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A former EContent assistant editor, Kinley Levack, forwarded me an August column from The New York Observer, The Media Mob. Her email bore this subject line: "I will always think of you when I hear this phrase ?" Alas, the column was not about the most inspiring bosses ever. In fact, it was about "The New Media Religion: ?Platform Agnostic.'"

Gale announced the launch of AcquireContent.com, a new online content marketplace.

YellowBrix has been in the content syndication and analytics business for more than 10 years. The company, which is based in Alexandria, Virginia, specializes in providing business, industry, and financial markets news and general consumer information for websites, intranets, wireless devices, and telephony services requiring real-time information. Within the next few weeks, in a step toward providing its analytical capabilities directly to consumers, YellowBrix will release a new product called RightTrade.

Open Text Corporation, provider of enterprise content management (ECM), announced that it is supporting the new Content Management Interoperability Services standard announced by a group of lECM companies, which are collaborating on the development of the new standard.

Google has bought Korea-based blogging software provider TNC.

Vialect, a provider of business collaboration and social-networking software, announced the release of Noodle, formerly known as IntraNet.