Tag: Moreover Technologies
Moreover takes home two top honors at the prestigious 26th annual CODiE Awards Competition. Newsdesk 4 won its first award for “Best Content Aggregation Solution.” Later, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that Moreover was the winner of a new SuperCategory Award for “Best Information Solution.” Interviewed after receiving the second award, Moreover President Paul Farrell said, “We’re just knocked over, this is an incredible achievement for our people.” More to come.
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January 26, 2011
Moreover Technologies’ CODiE finalist Newsdesk 4 powers the new Precise Profile service
LONDON, Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Precise, the UK’s leading media intelligence provider, and Moreover Technologies, a global leader in media aggregation, today announced a strategic partnership that offers a unique news and social media intelligence capability to the UK market.
Precise Profile, powered by Moreover Technologies’ Newsdesk 4 engine, will provide users with the first single platform access to global online news, social media and micromedia, enabling them to track an unlimited number of topics, to intelligently refine results and efficiently share them.
Newsdesk 4 has been recognized by The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a “Best Content Aggregation Solution” category finalist in its 26th Annual CODiE Awards competition. The winner will be announced Jan. 25 in New York.
Commenting on the service, Keir Fawcus, Managing Director at Precise said: “We are delighted to be able to respond to client demand for immediate awareness of relevant online news, social media and micromedia. It is a significant challenge to rapidly pinpoint accurate and relevant results from millions of daily news articles and social media posts and we believe that Precise Profile’s intuitive, cutting-edge search and filtering tools answer this challenge in a groundbreaking way.”
Paul J Farrell, Moreover Technologies President, said: “This is a perfect example of how companies offering overlapping capabilities can collaborate to complement each other, rapidly creating improved value for end clients. Newsdesk 4 offers a number of significant innovations in news and social media monitoring, refining and sharing, including intuitive, leading-edge faceted search and filtering tools. With its single platform for news and social media, user-friendly filters to rapidly identify relevant results from millions of daily news articles and social media posts, and powerful sharing tools, including automated alerts, newsletters and editorial feeds, Newsdesk 4 will deliver significant new insights and productivity gains to users.”
In this rapidly developing area, the Precise Profile portal delivers an easy to learn and navigate tool for monitoring coverage and produces quality results immediately.
About Precise
Precise is the UK’s leading provider of media intelligence services, providing press, online, broadcast and social media monitoring, media analysis and forward planning services in support of PR and external communications activity. Precise is retained by 5,000 agency, corporate, consumer, financial, charity and government clients including the majority of the top 100 PR agencies and over 75% of the FTSE 100.
www.precise.co.uk
About Moreover Technologies
Founded in 1998, Moreover Technologies is a trusted aggregator of global news and social media. Clients include Royal Dutch Shell, Sony, Adobe, Citigroup, Hill & Knowlton, BBC, Kingfisher, Businessweek, Reuters UK, Siemens and Simon & Schuster. Through US and UK offices, the firm offers corporate customers worldwide direct access to comprehensive, yet targeted, real-time business and consumer information from the Web’s most read and respected sources. Daily, Moreover Technologies offers unified portal access to 2.2 million news articles and social media posts from 1.8 million editorially vetted sources across 100+ countries, 50+ languages and 800+ searchable industry categories.
www.moreover.com
January 20, 2011
After months of hard work getting Newsdesk 4 ready for launch at the tail end of last year, and the subsequent toil of tweaks, upgrades and ever-expanding features we are very pleased to announce that Moreover’s Newsdesk 4 has been nominated for a CODiE award.
We have been nominated in the Best Content Aggregation Solution, which “Recognizes the best product that gathers or collects information or applications from disparate online sources for reuse, resale, or distribution from, a single platform. Products may be developed for the broader market or customized based on user needs.“ We’d love to thank the team at SIIA for considering us for such a prestigious award and for the opportunity to test what we feel is our best product yet.
Winners are announced next week, on January 25, so check back in with us then to see how we did!
January 18, 2011
Everybody here at Moreover would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, we look back on the past twelve months feeling pretty proud of our achievements with Newsdesk 4 and are especially looking forward to further innovation in the next twelve. We will leave you with this piece from Mashable, exploring where the news industry might head next year and we’d love to hear your thoughts on similar or reflections on 2010 in the comments section below!
