EContent articles from April 2003

EContent archives from April 2003

On the Flip side. (Edit this).(Andrew Filipowski is divine inc.'s CEO)(Editorial)
April 1, 2003... People love a scandal. Without doubt, as soon as mankind was able to raise its collective head an inch above the level of safety on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, it not only found time to dish dirt, but invested a fair amount of energy...

Free! (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... I avidly read Walt Crawford's stimulating December column, which helped me to crystallize my concerns about the free/paid content debate. Crucial to this is to recognize that "free content," micro payment content and today's "regular," (higher...

Print lives. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Right on Walt. I just finished reading your January article, "Contented Readers," in the room sometimes referred to as "the library". Until the day comes that we imbed flat panel displays in bathroom mirrors, reading digital content is...

Lingua Franca. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... As an addition to the list of localization resources cited by Thomas Pack (January 2003), could I suggest www.multilingual.com. This is the Web site of Multilingual Computing and provides a very good list of companies that offer services in...

People-powered search. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Your article on publishers' search solutions in the February issue was very interesting, but not so subtly hinted that the only way to build a "good research tool" is to buy an expensive taxonomy-learnin' beast. Organizations that already...

Real news. (Letters to the Editors).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... I read Ron Miller's article, "Publish or Perish," in the February 2003 issue. I think it's a pretty good overview of enewsletter publishing, but it gets a couple of details wrong, in my opinion. First, Miller quotes the ubiquitous Jakob...

Not divine. (Letters to the Editors).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... I couldn't believe that EContent only reported the divine version of why they were "divesting" RoweCom (February 2003, page 12). News of divine's looting of RoweCom hit the national and local papers in December. Even your online EContent...

Lead on. (Letter to the Editors).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Well done! The EContent Leadership White Paper was one of the best reads I've had in a while. Kind of like a mini-conference. I look forward to the next installments and wish you continued best of luck with this endeavor. Matt Manning ...

Gunning for information: pop-up desktop news. (News Feature).(News Technologies LLC; TriggerNews)
April 1, 2003... For some industries, access to real-time information provides calculable advantages. Take the investment sector, for one. Successful traders require an almost extrasensory ability to intuit the ways in which major mergers and minor management...

Divine files Chapter 11. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... divine, inc. announced February 25, that its board of directors has authorized divine and several of its subsidiaries to file a voluntary petition to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. divine expects operations to continue...

Hoover's stockholders approve merger with D&B. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Hoover's Inc. has announced that at its Special Meeting held March 3, stockholders approved the merger of Hoover's with D&B. A preliminary count indicated that 76.7% of the shares voted at the meeting--or 64.4% of the shares outstanding--were...

Opencola releases KM Enterprise solution. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Opencola Ltd, has announced the release of Opencola Enterprise, a knowledge management solution designed to give employees the ability to search for all relevant information at the same time, find people who have relevant information, and share...

Overture acquires AltaVista and business units of FAST. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Overture has announced that it will acquire FAST Search & Transfer's business units as well as AltaVista. Overture will acquire FAST's Internet business unit for $70 million in cash, as well as performance-based cash incentive payments for up...

If two heads are better than one, try 7,000 with Wikipedia. (Content News).
April 1, 2003... As much as you may claim to be, or hope to be, all knowing, chances are good that you're not. But if you combine your knowledge, with my knowledge, with the knowledge of 7,000 or so others around the world, chances are good that we are...

WebWare steps up DAM solution. (Content News).
April 1, 2003... While MAMBO, the former name of WebWare's DAM SOLUTION, may have evoked a light-hearted Latin-dance image, the latest generation renamed ActiveMedia, is all business. And business, in the minds of WebWare, is all about interoperability. The...

Ta da! Kazaa pulls a countersuit out of a hat. (Content News).
April 1, 2003... Some thought that Napster's demise marked the end of digital piracy; others thought that it was just the beginning. Recent events indicate that the battle against online music and film piracy is indeed in full swing, with both sides of the...

Mirror Image Internet: streams its way up the content food chain. (Content News).
April 1, 2003... the latest generation of portal, CM, and elearning solutions all have one thing in common: improved ease of use. Well, at least the aspiration to allow less-technical members of the digital content food chain to more easily use these previously...

MSNBC.com. (Peopleware).(Dean Wright)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... MSNBC.com has named Dean Wright as editor in chief. Wright, who helped launch MSNBC.com's news operations in the 1990s, will be based in Redmond, WA, and replaces acting editor in chief Michael Silberman, who continues as managing editor in...

Arbitron Inc. (Peopleware).(Dr. William McDonald)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Arbitron Inc. has appointed Dr. William McDonald to the new position of vice president and CFO. McDonald will support Arbitron's core business and initiatives in new and value-added services. Most recently, McDonald was the director of...

Roamware Inc. (Peopleware).(Stephen Baker)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Roamware Inc. has appointed Stephen Baker as executive vice president and CFO. Most recently, Baker served as the president and COO of Geoworks, a public wireless software and services company.

LexisNexis. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... LexisNexis announced that Wendy Beecham joins the company as senior vice president, enterprise and library. A publishing executive formerly with The Thomson Corporation in London, UK, Beecham will be based in Bethesda, MD, with an office in the...

The Board of Directors of AOL Time Warner Inc. (Peopleware).(Dick Parsons)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Board of Directors of AOL Time Warner Inc. has unanimously elected Dick Parsons to the combined positions of chairman and CEO effective May 16, 2003. Parsons was president of Time Warner when AOL acquired the company and was named CEO when...

