Yahooting!: Life and Death on an Internet Stock Chat Board

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Summary: Must-read for Internet investors
Review: Before you even think of wandering into an Internet chatroom or message board looking for stock advice, read this book. It will help you interpret what is going on, understanding people's motivations and discovering the bits of truly useful information that may be out there.

This is far more than just an investment guidebook, however. It takes you through the real-life misadventures of a dot.com company, weaving a tale too tragic to be invented.

Stranger than fiction, for sure, but wasn't most of the dot.com boom?

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Summary: Don't venture in to stock chat boards without reading this!
Review: I didn't know what to expect when I first saw this book. In fact, I thought it might be aimed too much at the newbie investor.

However, I was pleasantly surprised in that it helped me round out my understanding of not only how to determine the useful from the merely entertaining in the chat rooms but also what went wrong with so many companies during the dot bust era.

I won't spoil the surprise at the end but it caught me off guard and also rounded out the story quite well.

My only complaints were that I hoped the author would have given a bit more inside information about what was going on at the company and that it was shorter than I hoped. I read it fairly quickly and it left me wanting more - perhaps there's a sequel in the works ;-)