WashPost Creates Supreme Court Blog

PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.

KD Paine mostly gets it right in a recent column, except for the headline ("It Just Doesn’t Matter! Don’t Bother Measuring Blogs"): If you know that your customers are generating buzz in blogs or chat rooms or newsgroups, then okay, pay attention. But if what happens in the blogosphere is irrelevant to the behavior of…

SiliconBeat: Digg gets $2.8 Mil Funding another “public as the news editor” site (tags: Aggregation VC) e-fluentials – Advocacy Drives Growth “finding a link between word of mouth recommendations and sales performance” (tags: WordOfMouth MarketResearch) LookSmart Expands Vertical Search 131 new verticals added (tags: VerticalSearch)

Bottom line: things went as well as could be expected this week. Now bring on 2009!

I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels.  So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people.  For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…

InfoToday reports: Alacra, known for providing a wide range of business databases to enterprise customers, has decided to open up its content to on-demand purchasing by individual business professionals and consumers. The company has just launched the beta of its new Alacra Store, an e-commerce Web site that taps into 30 of Alacra’s premium content…