http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/10/zvents-teams-with-mercury-news/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/10/zvents-teams-with-mercury-news/comment-page-1/#comment-4668 Bruce Dobie Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:45:19 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/2006/07/10/zvents-teams-with-mercury-news/#comment-4668 mike, i have a couple of questions. i am sure that prior to this arrangement the merc news had a ton of listings in its database already. some of these listings they had to input manually, using information provided to them by fax or e-mail. are the editorial staffers now using the zvents submission form to enter all of this data for publication not only at the paper's website but in the print edition? and once these events are powered by the zvents listings form into a database, do these events then go not only into the paper's database but into a zvents database? in other words, can a user at zvents now find what he would otherwise have found in the paper? finally, what does the paper pay for this? or does zvents simply offer the service for free, knowing that it will be aggregating more listings this way? thanks, bruce dobie/nashville, tn. mike, i have a couple of questions. i am sure that prior to this arrangement the merc news had a ton of listings in its database already. some of these listings they had to input manually, using information provided to them by fax or e-mail. are the editorial staffers now using the zvents submission form to enter all of this data for publication not only at the paper’s website but in the print edition? and once these events are powered by the zvents listings form into a database, do these events then go not only into the paper’s database but into a zvents database? in other words, can a user at zvents now find what he would otherwise have found in the paper? finally, what does the paper pay for this? or does zvents simply offer the service for free, knowing that it will be aggregating more listings this way? thanks, bruce dobie/nashville, tn.

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