This first-of-its-kind agreement introduces a new model for aggregated use of news content published on the web, ensuring reliable, rights-cleared news content for customers, while licensing the intellectual property rights of hundreds of publishers. In addition, the NewsRight partnership opens the door to new, previously unavailable media metrics directly from publishers.

We are genuinely excited about the NewsRight deal – it represents a significant step forward in aligning the interests of publishers and the users of the content, as the publishing industry continues to evolve.

We’ll be sharing more details in the weeks ahead.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to your account manager who will be happy to assist you or if you are not a client contact salesinfo@moreover.com for more details.

You can read the press release here:  NewsRight & Moreover Technologies Announce Content and Data Analytics Licensing Agreement

Let us know what YOU think about this groundbreaking agreement!

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Thomson Reuters pushes trading into social media
Financial Times – Philip Stafford – Mar 7 at 5:08 GMT

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Companies are drowning in data.  Yet, insightful information is key to smarter decision-making and competitive edge.  Finding the “sweet spot” between information overload and relevant intel is one of the hottest topics in today’s data-driven decision-making realm.

Global media aggregation and monitoring company Moreover Technologies is moving aggressively to meet data-driven market needs—including use of advanced semantic tagging.  Recently, Moreover inked a multi-year contract that extends use of Thomson Reuters’ OpenCalais semantic tagging processes to social media.  ”Companies are demanding fast, reliable content results, especially elusive posts that are only five or six words long.  They don’t have the time or patience to sift through tons of irrelevant content in hopes of finding something meaningful,” says Paul Farrell, Moreover Technologies President.  ”OpenCalais links content with entities such as people, places, and organizations, facts such as people working for specified companies, and events like appointments to a new position.”

Highlights included:

• Divine homemade cookies from resident blogger Zak.
• Ginger Snap baskets with homemade custard and chocolate eggs from Michelle. (special award for the most work)
• Giant Scotch Eggs from Mark.
• Cakes that were on special offer at M&S from Si
• Spicy Egg Biriyani from Brian.
• Lovely moist Ginger cake from Lee (well his wife).
• Chocolate, walnut & sour cherry brownies from Fareita.
• Chocolate eggs from Dot

At the beginning there were a few dubious looks at the spread before us.

We then got in to the spirit of things tucking in and growing Ginger Snap tashes.

We tasted everything on offer and marked all dishes out of 10.

Tallying up the results there were a few cheeky comments!

Scotch eggs were very sausagey?!

The Winner Takes it All:

Mark and his Scotch Eggs!

With thanks to

• All of those who participated well done!
• Stapleford Hall Farm for the freshest tastiest eggs.
• Mr Boardman for the Photography
• Katie for organising and displaying the spread of food
• Moreover UK Staff for eating everything.

Transparency and track record are extremely important criteria for selecting and staying with a social media monitoring and aggregation company. Anyone can make any claims about anything at any time, but how do they document them?

It’s a very slippery slope, as social media monitoring aggregator’s work 24/7 to find and promote their latest competitive edge. As everyone knows, the more you’re scrambling for the top spot, the greater the likelihood of exaggerated or downright false claims.

That said, there are three “Qs” that will help define the best social media monitoring solution  partner for you. They are: Quantity, Quality, Questioning.

Quantity & Quality

This is much trickier than it seems at first glance. For example, Moreover Technologies, just achieved a milestone of actively monitoring 2.5 million-plus independent social media feeds. That’s more than triple the 750,000 active feeds just a year ago, and positions Moreover Technologies as a strong force in the social media monitoring space.

But quantity without quality means nothing. You can have the highest quantity in the world, but if a substantial portion of the feeds are spam, dead blogs and adult blogs, you’re working at cross-purposes. It makes it that much harder to find real-time relevant information.

So, while we are adding to the total feed base, we’re also deleting material that doesn’t meet our spam-free White List standards. In fact, we just eliminated 125,000 feeds that had not posted in the last six months or were not posting original content.

Questioning.

Don’t take our claims or anyone else’s at face value. This is where transparency and track record become very important. A legitimate claim should be factually provable via some type of transparent data. For example, we can document our total number of feeds, and show you the ones that we’ve taken off the White List.

Track record brings historical performance data into view. If a company has a long history of providing accurate and verifiable information, it enhances the likelihood of a continuing tradition. On the other hand, if a company hasn’t been around long enough to have amassed a substantial track record, or has been called out for providing inflated data, it’s more likely to continue this process. After all, habits—both good and bad—are hard to break.

By seeking to understand quantity and quality of the social media monitoring data provided, then asking lots of questions to verify legitimacy and long-term consistency, you will get a social media monitoring solution that will perform today, tomorrow, and long beyond.

In the States both McClatchy and Media General have teamed up with Groupon to offer localised daily deals, the NYT have their own TimesLimited and now Hearst have a white label agreement with Analog Analytics to offer similar local deals.

