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Following A Company With Feeds

Feeds are becoming an important source of business intelligence. Many of the buzztracking and news aggregation services use feeds as their data input. So more and more content providers are making their content available via feeds. But much of the most valuable premium content has not been available via feed.

Well last week, the Flatiron portfolio company Alacra launched a feed service that aggregates premium content sources by company and lets you subscribe to it.

Here is the feed for Oracle, for example.

If you want to set up a feed for any public company, just type in the ticker on this page and you'll be offered the opportunity to subscribe to the feed. You can also subscribe to feeds for private companies. Alacra currently aggregates premium content from close to 40 sources including the latest credit and investment research.

I think there are going to be many great applications for these company specific feeds and it will be interesting to see what people do with them.

Comments (4) | Posted July 5, 2006 in Venture Capital and Technology

Comments

Thanks for the link Fred, this is very useful. I had been trying to use Google Alerts for tracking companies, but they do not have the ability to track alerts by ticker symbols. I would think that Google would easily be able to add this feature since they already integrate Google News into Google Finance.

In the mean time I am all setup with Alacara, thanks!

Posted by: stu | Jul 5, 2006 2:05:04 PM

Cool idea, but after I got the feeds into my Netvibes page, clicking on the link led to an error message saying "Sorry, this document could not be found" I was using GOOG, DELL, MSFT and others and always got the same results. Is the system up?

Posted by: Chris Barchak | Jul 6, 2006 6:41:06 AM

Looks like it's working again!

Posted by: Chris Barchak | Jul 6, 2006 9:34:16 AM

Wow, this is really cool. I've missed a lot of your blogs this past week+ and am just catching up and glad I did. Already added a feed to my yahoo home page...

Posted by: erin | Jul 9, 2006 10:52:20 AM

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