MuseGlobal as CFO. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Cliff Hammond joins MuseGlobal as CFO. He hails from BASF, where he was responsible for the finance and treasury center and e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Graeme Wilson will serve as MuseGlobal's partner program director and Chris...

Compete, Inc. (Peopleware).(company appoints Donald L. McLagan)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Compete, Inc. has appointed Donald L. McLagan CEO, succeeding Man Jit Singh. McLagan, previously chairman and CEO of NewsEdge Corp., was also named president and chairman of the company's Board of Directors. Singh stepped down for personal...

Algonquin Studios. (Peopleware).(firm hires David M. Straitiff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... David M. Straitiff has joined Algonquin Studios as senior vice president, emerging ventures. Most recently Straitiff worked at Compass Ventures, a consulting firm that provides entrepreneurial services to local technology companies.

Knovel Corporation. (Peopleware).(company names editorial director)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Delores Meglio will take the roll of knovel Corporation's editorial director, As a member of the senior management team, Meglio will assume responsibility for negotiating publisher contracts and aggregating content for corporate and academic...

CollabNet. (Peopleware).(company names manager of Japanese operations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... CollabNet has announced Naomi Tomita as general manager of Japanese operations. Tomita joins CollabNet from Engage Technologies Japan, an Internet marketing company, where he was president and CEO.

The ABREVE Training and Services division. (Peopleware).(Taryn Light named ArchiText's content solutions manager)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Taryn Light will take the position of ArchiText's content solutions manager, overseeing and managing the ABREVE Training and Services division. Light was founder and president of Creative Communications and is currently the president of the...

Metrics.(Internet statistics)(Illustration)
April 1, 2003... Metrics. Action Taken by U.S. Internet Users after Being Asked to Pay for Access to a Previously Free Web Site, 2001 (as a % of respondents) Agreed to pay for accesses 12% Found a free alternative 50% Completely...

Outsell.(information spending data given)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 1, 2003... OUT SELL Individual & Department Information Spending Average dollar volume of Individual individual external information $1,500 purchases in the past 12 months (Base=3228) Average dollar volume of...

FluentMedia. (Review).(company's content solutions evaluated)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 1, 2003... Company: FluentMedia, content solutions from Tribune Company Purpose: Supply organizations with content and editorial tools for their corporate portals and Web sites. Starting Price: Software: One-time licensing fee of $6,500. ...

Paying for content and making content pay: online micropayment strategies and solutions.(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... Whether online or off, content providers adore the subscription model... and for good reason. Getting a user to commit to content at a bundled price, usually paid up front, is about as sweet a transaction as one can imagine. But it may not...

Passing through. (Behind the Firewall).(extranets in the UK are discussed)(Column)
April 1, 2003... this month the name of the column is a misnomer because I want to look at some issues of going through the firewall. In between writing columns for EContent, I earn my living as a consultant and, over the last few months, I have seen a...

Customized desktop content: new information power for the knowledgeable worker.(information-intensive environment of today's enterprise knowledge workers is discussed)(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... The examples in the boxes on the left illustrate the information-intensive environment of today's enterprise knowledge workers. The workplace has been redefined as a rich data universe, from which customized content streams directly (almost...

Content plus: what's selling online. (Follow the Money).(Online Publishers Association report on Web content market is discussed)(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... don't put in the order for the Ferrari just yet, and hold off breaking ground on the 10,000 square-foot McMansion. But we just might...just might, mind you...be turning the corner on the fee-based content model. The Online Publishers...

An EContent Interview with Dave Shaffer, Thomson Financial CEO.(Interview)
April 1, 2003... Thomson Corporation, one of the giants in the content industry, traces its roots back to the 1930s to humble beginnings as a small-town Canadian newspaper company. By the 1960s, Thomson had grown into a multinational corporation that was...

Now they sell it, now they don't. (InfoPro).(finding market research online is discussed)
April 1, 2003... It's a good thing that I have a high tolerance for uncertainty Hand change, or I'd have been driven to drink by the changes in the econtent field over the last couple of years. It's been a great thing for info pros; we have access to content...

The good, the slow, and the flashy: looking at ECONTENT 100 sites; even econtent industry leaders have something to learn about the usability and appeal of their sites. (Dis Content).(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2003... have you logged into your company's Web site from home or on the road? Could you view it objectively? Mary Ellen Bates asked some important questions in her November 2002 END OF FILE column--and that column, combined with the December 2002...

E4X: taking the risk out of multiple-currency management. (Profile).
April 1, 2003... "People work and make money in their homeland currency and have a sense of price in that currency they don't want to have to figure out conversions to U.S. dollars, and they shouldn't have to." It's been said that money makes the world go...

Singingfish: advancing the art of multimedia search; multimedia search technology will be part of every company's corporate communications kit. (Profile).(Company Profile)
April 1, 2003... When Singingfish CEO Karen Howe got the news on January 24, there was an impromptu celebration in her Seattle office. The Singingfish audio and video search engine had just exceeded the one million mark for daily search queries. "This is...

Content at sea. (After Thought).(econtent revolution in Japan)(NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service discussed)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2003... Anyone who thinks the econtent industry staid and boring with nothing new and fresh happening needs to getup and fly to Japan immediately. There, you'll witness an econtent revolution so profound it impacts even before the cabin doors open at...