EContent articles from April 2002

EContent archives from April 2002

Ads? What ads? (Editor's Note).
April 1, 2002... When content sites make the move to a pay to play model, they sometimes offer a no-ads version of the site to subscribers. Pony up $25 a year and you can access content till your eyes pop out, all with nary a punch-the-monkey hopping back and...

The divine strategy. (News Feature).
April 1, 2002... With its recent acquisition of Northern Light, divine, Inc. has added another level to its complex roadmap--a roadmap it hopes will lead to the ultimate comprehensive enterprise portal solution. Over the past year, divine has acquired all or...

Wolters Kluwer selects Arbortext Epic Editor for multichannel publishing. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Wolters Kluwer has selected Arbortext, Inc.'s Epic software for XML content creation and will implement the Epic E-Content Engine (E3) for multichannel publishing. Wolters Kluwer loins 3,500 companies who have chosen Arbortext's Epic software...

Warner Music International streamlines Global CD production. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Warner Music International (WMI) has selected WAM!NET's Optical Media Solution to provide fast digital transmission and delivery of the company's audio masters and packaging graphics files from its studios in the U.K., U.S., and Tokyo to its...

Apple and Akamai deliver record business streaming event. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Akamai Technologies, Inc. has announced that the Webcast of the Macworld San Francisco keynote delivered by Steve Jobs on January 7 set new Internet records for a single, live corporate streaming event. More than 11TB of content were served...

PeopleSoft Portal Solutions to deliver News Headlines. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Under an agreement between PeopleSoft, Inc. and Moreover.com, PeopleSoft Inc. now delivers Headline News Links from Moreover.com to the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions for use by users of the PeopleSoft portals and PeopleSoft MarketPlace....

UpdateEngine6 and UE Studio launched with free trial. (Product News).
April 1, 2002... UpdateEngine6 (UE6), the latest edition of Fatwire Software's enterprise level dCM and Web application assembly system, features increased ease of use and shorter development time for users. FatWire has also released UE Studio, an add-on to UE6...

Congressional Quarterly and LexisNexis Team up for strategic alliance. (Product News).
April 1, 2002... Under an alliance between Congressional Quarterly, Inc. and LexisNexis Group, LexisNexis will become the exclusive distribution partner for CQ's content on Congress, politics, and public policy. Under terms of the partnership, LexisNexis...

Day releases Communique Unify. (Product News).
April 1, 2002... According to Day, Communique Unify provides infrastructure to manage and unify all digital content, information, and processes throughout an enterprise. The product is built on The ContentBus, a platform-independent software bus architecture...

NetRecall for Documentum released. (Product News).
April 1, 2002... Authentica Inc. has announced the latest addition to its NetRecall Web content security software, the NetRecall for Documentum 4i Web Content Management (WCM) Edition. NetRecall for Documentum provides users with security and control over Web...

Emblaze Systems Launches latest version of Mobile Media Platform. (Product News).
April 1, 2002... Release 3 of Emblaze Systems' Emblaze Mobile Media Platform 1--technology that streams multimedia to wireless devices-provides a complete standards-based infrastructure for cellular operators planning to launch revenue-generating media-based...

Content Management System integrated with Adobe GoLive. (Products News).
April 1, 2002... The Stellent Content Management system is now integrated with Adobe GoLive so that Web developers may design Web sites in GoLive and deploy them using the Stellent Content Management system. GoLive joins a growing list of Web design...

Digital Island provides 2Way Web Services for Cognotec. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Cognotec is using Digital Island's 2Way Web Services to facilitate its global Internet transaction platform. Cognotec provides services enabling financial institutions to brand and operate their own foreign exchange and money market trading...

Akamai extends Platform within Earthlink's Network. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Akamai Technologies, Inc. has deployed its edge delivery servers within EarthLinks network, providing EarthLink subscribers improved quality and reliability of Internet content served on the Akamai Platform. The deployment follows an extensive...

Documentum acquires Boxcar Technology. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Documentum has acquired Boxcar and plans to integrate Boxcar's standards-based technology for content aggregation and content distribution into the Documentum platform by the second quarter of this year. With this acquisition, Documentum will...

NBC's suite of Avid Solutions used at 2002 Winter Olympics. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Avid Technology, Inc. has announced that NBC's suite of Avid solutions at the 2002 Winter Olympics is the largest for any sporting event. The deployment includes 14 Avid Symphony systems for high-end editorial finishing; seven Avid Unity...

NewsEdge to distribute The New York Times. (Industry News).
April 1, 2002... Under an agreement with New York Times Digital, NewsEdge will deliver daily full-text content from The New York Times, Content from The New York Times will be incorporated into most of its spectrum of news products including NewsEdge Live and...

