A wizard with the news
If you are building a portal for internal or external use, news is a must-have. Today’s product, Webfeed Wizard from Moreover.com (http://w.moreover.com/), provides a news feed tailored to your audience that you install on your Web server -- and, better still, it does so for free!
Creating a customized news feed is amazingly simple. On the Moreover Web site, you specify which terms to search for or which news feeds and categories you want, and which colors, fonts and other layout features you want. The Webfeed Wizard constructs the JavaScript code for you.
To use the code, you simply paste it into a Web page, and -- voila! -- you have a custom news page for your site. Moreover claims 1,800 news sources and they provide detailed instructions on how to customize your news page:
http://w.moreover.com/dev/index.html
Moreover also offers mailing lists for news topics that you can customize for your own marketing. It has instructions on how to cache your news feeds (very important in a corporate environment to reduce Internet traffic), and demos of teletype and Macromedia Flash-based news displays. It even offers news feeds encoded with XML, Tab Separated Variable or Wireless Access Protocol. It can also host your custom news feed for you. And all for free!
Where Moreover makes its money is in the professional products it offers, which provide a greater range of news and information sources and can even integrate with your own internal data sources. A basic corporate feed is priced at around $30,000 per annum and scales according to usage.
Moreover.com
330 Pine Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-989-0600
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