EContent articles from April 2001

EContent archives from April 2001

Content in Action.
April 1, 2001... BILL MICKEY In the print world, a magazine's letters department is all about interaction. It's important that readers feel like there's an opportunity for open communication. When all is quiet, I'm not thinking everyone is satisfied, I'm...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
April 1, 2001... streaming RIGHTEOUS RELAUNCH Congratulations on EContent's relaunch! I have been a subscriber for several years now, and EContent keeps getting better through the years. I found your Special Report series of articles ["Special Report:...

Online content filters flunk.
April 1, 2001... Consumer Reports released an unfavorable report about Internet filtering software. The magazine tested filtering programs four years ago, and reported no big improvements after retesting the products last February. Software programs failed to...

Etextbooks gaining ground in print space.
April 1, 2001... the market for electronic textbooks is growing fast, while the consumer market for ebooks is not growing as rapidly as initially forecast. Etextbooks are becoming quite popular in educational institutions. Some professors have encouraged...

Intranets & extranets: what's hot, what's not.
April 1, 2001... To keep you up-to-speed with the hottest trends and practices for the implementation of intranets and extranets in the corporate world, EContent caught up with Program Co-Chair (along with Jean DeMatteo) Howard McQueen as he added the final...

Ebook Trade Association Founded.
April 1, 2001... A group of publishers, including Reader's Digest and Editor & Publisher, among others, formed the Electronic Book Newsstand Association. This association was created to raise publisher and consumer awareness of reader devices as platforms for...

SiteSmith Joins Akamal.
April 1, 2001... SiteSmith, Inc., a provider of Internet infrastructure-managed services, added Akamal's global Internet content delivery services to its Internet infrastructure service. The relationship between the two companies enables SiteSmith to provide...

Reciprocal and Qpass Protect and Deliver Content.
April 1, 2001... The new integration of Qpass Digital Commerce Service with Reciprocal Digital Clearing Service enables media companies and other content owners to securely sell DRM-protected content online. The integration of both platforms will enable...

Loudcloud Joins Context Media.
April 1, 2001... Context Media and Loudcloud partnered and agreed that Context Media Interchange Platform will be hosted by Loudcloud's software infrastructure services. The agreement allows content owners to manage and share content among partners across...

YellowBrix Provides News to Oracle's Partners.
April 1, 2001... YellowBrix joined the Oracle Enterprise Portal Partner Initiative and the Oracle Exchange Partner Initiative. Both programs are part of the Oracle Partner Program, a community that delivers solutions or services based on the open Oracle...

Kinecta and Open Market Combine Services.
April 1, 2001... Kinecta partnered with Open Market, a content management and delivery provider, to develop a service that will enable businesses to leverage a single base of content assets. The new service promises to strengthen existing customer relationships...

IndustryClick Enhances MindBranch.
April 1, 2001... According to the alliance between IndustryClick and Mind Branch, IndustryClick will establish direct links from its online vertical industry community sites to MindBranch's industry--specific online search catalogs. MindBranch will then provide...

Cisco Invests in Apogee.
April 1, 2001... Cisco Systems made an equity investment in Apogee Networks. The two companies plan to jointly develop, market, and sell new bundled offerings to Cisco's service provider and enterprise customer base. The companies completed the first phase of...

ClearForest Distributes COMTEX News.
April 1, 2001... ClearForest made an alliance for news distribution rights with COMTEX News Networks, Inc. ClearForest's knowledge extraction and delivery engine reads and understands real-time news feeds provided by content providers and delivers concise...

Ariba and Vignette Unite.
April 1, 2001... Vignette Corp. and Ariba, Inc. partnered to deliver solutions that enable buyers, suppliers, and marketplaces to gain greater market traction by deepening relationships with their trading partners, enhancing customer revenue opportunities, and...

Inovaware and Global Knowledge Join Content Alliance.
April 1, 2001... Inovaware, supplier of billing and customer lifecycle management software, was invited to join the Content Alliance, an industry group initiated by Cisco Systems, Inc., to accelerate and lead the development of Internet content delivery...

CMGI Sells Ranging Bull.
April 1, 2001... Troubled Internet holding Company CMGI said it has sold the Ranging Bull Web site, held through its AltaVista subsidiary, to Terra Lycos for an undisclosed amount of cash. Terra Lycos plans to use Ranging Bull to complement other financial...

NextPage Acquires netLens.
April 1, 2001... NextPage Inc., provider of P2P content networking solutions, purchased netLens Inc. The acquisition will enable NextPage to accelerate development of a P2P content networking platform for businesses. The combination of these two companies...

