Bright Things Share Discussion Threads

[carl79] 20/5/2009 08:10

I am expecting a significant movement here soon...now that the widget lab is released, those that were previously on the sidelines may have started dabbling - these are the premium group who have valuable, demanding networks.

Some of the widgets they are churning out look to be very interesting and will imo attract potential network owners to sign up

[carl79] 20/5/2009 07:00

things at GGG looking up

[iantc] 19/5/2009 14:27

lol ,digger

[digger27] 19/5/2009 13:44

Bundle of laffs this one....thrills and spills....heartstopping movements.

[the analyst] 18/5/2009 19:08

Press release for the widget store launch:

[iantc] 15/5/2009 13:34

taken profit on skr the rise was to much to soon ,moved more into cost and rab

[iantc] 13/5/2009 18:20

after taking very very nice profits on lloyds,phtm,sym,iqe brr,and cfm over the last month,moved into skr, could be a bid there in the not to distant future and they have cash ,mwa, have plenty of cash and soon to open there gold mine ,on a safer side rab pay very good divi and cost have a full order book plenty of cash and started to pay a small divi ,2 to avoid bt. and itv, budgets cut to the bone normally mean hard times ahead and with the markets imho taking a turn for the worse over the summer there share price will come under some pressure

[carl79] 13/5/2009 12:40

Actually i'm going away for a few days next week - fingers crossed I bring the share price luck :-)

[digger27] 13/5/2009 10:33

I think you need a holiday Carl..lol

[the analyst] 11/5/2009 16:14

I don't have any problems with TDW, but they give me free premium trader services, so I can always get through to a senior member of staff to trade on the phone with no extra charges.

Found the self select ISA at TDW pretty problems free and transferring between accounts, in and out of the account etc has always been quick and easy.

[marbles1234] 11/5/2009 15:43

carl, dont move to TDW ! is has problems ! There CFD account works well but they do run that !

[carl79] 11/5/2009 15:38

thanks ljs...I see what you mean...

Ian lol - I am reconsidering moving to TDW

[ljsquash] 11/5/2009 15:11

When your bank account and share dealing are all Barclays they can use information from one to make a decision, even against your best interest.

For lets say a business loan etc

IMHO etc but did happen to me so never again.

[carl79] 11/5/2009 14:25

not sure what you mean ljs?

[ljsquash] 11/5/2009 12:43

I have found HSBC to be quite good recently, though I still trade through Nat West for shares.
I found from experience never to hold all your accounts together as they can access and look at information that should be outside their domain and exert control.

[carl79] 11/5/2009 10:42

hmm - cheers...maybe the grass is not greener! Out of principle I want to leave barc though. To be fair, I dont mind the share dealing service and platform but their banking service has took a nose dive recently

[orange1] 11/5/2009 10:07

Read this thread and weep:



My experience is that when they are good, they are good and efficient but when they are bad they are enfuriatingly bad. But whether any others are better is the big question. The question has been posed many times on the thread but there never appears to be a satisfactory answer. The latest name put forward is the Sharecenter but that has only garnered one recommendation to date.

[the analyst] 10/5/2009 11:58

yes, hopefully it is people converting networks to their own domain, and not simply a high churn rate where people get bored after a few months and give up.

The 'rank' is doing quite well:

[carl79] 10/5/2009 10:38

It is interesting that in spite of the network growth that we know they experience, the Alexa graph declined and then stayed flat - logic would conclude that a large proportion are perhaps leaving the socialgo platform in favour of their own domain but is that too good to be true - what else can be happening?

[the analyst] 09/5/2009 16:17

I agree, Carl, a lot of people have been waiting for this.

At the moment, it's only a very limited launch - the list of widgets waiting to be released is quite long. So, it won't have it's full impact on revenues and sign-ups for a while yet.

They do need to get conversion rates up a lot. The last trading update showed that out of 29,000 that had signed up for a network, only 250 had shown interest in converting to premium. That's around 0.9%. In my opinion, they need to increase that to around 3% to be on track with where they want to be.

I'm still set on my September deadline for socialgo to start to get near to where it wants to be in terms of conversions. By the end of September, I'm looking for 100,000+ networks signed up in total and 3% of them opting for premium services. I'd also be looking for those premium networks to be bringing in $50 per month average. I'm discounting revenue from advertising as it seems ning gets very little from it and I hear they are much better at it that socialgo

So, that would mean a run rate of about $1.8m pa (3000 networks x 50 dollars per month x 12 months)

Once the growth and revenue has become apparent to invesotrs, hopefully the share price will move up. Ideally, to such a level that we start to see conversion of the 5p warrants - that would give them the cash to see them through to profitability, imo

[carl79] 09/5/2009 14:49

A LOT of people have been waiting on this according to my research - I expect this addition to the socialgo/zocku offering to boost signups!

Just on that TA do you have any further estimates? Cheers

Anyone interested in a tip may want to consider GGG. On old favourite of mine...they have secured cash by way of a farm out on their gold asset which will provide valuable stability moving forward with the Nimu copper project which is where the ability to 10x multibag lies imo...now the initial spike has started it may be time start watching...for those already invested it, the recent news demonstrates real grit and determination on the managements behalf and makes the possibility of a similar Nimu deal much more realistic imo

[ljsquash] 09/5/2009 12:32

Great find TA!