Moreover Sport News app moves into extra-time
We’ve still got all the sport feeds you’re familiar with but now added the ability to create your own saved searches and customised feeds. So search for your favourite team or niche sport over our categories to get breaking news and latest scores from global sport news sources.
We’ve also added localised menus for US, UK, Global, and Event (think the Ryder Cup, Tour de France etc) focused sport, so whatever your interest we’ve got it covered. Download the app from iTunes here, and as before tell us your thoughts so we can score another app success!
Add comment July 30, 2010
Social shifts
Here is a nifty little graphic (click-through to see it in all its glory) from the BBC/Nielsen illustrating the ever-changing landscape of various social media platforms across the globe.
The rise and rise of Facebook seems to be the big story here, with the social network now being home to over half a billion active users, including almost half of the UK population! Obviously the recent privacy concerns and quit campaigns haven’t hurt the site particularly (I wonder if the forthcoming movie will..) but how long do you think Facebook can stay as the planet’s favourite social network?
Add comment July 23, 2010
NYT on Techmeme
Techmeme could become a model for other industries as a useful way to harness the increasingly unwieldy Web and arm readers who are preparing for business meetings or cocktail parties. Techmeme, a start-up company based in San Francisco, also publishes aggregation sites for politics, celebrity gossip and baseball, and hopes to expand to topics like business or energy.
Industry-specific aggregators like Techmeme provide focused, grouped news stories which can be essential for readers requiring a succinct digest of the main topics of the day. With aggregators often getting a bad press, it is refreshing to see the benefits they offer being discussed and encouraged not only for readers but for publishers too.
Add comment July 21, 2010
Moreover helps drive UK newspaper traffic
Great article here from paidContent:UK analysing where UK newspaper websites get their traffic from, and coming in at number five, in terms of driving traffic, is the BBC with its Moreover-powered Newstracker service.
UK Newspaper Website Visitors
The figures look even more favourable for Moreover/the Beeb when you look exclusively at the UK numbers, putting search engines aside the BBC becomes the number one referring site for the British press driving over 1.2 million UK clicks in April of this year.
With the BBC determined to continue this trend, becoming a “window on the Web” and see its rate of referring click-throughs double by 2012, this is a great example of how aggregators like Moreover can work with and serve the publishers for a common good.
Add comment June 30, 2010
Moreover’s Million
Hot on the heels of our recent announcement concerning a whopping 390% increase in the number of social media sources we monitor we’re pleased to say ain’t finished there.. This week our social media sources numbered over one million for the first time, grabbing around 1.5m individual posts a day, looking something like this :
We fully intend to keep driving forward not only with our social media sources, but news as well, and ensure we offer the most complete media monitoring solution out there. So thanks to the Team for all their hard work in getting us here and we’re already looking forward to the next million!
Add comment June 11, 2010
Well-organized digital content leads to employee, customer contentment
Organized or Overwhelmed? Almost universally, employees feel frustrated and overwhelmed when they can’t put their hands on needed business intelligence quickly.
Compounding the situation today is the widespread expectation that people will be able to find and share information rapidly, given the rise of digital files and explosion of mobile as well as on-site communication and collaboration options.
In a paper world, hours or even days might have been the accepted standard. Now, it’s often minutes—or even seconds.
A clear message emerges from all this: Information that’s well-organized and easily accessible by all authorized users will drive up employee productivity and customer satisfaction ratings.
Conversely, employees underperforming for any reason, including frustration over lack of organization, are costing companies a lot of time, which translates into money.
World-famous Gallup, the polling company, notes that in an average organization, 40% of employees aren’t performing optimally (based on a ratio of 1.5 engaged for every 1 disengaged employee). In contrast, world-class organizations have an 8:1 ratio, according to Gallup findings.
Other findings show that when someone is interrupted by a distraction, such as trying to find information in a disorganized venue, it takes roughly a half-hour to get back on track.
Conversely, according to a survey from the Global intelligence Alliance (GIA), a global market intelligence firm, “Systematically organized market intelligence operations report time savings of at least 1.5 hours per week per end-user…about 9.5 days a year per end-user.”
