Archive for July, 2009
AOL online content drive
Seems we can’t get enough of TechCrunch this week at Moreover, as another TC post has caught our eye.
http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?l3294261493u&f=2094
With the speculation surrounding print media continuing, it seems AOL is ready to take pity on out of work journalists and position themselves as a powerful new media player in the process. Having more than doubled the number of journalists at the company in the past year, with more to come, AOL’s content expansion will be interesting to watch.
Led by Engadget, another seven AOL blogs currently make the Moreover 100, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see that number increase as AOL divorces itself from Time Warner and sets off in this new direction.
Add comment July 31, 2009
What next for RSS?
TechCrunch have sparked a thought-provoking debate on what the future holds for RSS and where it stands in an increasingly real-time world. It’s interesting to note the example of Twitter and the growing influence it is having, not only on other social media sites, but also on publishing platforms and the future of content delivery.
We at Moreover were involved in the initial development of RSS 1.0, way back in 2000, and naturally will be keeping a close eye on how the technology evolves as RSS approaches its tenth birthday.
Read the full TechCrunch post here, and then remember to check our news content feed on RSS for all the latest information and discussion on the topic.
Add comment July 28, 2009
A bit more on Linked Data
We posted recently about Tim Berners-Lee and Linked Data, the notion of using the Web to join and share unconnected pieces of information.
ReadWriteWeb have followed up their original article by interviewing with the man himself, this time delving more into the relationship Linked Data has with the Semantic Web and the role governments can play in interconnecting their data.
Read more on RWW here: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?l3220263745u&f=2094
1 comment July 17, 2009
Moreover’s free RSS feeds now includes blogs
We’ve just added blogs to the free Moreover RSS feeds pages. The blog search runs over the latest posts from around 250,000 blogs, i.e. those on the UGC Metabase White List. You can use the sliders to increase the relevancy and quality of the search results, for example slide the sources filter to the right and you’ll just get results from top blogs (using Moreover’s feedRank).
You can also select one of the prebuilt feed categories and search within that – by sticking to a predefined universe of content you can get even more specific with your results. The full list of the new blog feeds is also on the prebuilt feeds page, just click the green RSS icons,
We hope you like these latest additions! Let us know if you have any comments, we love to hear from you, or if you’ve got a blog you want us to include in the search just drop us a line with the address.
1 comment July 15, 2009
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