DigitalOwl Gets $13.2 Million.
April 1, 2001... Noro-Moseley Partners led an $11.1 million investment round with additional investments from Draper Atlantic and Owl Ventures, a private investment firm. The second-round funding brings to $13.2 million the total venture capital investments in...

LEXIS-NEXIS and Interface Software Join.
April 1, 2001... LEXIS-NEXIS Group and Interface Software, Inc., developer of InterAction and Relationship Intelligence solution for the professional services industry, formed a strategic alliance through which legal pros will gain access to competitive...

Infotrieve Delivers for Dow Chemical.
April 1, 2001... Dow Chemical granted multiple contracts for a global document delivery and library outsourcing to Infotrieve. The three-year agreement with Infotrieve provides global document delivery, article fulfillment, and research text requests for Dow...

NewsEdge Content at Business.com.
April 1, 2001... NewsEdge Corp. signed an agreement with Business.com whereby NewsEdge will license its proprietary indexing technology and human review process to Business.com users. NewsEdge will also provide Business.com with approximately 1,000 real-time...

Hoover's and GlobalNet Exchange Content.
April 1, 2001... Hoover's, Inc., its London-based subsidiary Hoover's Online Europe Limited, and GlobalNetFinancial.com will work together to provide each other portions of their respective business content and services for worldwide distribution via their...

Virage Teams With ABCNEWS.com.
April 1, 2001... Virage, Inc. and ABCNEWS.com teamed up to syndicate a search application that will further distribute the network's news programming across the Internet. Virage's Video Application Platform and Syndication Manager will be integrated into the...

Ingenta and Catch Word Merge.
April 1, 2001... ingenta has merged with Catch Word, the ejournal online hosting and distribution service, in a deal valued at $16 million. After the merge, ingenta will now handle hosting and linking to over 4,500 publications for over 140 publishers. "The...

NQL Manages Content Anywhere.
April 1, 2001... NQL unveiled its new content management platform, NQL ContentAnywhere. This platform enables seamless integration of data from any source with network resources so that users can immediately locate and insert data into a variety of desktop...

ImagineOn Develops Vizario.
April 1, 2001... ImagineOn, Inc. is developing a wireless search and retrieval system called Vizario. Vizario is based on ImagineOn's patented Transformational Database Processing and Playback Software Technology designed to find, format, and play back data...

Digital Island Introduces TraceWare.
April 1, 2001... Digital Island, Inc. recently released TraceWare 3.0, a suite of services enabling enhanced geographical control of Internet content. The first service available, TraceWare Remote 3.0, enables enhanced managed distribution of digital content,...

ESPS' Liquent Provides XML-Rendering Capabilities.
April 1, 2001... ESPS, Inc., provider of electronic publishing solutions, has a new business division, Liquent, which will initially focus on the development of XML-based content middleware that promises a smooth business content exchange and repurposing...

Wavo's Assets on Sale.
April 1, 2001... Wavo's flagship digital media service, MediaXpress, is being shut down. Despite its month-on-month growth since the service was launched early 2000, the company was not able to achieve its business plans or acquire enough funds to sustain...

New Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader and Content Server.
April 1, 2001... Since its acquisition of Glassbook, Inc., Adobe has released two products, The Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader 2.0 and the Adobe Content Server 2.0. The Adobe Content Server is a system that secures and sells Adobe PDF-based ebooks. The server...

Version 2.6 of B.media Available.
April 1, 2001... Banta Integrated Media released a new version of B.media digital content management software. One of the additions that will make it easier to find content within a document and thereby streamline overall workflow is a full-text search and...

IBM Electronic Media Management System Enhanced.
April 1, 2001... IBM enhanced its music distribution tool with superdistribution capabilities--enabling authorized peer-to-peer sharing of music or book files, giving retailers and consumers the ability to pass along content to multiple recipients. Along with...

New AT&T Services Content Provider.
April 1, 2001... To support its new product, AT&T Intelligent Content Distribution Service, AT&T is the first commercial provider to offer Internet Connectivity at speeds of OC-48 (2.5Gbps), as well as the first provider to have fully operational,...

New Factiva Search Module Tool.
April 1, 2001... Factiva launched Factiva Search Module, the second tool in Factiva Integration, a suite of solutions for integrating Factiva's global content into intranets and portals. Customers can integrate the new tool into the layout of any existing...

Peopleware.
April 1, 2001... Nick Manolis, former chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Janus Software, joined Outsell, Inc. as chief financial officer. Digital Goods elected George Middlemas, a managing partner of Apex Venture Partners, to the...

