This is fantastic stuff. Just got off the SEC Conference call.
So, the SEC is going to require companies to begin reporting results in interactive data. So what you say? Look what it enables us to do. Go to http://viewerprototype1.com/viewer and select those companies who are voluntarily participating.
From there you can download the statements you wish to an xls file (Excel) and for those on Google Docs, you can upload the file to Good spreadsheet and then embed it into a blog post like below.
Here is GE’s (GE) recent 8-K income statement
This is not even to mention that you can easily now save it for easy access on your computer.
There are dozen of other uses for folks far more tech savvy than me but in my corner of the world this is really great stuff..
Disclosure (“none” means no position):Long GE
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Todd I was reading is it true you are one of Autonations largest shareholders.
Thanks for reporting on today’s SEC blogger conference call. I wish I could have participated. I’m excited about the potential to leverage the required XBRL data for Value Investing News in the future. I hope they provided some form of API to facilitate retrieving the data for web services such as widgets. Did you record the call Todd?
Sears’s director Perry sells half his shares of Sears Holdings.
This boys is not good news.
msf,
he held them through his funds….my guess is he is seeing massive redemptions and its forced selling
WE HOPE.