Dateline: 07/22/99
Help!!! Because of computer problems I had to reinstall my Windows 98 software. In the process I lost all of my email files. If you sent me an email recently and I haven't replied, please resend it. Thanks!
One of the goals of About.com with its guided sites is to make it easier for the user to surf the Net. You look for a subject with a search engine and chances are you'll come up with dozens if not hundreds and even thousands of hits. Trying to weed through them all trying to find the best of the best, la crème de la crème, the hottest of the hot tamales is a time consuming chore. What we try and do is select the best sites in a particular subject and link to them for you.
Not only do we About.com guides try and find you the best websites, we link to the items you're most likely to look for when you go to use such a site. So we bypass the splash pages and cumbersome indexes and get to the nitty gritty quickly. As one of my readers put it in a recent email, "People like you make life easier for people like me!" That's what we're here for.
To make life even easier for you, I've put together some of the most popular links and most useful websites on one page without a lot of commentary. I call the page The One Stop Investing Spot.
I've kept a format similar to the main page of Investing: Canada and have left enough flexibility to upgrade and improve it over time. Right now I've got key links in the following areas:
I'll be adding a few more over the next week - gold & precious metals and stock exchanges.
Right now I've got them in an order that I find useful, but I may change that to alphabetical order later. Let me know if you have a preference and if there's anything I should add to this key list.
I've also changed my Quotes & Research Page. It used to have a number of search boxes on one page - Canada Stockwatch Quotes, Carlson Online, GLOBEfund Mutual Fund Prices, Wright Investor Services Company Search and Wall Street Research Net. Now I've split them up into four categories on separate pages - Stock Quotes, Stock Research, Fund Quotes, Fund Research.
At the top of each page is a handy tablike menu linking to the other pages in the group. Fund Research is a new category that I did not have before and have included GLOBEfund's Fund Filter there. I'll be adding more research tools from The Fund Library and others later. I'll also be adding other search boxes to the Stock Quotes Page and Mutual Fund NAVPS page.
Eventually each page will give you a variety of search tools to chose from.
Here's what the new series of pages looks like - Quotes & Research (Revised)
Check them out and let me know what you think. Do you have links you want added to the Quintessential Page? Search boxes you want added to my Quotes & Research Pages? Let me know and I'll try and add them.
Meanwhile, I've been asked to find out some things about my readers. It's easy enough for me to check our logs to see which pages are the most popular. But it's a little harder to discern the makeup of my readers by age and sex. So if you could answer the following surveys, it would be very helpful. Thanks.
Comments? Suggestions? Why not post them on our Bulletin Board or email me.
E-mail me!
07/19/99 - Internet
Update: Innofone & NetNation Profiled
Along with our Movers & Shakers list and updates to our
Internet indices, we profile two new additions to our Yankee
Index.
07/16/99 - Best of
the Net: The Fund Library
We profile one of the best mutual fund websites in Canada.
07/14/99 - 6 Month
Mutual Fund Report
Our semi-annual report on funds that made
our Power Performers list for the last six months.
07/12/99 - E-commerce
& Convergence
Our weekly Internet Update looks at Microforum and Rogers
Communications as well as listing the movers and shakers among
Internet stocks for the previous week.
07/09/99 - Trading
on Volatility: Case Study # 2 - Microsoft
Our second case study into active trading of a particular stock
gives quite different results than our first one did.