Factiva Releases Factiva Search Module A pretty simple idea: some html code representing a search box, taking up modest real estate, and easily slotted into a more complex application. Call it a search module. I think we'll do this.#
Blogorama in XML This is an XML file representing the content of Blogorama. I used Syndicate Your Page. An incredibly neat way to turn an html weblog into a structured information feed. No software required, just a little bit of extra code in your page. This was originally an idea of David Galbraith, one of the Moreover co-founders. He's been talking about it for a year, honest. But he didn't write the spec, so someone else will now get the credit.#
Watashiwa What is it with all these stickmen all of a sudden?#
Friday, April 20
CyberAtlas: CEOs Report Using More Online Resources "When asked how they use the Internet, 96 percent of the CEOs said they used e-mail; 94 percent visited online news/info sources; and 87 percent said they visited their own company's Web site. Three-quarters have monitored their competitors' Web sites."#
E-Media Tidbits Steve Outing, Norbert Specker, and others, blogging about online journalism.#
Outsell: "End users are not necessarily where publishers and information product providers want them to be. Outsell's Mary Corcoran presented data from our recently-completed Super I-AIM(tm) study of corporate end users. The data should be sobering for the content industry and for those that deploy fee-based content for their corporations. Fully 79 percent of respondents seek out information on the open Web, versus 31 percent who use electronic sources provided through the corporate Intranet. Moreover, users believe: freely available content from the Internet is better than fee-based content, based on the credibility of the sources; that free content helps them make daily decisions; and that the information is trustworthy. The primary area where fee-based content wins out is in supporting the really mission-critical decisions."#
Hill & Knowlton survey A killer fact for anyone selling Moreover into marketing departments, or spidering discussion boards for clients... "For this reason, business leaders were concerned 73 percent versus 60 percent last year with the mounting dissemination of negative information over the Internet, since it frequently represents the opinions of dissatisfied customers or employees. More than half had strategies in place for managing Net communications."#
[MOREOVER] Marketspace diagram One of those business-school grids showing how Moreover compares to search engines, information management systems, and online information databases. #
AirWave The Wi-Fi internet service provider opens up at Specialty's, across the road from Moreover's office. High-speed wireless internet, with my lunch sandwich. Now why was it again that I need to surf the web while ordering a tuna salad?#
[CULTURE] Startup.com at the San Francisco Film Festival Amazing that Kaleil and the rest of the govWorks team would let a film-maker get so close. At one time, I guess, they thought it would be cool to have a documentary record of their business genius. As usual, vanity trumps sanity. Showing tonight at the Kabuki cinema.#
[TECHNOLOGY] XYZFind - XML Database - Repository, Search and Query for XML XYZFind finally offer a web-based version of their XML search engine. If this does what I think it does, one could run a fielded search over a well-tagged weblog. That would be better than Atomz, which provides hosted search over the web, but does not cater for structured data.#
