired, posted a story on this very subject to the Wall Street Journal. Clearly, we are at a tipping point in the world of online business models.  Glad to see it after pounding the table on this subject for 3 years now.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 09/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:29 AM on Friday, January 9th, 2009

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 9 and we’ve found 1 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.

**Freewest Resources – TSX-V:FWR $0.21

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AGORACOM Is 1 of only 13 Finance Content Providers To Every Blackberry Device On The Planet

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:41 PM on Thursday, January 8th, 2009

On my recent family trip to Disney, I couldn’t help but notice the enormous amount of people using their phones in long line-ups to snap photos, shoot small video clips and communicate with their friends via E-Mail, SMS and MMS. In addition, a large number of parents were using their smartphones to surf the web as they waited for their kids to complete rides.

Ironically enough, this drove me to use my Blackberry to post this comment via AGORACOM Twitter.

As a result, I have to conclude that 2009 will be the tipping point for mobile surfing and communications.  I know most early adopters have been doing this for years but I’ve always said we need the masses to participate for any tool or app to really gain big traction.

AGORACOM COMES LOADED ON EVERY BLACKBERRY DEVICE

Consequently, look for AGORACOM to significantly advance its mobile efforts in Q1.  I say “advance” rather than “launch” because we’ve had a pretty good mobile profile for a couple of years now.  Specifically, AGORACOM is the exclusive provider of small-cap content to every Blackberry device on the planet and 1 of only 13 Blackberry financial content partners.

Here is the official list of financial content providers to the Blackberry Finance Channel.  It obviously does not look as good on the web because it’s built for mobile – but you get the picture.  If you want to view it on your mobile browser, it is a long URL, so I’ve created a shortened version that you can easily punch in:  http://tinyurl.com/BlackberryFinance

HERE IS HOW TO GET IT ON YOUR BLACKBERRY, IPHONE OR ANY SMARTPHONE

The same thing goes for the AGORACOM Small-Cap Center on Blackberry.  If you want the true view on your mobile, use the following URL - http://agoracom.com/rim/index.html – and make sure to bookmark it!

Look for substantially bigger mobile news out of AGORACOM later this quarter.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 08/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:27 AM on Thursday, January 8th, 2009

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 8 and we’ve found 4 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.

  • Roctest Ltd. – TSX:RTT $0.60
  • Tekmira Pharmaceuticals – TSX:TKM $0.65
  • Dewey Electronics Corp. – OTC BB:DEWY $1.55
  • Selkirk Metals – TSX:SLK $0.08

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 07/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:23 AM on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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 7 and we’ve found 4 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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Small-Cap CEO Lesson: Online Video Time Jumps 40% In 1 Year

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:58 PM on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

You’re a small-cap CEO and looking for a way to tell your story to investors beyond text.  I have always maintained that video is the best new online investor relations tool because of its personal touch (CEO speaking to investors) and demonstration abilities (new product, factory, etc.).

However, until a couple of years ago, video was nearly impossible to execute for all but the most savvy small-cap companies due to the lack of cheap channels such as YouTube.  Moreover, online video usage was in its infancy with a limited number of users.

ONLINE VIDEO IS NOW ON

Today? Welcome to the ubiquitous  world of online video.  According to this NewTeeVee report, the amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year. Specifically, watchers tuned in for 273.1 minutes of online video in the month of November 2008, up from 195 minutes.  Some other interesting stats include:

  • 77 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
  • The number of video viewers was up 6% to 146 million.
  • 97 million viewers watched 5.1 billion videos on YouTube.com (52.3 videos per viewer).
  • The duration of the average online video was 3.1 minutes.

HOW DOES THIS IMPACT YOUR INVESTOR RELATIONS?

Buy a good digital video camera and make video part of your IR program.  The connection created to your shareholders will be invaluable.  Meetings, executive addresses, new products, new facilities.  If it’s something you want investors to know about, shoot it and share it.  AGORACOM’s video strategy is already in full swing, just click on any of the logos above to see just some of our syndication.

Regards,
George

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Small-Cap CEO Lesson: Chinese Internet Users To Surpass Entire US Population In 2009

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:46 PM on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

You’re a small-cap CEO and thinking about ways to broaden your shareholder base. You can continue knocking/calling/e-mailing the same people from the same tired lists, or you can take your message to the entire world via online investor relations.

Personally, I think the entire world is a better target market.  If you need more proof about how big of an audience we are talking about, consider the fact that 2009 will be the year when Chinese internet users surpass the total population of the United States.  Here’s the graph courtesy of CNN and JP Morgan:

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As you can see, by December 2009, China will have 322 million internet users. That is a blow away number, let alone the 375 million expected to be online by December 2010.

Anybody interested in creating a long-term shareholder base out of this group over the next 2-3 years?  I can tell you AGORACOM is already planning to create a massive Chinese stock community.  Look for news by mid-February.

Hat Tip to Paul Kedrosky for the story.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Jan 06/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:21 AM on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

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 6 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.

  • China Energy Recovery – OTC BB:CGYV $1.79
  • Capital Gold – TSX:CGC $0.46
  • Allied Nevada Gold Corp – TSX:ANV $5.52

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