Today a Wall Street Journal article on p2p lending and Prosper.com featured Wiseclerk.com as one of the 3rd party tracking services supplying information for lenders and borrowers.
3rd party services
Booberwatch offers statistics on boober.nl p2p lending
The new website booberwatch.nl offers p2p lending stats for the Dutch p2p lending service boober.nl (as wiseclerk.com does for prosper.com stats). While the site is in Dutch language, it has many charts and tables that can be understood without speaking Dutch. The main page shows the fluctation of average interest for each credit grade over time. According to booberwatch 536207 Euros have been loaned so far.
Short urls to link to prosper listings, loans and groups
Based on an idea from frequencydip and using code first implemented by zieri of zierious.com I just added short urls, which are much easier to remember and do not use that much space in forum signatures or elsewhere.
Everybody can now use the following short URLs:
- http://www.wiseclerk.com/r/listing/108578 to link to a listing number (just state listing number at end e.g. 108578)
- http://www.wiseclerk.com/r/group/Apple to link to group (e.g. Apple)
- http://www.wiseclerk.com/r/glistings/Apple to link to openlistings of a group (e.g. Apple)
- http://www.wiseclerk.com/r/member/frequencydip to link to a prosper.com member page (e.g. frequencydip)
This URLs instantly without delay redirect to the prosper.com pages.
New group promotion tool for prosper group leaders
The prototype displays all open listings of a given group. They look roughly like this:
Example display for group "ProsperLenders":
However this is only a picture. To see the full function, which includes automatic links to each of the listings check the the example in the upper right on this website (point the mouse over a listing).
The display will automatically update daily.
Be aware that while width is fixed, height of display will automatically change according to number of open listings. Therefore placement should be carefully selected, e.g. in left or right bar of a website.
To get the code for your website go here:
http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-promotion.php
As mentioned, this is a prototype.
I did choose a rather simple layout, allowing for the group leader to put his own headline above it, or to choose a border, or to place a prosper button alongside.
Feedback and suggestions are welcome!