EContent articles from April 2004

EContent archives from April 2004

Practice preaching.(digital publishing)
April 1, 2004... Again, the dichotomy of being a digital content magazine rears its head here at EContent. Early this year, we worked with E-Book Systems on our very first foray into digital delivery of the entire magazine. Yes, we've been reporting on digital...

Seeing search.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I'm writing a paper about the future of Internet search engines, read your column "Search Show Offs" [June 2003, p. 27], and wanted to explore your ideas about data visualization tools. Do you know if any search engines have or are considering...

Producing digitally.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I've enjoyed the print version of EContent for some time now and I congratulate you on a great magazine. I especially liked your December editor's column, "The End Of The Beginning" [p. 7]. Very insightful stuff. I'm a movie producer in...

Extra what?(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... I subscribed to your enewsletter because it promised "events and trends driving the content industry. Every week EContent Xtra delivers news and analysis specially tailored for those whose jobs revolve around Inter-net and enterprise...

Tracking down tracks: search engines evolve.(news feature)(Siren Systems)
April 1, 2004... How do you discover new music and artists? Probably through friends, the radio, or by wandering the aisles of a Virgin Megastore. Time consuming? Yes. Effective? Rarely. Two companies have recently entered the scene with the intent to turn your...

Intranet.com's usage formula applications, functions, and information.(news feature)
April 1, 2004... Companies everywhere are trying to conjure the magic formula that will miraculously transform their corporate intranet from being just another place to find the company phone list to its rightful role as the lifeblood of corporate...

Reflecting on flexible electronic displays.(news feature)(electronic books)
April 1, 2004... Nothing beats paper when it comes to displaying readable text in a comfortable, familiar form factor. That's one of the reasons that the ebook market has yet to take off. Who wants to read a whale of a book like Moby Dick on a minnow of a...

Safari bucks industry ebook trend.(news feature)(Safari Books Online)
April 1, 2004... Safari Books Online, a joint venture between technology book publishing giants O'Reilly and Pearson Technologies, has managed to succeed in the ebook market where so many others have failed. Rather than cutting a wide swath, the company focuses...

OneSource and ValueAct Capital sign merger agreement.(OneSource Information Services Inc. and ValueAct Capital Partners)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... OneSource Information Services, Inc., a provider of business information products and services, has entered into a merger agreement with affiliates of the investment firm ValueAct Capital. Under the agreement, each share of common stock of...

Inxight announces SmartDiscovery 4.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2004... Inxight Software, Inc. has announced SmartDiscovery 4, the latest version of its software solution designed to provide users "a direct path to the right information." In addition to enhancements to its existing search, entity extraction,...

SilkRoad debuts enterprise Weblogging application.(news & product briefs)(SilkRoad technology, inc)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... SilkRoad technology, inc., a provider of enterprise content management and collaboration software, has announced the debut of SilkBlogs, its Weblogging solution. Built on Eprise, SilkBlogs is designed to provide a people-centric collaborative...

Hummingbird partners with Venetica.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Hummingbird Ltd., a provider of integrated enterprise content management solutions, and Venetica, a provider of enterprise content integration software, have announced a strategic technology partnership, under which Hummingbird will leverage...

Authentica introduces E-DRM solution for secure information collaboration.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Authentica, Inc., a provider of enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) software, has introduced Authentica Secure Office, an E-DRM solution that is designed to let users securely collaborate on native Microsoft Office content with...

TripleHop announces MatchPoint 3.0 OEM edition.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2004... TripleHop Technologies, a developer of advanced context-sensitive enterprise search software, has announced MatchPoint 3.0 OEM Edition. MatchPoint for OEMs is designed to enable software vendors to meet additional customer needs by integrating...

LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)(James Peck appointed and Amy Bloebaum promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... LexisNexis Group has appointed James Peck SVP and COO, risk management group, in the company's corporate and federal markets (CFM) unit. In addition, Amy Bloebaum, VP, product technology and infrastructure, was promoted to SVP and chief product...

Comtex News Network, Inc.(peopleware)(C.W. Gilluly and Pieter VanBennekom appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Comtex News Network, Inc. has announced that C.W. Gilluly has been elected chairman of the board of directors and appointed interim CEO. Stephen W. Ellis, former chairman and CEO, and Laurence F. Schwartz, former president, have resigned their...

Authentica, Inc.(peopleware)(John Bruce appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Authentica, Inc., a provider of enterprise DRM software, has appointed Symantec and Counterpane veteran John Bruce as CEO. Most recently, Bruce was CMO and EVP, sales for Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. where he was responsible for driving...

The corporate functions and senior management teams of Roxio and Napster will be consolidating into Napster's offices in Los Angeles.(peopleware)(Brad Duea and Laura Goldberg promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The corporate functions and senior management teams of Roxio and Napster will be consolidating into Napster's offices in Los Angeles. As part of the realignment, Brad Duea, Roxio's head of worldwide business development, will become Napster's...

EasyAsk.(peopleware)(Michele Deziel appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... EasyAsk has appointed Michele Deziel CMO. Working with EasyAsk's engineering and field operations teams, she will report directly to Bob Alperin, EasyAsk's president and CEO.

