Factiva has released the latest version of its news and decision portal software, Factiva Publisher 3.8. The company claims the new software saves employees time by consolidating critical information into a single place. Users can manage their e-mail and calendars, says Factiva, as well as track critical news and internal information, all from their corporate portal.[KM World]
Making room for good knowledge…
Making room for good knowledge. It?s not what you don?t know that hurts you. It?s what you know that ain?t so Will Rogers There have been a number of items coming through my news aggregator lately that set me to thinking about this old Will Rogers remark (while I’ve seen it attributed to Satchel Paige, Rogers comes back most frequently…
Puzzling Out Google’s Blogger Acquisition…
Puzzling Out Google’s Blogger Acquisition“Pundits are scratching their heads over Saturday’s surprise announcement that Google had bought weblog publishing heavyweight Pyra Labs, but a look at the big picture reveals some intriguing scenarios for “Bloggle’s” future.” [Searchenginewatch.com]
Reuters to Buy Multex: Reuters,…
Reuters to Buy Multex: Reuters, which has just announced a major restructuring, has also announced an agreement to buy the rest of Multex.com, a U.S.-based… [PAID: the economics of content]
Groove 2.5 [1].
Groove 2.5. Team bloggingGroove founder Ray Ozzie and his teams have always pretended to build application software. But what they have actually delivered are the operating systems of the future — years ahead of schedule. The XML business Web is only now achieving the architecture that Lotus Notes laid down 15 years ago: message-oriented exchange of semi-structured documents. As today’s…
More on the deal [1]….
More on the deal. The NY Times has a story Google Deal Ties Company to Weblogs. Internet News reports in with Google Acquires Blog Software Firm. But Google still doesn’t have anything up in their Press Center. And Blogger.com still, oddly, says nothing about the deal. Nor does the old Pyra page. [megnut]
I think this is where…
I think this is where Google is headed with their purchase of Pyra. If I remember correctly, Pyra developed a project management package but did not have the resources to develop Blogger and that package so they shelved it. Having weblog (authoring), schedules, a document repository, enterprise search, and RSS feeds makes for a pretty nice package for the enterprise.…
Google, Blogger, and the Stupidity…
Google, Blogger, and the Stupidity Temptation. Now we see what Google is made of. Google got to be the #1 brand name world-wide, beating Coke and Osama not by out-spending them or by having a catchier jingle. No, they did it the way (frankly) Cluetrain said: by having value and values. Marketing was invented to solve a distribution problem: How…
Afterblog [1].
Afterblog. Some retrospectives on Live from the Blogosphere in L.A. on Saturday night: Mark Frauenfelder’s photos, taken with a camera so small you could drown it like an olive in a martini glass Tony Pierce’s all-true account of What Went Down, including a perfect expos? of Journalism as Unusual… if you want to know why Google bought Blogger look no…
All things Movable Type [1]….
All things Movable Type. Movable Type 2.6 is out. Here’s what’s new, and how to use it. (780 words) [dive into mark]