The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from May 2000

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from May 2000

First Look - AOL Trots Out Netscape 6 for Public Preview.(Product Development)
May 1, 2000... Developers and OEMs should be pleased that the open source version is finally hitting the market, but fancy features like automatic translation won't outweigh sluggish performance for end users. It's likely to be too little, too late, but...

Spotlight - DRM Part II: Services for Clearing Copyright Permission.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Rising interest in selling digital content through new distribution channels is fueling demand for comprehensive tools and integrated services that assist publishers and other rightsholders in streamlining and simplifying their...

Trip Report: Middle - Market Newspaper Suppliers Gain Cross-Media Competence.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... Database-driven, cross-media functionality came to the newspaper market last year. The impressive functionality of these systems is now spreading throughout the newspaper market, becoming commonplace not only in high-end, but now mid-level...

Report from the Edge - How Oxford University Press and HighWire Took the OED Online.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Oxford University Press, with the help of HighWire Press, recently launched the first Web edition of the massive Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Behind the scenes, the project team overcame numerous challenges that the voluminous reference...

The Latest Word - Vyou.com coins "content access policies" for Web sites.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... Novel approach uses plug-ins to prevent piracy of Web content The idea for Vyou.com came to Peter Levy the hard way. His previous company, Intellichoice, discovered that some of its proprietary automotive analyses were being ripped off by...

Hitting the slopes: The fast and furious fall of Inso.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Company looks to DynaBase to reverse its recent fortunes What a long, strange trip it's been. Up until mid-1996, before it acquired Electronic Book Technologies and the then-intriguing DynaBase product that came with it, the majority...

Xerox spins off ContentGuard into new company.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Microsoft minority shareholder in new rights-management firm Xerox announced April 27 that it is spinning off its ContentGuard rights management software into a separate company of the same name. Microsoft will be a minority shareholder,...

Microsoft book reader launches with Pocket PC.
May 1, 2000... Microsoft tries once again for hand-held market success Earlier this month Microsoft and associated hardware partners formally launched the third-generation Pocket PC, Microsoft's latest attempt to transfer its dominance in desktop...

Pantone takes a low-tech approach to accurate Web colors.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... While Imation, E-color update their software approaches After GretagMacbeth, E-color and Imation announced pure-software approaches for color fidelity on Web pages, Pantone (www.pantone.com) knew it had to get into the game, too. It has...

Quark releases Avenue.Quark.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Xtension extracts XML-tagged text out of XPress documents Late last month, Quark announced the U.S. Macintosh release of Avenue.Quark, the Xtension that helps users extract XML-tagged ASCII text out of Quark XPress documents. The program...

Quark teams with ebrix on catalog front.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Will develop enterprise-scale system Last month Quark and ebrix Inc., which launched its company at the Retail Systems 2000 trade show in Chicago, announced a partnership to develop and market enterprise-scale content management,...

Informission reborn as Nurun.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Flow Systems' purchase is latest acquisition in buying spree Adding catalog content management to its arsenal of automated publishing tools and services, the Informission Group subsidiary of Quebecor has acquired Flow Systems of Chicago...

Connex brings XML to legacy newspaper systems.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Server supports NAA standards Global Digital Technologies, Inc., in conjunction with integrator and reseller Nova Publishing Products, Inc., has introduced a new line of XML conversion products for newspapers called Nova Connex. The...

Alchemedia Clever Content.(Product Information)
May 1, 2000... Small content management company makes some market penetration In an attempt to enable both cartoon characters and politicians to protect their images, Alchemedia, a San Francisco-based content rights provider, recently announced that it...

Digimarc protects its turf.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Files patent-infringement lawsuits; releases MediaBridge to the field Fighting to ward off competitors invading the image-watermarking market, Digimarc has filed patent-infringement lawsuits against two firms it believes encroach too...

The unspoken costs of ASPs.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Our story last month about Marcel Dekker's use of Citrix to deploy Arbortext's Extend on an application server provider (ASP) basis prompted several calls from readers to discuss this new way of running systems. One reader who called was...

The Web by the Numbers.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... Consumers voice privacy concerns; Stop bashing banner ads; Internet growth the past two years Although it hasn't yet hindered the Web's exponential growth, grumblings about user privacy have grown a little bit louder in recent times....