EContent articles from April 2006

EContent archives from April 2006

See saw.(postmodernism of media coverage in winter olympics 2006)
April 1, 2006... the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics was a picture of postmodernism. The athletes pointed still, phone, and video cameras back at the world watching them. It is interesting so many chose to be chroniclers of the moment rather than simply...

Searching for knowledge.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... In his November article [2005, "The Evolution of Knowledge Management," pp. 38-41], Ron Miller raised some particularly valid points and presented an excellent overview of the ever-emerging personal knowledge management market. I think we all...

Re-inventing the wheel.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Please pass on my appreciation to Mark Armstrong for the graphic on page 24 of the November issue of EContent [2005, "People Powered: Content and Collaboration Combine Forces"]. Not only is it a fun graphic, it perfectly captures the article's...

Correction.(EMail)(Correction notice)
April 1, 2006... The article: A Case of Disc-based Digital Content Thriving in an Online World [March 2006, pp. 46-47] had the wrong author byline. Bill Trippe was the author of this article. We sincerely regret this error. --Ed.

Tech giants band together to battle badware.(action against the badware)
April 1, 2006... the "badware" problem--the plague of viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, adware, and similar applications that hurt business and consumers alike--has become so pervasive that three major technology companies, two universities, and a...

NSA and the dangers of documents.(National Security Agency)(information sercurities of united states)
April 1, 2006... a U.S. soldier accidentally kills an Italian secret service agent in Iraq. The Pentagon posts a report online in Portable Document Format (PDF), discussing the tragic incident. Clever readers on the Internet, however, are able to access...

FAST teams up with LexisNexis for search and retrieval solution.(Fast Search & Transfer)
April 1, 2006... LexisNexis U.S., a provider of news, business, and legal information services, and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, have announced that LexisNexis Taxonomy Solutions will be...

WebSideStory merges with Visual Sciences.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2006... WebSideStory, Inc., a provider of on-demand digital marketing applications, has announced the acquisition of Visual Sciences, LLC. The company announced a merger with privately held Visual Sciences, LLC, a provider of streaming data analysis...

Mediasurface launches new version of CMS.(news & product briefs)(content management suite introduction)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Mediasurface, an AIM-listed content management provider, has launched the latest version of its content management suite (CMS). Version 5.3.5 marks the arrival of the Morello Web Client, the company's renewed Web-based content management...

Show me the value: at SIIA, the debate over free vs. fee content continues.(Software Information Industry Association)
April 1, 2006... users taking control was the theme of this year's Software Information Industry Association's (SIIA) Summit held in New York City January 31 and February 1, 2006. However, another underlying current flowed through the event: a shift in the...

Can the Sony Reader: push ebooks into the mainstream?(content news)
April 1, 2006... for years, the ebook industry has been trying to bring ebooks into the mainstream, but hardware issues with the reader devices have held back widespread adoption. This could change this year when Sony debuts its reader featuring E Ink screen...

Making history: StoryCorps puts digital recording in the people's hands.(content news)
April 1, 2006... you can't live forever, but thanks to a StoryBooth coming to a town near you, you might be able to live on in digital form (and even tell your grandkids what life was like before the Internet, though they might not believe you). StoryCorps, a...

Liquid Machines, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... Liquid Machines, Inc., has announced that Keith E. Johnson has been appointed VP of public sector. Johnson brings more than 25 years of federal business development and sales experience to Liquid Machines. Most recently, Johnson held a similar...

Content Management Professionals.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), has announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros board of directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization's...

WebSideStory, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... WebSideStory, Inc., has announced the appointment of Claire Long as its new CFO. Long was most recently the director of finance and corporate controller for Memec, a global semiconductor distributor headquartered in San Diego.

Mindbridge Software.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... Mindbridge Software has announced the addition of Ed Golderer as VP of sales. Golderer brings to the company more than 25 years of leadership experience in sales and strategic alliance development. Prior to joining Mindbridge, Golderer was VP...

Noozz.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... Noozz has announced the appointment of Richard P. Ream to the newly created position of president, Noozz America. Ream has also joined the executive board of Noozz. Ream has been involved with the information industry, including serving eight...

BitPass, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... BitPass, Inc., has named Preston Roper as VP of marketing. Roper will lead corporate marketing and merchant outreach as BitPass responds to interest from content providers for commerce solutions delivered on demand. He was previously VP of...

