The 2014 Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) Annual Conference took place last week in Washington, DC. Once again, it highlighted formidable innovation in this vibrant part of the publishing industry. Among the many things that impressed me this year were: A beautifully realized new information service based on public mortgage
Now that the frenzy of South By Southwest Interactive has settled down, we wanted to share some of the new types of projects that emerged in the first quarter of 2014. Crowdsourced Image Analysis: Using the crowd for business-to-business competitive intelligence projects based on satellite imagery. Once confined to national
The models for information services are based on two basic revenue streams: advertising and subscriptions. There are a few free services based on donations (a loosey-goosey form of subscription), some pay-per-use services (a limited form of “subscription”), and a lot of services that blend the two streams in different proportions.
Heat maps—data represented graphically with individual values represented by colors—are an increasingly popular way to quickly convey a lot of information. To demonstrate this, we at IEI recently used a set of data on private investments made in the U.S. thus far in 2013 (data courtesy of our friends at
Information services are just that: services. Even if you call your customers subscribers and deliver your product to them by mail, in the end you’re performing a service on a regular basis in exchange for regular payments. You’ve crossed the boundary between products and services even further if you’d be
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) INFO Local: Austin chapter is excited to join Boston, London, San Francisco, and others in offering informative networking events to their thriving technology, media, publishing, and information service communities. Information Evolution’s own Matt Manning is one of the founding members of the local
The 2013 DataContent conference just wrapped up yesterday and, once again, it offered outstanding insight into the innovation going on in our industry. Here are my favorite highlights from the show: RetailNext: Founded by some ex-Cisco engineers in 2007 these folks use heat sensors in retail shops to track traffic
At the DataContent 2013 conference, I will be a member of a panel discussing the tools being used in the information business to make our products richer, drive our costs lower, and keep our products updated in real time. When our firms can accomplish these three goals, our businesses are
Russell Perkins‘s recent post a few weeks ago got me to thinking about new product development once again. I knew most of IEI’s clients when their products were in their embryonic stages and we continue to help innovators by keeping their upfront costs low so they can spend those precious
One of the corollaries to the big data meme is that the world is woefully short of data science professionals. This observation requires some context, however, because the definition of what a data scientist _is_ is a matter of some debate. Some define data science as statistical analysis while others
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