The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from August 2000

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from August 2000

Spotlight - Bowstreet's Web Factory: Mass-Producing Customized Business Webs.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 1, 2000... Using XML to describe directory resources and profiles, Bowstreet's Business Web Factory and its sister service Business Web Exchange help companies build, share and snap on reusable software building blocks to create customized Web sites....

Analysis - Web Content: Sure It's Free, But for How Long?(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2000... Last month's Internet Content West show in Los Angeles brought content technology vendors and publishers together for a symposium on the future of Internet content. Much of the conversation was short on specifics and heavy on rhetoric, but...

Profile - Xlibris: Building an ISP for Budding Authors.(Company Business and Marketing)(Company Profile)
August 1, 2000... Taking advantage of the convergence of digital printing, advanced computing and networking, Philadelphia-based start-up Xlibris is building a publishing service for fledgling authors snubbed by traditional publishing houses. Its founder's...

Wireless Wars: Broadvision, Vignette launch platforms for mobile publishing.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Dueling for supremacy in the e-business application software market, powerhouses Vignette and Broadvision announced upgrades to their products that will automate the publishing of personalized Web content on wireless devices. Broadvision...

Art Technology Group announces Dynamo 5 - E-commerce platform continues to gain steam.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Already sporting an impressive client list, Art Technology Group (www.atg.com) continues to bolster its position among elite e-business platforms by issuing frequent upgrades. Last month it took its latest step, unveiling version 5 of its...

European catalog system vendors eye U.S. market - German vendors are a study in constrasts.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Among the vendors at Drupa, the mammoth German printing show that took place this summer, were a couple of catalog-system companies with an eye on the U.S. market. Content Skill (formerly Schnittstelle) is rolling out its system in the U.S....

Intranet Solutions picks up Inso's conversion division - Acquisition highlights a busy month.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Intranet Solutions was quite active last month. In a move that significantly increased its development and sales teams, the company purchased the Information Exchange Division (IED) of Inso Corporation for approximately $55 million in cash....

NewsML standard goes public - Markup for Web-based news awaiting trial implementations.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
August 1, 2000... The technical standards body for the international news industry is moving forward with a new XML-based standard for managing and interchanging multimedia news. Last month, more than 50 members of the International Press Telecommunications...

Andromeda adds lens correction plug-in - Fixes barrel, pincushion, perspective distortion; targets digital cameras.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Andromeda Software, which has an extensive line of specialty filters for Photoshop, has released a new one, called LensDoc, that corrects certain distortions caused by zoom lenses. It is available from Andromeda's Web site (www.andromeda.com)...

OnFlow: beautiful animations, tiny files.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Animated graphics add pizzazz to your Web pages, and especially to your banner ads. But the cost has always been large file sizes, and thus long download times. Now, though, a startup firm called OnFlow (www.onflow.com) has developed a...

Internet Printing Protocol moves to standards track - Implementations, directory services arrive.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
August 1, 2000... There are several reasons the fax machine was a great invention. Its purpose was easily understood: to print a document at a remote location. It was well standardized: most machines could communicate with each other, and if they couldn't,...

IBM Microdrives to arrive this fall.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... IBM has announced the arrival date of Microdrives, tiny hard drives the size of a matchbook with a storage capacity of 1 GB. These small wonders will be targeted for use in handheld computer devices such as Palm Pilots and digital cameras....

NetLibrary releases free, offline e-book reader.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... NetLibrary has released its Windows PC-based eBook Reader application, which is available as a free download from the NetLibrary Web site (www. netlibrary.com). In contrast with NetLibrary's online service, in which people read the books...

Microsoft, Toshiba plan e-book specific display.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and Toshiba (www.toshiba.com) will jointly develop a 7.7-inch, 640x960 dpi LCD designed specifically for e-book devices. The companies have completed specifications for a new line of products based on the...

Lightning reaches agreements with Simon & Schuster, iPublish.com.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2000... Print-on-demand pioneer Lightning Source (www.lightningsource.com), a subsidiary of Ingram Industries that launched in 1998, has announced an agreement with Simon & Schuster (www.simonsays.com) to become its "preferred and primary" digital...

Two Thomson Learning divisions team with Glassbook.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... South-Western College Publishing (www.swcollege.com), which publishes business content for higher education, and Custom Publishing (http://custom.thomsonlearning.com), which works directly with customers to create personalized textbooks, have...

Taylor & Francis to use Versaware for conversion and database storage.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Taylor & Francis Group (www.tandf.co.uk), an academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom, has hired Versaware (www.versaware.com) to digitize its entire backlist of approximately 17,000 titles. Initially the company hopes to have...

Franklin's eBookman to support .LIT files.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2000... Franklin Electronic (www.franklin.com) has released its new eBookman PDA device, which will be able to display Microsoft Reader e-book files. Available in three models-which differ in display quality and storage capacity and cost between...

E-Book Shows Crowd Fall Calendar.
August 1, 2000... One sure sign that a technology is on the rise is the sudden appearance of events devoted to it. Such is the case this fall with e-books. The fall show season kicks off with our own event, on August 28th, when we host a special day-long...

Becoming image conscious.
August 1, 2000... Future Image looks at issues surrounding images and the Web. The Internet is a natural medium for getting information. If the information you want is text, there are many good repositories, competent search engines and well-understood...

Commentary: Battle Lines Forming - Over Next E-Publishing Platform.(Product Information)
August 1, 2000... Microsoft's ambitious foray into e-books will heighten the PDF-OEB distinctions, but look for other issues, especially DRM, to be the real points of contention. Last month in our cover story we reviewed in some detail Microsoft's...

The Web by the Numbers.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2000... ASPs toiling in obscurity? The business of providing access to hosted applications via the Web is beginning to creep into public consciousness but has not yet reached fever pitch in terms of actual use. We've seen hints of it for applications...