Coemergence, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2006... Coemergence, Inc., has announced the appointment of Steve Barth to its board of advisors. Barth is a consultant, writer, and speaker in knowledge management, organizational intelligence, and technology strategy. Barth was a founding editor of...

Semantico.(business development director of Semantico )
April 1, 2006... Richard Hollis has been appointed business development director for Semantico to help meet the demand from reference publishers seeking to maximize revenues from online reference works. He has worked within Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer and...

Scirus.(Scirus appoints managing director)
April 1, 2006... Scirus has appointed Sharon Mombru as managing director. Before joining the Scirus team, Mombru was the first sales representative of Scopus, Elsevier's navigation service, and was responsible for its introduction in the Southern EMEA region....

Adobe releases Flex 2.0 beta products.(product information)
April 1, 2006... Adobe Systems, Inc., has announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 2.0 product line and Adobe Rash Player 8.5, an application development solution for delivering Rich Internet Applications. The Rex 2.0 product line provides developers with an...

Sources of entertainment information.(metrics)(Table)
April 1, 2006... Female Male Television 65.9% 62.1% Internet 59.3% 66.0% Local Newspaper 61.6% 52.5% Word of Mouth 56.8% 42.3% Radio 45.0% 40.4% Magazine ...

Faces of econtent.(recruiting of EMC Documentum systems)
April 1, 2006... Job Function: With the online Studio D "customer community lounge," EMC Documentum, a provider of enterprise content management solutions, has focused significant efforts on the recruitment of customer references. "Studio D is primarily...

The great inventory crunch of '06?(online advertising)
April 1, 2006... after so many lean years and post-bubble disgrace, it is hard to believe the gusher of ad dollars and profitability flowing to some segments online. A year ago I wrote about the industry's need to wake up to the reality that the Web bounce back...

Mobile search system.(review: DECISION-MAKER)(Medio Systems, Inc.)(Company overview)
April 1, 2006... 2006 is set to be a banner year for mobile search, and Medio Systems' Medio Mobile Search is one of the first products out of the gates to understand that mobile search cannot merely be a retro-fit of the solutions we know in the fixed...

Shake it up, baby! Web services and the user-centric digital content remix.(Cover story)
April 1, 2006... Think "on demand" means pulling down last night's letterman monologue at your leisure, or "RSS-ing" the NYTimes.com theater reviews into MyYahoo!? Think again. Squads of military personnel walk into a Baghdad crossroads. From their...

Are you informationally fit?(info pro)(Column)
April 1, 2006... back when I was in elementary and high school, physical education classes were mandatory. We spent an hour a day, five days a week, sweating and attempting to develop some semblance of hand-eye coordination and aerobic fitness. It wasn't always...

Get rich online: Rich Internet Applications pay big dividends.
April 1, 2006... As the Internet matures, businesses and individuals have increasingly moved online to access applications that used to be the exclusive domain of the desktop. Some organizations, especially those with a global presence, find that, even for...

Open office wars.(support of Extensible markup language )
April 1, 2006... OpenOffice is a suite of free office tools originally developed as StarOffice for Sun Microsystems to compete with Microsoft Office. Microsoft and Sun have both developed XML support for their office suites, with major implications for managing...

Folksonomy: a game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag: should a robot dictate the terms of your search? In an age when whole lives are lived online--via blogs, picture albums, dating, shopping lists--digital content users are not only creating their content, they're building their own infrastructure for making it easier to find.(navigating webs)
April 1, 2006... The term folksonomy was coined in 2005 when information architect Thomas Vander Wal mashed up the words taxonomy and folk to name the growing phenomenon of users generating metadata by tagging pieces of digital information with their own...

Learning to go.(learning mobile technology)
April 1, 2006... mobile technologies are becoming embedded, ubiquitous, and networked--paving the way for an always-on and always-aware society. The enhanced capabilities mobile technologies offer for rich social interaction could totally transform how we work,...

A case of unified educational access: over the next several years, SD91 officials experimented with a variety of products designed to enhance online learning.(case study)
April 1, 2006... Organization: NECHAKO LAKES SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 91 Nechako Lakes School District No. 91 (SD91) serves more than 6,000 students in a roughly 27,000-square-mile area of north-central British Columbia. Its 21 elementary and secondary schools...

Do you squidoo?(after thought)
April 1, 2006... in our dynamic industry, new companies form all the time. IStart-ups in the content technology business as well as online publishing ventures appear at such a rapid clip that it is difficult to keep up. Imagine what it's like for the executives...