EContent articles from April 2005

EContent archives from April 2005

Halcyon days.
April 1, 2005... if Richard Nixon is history, then Eddie Haskell is nostalgia. With history, we factor in the complexity and context in which things take place, seeing the bad and good through the tempered eye of perspective. Nostalgia filters reality through a...

Finding search success.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... Steve's Smith's insightful Jan/Feb column, "The Emerging Search Economy" [p. 31], illuminates even more brightly a growing industry awareness: as the effectiveness of complex SEM/SEO technologies/methodologies continues to decline (and dangers...

Looking for search success.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... Dear Steve, Thank you for a very good column in the Jan/Feb issue [The Emerging Search Economy, p. 31]. It led me to think that just maybe you can help me. We are a small company manufacturing packaging machines; I also do the Web site....

The Liquid Information project is [hypher.sup.2].
April 1, 2005... before becoming commonplace in our Web vocabulary, the "hypertext" might have initially brought the word hyperactivity to mind. Interestingly, the term that has replaced hyperactivity in the vernacular--attention deficit disorder--even more...

KeepMedia, Inc.(peopleware )(Louis H. Borders appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... KeepMedia, Inc., a provider of online premium content, has announced that, following the resignation of Douglas J. Herrington, Louis H. Borders has become president and CEO. Borders is founder of Borders Books and Webvan and currently chairman...

Open Text Corporation.(peopleware)(John Shackleton promoted)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Open Text Corporation has announced that that John Shackleton will become CEO, effective July 1, 2005. The Chicago-based executive will be promoted from president, and Tom Jenkins, the company's current chairman and CEO, will continue in his...

Access Innovations, Inc.(peopleware)(Gina Woodhouse appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Access Innovations, Inc., specialists in creating and maintaining databases of digitized research and other content, has appointed Gina Woodhouse technical director, customer care, for the company's line of Data Harmony products.

CM Professionals.(peopleware)(board of directors elected)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The CM Professionals group has elected its first formal board of directors. The new board roster includes Ann Rockley, president; Erik Hartman, VP; Seth Gottlieb, treasurer; Samantha Starmer, secretary; Frank Gilbane.

Fast launches search best practices consulting services.(Fast Search and Transfer ASA)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has launched its FAST Search Best Practices consulting services (FAST SBP). Designed to help clients maximize the value they extract from their investment in search technology, FAST SBP provides organizations with...

iUpload launches business blogging platform.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... iUpload has launched Perspectives, which is designed to offer a business blogging application that allows users to create content in their blog and reach multiple communities and sites instantly. The number of Perspectives that can be applied...

WebSideStory to acquire Atomz and launch active marketing suite.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... WebSideStory, Inc., a provider of on-demand Web analytics, has announced an agreement to acquire Avivo Corporation, a California corporation doing business as "Atomz," and the launch of a new suite of integrated services for online marketing...

Towards universal DRM: the DMP tackles DRM for PAVs.(Digital Media Project )(Portable Audio and Video devices )
April 1, 2005... an international forum aimed at standardizing digital media and copy protection technologies is set to achieve a major milestone in its drive toward creating interoperable Digital Rights Management. This month, the International Digital Media...

Endeavor Information Systems.(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Robert Gerovski has joined Endeavor Information Systems as director of development. Gerovski will oversee development programming for Endeavor's line of library software systems. Gerovski was previously director of software engineering for...

Arbitron Inc.(peopleware)(Vaughan Scott)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Arbitron Inc. has appointed Vaughan Scott Henry EVP and CIO. As CIO, Henry will be responsible for the management of the IT infrastructure that supports all of Arbitron's business units and play a major role in the continued development of the...

Ask Jeeves acquires Bloglines.(News & Product Briefs)(Trustic Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ask Jeeves, Inc., a provider of information retrieval technologies, brands, and Internet advertising services, has acquired Trustic, Inc., the company that owns and operates Bloglines. Bloglines is a free online service for searching,...

eMeta releases eRights Suite for software industry.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... eMeta Corporation, a provider of digital access control and commerce solutions, has announced the availability of its eRights Suite for the software industry. The eMeta eRights Suite is intended to provide off-the-shelf applications for...

DRM reaches the 2005 media summit.(content news)(digital rights management )
April 1, 2005... panels at the second annual New York McGraw-Hill Media Summit, held February 9 and 10, 2005, tackled topics ranging from mobile content to maintaining a loyal customer base to VC funding for entertainment and technology. One of the more lively...

Computer history living well in San Francisco.
April 1, 2005... One of the advantages of living in the San Francisco Bay Area--a longtime hub of technological innovation--is the ability to attend events that add to one's knowledge of the evolution of computer and Internet technology. Earlier this year, I...