Peopleware.
April 1, 2002... Tribune Media Services has named three media executives to senior positions at FluentMedia. Appointments include Mark J. Miller, editorial director; Mitchell Lederer, director of sales and marketing; and Nedra Plonski, director of technology....

Metrics.
April 1, 2002... Metrics Reasons Why US Internet Users Turned to the Internet for News during the Week of the September 11, 2001 Attacks Internet more critical than traditional media 6% Website provided another perspective from...

Future phone. (Gearing Up).
April 1, 2002... The next generation of NEC's Dterm IP phone sets includes the INASET, an Internet Telephony appliance that converges both voice and data communications. Featuring a large color display, Java support and a web browser, INASET also provides the...

Wear-Ever you need a Camera. (Gearing Up).
April 1, 2002... Benq (formerly Acer Communications and Multimedia) announced the latest in electronic fashion accessories, the Digital Camera 300mini. Benq claims that the DC 300mini, which ships with a neck strap, is the smallest digital camera on the...

Titanium Rhino: PDA protector. (Gearing Up).
April 1, 2002... For those whose on-the-go lifestyle mandates seriously sturdy safeguards for essential electronic items, nothing protects like a Rhino. The latest addition to the Rhino family of PDA cases, the Visor Edge Titanium Molded Hardcase, is made of...

Look into the future of Content Management: Predictions of consolidation are premature. Market still supports a large and growing number of vendors.
April 1, 2002... Predictions of consolidation in the Content Management (CM) vendor arena have appeared in nearly every major industry prognosis over the past two years. Gartner Group, for example, recently reiterated its prediction that half the CM vendors in...

The Disconnect continues: Enterprise information managers still find the content buying process frustrating. Licensing, pricing, and integration are pressing concerns.
April 1, 2002... The relationships between the people who buy digital content and those who sell it are probably more acrimonious than ever before, says Dick Curtis, a director and lead analyst for the research firm Outsell Inc., where he covers econtent...

Survey says!: Online polls and surveys gain valuable insight from the usherbase.
April 1, 2002... Most site owners would love the opportunity to pick their users' brains. Why? To find out what they like and dislike about the site, the content, the colors, the layout--you name it. What about clickstream analysis? Doesn't it give you this...

Web content extraction: A WhizBang! Approach.
April 1, 2002... If you know nothing else about Bob Sherwin, co-founder, president, and CEO of WhizBang! Labs (www.whizbang.com), you've got to recognize his flair for naming companies and products. Not only did he call his data extraction company WhizBang!...

Give me a break!: Once you've established that you can churn out worthwhile stuff, once you've established a reputation and a following, you need to stop. (DisContent).
April 1, 2002... Writers write every day. Would-be writers get that advice from many sources; it's one of the contemporary cliches of books on writing. No matter what, even if you throw it away later, every day you must sit at the keyboard and pound out a...

Content at your service: Online content has to become more service-oriented, offering content packages and even direct services that help users complete specific tasks. (Follow the Money).
April 1, 2002... Five or six years into the Web's fledgling existence, most content providers continue to cling to the notion that this medium is just another publishing platform, a bottomless pit into which they can dump massive amounts of old and new content...

Information architecture and usability: Intranet users are especially critical of poor usability, and rightly so. (Behind the Firewall).
April 1, 2002... I expect that quite a number of you have had to endure an Awards Evening. You end up sitting at a table that is far too large to have conversations with anyone else other than the guests on either side of you. This serves to highlight how long...

Arbortext: Enabler of multichannel publishing; "Going forward, companies are going to have to look at managing their content assets as efficiently as they have begun to manage their manufacturing processes.". (Profile).
April 1, 2002... The problem is epidemic--and if anything, it's growing worse. A company has a document--say, dosage instructions for a prescription drug or a troubleshooting sheet for a DVD drive. That document starts its life in a predictable format, probably...

Speedera Web without the wait: CDNs can't turn a footpath into a freeway, but they can help data in transit take advantage of shortcuts and steer clear of traffic jams. (Profile).
April 1, 2002... There's no greater testament to the utility of the Internet than the fact that hundreds of millions of people worldwide are willing to wait for Web pages as they build incrementally on screen. But while users may put up with the "World Wide...

WAM!Net: Private pipes for electronic media; "We are the digital version of FedEx. We offer storage and intelligent workflow.". (Profile).
April 1, 2002... The United States military--especially during war time--is pretty careful about the way it handles its workflow and communications. Before a company is awarded a government contract, the company and its technology are screened and verified. If...

Steal this article. (End of File).
April 1, 2002... In a fit of technolust, I bought a spiffy digital camera about a year ago. (And no, I refuse to find out how many more megapixels I could buy today for what I paid for it then.) I've been happily shooting and deleting pictures, and printing off...