December 24, 2010
Since the October release of Newsdesk 4 our engineering team have been busy testing, tweaking and generally playing with things under the hood, adding more functionality to make Newsdesk an essential media monitoring tool.
The latest version now offers the ability to chart multiple feeds across all media types:
Charts can be saved and edited from My Content, as well as being exportable in CSV format. Pick from a variety of graph styles, then click and drag your way around the chart to isolate peaks in coverage and discover all the articles on any given day. This capability allows users to compare and spot trends over a wide range of media types, along with the Moreover‘s comprehensive filters and facets.
It is also possible to add charts to your Dashboard, alongside your other important saved feeds:
All in all we are very excited with the way Newsdesk is shaping up, and expect much more to come as we race into 2011 ready to keep pushing ourselves forward! Drop us any comments below or request a free trial here.
December 8, 2010
An independent review of our all-new Newsdesk 4 in FreePint’s November VIP Report reveals that this cutting-edge discovery and sharing service is fulfilling its promise.
In her conclusion, author Penny Crossland summarizes, “Newsdesk4 is a powerful search tool, providing users with links to global and authoritative sources on the web. One of its many strengths lies in the myriad of social media sources it aggregates. Searching is user-friendly and numerous filters result in targeted results – considerably more targeted than any web search engine could produce…The email and newsletter facilities make Newsdesk4 a useful tool for sharing information within corporations.”
Report excerpts confirm Newsdesk 4’s strong performance as a news and social media content search and sharing solution that “appeals to both end-users and experienced business searchers, by using standard search engine facilities and faceted search tools.” Areas addressed include:
Overall functionality and enhancements—
“Newsdesk 4 uses new technology, an improved search engine and incorporates several new features such as increased faceted search capabilities, more filters to refine searches and analytical tools…It is a particularly useful tool for media monitoring, corporate marketing and marketing communications departments and can be embedded into corporate intranets…”
Breadth and depth of social media and news coverage—
“Newsdesk 4’s social media coverage is impressive…news coverage spans numerous industry sectors…According to the vendor around 40,000 online news sources are monitored, however there is an overlap between sources when it comes to sector coverage. Analysed by industry sector, the number of sources is considerably more, reaching around 90,000.”
Global reach and presence—
“Customers are able to search for news from 148 regions, sub-regions or countries…this category also includes major cities… Newsdesk 4’s search facility covers an impressive range of languages.”
Real-time relevancy—
“Newsdesk4’s strength lies in its near real-time access to news.”
User-friendly look and feel—
“The Newsdesk 4 interface has an attractive layout and is easy to navigate. Despite a wealth of sources, categories and search facilities, the portal does not feel overcrowded.”
Robust search tools—
“…a relevancy slider, which scores articles against keywords used in a search, allows users to zoom in on the most relevant stories…I particularly liked the ‘refine’ function on the right hand side of the screen. This bar displays results according to 13 criteria, which can be used to further filter results…Advanced Search options…are all intuitive to use and self-explanatory.”
Flexible sharing options—
“At this point it is possible to clip articles to feeds or drag and drop them into feeds. The email button on the results screen allows customers to forward stories on to colleagues…The email tab on the interface enables users to set up and manage email alerts and to create custom newsletters.”
The complete Report is now available for FREE download on our website.
November 23, 2010
Just a quick update to let everyone know the Moreover iPhone app is still going strong, and we’ve just updated the ‘Sport Events’ feeds set with some forthcoming spectacles of sport. Gone are the Ryder Cup and Commonwealth Games, and as we head into winter we’ve replaced them with two events sure to be dominating the back pages over coming months.. The Ashes news, as England seek to retain urn won in 2009, and the road to the Cowboys Stadium for Super Bowl XLV will be covered by NFL Playoffs news.
Download the app here and let us know if there are any events you think we should be covering in the app!
October 26, 2010
Gives users unified portal access to millions of news and social media results daily, cutting-edge faceted search and filtering tools.
Media aggregator Moreover Technologies announces the release of its all-new Newsdesk 4 real-time news and social media discovery, refinement and sharing service. 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.
“Users can capture combined news and social media coverage all in one place, then rapidly slice and dice searches in ways that will pinpoint only what they need, and discard the rest,” emphasizes Paul J. Farrell, Moreover Technologies President.
Product Manager Brian Mackie adds, “We’ve focused on the top concerns voiced by clients – ability to easily and rapidly find, process and share information. This SaaS application enables users to drill down fast to the best and most relevant search results, decide if or how to modify them, then share them easily while they’re still fresh and focused on the burning issues of the day.”
