http://www.bnet.com/5799-14051-0.html?type=18 Blog Recent Discussion Activity http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_92011 Yes, decades ago D&B could put together fairly decent reports on private companies but nowadays, there is *so* much information from so many diverse sources that it is extremely difficult to obtain to-notch information. I'd say to check out the longer Demo of InsideView or contact the company to see how it works...I didn't check on private companies when I demo'd it. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:39:23 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_92011 2009-11-22T23:39:23Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91715 My biggest frustration with legacy business sources is that it is so hard to get info on private companies. (Not their fault that disclosure requirements for private are so much looser than public companies, but it's a problem for me.) Most of the companies in the businesses I track are private - either kind of small, or owned by private equity companies. Can InsideView do a better job with unearthing this data? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:11 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91715 2009-11-20T16:00:11Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91638 No, because I am an old-style journalist, I don't participate in contests or accept gifts when offered. I just write what I think. I'm sure someone much more appropriate will win that opportunity. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:19:12 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91638 2009-11-20T06:19:12Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91610 Now did you enter to WIN our Aston Martin too? <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/happy.gif" alt="happy"> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:22:52 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005227/insideview-disrupts-legacy-business-info-publishers-like-hoovers/#18906_91610 2009-11-20T00:22:52Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005174/more-evidence-that-news-corp-would-be-nuts-to-shun-google/#18823_91439 yeah, that is the problem isn't it? Even a media conglomerate on the scale of News Corp. is a David next to Googliath.<br><br>Thanks for commenting.<br><br>Cathy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:30 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005174/more-evidence-that-news-corp-would-be-nuts-to-shun-google/#18823_91439 2009-11-19T14:58:30Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005201/paid-vs-free-content-brawl-alienates-consumers/#18867_91453 Thanks for taking time to respond. Consumer relevance is key. I will take a look.<br>Regards,<br>Diane Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:41:05 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005201/paid-vs-free-content-brawl-alienates-consumers/#18867_91453 2009-11-19T10:41:05Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005201/paid-vs-free-content-brawl-alienates-consumers/#18867_91403 "80 percent of consumers recently surveyed by Forrester Research say they would discontinue their favorite free print content if they were asked to pay for it. Less than 10 percent of respondents would agree to subscription models; only three percent would opt for micropayments."<br>That sounds about right. With all the free options out there to keep up with current events, why would someone pay money for the same news that's available for free? And with all these services that are available for free on mobile that provide more than just news, I'd never drop a dime on print-gone-online. <br>A great solution I recommend is our startup, <a href="http://www.YourVersion.com" target="_blank">http://www.YourVersion.com</a>. When I'm on my hour-long commute on the CalTrain, I use YourVersion (it's a real-time discovery engine) on my iPhone (free, of course). I have my bookmarked content I've discovered through the service (blogs, mainstream news articles, tweets) and then I go through them on the road. <br>It also has the social element built in, where I can share (tweets, facebook, or email) content that I discover. I highly recommend the service on the browser and on mobile. I've discovered tons of new content that I wouldn't ordinarily have found, and hey, it's all been free.<br><br>Thanks for the post! And let us know what you think of YourVersion.<br>-Melody Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:14:53 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005201/paid-vs-free-content-brawl-alienates-consumers/#18867_91403 2009-11-19T01:14:53Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005135/why-cnn-is-or-at-least-has-been-happy-to-be-non-partisan/#18790_91364 I probably should have take this a moment to qualify the statement "non-partisan". It's a relative term. If you were to sketch this out, Fox News would be to the far right, MSNBC would be to the far left, and CNN would be in the middle, but leaning left. Compared to either of them, however, it's decidedly middle of the road.<br>thanks for commenting.<br><br>Cathy Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:16:05 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005135/why-cnn-is-or-at-least-has-been-happy-to-be-non-partisan/#18790_91364 2009-11-18T20:16:05Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005188/the-debate-between-google-and-its-opponents-heart-vs-logic/#18843_91325 Logic is important, but so are intuition/gut feeling and the heart - hence the term "emotional intelligence."