Thursday, 26th April 2007

Portfolio: A New Business Magazine from Conde Nast, Offers Original Content, Research Databases, and More

A new Conde Nast print and online publication with a focus on business, Portfolio, recently hit mailboxes, newsstands, and the web.
The Portfolio web site (it's labeled a beta, of course) at: http://www.portfolio.com/ is constantly updated with original material as well as what appears to be the full text of the print edition.

+ The mobile version of Portfolio is at mobile.portfolio.com

+ Portfolio RSS Feeds

+ Online Archive

+ Over 500,000 Searchable Company Profiles
Powered by Inform. Many profiles offer a link with company structure info. Example.
Profiles also include video (if available, powered by Blinkx) news headlines, etc.

+ Thousands of Executive Profiles
Including a list of the most popular profiles. We've listed several profiles of "search execs" *** below. Profiles include age, board affiliations, overview.

Caveats? Of course, no database or research tool is perfect. We noticed several outdated entries as we spent some time looking at the content.
See Also: Executive Spottings

+ Book Summaries

+ The Hype Report
Updated twice a day.

The Hype Report dynamically tracks companies and executives that have been blogged about in the past 72 hours. Those who've appeared most frequently in the blogosphere appear under Leaders. Those with the highest percentage gain in the previous 24 hours appear under Gainers.

The report tracks companies and executives. Powered by Nielsen BuzzMetrics.
See also: BlogPulse.

+ City Guides

*** Here's a compilation with direct links to profiles of people involved in the search industry. This is not a comprehensive list. However, moving forward, we will add to it. Come back for more. :-)

Ask.com/IAC/InterActiveCorp
++ Barry Diller
++ More IAC Profiles

Google
++ Sergey Brin
++ Larry Page
++ Eric Schmidt
++ More Google Profiles

Microsoft
++ Bill Gates
++ Steve Ballmer
++ More Microsoft Profiles

Miva
++ Peter Corrao
++ More Miva Profiles

Yahoo
++ David Filo
++ Terry Semel
++ Jerry Yang
More Yahoo Executives

Search for More Profiles Here
Note: After running several searches we noticed a few profiles not linked in a company profile. So, make sure to search the database so you don't miss an available profile.

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