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(Mario Lapointe and Jacques Dufort appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies Inc. has appointed Mario Lapointe as VP, sales, and Jacques Dufort as VP, business development. More recently, Lapointe led the early strategic development of Alis Technologies. Jacques Dufort has been working in various...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)(David T. Lingley promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Verity Inc. has promoted David T. Lingley to VP, North American consulting services, a unit of the company's professional services organization. Lingley will be responsible for consulting services provided to Verity customers in the United...

Endeavor.(peopleware)(Donald J. Muccino and Mark Wilson promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Donald J. Muccino, Endeavor VP, customer services, has been promoted to COO. With Endeavor since June 2003, Muccino will oversee Endeavor's customer support, implementation service, data services, information technology, and operations. Mark...

HighBeam Research.(peopleware)(David Guttman appointed )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... HighBeam Research, LLC has appointed David Guttman, VP, finance and administration. Guttman was most recently a principal and VP of Workspeed, a provider of Web-based and wireless real estate applications.

Really Strategies, Inc.(peopleware)(Marcelle Soviero appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Marcelle Soviero has joined Really Strategies, Inc., an independent content management and publishing solutions firm, as VP, business development. Prior to joining Really Strategies, Soviero spent 15 years in various positions throughout the...

Copernic.(new office)(appointments)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Copernic, a provider of search solutions for the small to medium-sized enterprise, has announced the opening of its first U.S. office, which will be led by three new sales executives: Eric Negler, director of U.S. sales; Richard Klemmer,...

Tribune Media Services.(peopleware)(Jan M. Guszynski promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Jan M. Guszynski has been promoted to marketing director for Chicago-based Tribune Media Services (TMS). A 14-year veteran of the company, Guszynski was most recently marketing and promotion manager, serving all of TMS' business units.

Metrics.(advertising agencies)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 1, 2004... Contextual Advertising Revenues Worldwide, 2003 and 2006 (in billions) 2003 $2.0 2006 $5.0 Source: META Group, October 2003 Note table made from bar graph. Online Paid Content Revenues in the US (Q1 & Q2 2001-2003...

Factors that would cause US consumers to abandon an online purchase, December 2003 (as a % of respondents).(Buying Factors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Surprise costs, such as shipping and handling, or a long delivery time--35% The site asks for too much information to make the purchase--30% Not enough product information to make the purchase--17% Deciding to make the purchase at...

Global Market Information Database (GMID).(EContent * Decision-Maker)(online magazine of Euromonitor International Inc.)
April 1, 2004... Company: Euromonitor International Purpose: To provide university and corporate researchers with international business intelligence, analyzable global market information, and time series of economic data. Starting Price: Core...

Audience management catches up with the promise.(follow the money)
April 1, 2004... After years spent taking aim, online publishers have finally started to hit the longstanding goal of interactive media: high-precision target marketing. Just in the last year, a number of major publishers have either deployed or started...

Sharing the wealth: is contextual advertising the new gold rush for content providers?
April 1, 2004... Grab an oar and start paddling if you want to ride the raging rapids of contextual ad revenue. Bidding on search engine keywords and placing relevant text ads beside a user's search results has proven so successful for marketers that by the...

Is Boolean dead?(info pro)
April 1, 2004... This is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh computer and Apple's ground-breaking ad, "1984," shown only once--at halftime during the Super Bowl in January 1984. Apple has a QuickTime version of the ad on its site, with the...

The Intranets newsletter: strategies, tips, and tools.(Intranets: enterprise strategies and solutions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The INTRANETS newsletter covers the strategies, tips, and tools required to help organizations develop, deploy, and manage intranets, extranets, portals, and other knowledge and information management initiatives. We recognize that the role of...

Get the picture.(visualizing the future of Search)
April 1, 2004... Traditionally, Internet searching has been a two-dimensional process. You enter a couple of search terms in your favorite search tool and get a text list of results. You then try and find a useful site by clicking results in the first page or...

The perfect flow: mapping the new information supply chain: nirvana is defined as an ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.(content management)
April 1, 2004... In the world of content management, experts believe the road to such perfect bliss can only be found when content flows efficiently, with nothing hindering it on its path to usefulness. Just as a strong heart pumps blood to keep human bodies...

Bringing users to life just takes a persona or two.(behind the firewall)
April 1, 2004... I still find that far too many intranets are being built on the basis of putting as much information (or rather, documents) as possible onto the intranet in the hope that users will be able to locate what they need through navigation and...

Getting the content up to speed.(dis Content)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... If everybody believes your econtent is the best thing on the Web, people will go to your site no matter how long it takes or how inconvenient you make it. If you are in this rarified position, you don't need to read this column--but do you...

SealedMedia: pulling the plug on information leaks.(Profile)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2004... What do the residents of Bhopal, India have in common with Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson? Probably not much, but they do share one experience: They were the victims of leaks. Whether those leaks are chemical--as was the case when a Union Carbide...

Buying & selling ... but what about marketing?(after thought)
April 1, 2004... Every April, when the Buying & Selling eContent event gets underway in sunny Arizona, I wonder yet again about the nearly invisible role marketing plays in the econtent industry. Because of our mystery-profession status, what marketers do for...