Worldwide Caching Revenue by Content Type 2000 & 2004.
April 1, 2001... [Graph omitted] m&a activity January 2001 Internet M&A by sector Sector Deals Dollars (millions) Infrastructure 33 $3,700 Access 8 $825...

IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE?
April 1, 2001... It may not be able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound, but it comes pretty darn close. Apple's new SuperDrive, installed with its new line of 733mHz G4s, combines CD-RW capabilities with DVD-R (yes, that "R" stands for "recordable")....

NOT JUST FOR NOTES.
April 1, 2001... The Tablet PC, Microsoft's pad-of-papershaped computer, is not just an appliance featuring handwriting recognition. The PC boasts a full operating system and support for all the familiar apps and Internet connectivity that you'd normally use on...

I SHALL CALL HIM....MINI-MOVIE.
April 1, 2001... Designed by IDEO, the eyemodule turns Handspring's Visor line of Palmo PDAs into instant digital cameras. As part of the Springboard module series, eyemodule plugs into Visor's port and is instantly ready to begin snapping images-or making...

Eight ESSENTIAL STRATEGIES for Repurposing Content for the Web.
April 1, 2001... Poor Lord Kelvin. If he were alive today, he'd likely wholeheartedly endorse a prediction that's held as gospel by many Internet cognoscenti: Publishing on the Web is a profitless folly at which no one will ever succeed. To a scientific mind...

Syndication: Content Hits the Distribution Jackpot.
April 1, 2001... In 1906, Winson McCay created a comic strip called "Little Nemo in Slumberland," which quickly became popular across the United States. Undoubtedly, it was successful because of its humor and because it was drawn in a charming fairy-tale style,...

A Vital Piece of the INTERNET PUZZLE.
April 1, 2001... Many things affect whether a Web site will hold up under pressure, but often it is the most mundane problems that kill you. IT'S A FAVORITE TELEVISION COMMERCIAL related to the Internet, perhaps because the anxiety it portrays is so well...

Teaming with possibilities.
April 1, 2001... A lot of what we're experiencing are inevitable start-up pains--a sort of discovery. It's new. "Can We All Just Get Along?", the title of a report on buyer/vendor relations issued by trade analysts Outsell, Inc., seems to reflect the angst...

Tracking the Ebook Niches.
April 1, 2001... The thought that Microsoft's involvement assures a big future for a field is no truer than the old belief that IBM always succeeded. donald Hawkins' thorough two-part discussion of electronic books (ONLINE, 24:4 and 24:5) forms a fine...

Reality Check for the EIP Market.
April 1, 2001... Most of the portal vendors are still small, privately owned businesses, which makes any analysis of their current and future performance difficult. Christmas came early to the portal industry in 1998, when in mid-November the report on the...

Banner Advertising: Still Alive, But Fundamentally Flawed?
April 1, 2001... The average Web site simply inserts the banner ad code supplied by its agency and collects the money. It's funny, really. The Internet was supposed to shape our lives, giving us the tools of the future--a platform for developing new ideas,...

Ebrary Shapes New Ebook Paradigm.
April 1, 2001... "We are not an ebook company...We're not a bookseller...We are a software company with a killer app." One of the new century's most confusing new technologies is the ebook, with its chaotic jumble of readers, viewers, Web sites,...

Business.com: Free Content in Context.
April 1, 2001... "Business.com's mantra in designing its service is 'Content in Context."' With the bottoming out of the dot coms still not quite at rock bottom, many Net companies have started to change their revenue models, moving away from entirely...

ECNext: Success Through Multiplicity.
April 1, 2001... "Publishers don't need to worry about having their own technology staff. They can contract it out but still control their branding, pricing, and distribution." based in Columbus, Ohio, ECNext builds Web sites for commercial publishers...

NextPage Provides Napster-Like Collaboration Solutions.
April 1, 2001... The philosophy that underlies P2P technology is far from new, either to NextPage or to the content community. With Napster making headlines about peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, can you really blame an econtent company from making hay from...

Kinecta: DIY Syndication.
April 1, 2001... "There are content providers that don't want to lose control over their brand, their relationships, and their content. This is why our Kinecta Interact programs eliminates all intermediaries." If your company has been thinking of...

A Winning Content Combo: iWon and Fact City.
April 1, 2001... The partnership between Fact City and iWon makes an excellent case study on how sites can add information content in a way that benefits both sides. Whether content, stickiness, community, or salesmanship is king, the interconnectedness of...

Can Content Do That?
April 1, 2001... a list released every year by Beloit College reminds faculty of the life experiences of incoming students. It includes items such as: they've never "dialed" a telephone number, they have no idea who Ma Bell was, they have no memory of a time...