CollabInvest is a social networking site for investors. As such it faces the same kinds of challenges that sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter face. Here we have the added complexity of that conversations about investing and trading are very data heavy. To have meaningful conversations, we need to be able to conveniently express complex concepts involving such "words" as charts, trends, indicators, alerts, watch lists, stock picks, and tickers and do so in a way that's natural and effective. I want to do more than just show you a chart. I want to be able to send it to you as just another "word" in a sentence. I want you to be able to "speak" that chart back to me. I want to be able to do the same with all other other "words" involved in investing. 

A friend pointed me to this thought provoking article: Social Software the Other Design for Social Impact .

Our goal with CollabInvest is to create a convenient and effective environment for having investment and trading related conversations.