Google Finance
Another Google service is out called Google Finance, and it really is pretty neat. Surprisingly Google went with Macromedia Flash to animate its really nice charts instead of XMLHttpRequest+DHTML (AJAX) approach usied in Google Local, GMAIL, and in other various other services.
These charts provide something that I always found missing. When there is a peak or high volume day, I always want to know why without having to do a ton of research to find what happened. Some sites provide a new ticker about the company, but can’t correlate the news to the stats. Like when researching a company history, its always hard to match the day when a stock peaks or falls to the news stories printed on that day about the company, it’s competitors, or the market at whole.
You can see here with Novell’s stock. You can match the day that the Q1 statements where out to when Novell’s stock dropped a point or two (which now it looks like its slowly gaining again).
Another interesting feature that Google added was a blog post ticker which shows recently updated blog posts about the company. (I wonder if this post will show up on there? :-))
Disclaimer: IANAL, but I should maybe mention that I don’t work for Novell but I do have an intrest in them.
Tags: Novell AJAX Google Flash
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