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Last week’s BBC Open Day saw the Beeb reaffirm its commitment to the link economy and, in the process, keep driving traffic to many of the publicly funded corporation’s fiercest critics. The clickthrough numbers look pretty impressive, rising from 10 million per week in February to 12 million today – in part powered by the BBC’s partnership with Moreover, and these stats should only increase as Auntie pushes more outbound linking.
Also on the agenda was the BBC’s plans to refresh its BBC News website ahead of an expected UK General Election next spring, this “spring clean” looking to improve layout and navigation rather than introducing any new editorial content. The BBC Sport website can also expect a similar makeover as the corporation readies itself for next year’s World Cup and intends to maximise the newly acquired Football League online rights.
Read more or watch videos from the event on the BBC Internet Blog: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x3346310850u&f=2179
August 20, 2009
Congratulations to Ellen Dean who, after completing our Weblogs.com survey, is now the proud owner of a shiny new iPod Touch.
Ellen is an author from North Yorkshire in the UK, who is currently working on the follow-up to her 2006 novel Beautiful Strangers. To catch up on the latest from Ellen be sure to check her blog, which can be found here : http://www.ellendean.blogspot.com/
August 18, 2009
As football fans across the UK, and the world, get ready for the start of the new Premier league season we would like to remind you of the best place to check all the latest news and transfer gossip from your team.
Subscribe to Moreover’s free RSS news feeds to read up on all the action, from Michael Owen’s first United injury goal to who tops the table come May. If you’ve any thoughts on the feeds or don’t see your team (sorry, no Football League teams just yet) then drop us a comment below.
August 14, 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
Chris Ahearn, Media President at Thomson Reuters, has spoken up in favour of the “link economy”. You may have noticed the recent ripple within the blogosphere over the issues surrounding linking and the World Wide Web, so it is certainly refreshing to hear a major publisher speak up with an understanding of how linking can be beneficial to all the parties involved.
So with that, I’ll direct to the original piece by Chris here, and recommend you follow his further musings on the matter via Twitter @cjahearn (not forgetting if you want the very latest from us at Moreover be sure to follow @moreovertech).
August 10, 2009
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/
June 29, 2009
Following Domino’s recent YouTube disaster (and Amazon`s trouble just days before), social media and the need for brands to monitor it truly hit the headlines. To illustrate that literally, here’s a graph of the phrase ‘social media’ as it appeared in the past year across ~30,000 mainstream news sites (excluding press releases).
In April ’08 there were around 400 mentions a week, now it’s over 3000. 
(Does this represent a typical or required growth rate and volume for a new concept to turn mainstream?)
A search for “monitor social media” and “social media monitoring” as a proxy for tracking the concept returned the following chart. Not as dramatic but the trend is repeated.
Unsurprisingly, social media’s poster darling Twitter steals the chart show, and went from from around 300 mentions a week a year ago, to almost 16,000 last week, a 50-fold increase.
Graphs are from Newsdesk’s analytics tool.
April 23, 2009
We’re pleased to announce and share with you the Moreover top 100 blogs, lifted from the UGC Metabase.
Blogs are ranked by number of inbound links from other blogs in the Moreover White List, an index of ~250,000 active blogs. We’ll be updating our top 100 in time as we grow the White List and refine the ranking calculations.
Where known the blog platform is given, with WordPress re-affirming its popularity, accounting for no less than 39 blogs (see Pingdom’s analysis of Technorati’s top 100 for comparison). The top two spots meanwhile go to CNET.
Moreover – Top 100 blogs
1 CNET News Daily Podcast n/a
2 The Web Services Report n/a
3 I4U News PHP-Nuke
4 Gizmodo n/a
5 Engadget Blogsmith
6 Tim Anderson’s ITWriting WordPress
7 TechNet Blogs Community Server
8 Digital Trends n/a
9 Kotaku n/a
10 Neowin.net / Main n/a
11 Search Engine Land WordPress
12 PhysOrg.com n/a
13 CrunchGear WordPress
14 TechCrunch WordPress
15 eWeek – RSS Feeds n/a
16 Cult of Mac WordPress
17 Gadgetell n/a
18 The Open Road n/a
19 Ars Technica – Infinite Loop Movable Type
20 Mashable WordPress
21 VentureBeat WordPress
22 Ars Technica Movable Type
23 TechAddress WordPress
24 MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors n/a
25 Startup Meme WordPress
26 The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Blogsmith
27 Joystiq [Xbox] Blogsmith
28 DailyTech News Feed n/a
29 Gawker: Valleywag n/a
30 digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular n/a
31 Gawker n/a
32 Joystiq Blogsmith
33 Macworld n/a
34 TechSpot n/a
35 Boy Genius Report WordPress
36 The Tech Report: News n/a
37 TG Daily – All News FeedCreator
38 Warp2Search.net Other
39 GigaOM WordPress
40 BloggingStocks Blogsmith
41 Techworld.com News n/a
42 DSLreports – front page n/a
43 Podcasting News WordPress
44 Today @ PC World n/a
45 The Microsoft Blog n/a
46 Apple 2.0 WordPress
47 NewTeeVee WordPress
48 TechNewsWorld n/a
49 GottaBeMobile.com Podcast Liberated Syndication
50 Buzz Out Loud n/a
51 mediabistro.com: TVNewser Movable Type
52 MarketWatch.com – Top Stories n/a
53 MarketingVOX – The Voice of Online Marketing n/a
54 Engadget HD Blogsmith
55 InfoWorld News Feed n/a
56 iLounge Expression Engine
57 Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim WordPress
58 MobileCrunch WordPress
59 Bits WordPress
60 Search Engine Journal WordPress
61 Ask Dave Taylor! n/a
62 Web User: Internet & Tech News n/a
63 Download Squad Blogsmith
64 SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Other
65 TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home WordPress
66 Gadgettes n/a
67 Profy WordPress
68 F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog n/a
69 Laughing Squid WordPress
70 Weblogs SL Other
