Users choose a format and then use a page designer to place widgets for articles, blog posts, lists of articles by category, author or entity, news streams, site search, media galleries, subscriptions and user registration. Summary: HiveFire Curata makes it easy to assemble and republish content on specialized topics, attracting visitors to your company’s Web site. Here’s an irony for you: the world is awash with content, but marketers struggle to find enough of it. It’s like a sailor dying of thirst. Of course, sailors really do die of thirst. ranking the selected articles. MORE >>

To see what I mean, check out Event Processing Thinking (Opher Etzion) and Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog (Tim Bass). But just in case you’re wondering “Why the heck is he writing about this in a marketing blog?” I spoke earlier this week with SQLStream , which offers software to execute queries against data streams such as stock market prices, Web logs and credit card transactions. These queries can include on-the-fly calculations such as moving averages, as well as scans for patterns like a sequence of failed log-in attempts. Back to SQLStream. MORE >>

See my 2007 blog entry for some information or buy the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems for a detailed review. Pardot : another pretty powerful product; see my blog review from December 2008. My new obsession with Twitter (follow me as @draab) has led to several messages from people who seemed to have trouble choosing between Eloqua and Marketo. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which one suits you better. But what really concerns me is that these people are apparently limiting their consideration to just those two products. Just kidding.or Click read my March 18 review.] MORE >>

So let me simply discuss this based on my own experience (and, once again, remind readers that while my firm is a QlikTech reseller, comments in this blog are strictly my own.) A few days ago, I replied to a question regarding QlikTech scalability. See What Makes QlikTech So Good? August 3, 2007) I asked QlikTech itself for more information on the topic but haven’t learned anything new. The first thing I want to make clear is that QlikView is a wonderful product, so it would be a great pity if this discussion were to be taken as a criticism. strongly suspect that larger ones exist. MORE >>

Incidentally, iGoDigital sounds like a very interesting acquisition in its own right: it may be today’s more important story. ** See my August 12 blog post for these figures and the ones that follow. ExactTarget announced its acquisition today of mid-tier marketing automation vendor Pardot , for just under $100 million ($95.5 million, to be exact). In one way, this was surprising: Pardot had seemed less interested in being purchased than others in the industry. But Pardot was also the only major marketing automation competitor without serious outside funding. Back to pricing. MORE >>