Since you cover the financial world on your blog I thought you’d be interested in this story. Motley Fool is a client of my agency’s and they’re launching a program called CAPS that’s sort of a mash-up between stock picking and getting Netflix recommendations from your friends. In essence, when you pull up a stock’s information you’re also shown what the CAPS community of players thinks of that stock along with the usual information on stock performance and company news. This is very much a program that is designed to tap into the wisdom of crowds and expose people to stocks they may not have otherwise heard of, much like Netflix did for movies.

If you’ve got a Wall Street Journal login they did a story on it the other day. Here’s the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115984282859680846.html

Here are some other links with commentary on the program for your reference

Motley Fool: http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06092624.htm

HackingNetflix: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2006/09/fool_caps_recom.html

B2B blog: http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/09/the_wisdom_of_f.html

rC3.og: http://rc3.org/ofinterest/

Robleto: http://www.robleto.com/2006/09/introducing-caps.asp

Let me know if you have any questions on this.

–Chris