That’s a lot of money annually PER employee. This addresses the importance of having an organized, digital way to access and use information. In content aggregation, monitoring and sharing, this leads to several conclusions:
1. Having a single-source provider of all business intelligence—news, social media, and even non-feed articles—helps companies organize and keep track better than when multiple suppliers are involved;
2. Digital trumps paper in so many ways—speed of getting information in and sending it out, mobile access, ability to filter and refine relevant business intelligence from huge numbers of sources, articles and posts…the list goes on and on;
3. User-friendly digital distribution tools play a major role in the well-organized workplace. Ability to capture and re-distribute business intelligence rapidly and reliably saves time, money…and sanity.
Add comment May 21, 2010
Outsell on Moreover’s MetaMonitor
Respected research and advisory firm for the information industry, Outsell, have taken a look at our new content discovery application product MetaMonitor and been impressed with the way MetaMonitor builds upon the existing Moreover framework.
MetaMonitor serves to allow publishers to track and compare their original content across our ever-growing list of 35,000 news sources and 800,000 social media sources. Publishers can match original work to derivative content, identifying who is using what, how they are using it and where, allowing for fair attribution and the engagement of prospective partners.
What so captivated Outsell was Moreover’s ability to take our core offering, the News Metabase, but with additional development time to productize it in a fresh and different manner, adding value with a targeted product extension. Outsell subscribers can read the full article here: https://clients.outsellinc.com/insights/?p=11193 and we look forward to sharing more exciting product news with you all soon!
Add comment May 17, 2010
With ink costing $10,000 a gallon, consider electronic media monitoring
From going green to going broke, the arguments for transitioning from paper to electronic media monitoring are numerous. Many are aware of the high cost of paper-based systems, from the impact on tree-cutting and associated industries (e.g., transportation costs, pollution, and processing) to the hard costs associated with printed documents.
Putting an exclamation point on the financial impact of paper-based solutions, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in a report on its innovative ink-saving measures, estimated that printer ink costs about $10,000 per gallon (Source: ABC News Technology, 3.26.10, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/techbytes-netflix-wii/story?id=10208224). Somebody’s footing the bill for that, likely the end-user.
In a report released January 2008 by the Environmental Paper Network (http://www.environmentalpaper.org/documents/paperefficiencyfactsheet.pdf), the view of hard costs is expanded: “Lower paper volumes benefit your bottom line directly by reducing your purchase costs. They also have indirect cost benefits that can be 10 times the cost of the paper alone. These include reducing the costs of technology like photocopy toner and printer ink, paying for less storage space and filing equipment, slashing postage costs and saving time.”
The report continues, “Paper production causes a wide range of environmental impacts, so by using less of it you can press many environmental buttons at once: you can reduce your pressure on forests, cut energy use and climate change emissions, limit water, air and other pollution and produce less waste…The climate benefits of reducing paper consumption are significant. If, for example, the USA cut its office paper use by roughly 10 percent, or 490,000 metric tons, greenhouse gas emissions would fall by 1.45 million metric tons. This is the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road for a year.”
In an April 22 SmartPlanet.com article, (http://www.smartplanet.com/search/?q=Joe+McKendrick), writer Joe McKendrick states, “E-business may dramatically cut paper waste.” He goes on to say that INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, has identified savings in going the e-commerce route. Among cited statistics: INTTRA claims that freighter providers using its e-commerce network annually save potentially 25,000 trees. The INTTRA platform that handles transactions potentially saves more than 222 million sheets of paper annually. The organization even has a calculator to show savings from paper to electronic commerce: http://www.inttra.com/home/Pages/Go_Green_With_INTTRA.aspx
McKendrick also references a study conducted by Joseph Fuhr and Stephen Pociask in 2007, who looked at the environmental impact of broadband adoption. He notes, “The greatest potential for greenhouse gas reductions, the authors say, appears to be in e-commerce (206 million tons), telecommuting (over a half a billion tons), teleconferencing (200 million tons) and paper reduction (57 million by reductions in newspaper circulation alone). If all of the greenhouse reductions noted in this study were converted into energy saved, Fuhr and Pociask forecast that IT applications could save 555 million barrels of oil by year 10, or roughly 11% of the oil imported into the US today.”
When adding up all the savings benefits of going electronic—from hard costs to environmental conservation—it’s easy to see why cutting paper use and going electronic just makes good sense.
Add comment May 13, 2010