Mindbridge Software.(peopleware)(Mark Kaupas appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Mindbridge Software, a provider of intranet and business portal software announced the addition of Mark Kaupas as director of sales. Prior to joining Mindbridge, Kaupas served a dual role as Eastern region manager and country manager at...

Ask Jeeves.(peopleware)(Mark Fletcher appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As part of the Ask Jeeves acquisition of Bloglines, Mark Fletcher, CEO of Bloglines, will join Ask Jeeves as VP and general manager of Bloglines.

nLayers.(peopleware)(Frank Moss appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... nLayers has announced that Frank Moss, Ph.D., has joined its Strategic Advisory Board. Moss was formerly CEO and chairman of Tivoli Systems. Moss currently serves as president of Strategic Software Ventures (SSV) LLC, which assists in the...

Intellisophic, Inc.(peopleware)(Robert Blaisse, Maria Latulippe appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Intellisophic, Inc., publisher of taxonomic content, has added two new executives: Robert Blaisse as director of corporate sales and Maria Latulippe as taxonomy product manager. Prior to joining Intellisophic, Blaisse was employed by SunGard...

Plateau Systems.(peopleware)(Ram Gupta appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Plateau Systems has named Ram Gupta to its board of directors. Gupta most recently served as EVP, products and technology for PeopleSoft.

MediaSpan Group.(peopleware)(Mark Zagorski appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... MediaSpan Group has announced that Mark Zagorski, former president of WorldNow, has joined the company as chief marketing officer. This is a newly created position. Zagorski will report to CEO, F.R. Campagnoni, and will be based in New York...

WorldNow.(peopleware)(Allison Bodenmann appointed)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Allison Bodenmann has joined WorldNow, a provider of Internet technology, revenue and content solutions for media companies, as EVP for national/network ad sales. Bodenmann, who comes to WorldNow from Court, will be responsible for national...

I wanna be in pictures: WorldPitch screenplay submission service.
April 1, 2005... images of tattered notebooks and blunt-tipped pencils are what many associate with budding writers. In fact, would-be screenwriters have been portrayed as doing just about anything to get their scripts to anyone even remotely involved in the...

Metrics.(Illustration)
April 1, 2005... Subscriptions vs. a la carte Music Purchase (Among Portable MP3 Player Owners with Internet Access) %Interested in Using Service Buy Tracks for...

Illuminating your clients' blind spots.
April 1, 2005... I am a frequent conference speaker, and preparation is always a challenge because I know that most of the attendees at my sessions are experienced information professionals; I want to tell them something they do not already know. For a change...

Faces of Econtent.
April 1, 2005... Job Function: Open Text is a leader in enterprise content management, a technology used to bring people together to form collaborative groups for sharing information. Jared Spataro, director of collaboration & KM solutions for Open Text...

Building a better econtent commerce engine.(Cover Story)
April 1, 2005... Purveyors of digital content--from those providing online access to newspaper and other previously printed articles to those offering streaming audio and video--continue to seek the best ways to market and sell their materials while ensuring...

Cash and carry content: mobile content commerce.(Econtent commerce engine)
April 1, 2005... Obstacles ranging from low handset penetration to poor usability have dogged the growth of the mobile multimedia content and services market worldwide. But this year could mark a turning point: analysts forecast that, by the end of 2005,...

The new business of content alerts.
April 1, 2005... let's take the most lucrative sector of Web content during the last five years--search engines--and flip things around. Instead of using a search engine to sift through years of old data to find the piece you want, what if the data you need was...

Premium content: vendors take the desktop challenge.
April 1, 2005... At a time when anyone with a computer and a bit of Internet know-how can access an ever-expanding world of free content, you may wonder how fee-based content services survive. They are doing it through innovation and by finding ways to better...

Computer might makes digital right?
April 1, 2005... as content management systems add functionality to serve the enterprise, one of the more important capabilities is digital fights management (DRM). For Web publishers with large content databases, how and whether they restrict access may be a...

Aggregating the aggregators: RSS reader round-up.(Rich Site Summary)
April 1, 2005... While the Digital Age has brought about a revolution in the way consumers access information, the Internet can be a formidable landscape in which to find anything. There's just so much content, all changing so quickly. Trying to keep up to date...

Whose rights does DRM manage?(disContent)(digital restrictions management)
April 1, 2005... When I see "DRM" I think of digital restrictions management, not digital rights management. Too much DRM serves to restrict the rights of content users in ways I consider unreasonable and inequitable. At its worst, DRM undermines fair use and...

Entriq: transforming content assets into revenue.(profile)
April 1, 2005... Prince knows a thing or two about protecting, and profiting from, his content. He's known as much for his business and philosophical choices--briefly changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol and calling his contract with his former record...

Content business models: free to be you and me.
April 1, 2005... With consumers in control, the digital content industry is thriving. Today, businesspeople integrate information into daily work seamlessly, salespeople see news about customers when they're ready to pick up the phone, and individuals control...