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February 26, 2010

NFAIS: A Fresh Look at Content

Monday, I will be presenting at the NFAIS annual conference in Philadelphia.

NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) is an association of content industry companies; the event tends to attract a mix of technical and business leaders from a wide range of content publishers and aggregators.

I will be on the "Fresh Look at Content" panel, moderated by Jabin White of Wolters Kluwer. The other panelists will be:

Dr. Emilie Marcus, Executive Editor of Elsevier's Cell Press; and

Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, Managing Director at Dow Jones.

I will be presenting information on Alacra Pulse, sharing some of our experiences to-date with the freemium business model and talking about some of our plans for the near future (including a big announcement coming March 15).

I'm really looking forward to the panel. Cell Press has been doing a lot of innovative work in transforming the way that users work with scientific journals. Meanwhile, Dow Jones has gone through quite a bit of change in recent weeks and months and I look forward to hearing from Brigitte about the new direction, particularly with the former Enterprise Group (Factiva) being absorbed into the WSJ business.

Barry Graubart on February 26, 2010 in Content Business, Events | Permalink | TrackBack (0)

February 09, 2010

Morningstar Acquires Footnoted.org blog

Morningstar (NASD:MORN) has acquired Footnoted.org, the blog-based financial research service that reads through footnotes of SEC filings, spotlighting the items that companies prefer investors not see.

Footnoted also posts its "worst footnote of the year" each year - for 2009, the "winner" was Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) which spent more than $12 million to purchase its CEO's antique map collection.

Last year, Footnoted introduced Footnoted Pro, a service geared towards hedge funds and institutional investors.

Congratulations to Footnoted.org founder Michelle Leder, who has tirelessly read through more filings in the past seven years than most analysts do in a lifetime. Following the acquisition, Michelle will continue to run Footnoted under its new parent.