Scoop Ready To Launch : Some bit of news which came out of the story below (the story on NetContent…) The company is ready to launch a news search subscription service, not unlike HighBeam, Hoovers.com and others, for that matter, targeting the individual user… The site/service, called Scoop, at Scoop.com, is using the underlying Intellisearch technology, which NetContent bought a…
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Selling Subscriptions via Google Ads
Selling Subscriptions via Google Ads : An interesting case study on NetContent, a content syndication/research service which competes with the likes of HighBeam, Hoovers.com and others… Again, goes on to show that these SME focused services will be undercutting the likes of Lexis-Nexis and Factiva in a big way soon…again, goes with my theme of the rise of the individual…
Information Overload: The Future Of
Information Overload: The Future Of Search And Information Access The online universe is evolving rapidly and many critical changes are taking place right now. Information overload is reaching, as long forecasted, new heights. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage it all, or even to decide what to discard and what not. In the end, lots of relevant information is…
Social Enterprise from Knowledge Jolt With Jack
Great wrap up of several posts on social enterprise from Jack Vinson’s “Knowledge Jolt With Jack“. The enterprise is social, as we have heard from a number of writers, such as Etienne Wenger on communities or John Seely Brown on The Social Life of Information. Jon Udell of InfoWorld follows this with an article on The social enterprise that discusses…
Topix.net and KeepMedia
Topix.net has categorized the KeepMedia archive and added their sources to their topic taxonomy. As described in the post, they are able to provide context and deeper research links to their topics. I need to review how the premium sources from KeepMedia match up with their local news focus.
Keeping an eye on Google
Great post by Topix.net’s Rick Skrenta on the “Secret Source of Google’s Power. As he points out, the platform they developed has allowed them to introduce new features that while appear incremental, would be expensive for others to match. Their platform encompasses the tasks most online users perform daily – search, email, local search/yellow pages, shopping and social networking. Plus…
Halley’s “In Praise of Grey”
I should have posted this awhile back. This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. I’m not quite in this demographic yet, but pretty close. This line, “wrinkly-eyed tired older guys at the PTA meetings” resonates deeply. I have two kids in college and one in Jr. High so staying awake at those meetings…
Posting from Newsgator
I was unable to get Movable Poster to work from Newsgator (never could get it to be recognized as a plugin) so I have moved on to the plugin that is based on the Blogger API. I was sucessfully able to get it to post to my site, but for some reason Movable Type does not recognize the titles in…
From Doc Searls: Television’s future potato famine
I think this post from Doc is pretty interesting. As he mentions it puts the control of the a-la-carte experience into the viewers hands. I don’t follow his idea on the transmit side of the equation; I need to read the pointers he mentions below. We are about ready to disconnect DirecTV and sink the money into Netflix or something…
The New Americans
I watched the first episode of the documentary “The New Americans” last night on PBS. The film chronicles the lives of refugees and immigrants as they make their way from disparate places across the world to America. As I watched their stories last night, I was reminded of our Kurdish friends that made their way from Iraq a few years…