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Selected Sites for Smart Agent Software
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Forbes
People Tracker -- Follow major executives and more
Software to keep watch over and collect the news on important
corporate, foundation and individual prospects
Nexis.com
For-fee service that searches huge news database and send email
alerts
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Dow Jones Interactive
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Another for-fee service that searches thousands of news sources and
sends email alerts
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My News Profile
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Part of the L.A. Times; keyword searches Times, AP and affiliated community
papers; Free!
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The
Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
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For-fee with WSJ; handy programmable search agent in Personal Journal
Section
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PointCast
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For keeping tabs on specific corporations and industries; includes screensaver;
needs a lot of memory (RAM) to work well; Free!
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News.Com
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Somewhat programmable. Sign up for My News.com. Sends a pretty cool
electronic newsletter once a week with the latest in software and tech
company news. Free! (reviewed by M.Lynch)
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Northern
Light
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Searches free & for-fee databases; sends email alerts
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EXCITE: My Channel
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Programmable; great coverage; name searches
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CRAYON
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News junkie's delight; create a custom newspaper to visit on the Web
with links to actual news home pages
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InfoBeat
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Delivers wide variety of news (everything from tv schedules to world
news) via custom emails to your computer
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Yahoo!Finance
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Searchable by public
company ticker only; newswire & SEC document coverage; free
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Informant
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Does a Web search for a limited number of topics; sends email when new
info appears; free
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TenKWizard
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Searches SEC filings for a person's name; will send email when new filing
mentioning pre-selected person appears; free
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Smart Agent/Clipping
Agent Review
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1999 overview of what USC was covering
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