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The Big Free Three for News: Introduction and FreePint's View
25th September 2012
The big three in news search -- Bing, Yahoo! and Google -- are likely part of the daily workflow for nearly every knowledge worker. For individuals, each provides strengths and weaknesses. For organisations, it's essential to understand what workers are turning to, in order to direct education and manage risks.
News consumption and search moves to social media sites
25th September 2012
Interesting findings have recently emerged from several reports, demonstrating consumers’ shift away from established news sites and search engines towards social media services – largely fuelled by tablet and smart phone usage. Search engines, too, are seeing a drop in visitors as online users are going to social networking sites to search for information, prompting analysts to view social networks increasingly as disruptors to the way we search and consumer news.
Source Update September 2012: What's happening with Eureka.cc?
25th September 2012
Monthly update on source changes in Eureka.cc
Islamic finance - prepare to open the floodgates?
24th September 2012
Global Islamic finance is set to double in size between 2011 and 2015, says Stuart Anderson, Middle East head at rating agency Standard & Poor's. At the recent Global Islamic Finance Forum, both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters announced new indices to track Sukuk financial markets. Information managers may need to brace themselves for a flood of new products covering this market.
Google+ heading towards the enterprise
24th September 2012
When it rolled out in June 2011, it was obvious that most of the features within Google+ were aimed at individual users rather then businesses or large organisations. Now it would appear that Google is implementing some changes to its flagship product which is bringing it closer to being used within the enterprise.
Source Update September 2012: What's happening with Factiva?
24th September 2012
Monthly update on changes to Factiva's source list
Source Update September 2012: What's happening with Nexis?
24th September 2012
Monthly update on source changes in Nexis.com
Sustainability from Thomson Reuters - a new site worth visiting
20th September 2012
Sustainability is a buzzword used by government agencies and politicians in countless reports and speeches these days and is a concept we are all meant to aspire to. The term can be applied to a wide range of industries, making it hard for information professionals to find all-encompassing sources on the subject. Now one of the major business intelligence providers, Thomson Reuters has entered the arena, launching a website in the last few days dedicated to the topic.
Micro news tools highlight importance of information streaming
20th September 2012
The week that President Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention managed to achieve a record 52,000+ tweets per minute - no doubt helped by the readily crafted tweet-sized sound bites - we learned of two new developments in the world of real-time micro news, involving information streams that could have a significant impact on how content is consumed, especially in this US election year.
Consuming information via streams
19th September 2012
How individuals and organisations publish content to the web has changed significantly since the early days of the web. It would appear that now we’re seeing another significant change in web publishing. One of the biggest drivers of this change is the move from pages to streams. This new way of consuming content is also changing the way content is published, but how and why?
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