<br><br>I have a policy of distributing free abridged versions of my books on leadership, ethics, teamwork, women in the workforce, sexual harassment, trade unions,etc. to anyone who sends in a request to crespin79@primus.ca.<br>Maxwell Pinto, Business Author<br><br><a href="http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Management-TidbitsForTheNewMillenium.html" target="_blank">http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Management-TidbitsForTheNewMillenium.html</a> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:45:11 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005188/the-debate-between-google-and-its-opponents-heart-vs-logic/#18843_91325 2009-11-18T18:45:11Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005174/more-evidence-that-news-corp-would-be-nuts-to-shun-google/#18823_91244 Ego and stupidity always makes for an interesting mix. Everyone and everything is expendable. Google will be just fine. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:11 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005174/more-evidence-that-news-corp-would-be-nuts-to-shun-google/#18823_91244 2009-11-18T15:14:11Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10004800/cnn-still-first-in-cable-news-depending-on-what-you-mean-by-cable-news/#18106_91212 If you think CNN is unbiased, you are a liberal.<br>We all tend to see those opinions and stories that we disagree with as biased.<br><br>Fox News is doing very well because it is in tune with the majority of Americans (40% report being conservative, 20% liberal), whether or not the liberals like it. Most of the journalists in this country are liberal. Therefore, most of the "news" takes on a liberal spin. Viewing the same story through a conservative lens does not make it any less authentic news or journalism. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:04:54 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10004800/cnn-still-first-in-cable-news-depending-on-what-you-mean-by-cable-news/#18106_91212 2009-11-18T13:04:54Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005141/fliqz-launches-service-to-drive-video-content-to-top-of-google-search/#18801_91062 At <a href="http://www.aceseowebdesign.com"><b>Ace SEO & Web Design</b></a> we have also discovered that our clients who have videos on their web pages do much better than those that do not. We theorize that this is because of the tracking that Google, Yahoo and Bing do.<br><br>We believe that they are tracking how long a visitor spends on a page and they longer they spend the more relevant that page is to the search phrase. And since people are more likely to watch videos than read text, visitors spend more time on the page.<br><br>However, we have also determine that auto-play videos are much more effective than those that visitors have to click on to start. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:39 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005141/fliqz-launches-service-to-drive-video-content-to-top-of-google-search/#18801_91062 2009-11-17T22:28:39Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005135/why-cnn-is-or-at-least-has-been-happy-to-be-non-partisan/#18790_91020 A read a few pieces by this writer (another..yea I'm a Democrat, but I am open minded). Fox News (the news part, not the commentary) is no more bigoted than CNN; each is partisan less in their coverage of a story as in what they decide to cover. But SO WHAT. There is no such thing as non-partisan, nor has there ever been. I love advocacy journalism. IT IS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE. Always has been. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:12 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005135/why-cnn-is-or-at-least-has-been-happy-to-be-non-partisan/#18790_91020 2009-11-17T17:45:12Z http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005088/google-shouldnt-let-viewers-get-out-of-watching-ads-on-youtube/#18681_90842 Hey Rush,<br><br>Really not quite sure where you get the idea that I think newspapers should give away their content. The problem is that that cat is out of the bag. We've all been taught that online newspaper content should be free. Sad, but true.To wit:<br><br><a href="http://industry.bnet.com/media/1000907/the-problems-with-walter-isaacsons-newspaper-rescue-plan/" target="_blank">http://industry.bnet.com/media/1000907/the-problems-with-walter-isaacsons-newspaper-rescue-plan/</a><br><br>As online video is still young, compared to online newspapers, maybe there's a chance that people will learn to pay for it. (I did an extensive comment on this after another one of your comments, so I'm not going to go into great detail here.)<br><br>In addition, most print news is a commodity. Video, particularly entertainment video, less so. If you want to watch "Seinfeld" you want to watch "Seinfeld". You're not going to shrug your shoulders and say, oh well..."Seinfeld" is charging so I guess I'll go watch "Full House."<br><br>As for me and my colleague David Weir, we think independently, which is part of the fun of having multiple people on this blog. How boring it would be if we agreed on everything.<br><br>Cathy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:39:21 GMT http://industry.bnet.com/media/10005088/google-shouldnt-let-viewers-get-out-of-watching-ads-on-youtube/#18681_90842 2009-11-16T14:39:21Z