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Friday Media Report - June 6, 2008

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Every Friday, we’ll take a look at some of the stories surfacing in mainstream news about peer-to-peer lending and what people are saying about the major players in the field. We hope this will provide lenders, borrowers & executives some perspective about how P2P lending is being received and how the industry is continuing its [...]

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  • Another Error in a National Newspaper on P2P Lending Apparently this is fact checking Wednesday. In the USA today is the article: peer-to-peer lending hits its stride In this article a Prosper Lender is quoted... Default rates are lower for peer-to-peer loans than for other consumer loans. Cory Moore became a lender on Prosper.com this year. To hedge against defaults,......
  • P2P Lending In The News A couple of peer-to-peer (p2p) lending articles came out in major publications over the weekend...  Enjoy... The ChicagoTribue: Peer-to-peer lending helpful, but know rules Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. At least that's the mind-set of individuals who lend and borrow money from each other online,......

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Niche P2P lending – Mirroring the path of social networks?

As the social web industry has grown, so too has the growth of more niche social networking sites that mirror the capabilities of the big networks like MySpace and Facebook, but cater to a more targeted audience. These communities form more of a cohesive bond between members and also help the creators of the network [...]

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  • Driving Traffic to Your Blog Many blog owners spend a good portion of their time trying to figure out how to generate traffic to their blog. This is especially true when it comes to a brand new blog that is not yet really rich in meaningful and effective content. Generating visitor traffic to your blog......
  • Measuring Social Capital So my loan on Prosper closed at a final rate of 9%.  What was my social capital worth?  Did being a known quantity in the Prosper community help? To start with I decided to try and measure the average loan rate and standard deviation... I used the ProProsper Loan Rate......

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