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The Internet is all abuzz at the moment as the battle lines between media monitoring group Meltwater and Rupert Murdoch become clearer, with the media mogul’s UK flagship the Times Online now blocking Meltwater from indexing Times Online content.
Blog site paidContent:UK broke the story and, as ever, does a thorough write-up on the facts. They report how the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), owned by the major UK publishers, recently introduced a licensing system allowing online access to member sites to those companies signing up for the online use license.
With Meltwater being the only non-NLA compliant agency, and now this action from Murdoch’s News International, it is shaping up to be an interesting year for copyright as the publishing industry adapts to the changes in the online marketplace.
March 18, 2010
Exciting news from the team here at Moreover, we’ve released our first iPhone app into the wild and are eager to hear what you think of it!
The app allows users to keep up-to-date with breaking sport headlines from global news sources across 25 different sport news feeds including football (soccer and American), baseball, basketball, Formula 1, golf, tennis and many more. You can also browse through the top sports stories of the day or search the news for the latest views and scores on your favourite team or athlete.
Behind the scenes the app is constantly checking the Web’s news sites for breaking headlines and links back to them whenever you click a headline. The Moreover Sport News app covers sport-specific and local news sites, along with the familiar sites such as the BBC and ESPN we all know, so whatever your sport we’ve got it covered.
Other features include a “more stories like this” functionality, email this article and post to Facebook.
Download the app here and be sure to leave us any feedback you have in the comments section below!
January 14, 2010
Just in time for Christmas we have unwrapped a few goodies in Newsdesk that we hope will deliver a little bit of festive cheer!
In a final Newsdesk update for 2009 we are adding a splash of colour to things by including news images alongside headlines, where available, and displaying source favicons next to source names in both news and social media search results.
Newsdesk source and favicon images.
Also in this update is the added functionality to now search over news sources from individual US States, complimenting the existing UK Counties search filter. So should the focus of your query only be based around New England sources then this update allows you to quickly and easily isolate those news sites relevant to you.
As mentioned in our previous post the social media content and coverage is continuing to grow, so alongside the news content Newsdesk provides a complete media monitoring package. Should you have any questions or feedback on these changes please let us know!
December 18, 2009
As we approach the end of the year we’d like to announce a number of enhancements to both our News and UGC Metabase products.
Over the past few months we have been particularly busy growing our coverage of news and social media sources, with much more still to come in the New Year. The UGC Metabase now serves around 750k posts a day from our spam-free White List of social media sites. This represents a 200% increase in volume from earlier in the year, and coverage has now jumped to 435k feeds watched with a further increase due by year-end. Coverage has particularly been boosted over platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia to deliver a rich and diverse range of social media sources now being watched, along with other microblogging platforms, consumer reviews, forums, Q&A sites and more. We have also increased the number of social media feeds with geotagging, so users can now easily list and organise sources by nationality and region.
On the News Metabase side of things we now index over half a million news articles a day from 32k sources, a twenty percent increase in recent months. Other improvements to the news side include enhancing the way we identify and tag article authors and recently growing the number of news categories available to 800. The full complement of news feeds can be seen here : http://w.moreover.com/public/free-rss/prebuilt-feeds.html
We’d love to hear any queries or reactions to these changes, so feel free to drop us a line below!
December 18, 2009
We’re hiring again… so now is your chance to jump into the fast moving world of business intelligence by becoming part of the team here at Moreover.
We’re currently looking for an experienced Senior Java Developer and a not-quite-so experienced Java Developer to work from our company headquarters based in Reston, Va.
In Dayton, Oh we are on the lookout for a Client Services Representative, Senior Network Engineer, HTML Programmer and, similarly to Reston, Java Developers of varying experience.
In sunny London a new Client Services Representative, Senior Java Developer and a more junior Java Developer are all on our radar.
If you like the sound of any of these positions and think you have “the right stuff” to fit in at Moreover then we’d love to hear from you. For the US positions contact the Moreover Technologies Recruiting Department on 800-779-5619 or send an email to apply@testfirsthiring.com to learn more. If you’d like details on the UK roles please call 0207 0173787 or email kdraycott AT moreover.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
August 14, 2009
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.
July 9, 2009
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!
June 19, 2009
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?)
June 4, 2009
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!
May 27, 2009
In follow-up to the previous post, we thought it might be interesting to see what blog platforms are most used by the Web’s blogging elite. So we took the top 2500 blogs from the UGC Metabase and checked their <generator> tag, which (when present) tells you what blog software the author’s using. The results are compiled in the chart below.
A few notes regarding the data:
- The top 2500 blogs is based on the number of inbound links found in posts from other blogs over a 6 month rolling period, across a total index of ~250,000 blogs. This ranking feature is still quite fresh and a little coarse, but nonetheless we think it should provide for a valid aggregate view.
- There’s a noticeable lack of LiveJournal blogs in the top 2500, in fact we only counted 1. We’ll re-run this list in time and see if more start to come through. That said, seems none of Technorati’s top 100 blogs are published through LiveJournal so perhaps it’s just not a platform of choice amongst top bloggers.
- WordPress dominates, followed by Blogger, then TypePad/Movable Type.
- There’s no shortage of blog platforms out there, in total we counted 45.
- There are 509 feeds where we did not detect a <generator> tag. At the moment we haven’t looked into this further, if we gain any insight down the line we’ll update accordingly.
Some of the platforms included under ‘Other’: Community Server (18), FeedCreator (8), Nucleus CMS (7), Over Blog (6), Canal Blog (5), Subtext (3), Expression Engine (3), FeedForAll (3), Newtelligence (3), Subtext (3), vBulletin (3), Tumblr (3), Dotclear (2), GeekLog (2), Joomla (2), PidoLand (2), Reinvented Software (2), Serendipity (2), SkunkWeb (2), Text Pattern (2), WebMonkey (2), Yahoo Pipes (2), b2evolution (1), Blog Spirit (1), Blogware (1), Lemonz Dream (1), Liberated Syndication (1), LiveJournal (1), Microsoft Spaces (1). Radio Userland (1), Podomatic (1), Wordzilla (1), plus a few more.
Though we wont be working from a static dataset, it might be interesting to re-visit this in some months time and see if any trends are apparent – never know, maybe one of the smaller platforms will come through with some killer feature and eclipse them all! … (no, we don’t know what that would be either).
March 24, 2009
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