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| • | Copyright – the opportunity that won’t go away | Serious flaws in the way copyright and content licensing operate have been highlighted recently in two super-authoritative reports. They’re important in themselves – but they also represent an opportunity for information professionals prepared to take the leap.
First comes a hefty document commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
29/Jul/10
10:58 |
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| • | H12010 Results: Throwing off the ballast | With Q2 earning announcements by info industry companies rolling this month, it looks like a focus on mobile and digital strategies, underpinned by aggressive cost cutting, are finally bearing fruit. But that's not always enough to offset declines in advertising and print sales.
Perusing recent earnings postings in PaidContent:UK (http://paidcontent.co.uk/topic/earnings/), ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
28/Jul/10
18:22 |
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Perrin Kerravala |
27/Jul/10
18:54 |
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| • | VIP Review: Bureau van Dijk's Zephyr | With a number of industry experts currently predicting a rise in M&A deals, it’s an appropriate time to look at Zephyr (http://www.zephyr.bvdep.com), a database of deal information covering M&A, IPO, private equity and venture capital deals, and containing information on rumours as well as announced and completed deals.
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Anne Jordan |
27/Jul/10
18:52 |
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| • | Law – the turmoil continues | ‘Not quite ready yet’ seems to have been the verdict when Bloomberg Law first made its appearance early this year. Well now it clearly is, and it’s just the largest of a whole series of disruptions in a legal information market that one commentator describes as ‘revolution, not evolution’.
The ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
27/Jul/10
11:40 |
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| • | Two new reports on Generation Y | Two interesting new studies have been published, highlighting the importance of social networking for job hunters and common research behavior amongst Generation Y and older university students.
That old adage that it is not ‘what you know, but who you know’ is apparently more relevant in our straitened economic times than ... |
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Penny Crossland |
22/Jul/10
12:09 |
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| • | Aggregated or out in the cold? | Following the Times decision to block Meltwater from crawling its articles, the Daily Mail has now done likewise. It may initially look like a setback for the news aggregator, but other developments suggest that it might not turn out to be such a big deal after all.
As paidContent:UK points ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
22/Jul/10
11:04 |
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| • | Google and Yahoo hit 'Refresh' on News | | Earlier this month Yahoo Inc. introduced 'The Upshot', (http://news.yahoo.com/upshot) a pilot project that underscores the Internet giant's intention to move further into original content creation. According to editor Andrew Golis, the news blog comprises 'Eight people, six reporters and two editors, working each day to tell you what's ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
21/Jul/10
18:43 |
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| • | Times online: some unofficial numbers | We now have some figures, as yet unconfirmed by News International, on how many online readers have registered with The Times, and, more importantly, how many have agreed to become paying subscribers. See this LiveWire posting for initial reactions to the new paywall: http://www.vivavip.com/go/e29756.
According to a former Times media correspondent, ... |
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Penny Crossland |
21/Jul/10
12:04 |
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| • | How to manage the flight to quality? | | Almost half of all knowledge workers feel that the amount of information they confront each day is making it difficult for them to get their work done, and well over half feel overwhelmed by information ‘to the point of incapacity’ several times each week. It’s a grim picture if ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
20/Jul/10
11:05 |
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| • | eBooks Continue the March | | For Amazon, cutting the price of its Kindle reader from US $259 to US$189 last month certainly seems to have paid off, and quickly. According to figures released by Amazon today, unit sales of the device have accelerated each month in the second quarter, both on a sequential month-over-month basis ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
19/Jul/10
23:53 |
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| • | Expert profiling: connecting the experts | | As a researcher we are often called in to ‘join the dots’ especially when it comes to finding people and experts. Building up a network of experts in a particular field, with all the obvious background details such as what they are working on, where they work and any ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
15/Jul/10
14:05 |
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| • | First release of ProQuest Dialog | Almost exactly two years to the day after acquiring Dialog from Thomson Reuters (see http://www.vivavip.com/go/e7712 for details); Proquest has finally announced the first release of its new platform, which merges Dialog and Datastar content.
What has taken so long? ProQuest itself has acknowledged (http://www.dialog.com/media/july2010message/) that merging the massive content from ... |
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Penny Crossland |
14/Jul/10
21:23 |
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| • | Web 2.0: just hype say researchers? | Have you noticed how Web 3.0, the semantic web, is creating a buzz in the information world? So much so, that recently a Fumsi Folio was dedicated to just this - ‘Semantic Technology and Web 3.0 Developments (http://digbig.com/5bcajy).
The technology may have moved on from Web 2.0 but are we ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
14/Jul/10
16:59 |
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| • | Conversations that lead somewhere please | These days there is hardly a moment that goes by without the mention of capturing the ‘conversations’ via social media tools. Everyone (especially organisations) are talking about ‘joining the conversation’ or ‘listening to conversation’. So what?
Conversation is hardly new. Social media only presents a new ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
7/Jul/10
13:49 |
| • | Re: Conversations that lead somewhere please | Joanna, your sentiment is resonating with me today - I too am feeling your pain around "conversations", as if that is the main goal. You summarize well when you state "Social media only presents a new medium or enabler" for conversations.
What's more elusive - and I continue to seek ... |
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Scott Brown |
13/Jul/10
17:06 |
| • | Re: Conversations that lead somewhere please | Scott
I too believe that we need to start treating 'online conversations' similar to 'real life' conversations - we need to take action or as you say 'let them die'. Just because conversations are online does not mean that we need to curate, manage or bake them together - ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
14/Jul/10
11:11 |
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| • | The Times' paywall - initial reaction | The Times’paywall has been up and running for 10 days now and the media pundits have been busy commenting on whether Murdoch’s gamble will pay off or not. (See http://www.vivavip.com/go/e29136 ,http://www.vivavip.com/go/e28452, http://www.vivavip.com/go/e27766 and http://www.vivavip.com/go/e27220 for details of subscription costs and further discussion of the topic).
To re-cap: ... |
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Penny Crossland |
12/Jul/10
18:40 |
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| • | Millennials and social networking | | In case there was any doubt, a pair of studies released this month by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center says that social networking is here to stay, and that the 'digital natives' of the Millennial generation plan to carry ... |
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Nancy Davis Kho |
12/Jul/10
10:11 |
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| • | Pile it high and sell it cheap | | Ripples of anxiety about information quality seem to be unsettling the content industry currently. A new report calls for ‘intelligent information’ to mitigate data overload, a group is wondering about quality rating websites – and there’s concern at the rapidly growing use of Twitter, not as a medium for ... |
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Tim Buckley Owen |
11/Jul/10
17:26 |
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| • | Register to find the perfect partner | | In the high risk world of drug development and biotechnology finding the right partner can make or break your project success. Pharmaceutical development is very rarely a single organisation approach, and there is no single academic department, pharmaceutical or biotech company that can go it alone for expertise or ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
7/Jul/10
14:50 |
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| • | Informatics: heating up the STM market | The science, technology and medicine (STM) market has always been a knowledge intensive sector. One of the key drivers in this industry is managing and adjusting workflows, being responsive to research cycles and the changing market conditions.
In the STM sector the overheads to a company are huge – not ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
27/Apr/10
13:41 |
| • | Re: Informatics: heating up the STM market | The expected merger of Accelrys (http://accelrys.com/) and Symyx Technologies (http://www.symyx.com/) has hit a recent bump in the road with a rival bid from Certara (http://www.certara.com/) for Symyx.
The bid for Certara was however rejected.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed on 30th June 2010 that 'shareholders of Symyx Technologies Inc. (SMMX) ... |
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Joanna Ptolomey |
7/Jul/10
14:05 |
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