Validea.com keeps tabs on expert stock pickers, with its "database covering hundreds of stockbrokers and media figures. Each one has touted a number of stocks through investment magazines, TV channels like CNBC or well-known investor Web sites." A year ago they got some money from the venture capital arm of internet.com. Where Starmine tracks analysts, Validea is focused on media mentions, but both play the game of watching the market watchers.
