Growth of online business intelligence
Forbes Insights and Google have paired up to produce an interesting study, “The Rise of the Digital C-Suite”, examining how younger generations of executives (the CEOs of tomorrow!) are increasingly using the Internet as a key source of business intelligence.
Some of the findings that really seem to stand out, especially as this is a trend that is likely to keeping on growing, are:
- The Internet is the most valuable resource for executives for gathering business information, outstripping at-work contacts, personal networks, trade publications, etc. In fact, 74% of respondents rated the Internet as very valuable (5 on a 5-point scale).
- During work hours, 70% of executives prefer to read “traditional print media” online rather than in print (30%), and 69% prefer to access “traditional broadcast media” online rather than over the air.
- Executives under age 40 (which the report calls “Generation Netscape”) are by far the most likely to engage with emerging Internet technologies:
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- 65% of under-40 executives maintain a work-related blog weekly or more frequently. That figure is 41% for 40 to 49-year-olds and 10% for those above 50 years.
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- 65% of the under-40 executives contribute to or read Twitter at least weekly. That drops to 44% for 40 to 49-year-olds and just 7% for those who are over 50 years old.
Certainly shows that executives are readily embracing the Internet and happy to evolve with it, as social media and other emerging technologies become ever more salient.
Add comment July 9, 2009
Trends: How micromedia is evolving blogs
Web strategist and blogger Jeremiah Owyang observes how the nature of self publishing on the web is changing, with the traditional blog no longer the main vehicle for expression. Instead micromedia platforms like FriendFeed, Posterous, and Twitter make it easier to post more frequently, and are better suited to the sort of constant chatter we’re now seeing. Quick, easy and often, but not necessarily richer content.
That’s not to say that blogs are disappearing, rather the new lifestreaming-type tools are leading to specialisation of the media: Blogs are still better for posting original, rich content, the larger thought-through pieces, while micromedia is better suited for continuous comms and is now taking that function away from the blog.
Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/06/26/is-blogging-evolving-away-from-blogging/
Add comment June 29, 2009
RT: Tim Berners-Lee talks about Linked Data
Referencing readwriteweb – great article on the subject http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/linked_data_is_blooming_why_you_should_care.php
Here’s a great introduction to the concept of Linked Data and how it’s proponents, most notably Sir Tim Berners-Lee, say it will the change the web as we know it. At core the concept is about connecting currently disjointed data and by doing so creating the access and environment through which to unlock new value, meaning and understanding.
If the world wide web originally created the framework that unleashed human-computable information (nice looking documents), then Linked Data will do the same for machine-crunching volumes.
To find out more here’s Tim Berners-Lee’s talk at TED earlier this year,
Add comment June 23, 2009
Moreover for finding “incredible content”
A nice mention on Search Engine Journal of the free Moreover.com RSS feeds, as a way for finding great content -
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/9-stratgies-for-finding-incredible-content/11271/
Thanks Search Engine Journal! Good feedback too about finding the right content, we’ll continue to work on those features. In the meantime users can adjust relevancy of the results with the two slider bars there – the relevancy filter looks for articles that mention your search keywords the most, while the sources filter lets you select just top sources. You can also search within any of the prebuilt news categories.
At the moment it’s just news but we’ll be adding blogs soon, check back in the next week or two.
3 comments June 22, 2009
Social media categorised by platform and by country
More social media is a good thing. We know because our customers say so. But with more comes a key provision: That the information streams include the metadata you need to intelligently select, sort and serve exactly the right content to the right customer, at the right time.
That’s why this week we’ve increased the number of publishing platforms available through Moreover’s UGC Metabase to more than double what it was before. The top 50 of these show up in our ‘White List’ – a spam free index of the web’s top blogs and social media:
Moreover Metabase customers receive the platform information as metadata in their XML feeds of the links and posts we send them, to help organise the universe of content.
And we’ve added country categorisation, so we can list bloggers and other social web-alites by nationality, for example, these are UK bloggers, these are Canadian, etc:
A case of more media and deeper data to drown the noise and serve the signals, or to that effect!
Add comment June 19, 2009
MetaCarta + Moreover = News Maps
We are pleased to bring you the news that MetaCarta, a leading geoweb company, and Moreover have partnered on providing the news links for MetaCarta’s news maps. Give it a spin and find out what’s going on in your bit of the globe, http://geosearch.metacarta.com. Zoom in and click search again to update the results and see more local stories, e.g.
Scroll to the right location and the sad tragedy of the Air France crash is shown, south of the Cape Verde Islands. For brighter news, try a search for “new species” and see where they’re being discovered, and a personal favourite: check out Antarctica for news about hanging gardens long since lost in ice. (Leads to, what is the most geographically isolated news story out there?)
3 comments June 4, 2009
Moreover is hiring!
Are you smart? Capable? Thinking of running for president but first want to cut your teeth in the social media and online publishing revolution? Then we could be just right for each other – Moreover is currently looking to hire three new people to bolster its technical and client services teams:
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Client Services Representative
To the successful candidates, in advance: We look forward to having you on the team in the very near future!
Add comment June 2, 2009
Moreover’s search engine service gets blogs
We’re pleased to announce that blogs are now available with the Moreover search engine service (see Search Engine Toolkit). Alongside news sources you can search across the latest blog posts from the Moreover White List of approx. 250,000 blogs. Search across the title, and/or the post’s text, slice by rank or topic, apply relevancy filters, set a time range, and a whole host of other filters and options.
With the toolkit you basically get API access to our news+blogs search engine. Customers can completely white label search engine features and imbed them within their applications and UI. Effectively it outsources news aggregation and search engine development so you can focus on the actual delivery of services to your customers and users. Case in point: BusinessWeek’s BusinessExchange - interweaving Moreover-fed news links across their universe of topics.
