Introduction
This idea involves using the sandboxed data provided by D & B on Windows Azure along with the data on DNB Direct via the API:
http://developer.dnb.com/ to create a windows mobile application that gets company news in a specific location.
Background
In a nutshell, the idea goes like this:
A user will have the ability to receive news about all companies in a certain geographic region.
The user can set the radius within which she would like to receive news or she can set the the criteria to be from a certain City or State.
This can be handled by the D & B sandbox using the Firmographics and LocationLatLong on Windows Azure.Please see Locust Career
Relocation Data Mining App.
The request for news if available, will be handled by the D & B Direct API ,
using the get request.
GET /company/884114609/news
A sample response is shown below.Actually, guess what company this is?
{
"companyNews": {
"duns": "884114609",
"newsItems": {
"newsItem": [
{
"category": [
"Executive Announcement",
" Executive Activity",
...
],
"title": "//sup {vertical-align: text-top; line-height: norm...",
"text": "",
"source": "Website Investor",
"link": "http://investor.dnb.com/index.cfm",
"date": "Tue Jun 25 00:00:00 UTC 2013"
},
{
"category": [
"Reduction"
],
"title": "Entrepreneurs Suspect Credit-Rehab Service Misled ...",
"text": "A close look into Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Cor...",
"source": "Entrepreneur Magazine",
"link": "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/entrepreneur/latest...",
"date": "Mon Jun 24 00:00:00 UTC 2013"
},
...
]
},
"name": "Dun Bradstreet"
}
}
The remaining is history, you know -deserialization of the JSON string e.t.c
Points of Interest
Feedback on the feasibility of this idea would be appreciated. I wish I had the time to attempt its implementation.
