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  • noun Internet An internet site that deals in information pertaining both to businesses offering goods and services as well as potential customers.

Etymologies

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Portmanteau of information and intermediary. Coined in 1997 by John Hagel in a Harvard Business Review article "The Coming Battle for Customer Information".

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Examples

  • The word "infomediary" first attracted widespread attention when it appeared in the January-February, 1997, issue of the Harvard Business Review, in an article titled "The Coming Battle for Customer Information," by John Hagel III and Jeffrey F. Rayport.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • The word "infomediary" first attracted widespread attention when it appeared in the January-February, 1997, issue of the Harvard Business Review, in an article titled "The Coming Battle for Customer Information," by John Hagel III and Jeffrey F. Rayport.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • The word "infomediary" first attracted widespread attention when it appeared in the January-February, 1997, issue of the Harvard Business Review, in an article titled "The Coming Battle for Customer Information," by John Hagel III and Jeffrey F. Rayport.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • The word "infomediary" first attracted widespread attention when it appeared in the January-February, 1997, issue of the Harvard Business Review, in an article titled "The Coming Battle for Customer Information," by John Hagel III and Jeffrey F. Rayport.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • Building a network among different electronic health records would be expensive, the article notes, so the "infomediary" who did this would need to clear authority to bundle and exercise the economic rights of multiple parties.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • Building a network among different electronic health records would be expensive, the article notes, so the "infomediary" who did this would need to clear authority to bundle and exercise the economic rights of multiple parties.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • So, in the end, consumers must relinquish control over the transaction to a traditional salesperson., which are selling the clicks, and "infomediary" Web sites that attract consumers turning to them for objective product information, like Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds and others.

    E-Commerce Times 2008

  • RKTI, the real-time business news search engine and infomediary, has signed an agreement with Thomson Gale to provide Rocketinfo's customers with access to over 1,000 full-text periodicals, journals, and magazines licensed by Thomson Gale.

    Internet News: Journals Archives 2009

  • I called up Fred Davis, the founder and CEO of Lumeria, which has its headquarters in Berkeley, California, to find out more about the infomediary business.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • And infomediary work is where that struggle is going.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

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