Comments on: The Blurring Line Between Blogs and Forums http://www.blogherald.com/2009/11/30/the-blurring-line-between-blogs-and-forums/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: forexnewbievg http://www.blogherald.com/2009/11/30/the-blurring-line-between-blogs-and-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-1131732 forexnewbievg Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:15:17 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=15231#comment-1131732 I am using iphone, I want trade fx using iphone. So I found only two companies have forex software which can be used on iphone. So at least I can check my positions. Oanda is one. It spent me two days to get verified of my account. Then the next day, one guy called me and asked me to deposit my account. With the instruction, I transferred S$1000 and sent notification and documents. But 3 days later, the money is still not in my account. In their website, the money will be in my account within 2 days. I called Oanda, the customer service checked long time, and told me I need verify the bank account is mine. OK, I scanned the bank book to them. One day later, money is not in my account. I called Oanda again. They said, The transaction is in Canada. I waited another day, I called Oanda, they said everthing is fine. Canada office is working on this. The iphone fx software has a bug, I called Oanda how to solve it, the guy didn't know, but he said he will call me back. But I am waiting forever for his call back. I sent email for the fund issue, but until now nobody even replied my email. I just wonder why Oanda don't take their customers serious? I have several fellow students from forex course, they opened account with the other broker who also have iphone app. They are very easy to get acount verified and get money transferred. http://forexanalysisdaily.blogspot.com/ introduces this broker for the narrow pips spead, ECN updating and a lot of useful tools. I am switching my account to them now. But I don't know when I can get my money from Oanda. I am still waiting... I searched on the internet, a lot of people are also compalining oanda's crazy pips spead during news time which may go as wider as 40 pips... I will write this review to as many forums as possible to let new forex trader know the bad customer service!!! I am using iphone, I want trade fx using iphone.
So I found only two companies have forex software which can be used on iphone. So at least I can check my positions.

Oanda is one. It spent me two days to get verified of my account.
Then the next day, one guy called me and asked me to deposit my account.
With the instruction, I transferred S$1000 and sent notification and documents.
But 3 days later, the money is still not in my account.

In their website, the money will be in my account within 2 days.
I called Oanda, the customer service checked long time, and told me I need verify the bank account is mine.
OK, I scanned the bank book to them. One day later, money is not in my account.
I called Oanda again. They said, The transaction is in Canada.
I waited another day, I called Oanda, they said everthing is fine. Canada office is working on this.

The iphone fx software has a bug, I called Oanda how to solve it, the guy didn’t know,
but he said he will call me back.
But I am waiting forever for his call back.

I sent email for the fund issue, but until now nobody even replied my email.

I just wonder why Oanda don’t take their customers serious?

I have several fellow students from forex course, they opened account with the other broker who also have iphone app.
They are very easy to get acount verified and get money transferred.
http://forexanalysisdaily.blogspot.com/ introduces this broker for the narrow pips spead, ECN updating and a lot of useful tools.

I am switching my account to them now.

But I don’t know when I can get my money from Oanda. I am still waiting…
I searched on the internet, a lot of people are also compalining oanda’s crazy pips spead during news time which may go as wider as 40 pips…

I will write this review to as many forums as possible to let new forex trader know the bad customer service!!!

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The difference, traditionally, has been that only the blog author(s) can post on a blog. Where comment is for anyone, conversations are only started by blog authors. Forums, on the other hand, can have topics started by anyone.

However, that is not universally true. Many blogs accept submissions from users and even encourage users to create their own blog posts and many communities have single-author forums, where only one or two authors can post new topics.

I think your definition is perfect – the difference between a blog and forum is not defined by the software, but by the editorial policy of who has the power to determine the editorial direction of the site: a closed (blog) or open (forum) group of people. Spot on.

So when you find a blog that challenges this definition, don’t change or weaken the definition of the word just because there is an outlier. Maybe the outlier in question is just not what you always thought it was. Perhaps that “blog” is actually a forum.

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