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Strategies & Market Trends : TATRADER GIZZARD STUDY--Stocks 12.00 or Less..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NW_Trader who wrote (31426)	7/9/2002 4:40:30 PM
From: Mike Sawyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59879

Yes Pat, I agree that it is fast and I like the way you can embed pics or charts in the messages like the link you pointed to. Here's another example of embeded pics on a post I made to Zeev's thread on IHub. investorshub.com Scotton sent me a link to this and it was a very good story and I really got a big kick out of the little song it had on it. In fact I made it part of my profile on SI and will go try it out on the IHub profile next. In talking with Bob he told me about a new feature that he is working on now but asked me not to tell anybody...oh it's hard to keep secretes. LOL! The reason I had sent him a PM was my concern that IHub may go the way of SI and one day cease to exist due to lack of revenue. I gave him some ideas and asked him what he had in mind. He gave me a quick synopsis of his business plan, told me what he had done so far and what his goals were in the future...the shortened version of course. I was very pleased to see what he wrote me. He seems like he will have a very good service for a long time to come. So I must say that my vote is on IHub. Some may differ and ultimately I will go where ever Mark goes. But one thing I like about the SI-TATrader thread is it is not to busy to keep up with. I always hate it when it hits the hot list and tons of new people flood in and the spam starts hitting. I have concerns that if TATrader goes to a thread that is there to be promoted it will become a circus of sorts and many of the good posters will slip-slide away. I know even Mark has left from time to time to let the thread sort of die down. Anyway, that is just my 2 cents...and in today's market my 2 cents is only worth about a penny. Cheers! Mike

To: NW_Trader who wrote (31426)	7/12/2002 2:49:53 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59879

Thanks, Pat. A lot of work does go into the speed, and my pride in it usually shows. :) Features, well... We've got some pretty cool ones, and I'm constantly working on adding more, but keeping in mind that I want the software to be the best message-board software, generally speaking. Not specifically the best stock-related message-board software or letting the message boards aspect get too diluted with features that have el zippo to do with the main 3 features that matter for message boards: 1. Writing messages. 2. Reading messages. 3. Searching for messages. And doing them all just as quickly and unobtrusively as possible. If a feature doesn't enable/help the above 3 items and do it without getting in the way of easy/quick communication between users, well, it's just in the way. Oh, Mike? I let the cat out of the bag the other day. I've started working on an "Ignore" feature. Sorry to leave you bursting at the seams there. <g> For me, it's a lot more fun to just surprise people with new features (we frequently play a game called "Find The Feature"), and I am very averse to setting up people's expectations for delivery dates so I don't risk disappointing them when those dates inevitably get missed, but this one's important enough to a lot of people that I felt I should let people know that they didn't need to lobby me anymore. Getting back to the issue of speed, I have to admit that the sudden arrival of Zeev and company did push the hardware/software just as close to the limits as I was comfortable with, but it helped me tweak everything for even greater speed, and we can now handle about twice as much traffic before I need to worry again. By the time I get done with the current batch of tweaks, I expect we'll only be using about 25% of our capacity at current traffic levels. We're around 40% right now. The climate there reminds me of the early days on SI with Jill, Brad, et.al. Brad, Jeff, Jill, and maybe Bob? <g> I know what you mean, though. I was a sort of "5th Beatle" at SI. But the most exciting times were pre-GNET. I used to think it was just too cool when Brad would get an idea for a new feature, and suddenly it'd show up. He'd be talking to someone about a feature publicly, and half an hour later he's posting "Done. Whaddya think?" or something to that effect. And being in that role now is just as fun as I imagined it would be. Kinda like this one, written half an hour after someone mentioned it. investorshub.com Definitely exciting times. The ship that Brad and Jeff caught headed out of the station 3 years ago (if I may mix my metaphors), so I'm not going to be catching it, but that's arguably the best possible thing for iHub. Keeping it in the hands of those who love it most is the way to go.