The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from April 2000

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from April 2000

Rights Management: Ready for Prime Time.(digital rights management)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT, once viewed as just a way to protect copyright and enforce old business rules in the digital domain, is rapidly maturing into a critical component of digital content marketing. What is DRM and why is it becoming so...

What's Your Type, Clear or Cool?
April 1, 2000... With the success of e-books depending on, at least in part, new breakthroughs in electronic type, Microsoft and Adobe have stepped up to the plate with ClearType and CoolType, respectively. Each takes notable strides in developing more...

Versifi Looks to an Object-based Future.
April 1, 2000... Versifi has been tweaking its strategy for high-end content management for a couple of years and believes it has finally found a winning formula. The company's innovative object-based approach to page structures is an eye-catcher, but does...

Profile : Versifi Takes an Objective Approach.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... When we looked at Versifi last fall, the company was a recent spin-off from Garg Data International that was peddling its V-Business Manager, a high-end content management and sales solution for publishers. At that time, we thought enough of...

Spotlight : Digital Rights Management: Technology Evolves to Aid Content Marketing.(Technology Information)
April 1, 2000... Digital Rights Management (DRM) is one of the hottest publishing technologies this year, attracting both large software houses and small upstarts eager to help publishers expand their sales into digital markets. In Part One of our coverage,...

DRM Vendors & Rights Clearinghouses.(document rights management)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... More than a dozen vendors of DRM products and services have sprung up in the past two years, and we expect more to arrive this year as digital content marketing evolves from its current, embryonic stage. Reciprocal was first to market and...

First Look : New PDF Tools Offer Increased Versatility.(Adobe Acrobat Messenger, Televisual Data's IStructure)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... When it comes to converting old paper documents to digital form, PDF offers several advantages over raw bitmaps. Adobe's Capture has been the primary product for automating this conversion, but it's about to face some competition, from Elan...

The Latest Word : Arbortext deploys its XML-based content management as an ASP Extends software business to outsource basis.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... After seeing Oracle enter the application service provider (ASP) business, it was only a matter of time before asset and content- management vendors began to take the database vendor's lead and follow suit. Last month, we noted WebWare's...

Allaire acquires Open Sesame from Bowne : Personalization, profiling software complements Spectra system.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Last month Allaire (www.allaire.com), maker of the popular ColdFusion engine and aspiring content-management system supplier, announced that it had acquired the profiling, personalization and business intelligence technology Open Sesame from...

IBM announces large-scale content-management system : Blends Digital Library with imaging and records-management products.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Pulling together two previously separate product lines, last month IBM announced Content Manager version 6.1, a large-scale, generic content- management system that unites DB2 Digital Library with IBM's electronic data-management tools. ...

Adobe Debuts FrameMaker 6.0 : New version boasts improvements, but still lacks XML import, editing.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 2000... FrameMaker, which remains the leading desktop page layout program for book work, has reached version 6.0. The new version, which features a new user interface for producing books, improves the HTML and PDF export facilities and adds an XML...

NCompass Labs updates Resolution 3.0 : Makes good on Oracle 8I support.(Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2000... Making good on its promise to incorporate updated database support in future versions of its Resolution Web content management package, NCompass Labs recently announced that Resolution 3.0 will include support for the Oracle 8i relational...

Former Frame, InfoSeek founder launches Propel.(Steve Kirsch)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Can Kirsch do it again? A few entrepreneurs are lucky enough to strike gold once. Steve Kirsch has done it three times, and last month he launched his fourth company, Propel. Kirsch, who invented the optical mouse and has had close ties...

Adobe preps GoLive for the future.(Web authoring software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 2000... Upgrade keeps pace with W3C standards, improves facilities for site management Consider the latest version of Adobe's GoLive to be another rung on the ladder. Step by step, Adobe is taking the product closer to the next level, where it...

W3C puts forth new DOM Level 2 standard candidate.(World Wide Web Consortium's Document Object Model)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... World Wide Web Consortium has released a new version of the Document Object Model, Level 2, that should draw developers' attention. The spec was published for a second time as a candidate recommendation, the step at which the technical...

Interwoven/Akamai team up.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Interwoven (www.interwoven.com), provider of TeamSite content management software, is teaming with Akamai Technologies (www.akamai.com), maker of the FreeFlow service for high-speed content delivery on the Internet, to develop an integrated...

AP Forms Net business unit.(AP Digital)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The Associated Press has formed a new business unit, called AP Digital, to sell national, international and non-local news to Internet markets. Thomas E. Slaughter, an AP VP and director of strategic planning since 1993, has been named...

E-marketplace for creatives.(Idealive)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Idealive (www.idealive.com), an online marketplace for the creative community, launched this month. The site is designed to be a hub for artists to expose their work to the greatest number of potential buyers at a minimum cost. A free...

Macromedia, Documentum link up for dynamic content.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Macromedia and Documentum will team to provide an e-business platform for providing dynamic Web content. The system will be based on the Documentum 4i content management system and will incorporate Macromedia's Dreamweaver authoring...

As we went to press : Glassbook to beef up encryption in wake of King novella piracy.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 1, 2000... Despite the success of Stephen King's e-book offering "Riding the Bullet" several weeks ago-more than 500,000 copies were reportedly downloaded in the first two weeks-some e-book vendors, especially Glassbook, are concerned about instances of...

The Web by the Numbers : Survival of the nicest in e-commerce; grocers in trouble?; online computer publishing flourishes.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Hackers get the headlines, and system crashes keep architects up at night worrying. But for e-commerce sites, there is a more silent killer out there that can drain hit stats and revenue more than any DNS errors ever could: bad customer...

Up Front.(Microsoft's ClearType, Adobe CoolType font management packages)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 2000... ClearType, CoolType: The Eyes Have It The announcement of Microsoft's ClearType and Adobe's CoolType technologies for improving text resolution by up to 300 percent have the e-book industry all aflutter. Are these technologies the key to...