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Infomediaries
Author:	Emma Cass
Date:	Thursday, 24th Jul 2003 11:26
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Category:	Information Issues
URL:	http://www.freepint.com/go/b24860
Hi there I would be interested to know how FreePinters would describe the following types of information providers: aggregators infomediaries intermediaries indexers Everyone I have asked seems to have a different definition and even then its difficult to put them down on paper. Many thanks Emma

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Infomediaries Hi there I would be interested to know how FreePinters would describe the following types of information providers: aggregators infomediaries intermediaries indexers Everyone I have asked ...	Emma Cass	24/07/03 11:26	24860
Re: Infomediaries aggregators infomediaries intermediaries indexers 1. A person who researches and accumulates the results of that research, perhaps summarized but not ...	Edw. Stollery	08/08/03 02:18	25115
Re: Infomediaries To me, aggregators are OneSource or Alacra, companies that take a variety of data from numerous sources, Thomson, Factiva, PI ...	Steve	29/07/03 09:00	24949
Re: Infomediaries I have a different take on the term "infomediary", which comes from a book called "Net Worth: The emerging role ...	Leo Borwick	28/07/03 14:47	24943
Re: Infomediaries My informal distinctions would be: *aggregators (e.g., Dialog or LexisNexis) generally aggregate the content from OTHER content providers and indexers. So, ...	Mary Ellen Bates	27/07/03 18:32	24936
Re: Infomediaries The Society of Indexers have some FAQs on indexes and indexing here: http://www.socind.demon.co.uk/indexing/FAQs.htm which may help with that one at ...	Mary Wood	25/07/03 14:51	24900

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