The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from February 1999

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from February 1999

Learning from the Past: An Interview with Ikonic.(Company Operations)
February 1, 1999... Founded years before the Web was created, multimedia studio Ikonic is one of the few firms to successfully make the jump from interactive television to the Web. Visiting the firm in San Francisco, we interviewed its top-notch team and asked...

Content Management For Industrial Catalogs: Boise's Road to Success.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 1999... INDUSTRIAL CATALOGS are a natural fit for Web publishing. The ease of searching for specific parts amidst an inventory of thousands of items, the low cost of publishing updates to pricing, and, of course, the lure of linking the catalog to...

Making Multimedia Marketing Work.
February 1, 1999... It's not hard these days to set up an electronic storefront; the tough part is attracting and keeping customers. Diesel, an Italian manufacturer of designer clothing, in tandem with its studio, Real Time Interactive, draws enthusiastic fans...

Battles brewing.(Adobe Systems acquires GoLive, Quark teams with Adhesive Software)(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 1999... If the Web publishing systems market seemed to have reached a lull, it was jolted back into high gear last month by the back-to-back pronouncements by Adobe and Quark that they intend to be major players in this arena. Adobe kicked off...

Driving the Diesel Engine: Multimedia Marketing Savvy.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Many businesses are setting up electronic storefronts to sell their goods, but creating a site that successfully draws-and keeps-fans of your products also calls for innovative marketing, as we found at Diesel, an Italian manufacturer of...

Content Management for Industrial Catalogs: Boise Goes with Flow Systems.(Company Operations)
February 1, 1999... Industrial catalogs serve as the primary sales vehicle for many manufacturers and distributors. Because these catalogs are large and so critical to the company's success, toying with a working production cycle is not to be taken lightly. Yet,...

A Look at Flow Systems.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... "The premise behind our company is that catalog publishing has become more complex due primarily to the Internet," explained Flow Systems president Alister Gibson. He should know, thanks to his years of experience working at R.R. Donnelley &...

SageMaker: Adding Intelligence Makes for Intelligent Business.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Now that we have intuitive hypertext browsing, navigation through classification schemes (just as you have at your local library) is a hot topic for both Web publishers and large corporations seeking "knowledge management." One company using...

Adobe captures GoLive Pushes into professional Web design and site management.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Adobe began the new year with a bang, acquiring GoLive, supplier of the popular Mac Web authoring tool CyberStudio and the GoLive Web Publishing System. The move gives Adobe a professional Web publishing tool to complement its lower-end...

SGI takes the NT plung; Visual Workstation line designed for publishing and media production.(Silicon Graphics)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 1999... Silicon Graphics (www.sgi.com) launched a new line of NT-based workstations, dubbed the Visual Workstation line, that represents a radical departure for SGI, whose name has been synonymous with high-end RISC-based Unix systems. The Visual...

Quark counters-plans to market news-oriented Web publishing system NewsFlash will be supplied by Adhesive Software, a Texas startup with an innovative system already in the field.(Company Operations)
February 1, 1999... In the keynote speech at the recent Newspaper Association of America SuperConference in Orlando, Florida, Chuck Bland, the Chief Operating Officer of Quark, outlined Quark's new business strategy and some of its product plans. As part of the...

Publishers test HP's new Instant Delivery for daily, weekly updates.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Web-driven print delivery ideal as subscriber perk Hewlett-Packard's new Instant Delivery Web printing capability, launched in December, is attracting the attention of leading publishers, including CBS Sportsline, National Geographic...

Inso buys AIS from Berger-Levrault.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Picks up Balise, Dual Prism, European talent and customers Continuing its quest to build the most complete framework for SGML- and XML-based publishing on the market, Inso has acquired the Advanced Information Systems (AIS Software)division...

The lowdown on Jini.(Sun Microsystems' Java extension)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Three months ago we presented a heads-up on the impending arrival of Jini, a new technology from Sun Microsystems (Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 17). Sun was vague about the details at the time. Now that the technology has been released, our resident...

Subscriptions up at Web financial publishers.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 1999... The number of paid subscriptions to leading financial Web sites is rising, according to recent released figures. Newsbytes News Netwok reported that the Interactive editon of the Wall Street Journal had more than 265,000 paying subscribers at...

Educational publishers expand Web content.(Harcourt Brace, Houghton Mifflin)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Harcourt to link Smithsonian Web resources to textbooks. Harcourt Brace is teaming with the Smithsonian Institution (www.si.edu) to provide Web resources to complement its social studies textbooks from Harcourt Brace's elementary and...

Options for securing content harden.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 1999... Several recent announcements underscore the increasingly sophisticated methods for securing and distributing digital content. For the most part these new options are hardware-based and include support for rich content types like audio and...

Springer moves to sell journal articles by the slice.(Springer-Verlag sold to Bertelsmann)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 1999... The venerable scientific and technical publisher Springer-Verlag was recently sold by the Springer family to Bertelsmann, merging two medium-sized publishers into one larger corporate entity of about 4,600 employees. Bertelsmann has been...

Open Market exec aims to serve nonprofits.(Shikhar Ghosh starts iBelong Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 1999... Open Market co-founder and chairman Shikhar Ghosh has begun iBelong Networks (www.ibelong.com), a new venture aiming to help nonprofit associations create destination sites on the Web. Based in the Boston area, iBelong plans to offer a suite...

Intranet Solutions buys e-commerce firm.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 1999... Intranet Solutions has added electronic commerce capabilities to its Intra.doc content-management system with the acquisition of e-commerce technology and products from Softgoods Development. The Softgoods e-commerce product, obtained through...