Newsdesk 4 previewers have cited ease of use of the Newsdesk 4 dashboard tools, intuitive search capabilities, and fast finding of needed content. Among discussion forum comments are: “…design is real well done,” “…very elegant application,” “…from what I’m seeing, plug and play for us,” and “…you guys are going to do great with this product…It’s a home run.”
Newsdesk 4 meets five major media aggregation aims:
- Provides multiple ways to find relevant content – including faceted search; category filters; source filters; relevance and rank filters, on the fly (e.g., mentions of companies, people, products, events and stock ticker), and pre-canned searches with cross-referencing to enable targeting relevant information without frustrating trial-and-error.
- Unifies the search for both real-time news and social media through a single conduit.
- Captures the depth and breadth of the best read, most highly regarded coverage demanded by the world’s largest companies (2.5 million results daily from more than 1.7 million-plus sources spanning 800 searchable industry categories, 100-plus countries and 50-plus languages).
- Returns clean, spam-free results that have been editorially vetted.
- Offers easy-to-use sharing tools that empower rapid and reliable distribution, including automated newsletters, email alerts and ability to maintain editorial control of feeds shared.
Mackie elaborates, “Search options abound. You can look for headlines, languages, locations, individual sources, and result digests summarized by various criteria which can be further refined. You can conduct very user-friendly Boolean searches. While sophisticated and intuitive, Newsdesk 4 also is simple and straightforward, appropriate for everyone from power users to novices.”
Newsdesk 4′s intelligence-gathering capabilities enhance strategic, tactical and operational decision-making that scales for small and enterprise businesses alike, according to Rossen Roussev, Moreover Technologies’ Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Business Solutions.
Roussev, former External Intelligence Chief at Royal Dutch Shell, attests that Newsdesk saved his company $5 million in one year, due substantially to consolidating a variety of media monitoring vendor contracts under Moreover Technologies.
He identifies a variety of intelligence-related uses, including ability to: create an early-warning system for threats, identify emerging opportunities, compare performance and sentiments across regions, countries and competitors, refine messaging to help achieve business and communications objectives, and share all pertinent information with the right people through user-friendly distribution channels.
“Newsdesk 4 gives you a myriad of ways to find information you weren’t even looking for – such as negative information that can damage reputation, but has remained off the radar,” Mackie points out.
For more information, contact Brian Mackie, bmackie(at)moreover(dot)com.
October 20, 2010
Great article here from paidContent:UK analysing where UK newspaper websites get their traffic from, and coming in at number five, in terms of driving traffic, is the BBC with its Moreover-powered Newstracker service.
UK Newspaper Website Visitors
The figures look even more favourable for Moreover/the Beeb when you look exclusively at the UK numbers, putting search engines aside the BBC becomes the number one referring site for the British press driving over 1.2 million UK clicks in April of this year.
With the BBC determined to continue this trend, becoming a “window on the Web” and see its rate of referring click-throughs double by 2012, this is a great example of how aggregators like Moreover can work with and serve the publishers for a common good.
June 30, 2010
THOMSON REUTERS OPENCALAIS SEES COMMERCIAL ADOPTION FOR MEDIA MONITORING, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, READER ENGAGEMENT, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MORE
Pioneering Partners Include Moreover Technologies, Morris Communications,
Media General, Magus Ltd. and Prefix Technologies
SemTech 2010 – San Francisco, Calif. – June 23, 2010 – Thomson Reuters today cited five innovative companies that are pioneering the large-scale and commercial use of its OpenCalais service to enrich and optimize digital content.
They include Moreover Technologies, a world-leading media aggregation and monitoring provider; Morris Communications and Media General, two top-tier regional publishers; Magus Ltd., the British pioneer of enterprise website governance, and Prefix, South Africa’s leading Content Management System (CMS).
“Two and a half years in, we are extremely pleased to be part of leading publishing platforms and media monitoring solutions around the world,” said Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead, Thomson Reuters. “We’re processing five million documents per day and storing 90 billion triples, reflecting a large and growing percentage of the English language news articles, blog posts and social media status updates posted on the Web every day.”
