Google Finance
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.
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P&G debuts measurement tool calculating PR’s value – PRWeek US (tags: PRmeasurement)
Government on the Web
Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online. A brief excerpt: West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of 1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s findings: • 73 percent of state and federal…
Publishers Looking to Text Messaging for Teens
USA Today: “Parents wringing their hands over their teens’ incessant cell phone use should chill — they might be interacting with authors. Publishers are plugging into the technology whose ringtones and vibrations attract teenagers’ undivided attention.”
Techdirt Claims Solution to Information Overload
A new product from Techdirt claims it will help alleviate the problem of "too much information" that so many of us experience. It is targeted at the corporate market and blends technology with human analysis. I especially liked the first sentence of the description posted in their blog: The new service, Techdirt InfoAdvisor, takes the…
links for 2007-05-12
Global Neighbourhoods: You got a case? I’ll give you a free pass (tags: comments) Online Public Relations Thoughts (tags: comments)
Business Books of the Year
Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year. (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.) I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …