Redruby.com.au - Digg-style Aussie Investment News Site

Redruby is an Australian user generated financial news source that guarantees you’ll get the latest, editorially unbiased financial news updates based on what you, the reader, deems vital. You get to be involved in not only submitting these important news bits, but you’ll also be apart of the outcomes and effects of these articles. Once you click on a link and read, you’ll then be able to vote on how you think it will ultimately affect the companies share price based on intuitive arrows. Alongside the article you’ll see a line graph which indicates the direction the companies’ share price will take determined by user opinion. Click “discuss” to interact with users and comment on the articles themselves.

Redruby is the one place where you can get links to all of the latest financial news and speculation without any editorial bias because the links and content on Redruby are submitted by you. The unique Redruby voting system ensures that you are presented with the most important financial articles in terms of their impact on the Australian share market. How does Redruby Work? On Redruby you will find links to the articles that are having the biggest impact on the companies that interest you. Click on a title to read an article. Once you have read an article you can vote on how you think it will effect a companies share price. If you think it will push the companies share price up then click on the green up arrow to the left of the article description. If you think the article is going to push the share price down, click on the red down arrow.

An excellent resource for investors and those following the Australian stock market, this digg-style investment news resource is incorporating all vital web 2.0 attributes to bring Australian investors the information they desire. Though this is truly a no-fuss website in terms of design, they’ve got all the right nuts and bolts in order to create a functional website for their demographic.

Will they add any stylistic improvements to their user interface? Their homepage is looking a little busy. Could they add color cues to direct the readers attention to the most important aspects of their website, the articles, the submit article button?