71 Between the Lines WordPress
72 Breaking News: CBSNews.com n/a
73 MacInTouch n/a
74 Laptoping.com WordPress
75 The J-Walk Blog n/a
76 Pruned Blogger
77 CyberNet WordPress
78 CenterNetworks - n/a
79 Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim WordPress
80 gHacks technology news WordPress
81 Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise Community Server
82 TechCrunch WordPress
83 Lost Remote WordPress
84 Webomatica – Technology and Entertainment Digest WordPress
85 Statesman – Latest Business Stories Headlines Other
86 Liberal Democrat Voice WordPress
87 The Apple Core WordPress
88 The Mac Observer n/a
89 TV Squad Blogsmith
90 mathewingram.com/work WordPress
91 BoomTown WordPress
92 dailywireless.org WordPress
93 SitePoint WordPress
94 Bink.nu Community Server
95 GigaOM » FoundRead WordPress
96 ResourceShelf WordPress
97 Google Blogoscoped n/a
98 MediaFile WordPress
99 B R I G H T n/a
100 The Blog Herald WordPress
March 16, 2009
We’re pleased and proud to share a great customer success story with you – we’re pleased because the customer is pleased, and we’re pleased because we can tell you about it. We’ll be even more pleased when we repeat the success at other organisations looking for similar solutions to those of Royal Dutch Shell.
The customer case study is on our website, but it’s printed below in full as well - as you can appreciate this is a pretty good story for us to tell, so please forgive us this slightly vanglorious customer case study post!
Two requirements stood out: the technical capability to deliver and integrate with Shell’s IT environment, plus extensive coverage of international news across the many languages needed by a global corporation. Delivery of service started in the autumn of that year and has progressed in close partnership ever since. In the process Shell has become one of Moreover’s largest customers.
Over time the project has developed and expanded. As part of an intranet re-design, Moreover’s Newsdesk was embedded within the Shell online portal as a key component, providing Shell’s employees with access to real-time news and blogs directly from the intranet – thanks to integration with Microsoft’s ActiveDirectory there are no additional login requirements for users.
In fact, employees on the intranet don’t even realise that they are using an externally provided service. When they click the News tab on the intranet, they go straight through to a Shell-branded version of Newsdesk, where they can search for news, retrieve saved feeds, set up email alerts and read feeds and headlines set up by central office. As part of a custom implementation for Shell, users can also search across internal company content through the portal.
Rossen Roussev, Head of External Intelligence at Shell who has led the project on their side, puts it as follows: “Usage of Moreover’s Newsdesk and its content has been quite phenomenal, with users accessing thousands of articles on a daily basis. The combination of excellent content, easy-to-use interface and full integration with our intranet were key to acceptance with minimal effort required for change management and end-user training.”
The other half of the Moreover-Shell project has been to provide Shell’s marketing and business intelligence teams with a media monitoring service, to help them manage the global tide of online news. For example, Shell uses Moreover to track and respond to news about the company and its subsidiaries, to monitor local operations and political developments, to read up on the industry and other companies and to track developments in technology, science and the environment.
Creating these targeted news channels takes editorial intelligence and expertise. “Having access to so much content at your fingertips requires a careful consideration of the topics and issues we wanted to expose to our readers”, says Rossen. “User’s confidence can be easily lost if you’re tracking a issue critical to Shell and your tailored feed has captured an irrelevant article. Moreover’s Editorial and Customer Services teams have been a major factor in ensuring this was a success and minimising the risk factors of running this in a fully automated manner.”
In the process, Shell was able to target and replace a number of existing media monitoring contracts and consolidate under a single provider. This has produced real, measurable bottom-line impact and has proven the service. Rossen states it clearly: “Utilising Moreover’s Newsdesk, we’ve been able to stop and consolidate a number of contracts with external agencies providing media monitoring for us. $4mln saved and another $1mln avoided in a single year – do I need to say more?!”
Today the work continues. Shell’s business requirements provide a great blueprint for the wider market opportunity for this type of service. Their product feedback has been hugely valuable to the product and engineering teams at Moreover. For instance, new features such as the recently introduced analytics, the upcoming newsletter and the improved email alerts service all incorporate feedback from Shell.
The challenges continue too of course, with intranets developing apace, driven forward by Web 2.0 technologies and expectations. Moreover’s long-term design on enterprise services and its commitment to Shell and its many other global clients create an excellent position from which to take advantage of the ever-evolving opportunities in this sector. These are challenging but also hugely exciting times, and Moreover is looking forward to working with Rossen and his team in the years ahead and to sharing future successes with other great companies and teams to come.
To discuss how Moreover can save your organisation money or to find out more about our products and services, please contact the Moreover Sales department on the following details:
February 10, 2009
We have just released a new Moreover feed rank for blogs and podcasts, available as part of the UGC Metabase. It’s a 1-to-10 blog ranking with Rank 1′s top blogs, Rank 2′s sub-top, etc, down to Rank 10 for less significant blogs. Basis for the ranking is the number of inbound links a blog receives from other blogs.
We’ll be sharing some of the results in the form of ‘top x lists’ shortly - after all who doesn’t like a good list…
February 6, 2009
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