Joining CBS Interactive / CNET, Huffington Post, The New Republic, The Nation and more than 50 other publishers, entrepreneurs and service providers using OpenCalais are:
Moreover Technologies One of the original news aggregators on the Web, Moreover provides companies with “news and views” in a comprehensive solution for business intelligence, mainstream media and social media monitoring. It aggregates, refines and delivers millions of daily articles, blog posts and social media updates from more than a million editorially vetted sources spanning 800 searchable industries in 100-plus countries, and 50-plus languages.
Moreover Technologies uses OpenCalais to categorize and tag news and blog content as well as social media status updates to provide superior mainstream and social media monitoring services to clients of all kinds.
”Equally important to quantity of information is quality,” said Paul Farrell, President of Moreover Technologies. “It’s imperative to be able to retrieve rapidly the most relevant and pinpointed results possible from vast repositories of business intelligence. Our partnership with OpenCalais substantially enhances our ability to make sure clients get the right results at the right time.”
Morris Communications A leading southeastern media company, Morris Communications has newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising, radio, book publishing and online properties. Its digital arm, Morris DigitalWorks, turned to OpenCalais while digitizing the archives of its 13 daily newspapers, including the Augusta Chronicle; the Florida Times-Union; the Savannah Morning News; the noted local Journalism experiment Bluffton Today and more.
“We strive to be unrivaled in the delivery of local news and information to our readership in every possible medium. So it is essential to be able to repurpose our content for any number of uses – including digital distribution on the Web, mobile, etc.,” said Michael Romaner, President, Morris DigitalWorks. “OpenCalais has helped us achieve that mission in two ways. By improving the relevancy of our content for Web searches, we have increased both our overall page-views from search engines, and our retention of those readers once they arrive. We look forward to expanding on this successful alliance.”
Media General A publicly-owned communications company, Media General has interests in more than 35 newspapers, 15 television stations and a wide array of interactive media properties. Media General turned to OpenCalais when porting 60 of its content-rich sites – including The Tampa Tribune; the Winston-Salem Journal; and the Richmond Times-Dispatch – to a new CMS for superior Search Engine Optimization (SEO), improved content navigation and greater utilization of archived articles.
Magus Ltd Magus is the pioneering UK company behind ActiveStandards™: the market-leading SaaS platform for enterprise website governance used by Unilever, Shell, Philips, ING and more. ActiveStandards takes web content governance to a new level by enabling companies to coordinate the policies, processes and people that underpin their web presence within a single integrated framework, and monitor and manage compliance.
Magus uses OpenCalais to power ActiveStandards’ “Content Insight Reports” – a suite of powerful semantic reports which extend the reach of online governance by providing visibility and control over unstructured content.
“Semantic Web technologies are revolutionizing the way people find and use information online,” said Simon Lande, CEO, Magus Ltd. “Our alliance with OpenCalais enables us to leverage this technology to bring about a step-change in the way that companies monitor and manage their online content. We see it as a revolution in content governance.”
Prefix Technologies Provider of South Africa’s most popular off- and online CMS, Prefix is a trusted Web-applications development company. Prefix solutions enable magazine, newspaper and online publishers to collect, store, share and monetize content in new ways that increase competitive advantage while improving efficiency and reducing costs.
Prefix uses OpenCalais as a processing layer for Preditor’s Semantic Tagging Engine. With a powerful tagging rules toolkit on a per-magazine basis, Preditor customers with multiple magazines on Preditor are able to draw content out of their archives and build smart links across a the network for their readers. In one case study, they’ve scanned through and linked over 10 years of archives.
”We’ve seen significant increases in archive monetization for our customers with our OpenCalais implementation. Equally, it’s been incredible to explore new ideas in both the print and digital worlds to create content packages through semantic discovery,” said Josh Adler, CEO, Prefix. “We feel we’ve interpreted the semantic opportunity in a unique way for traditional media and OpenCalais opened that door for us.”
About the OpenCalais Initiative
The OpenCalais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters mission to deliver intelligent information by connecting all the world’s business-relevant content. It offers free metadata generation services, developer tools and an automatic connection to the Linked Data cloud. Found at OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com), OpenCalais is the fastest, easiest and most accurate way to tag the people, places, companies, facts and events in content to increase its value, accessibility and interoperability on the Web. For a quick and easy demo of how OpenCalais can add intelligence to your content, visit http://viewer.opencalsis.com, paste in a news story and hit submit.”
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to thomsonreuters.com.
Contact:
Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters OpenCalais Initiative
415.202.3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com
June 29, 2010
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