Opfine: "Real-time" financial, company and market sentiment: Part 2
21st February 2012

In Part 1 of this article, I provided a general overview of Opfine (http://www.opfine.com) and its features. In this part, I look at product highlights and sentiment capabilities.

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The social intranet - white paper, case study, webinar and a PR stunt
21st February 2012

The so-called "social intranet" has been the next-big-thing for years. Over the last few days a white paper, a case study, a webinar and a PR stunt on the topic have all caught my eye.

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SharePoint 2010 do's and don'ts
21st February 2012

According to a recent webinar I took part in, 70% of organisations in the Western world have adopted SharePoint. Is the organisation you work in one of those, or are you one of the 30% who are still considering whether SharePoint is a tool that you could use?

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The VIP LiveWire has moved
20th February 2012

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Opfine: "Real-time" financial, company and market sentiment: Part 1
20th February 2012

Opfine or “Opinionated financial news”, provides two views of financial news sentiment. One is an overall view of sentiment over the past year for commodities markets, companies, countries and the housing market. It also provides access to a selection of recent articles contributing to current sentiment for a selected market, company or country.

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Tablet Civil Wars?
20th February 2012

The tablet market continues to flourish with competition fierce among rival companies. The exception is Apple where loyal customers are choosing the new iPhone over the old iPad. However, all may change with the iPad3 out soon.

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Collaborative learning through coding
17th February 2012

Information professionals never have been a group to shy away from professional development. This year, the library and information community is taking on, in large numbers, the challenge of learning to code.

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Mobile, social and heading for the clouds!
16th February 2012

We’re living in a highly connected world with information coming at us from all directions. The big questions for me as an information professional are: how to filter it, how to make sense of it and what to do with it? In short, how to manage it.

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Scientific research news for non-scientists
16th February 2012

Covering science and technology, society and culture, health and medicine, and earth and environment, Futurity aggregates research news and presents it in an appealing lay person-friendly tone. Articles highlight recent scientific discoveries with most of the news articles linking to the original published study.

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Add news to workflow: aggregation moves up a gear
14th February 2012

Information professionals have been understandably sceptical about using news aggregation services for their research. After all, despite being able to access news almost in real-time, content can be unreliable and results may be unrelated to the initial enquiry.

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