B2B Roundup: InfoCommerce 2005 Coverage; VerticalSearch.com; Manta.com; B2B Podcasts

Some B2B launches and InfoCommerce 2005 coverage:

InfoCommerce 2005 conference coverage: John Blossom of Shore is doing some great coverage of the InfoCommerce 2005 conference happening in Phily this week..including the keyonte by Richard Malloch, President, of Hearst Business Media.

VerticalSearch.com: Jeff Dearth, partner at media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips (one of our advertisers) has launched a side project: a vertical search site, called, well, VerticalSearch.com. The site will crawl about 4,000 b-to-b media sites and about 1 million pages, with more to come, Dearth said. The goal is to provide more precise search results for Web users interested in business content.

Manta.com: ECnext (also one of our advertisers) has launched an open-Web B2B aggregation service (seems similar to what Alacra launch a few months ago with AlacraStore)…The initial release of Manta contains company information and reports from D&B, and from Datamonitor.

B2B Podcasts: A good story on podcasting efforts form the trade media players…Forbes.com, CMP, IDG, IEEE and others..

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