European publishers aren’t too far behind as the Telegraph, DMGT, Archant, and Axel Springer are all moving into the group buying space, with rival publishers surely not too far behind.

Of course, as the home of content aggregation, the team here at Moreover are busy working away on a “one stop shop” for all the deals in your area, so if you’re interested in receiving one of our free daily alerts for all the deals where you live then get in touch below!

Coverage: 2.2 million+ sources returning 2.2 million  news and social media results daily through a unified portal; ability to find non-feed-based content (e.g., academic and government sites, research group reports, company websites) by going out and collecting influential sources not on the RSS radar; delves into 800+ searchable industry categories spanning 100+ countries and 50+ languages.

Relevance: Sophisticated, cutting-edge filtering and refinement tools and an editorial review team weed out irrelevant information and spam quickly; intuitive, user-friendly search tools enable users to pinpoint their most relevant news and social media content rapidly; industry-leading “feed of feeds” using the Web’s original ping server ensures returning real-time relevant results.

Speed: Not only does the powerful weblogs.com ping server reliably gather results fast, easy-to-use tools are in place to share information rapidly via customized newsletter, email alerts, and feed sharing tools; Fortune 500 clients and the world’s leading media monitoring agencies depend on Moreover to be fast, fresh, and focused.

Analytics/Analysis: An easily learned and operated dashboard provides capability to access massive global content and filter it down to the “best of the best” results–making research and development efforts less laborious, and much more accurate and relevant; offers on-the-fly analysis (e.g., mentions of companies, people, products, events and stock tickers); enables creation and sharing of charts to simplify presentation of R&D information.

Account Service: Help is available via both phone and email; experienced professionals can help with everything from troubleshooting to training, adding new sources to assessing best ways to maximize client value; besides automated filtering and scrubbing, real people provide editorial review—enhancing both quality and quantity of content.

Adaptability: An entire suite of media monitoring and market & competitive intelligence solutions offers maximum choice and flexibility in how information is gathered, refined and shared; a comprehensive client service team stands ready to provide further customization; R&D to enhance and expand services based on client feedback is ongoing and omnipresent.

Moreover developed the new Search functionality at the request of our clients, to expand on the search options we provide across our Source Lists.  This option enables our clients to submit Source Lists to determine whether Moreover is already harvesting specific sites in the News Metabase and/or Social Media Metabase.

The tool provides either exact or partial matches.  Where a link is not matched precisely, but the domain is part of our index, this will appear as a partial result.

All results returned provide the relevant source information and metadata as found in the other tabs within the Metabase Portal by clicking the grey button next to each result.  The Feed Class column defines whether the matched entry is part of the News Metabase or Social Media Metabase.

We hope this additional functionality will really show off our sources lists and let us know should you have any questions or feedback!

• Added US State and UK County options in the source location filter
• Option to exclude regions/countries/states in the source location filter
• Option to exclude subscription and registration sources from a feed
• A new template search option that is automatically applied to new searches so as a user you don’t have to configure the same preferred settings each time
• New facets for Source Category, Source Section, and Publisher
• New HTML feed export option and simplified the UI a little for Feed Export
• Made the ‘expand search text area’ feature a little more subtle and neater

So far the feedback from customers and our peers has been overwhelming, we appreciate all your comments and help us to make Newsdesk the fantastic product it is!  Any questions or should you like a free trial just drop us a note below.

Reston, VA (PRWEB) February 1, 2011

Moreover Technologies’ Newsdesk 4 discovery, refinement and sharing service became the first recipient of a new SuperCategory Award for “Best Information Solution” at the CODiE Awards recognizing excellence in the business software, digital content and education technology industries. Moreover also won “Best Content Aggregation Solution” honors.

Newsdesk 4 gives users unified portal access to millions of daily news articles and social media posts, and ability to refine results immediately using comprehensive cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools. Easy-to-use sharing tools include automated newsletters, email alerts, and editorial control of feeds shared.

The CODiE Awards highlight the annual Information Industry Summit presented by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), principal trade association for the software and digital content industry.

“Now in its 26th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries,” noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. “In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers.”

Commenting on winning two awards in its first-ever CODiE competition, Moreover Technologies’ President Paul J. Farrell said, “It’s a great honor. We are thrilled. We had so much competition and great products we were competing against. This is an incredible achievement for our people. Our total gratitude goes out to the association and all they do in the industry.”

The CODiE accolades reinforce a favorable independent review of Newsdesk 4 conducted by FreePint Research last fall. Partnerships involving Newsdesk 4 also are emerging. Moreover and Precise, the UK’s leading media intelligence provider, are working together to offer the UK a unique news and social media intelligence capability called Precise Profile, powered by the Newsdesk 4 engine.

About:

Moreover Technologies is a trusted aggregator of global news and social media. Through US and UK offices, the firm offers corporate customers worldwide unified portal access to 2.2 million news articles and social media posts from 1.8 million editorially vetted sources. http://www.moreover.com

SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 500 leading software and information companies. http://www.siia.net