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Briefs #1: New White Paper Looks at Holiday Online Buying Trends 2006; Best Wishes to Greg Linden; Blinkx Adds New Content Partner; Beta Of THOMAS Database UI Online

+ Holiday Online Buying Trends 2006 (OneUpWeb)
Narrative, stats, and graphs. 14 pages; PDF.

+ Greg Linden Stops Developing Findory, Service Will Remain Online for the Present Time (Geeking with Greg via SEL)
We’ve been fans and users of Findory since it first launched in 2004. We’re sad to report that development of this personalized news service is, “slowing to a crawl.” However, the service will remain online at least for the time being. All of this news coming from Findory’s Founder, CEO, and someone were honored to call a friend, Greg Linden. It was just about a week ago that we posted a few thoughts about Findory and Greg in particular. We wish Greg the best of look on whatever his next venture/adventure takes him.
See Also: Research Paper: An Adaptive User Profile for Filtering News Based on a User Interest

+ Blinkx Adds New Content Partner

+ New Beta Of THOMAS Database UI Online (via Info Today)
Direct to Beta

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One Response to “Briefs #1: New White Paper Looks at Holiday Online Buying Trends 2006; Best Wishes to Greg Linden; Blinkx Adds New Content Partner; Beta Of THOMAS Database UI Online”

  1. ResourceShelf » A Quick Intro and Overview of Personalized Web Page Service: Pageflakes Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    [...] The idea of building and then maintaining (two separate concepts) a personalized home page or start page is not a new. My Yahoo has been online for years and over the past couple of years we’ve seen Google, Live.com (Microsoft), Ask.com’s MyWay and numerous others offer this type of service. Personalization of news and blog results are also around with services like Findory. Unfortunately, we learned about a week ago that while Findory will remain online and usable, it’s no longer being developed. [...]