For our free RSS feed loving folk – we’ll be adding blogs alongside news there too in the near future, so stay tuned!
1 comment May 27, 2009
Moreover 3.0: We divest out of VeriSign
Today we are pleased to announce that Moreover Technologies is once again an independent company, following our divestiture out of VeriSign. The official press release is copied below or you can read it here.
The move is good news for the company, its employees, and most importantly our customers. We’re excited about our new independence and the opportunities that lie ahead of us. The web is fast becoming a real-time world and we are in a great position to help drive that charge.
We have had a great few years with VeriSign and worked with many wonderful colleagues, and we look forward toasting both our successes in the years to come.
Thank you!
The Moreover (3.0) team
Investor Group Closes Acquisition of Real-Time Publisher Services Business from VeriSign, Inc.
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An investor group led by Paul J. Farrell announced today that it has acquired the Real-Time Publisher Services (“RTP”) business from VeriSign, Inc.® (Nasdaq: VRSN). The RTP business will be re-launched as Moreover Technologies, Inc.
Vienna, VA (PRWEB) May 12, 2009 — An investor group led by Paul J. Farrell announced today that it has acquired the Real-Time Publisher Services (“RTP”) business from VeriSign, Inc.® (Nasdaq: VRSN). The RTP business will be re-launched as Moreover Technologies, Inc.
The business includes both Content Aggregation Services offered by Moreover Technologies, Inc. (moreover.com), the Web’s premier provider of business intelligence, on demand, and Ping Server Services provided by Weblogs.com (weblogs.com). With this acquisition completed, both services will be consolidated under the Moreover Technologies, Inc. (Moreover) name. Moreover catalogs 450,000 news articles daily from more than 30,000 news sources. Moreover reviews and filters 3.6 million blog posts daily about virtually every industry to identify and make available a refined repository of 200,000 posts. The company also can access 250 pre-built RSS feeds. Moreover provides this information to major international and domestic clients, including many Fortune 500 companies. The Moreover services help organizations and consumers track relevant news content by organizing, indexing, and managing massive amounts of constantly-updated online content filtered by source and other criteria in near real-time. Customers of Moreover’s services include small and large corporations, Web portal developers, search engines, press clipping agents, news monitoring services, and general Web consumers. Each of the services offered today can be highly customized to fit the customer’s design, layout, and search requirements. Investor/entrepreneur Farrell notes that his group acquired the company to innovate and expand its industry leading news and information aggregation, distribution and tracking services. Objectives include establishment of a business model that will partner closely with major news organizations to extend their reach, build upon an already-robust technology infrastructure, drive innovation in product and service offerings, and make customer service and support a benchmark for the entire online publishing industry. Farrell is well-suited to the task. As Moreover CEO, he will work hands-on with its ongoing development. He has repeatedly demonstrated his strength incorporating entrepreneurially-nimble innovation within a large corporate framework. The one-time Senior Vice President of Business Development for America Online (AOL) is passionate about, and accomplished at, improving productivity and building best-in-class customer service. “To ensure continuity and provide a platform for rapid ramp up of expanded services, we’re bringing aboard most of RTP’s employees,” notes Farrell. Hardeep Bindra, RTP General Manager, points out, “We’re excited for our employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. This approach will ensure a smooth transition, and enhance our ability to move forward decisively on key Moreover initiatives.” For more information about the sale and plans moving forward, contact: salesinfo(at)moreover.com Paul Farrell, Principal Farrell is a former America Online (AOL) Senior Vice President of Business Development, who implemented strategic partnerships and expanded business lines and services across the online giant. Farrell possesses three decades of executive-level management, business development and customer service experience, as well as an in-depth knowledge of the Internet, media and enterprise software industries. Moreover was founded in 1998 and acquired by VeriSign in Fall 2005. Moreover was involved with developing the standards for Real Simple Syndication (RSS) 1.0 and continues to advance the technology in this area. Moreover’s current offerings include: 1. Newsdesk—a hosted news and blog search portal product targeted at corporations for corporate marketing, media monitoring, marketing communications, and RSS aggregation for intranets and websites; 2. Search Engine Toolkit—provides an Application Programming Interface (API) based access to news and blogs for portals, social networks, online publisher websites, web applications and intranets; 3. News and User Generated Content (UGC) Metabase—an enriched XML database with constantly updated and indexed free-Web content with Moreover meta data enabling customers to integrate into existing products – e.g., Search Engines, Press Clipping Agents, etc.; 4. Ping Server Services (weblogs.com)—automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog ; 5. Feeddirect for consumers and publishers—a widget product enabling access to and distribution of customized news and information. |
1 comment May 13, 2009
The rise of social media
Following Domino’s recent YouTube disaster (and Amazon`s trouble just days before), social media and the need for brands to monitor it truly hit the headlines. To illustrate that literally, here’s a graph of the phrase ’social media’ as it appeared in the past year across ~30,000 mainstream news sites (excluding press releases).
In April ’08 there were around 400 mentions a week, now it’s over 3000. 
(Does this represent a typical or required growth rate and volume for a new concept to turn mainstream?)
A search for “monitor social media” and “social media monitoring” as a proxy for tracking the concept returned the following chart. Not as dramatic but the trend is repeated.
Unsurprisingly, social media’s poster darling Twitter steals the chart show, and went from from around 300 mentions a week a year ago, to almost 16,000 last week, a 50-fold increase.
Graphs are from Newsdesk’s analytics tool.
4 comments April 23, 2009
