Archive for June, 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/
1 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,
1 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!
3 comments June 2, 2009
