EContent articles from April 2008

EContent archives from April 2008

Dreaming in txt.(edit this)
April 1, 2008... I earned a couple of memorable C's in my academic history. One was for my capricious foray into physics, which I took as a college elective in an effort to follow the cryptic conversations my physics-major best friend had with her science pals....

Intranet list manager.(EMail)
April 1, 2008... I am looking for information about company/corporate intranets in the U.S. that may have modules for "Alternative Transportation" options, including van and carpools. Please tell me of any surveys or research you have done on the subject. Is...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
April 1, 2008... In the January 2008 feature "It's a Small World After All" [Ron Miller, pp. 26-31], we misrepresented a comment by Alison Toon, translation and localization manger at HP, stating that "HP's primary translation vendor is SDL." In fact,...

MySpace developer platforms to serve as foundation for new applications.(content news)
April 1, 2008... Competition in the online social network space continues to heat up, as providers respond to the call from developers eager to create and share applications in an expansive environment. The result is developer platforms that outside developers...

Microsoft proposes acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per share.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2008... Microsoft Corp. announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. board of directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for a per-share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately...

Mochila introduces open standards RSS Atom API.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Mochila, an online media marketplace for text, photo, and video content, introduced an open standards RSS Atom API that allows publishers to automatically connect their content management and web publishing systems to access Mochila's...

SDL acquires Idiom for $22 million.(news & product briefs)
April 1, 2008... SDL plc. ("SDL"), a provider of global information management (GIM) solutions, announced that it has acquired Idiom Technologies, Inc., a provider of translation management systems. SDL has acquired Idiom for a consideration of $21.7 million...

What's all the buzz about? washingtonpost.com and outside.in partner to give citizens a voice.(content news)
April 1, 2008... User-generated content tends to carry a bad reputation within the digital sphere; those opposed to its presence in the information age reject UGC by claiming everyday citizens can't (and shouldn't) have authority over professionally trained...

Clickability launches on demand web content management platform.(News & Product Briefs)
April 1, 2008... Clickability, Inc., a provider of on-demand web content management (WCM), launched the Clickability On Demand WCM Platform and three new product packages tailored specifically for the company's media and publishing customers, Fortune 500...

FatWire acquires Future Tense.(News & Product Briefs)
April 1, 2008... FatWire Software, a provider of web content management solutions, announced that it has acquired Future Tense Solutions, its Australian-based reseller. Prior to the close of the acquisition, Future Tense had exclusive rights to sell and...

Hoover's launches Hoover's Connect, acquires Visible Path.(News & Product Briefs)
April 1, 2008... Hoover's, Inc. announced the official launch of Hoover's Connect--a business networking tool that helps users get introduced to and establish relationships with targeted prospects. This launch coincides with Hoover's agreement to acquire...

Northern Light incorporates: social search principles into online business research tool.(content news)
April 1, 2008... Northern Light's CEO, David Seuss, sees social search as a beacon on the horizon. It's still relatively faint, but with his company's help, it's growing ever brighter. "We want to bring a social element to business research in a big way," Seuss...

Celona Technologies.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Celona Technologies, data migration specialists, has appointed Charles Andrews as CEO. Andrews has nearly 20 years experience in the IT industry. He joins Celona from IBM where he was an executive in global technology services. ...

Knovel.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Knovel announced the appointment of Barbara Wasserman to executive VP of operations. She recently served as executive VP and COO at Oxford University Press.

Gannett Co., Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Saridakis was named senior VP and chief digital officer for Gannett Co., Inc. He will be responsible for expanding and enriching the company's global digital operations.

Gannett Digital Ventures.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Also, Jack Williams was named president of Gannett Digital Ventures.

Wikimedia oundation.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... The Wikimedia oundation announced the addition of three new staff members: Veronique Kessler, CFO and COO; Kul Takanao Wadhwa, head of business development; and Jay Walsh, head of communications. The new staff will be based in the foundation's...

Ingram Book Group, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Ingram Book Group, Inc. announced that David (Skip) Prichard, COO, is the new president and CEO of the company. He is the former president and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

MarketResearch.com.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... MarketResearch.com has appointed Patrick W. Allen as CTO. Most recently Allen was president and CTO of The Caplen Co.

SocialMedia Networks.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SocialMedia Networks announced it has appointed Yahoo! behavioral targeting expert Richard Frankel as COO. Frankel will be responsible for driving the overall growth and development of SocialMedia Networks.

Haymarket Worldwide.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Haymarket Worldwide has appointed Keith Wiegold as director, strategy and business development. Wiegold, most recently of Redwood Custom Communications, brings more than 20 years of experience to the position.

FatWire Software.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... FatWire Software announced the appointment of Mark Bridger as president of FatWire International. He joins FatWire from enterprise management software company CA, where he was VP and regional manager of the U.K. and Ireland. [ILLUSTRATION...

Datawatch Corp.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Datawatch Corp. announced the appointments of Robert Clemens, VP of worldwide sales; Robert Sarno, VP of worldwide services and support; and Darrin Christensen, VP of North American sales.

Endeca Technologies, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Endeca Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Joel P. Friedman to the company's board of directors. A former executive and member of the board of directors at Accenture, Friedman will be chairman of the...

LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... LexisNexis Group announced the appointment of Joe Eberhardt to the newly created position of global chief marketing officer. Eberhardt joins LexisNexis from DaimlerChrysler. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Simon & Schuster, Inc.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... Elinor Hirschhorn has been named to the newly created position of executive VP, chief digital officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hirschhorn comes to Simon & Schuster from College Sports Television Networks (CSTV), where she was executive VP,...

MindTouch.(peopleware)
April 1, 2008... MindTouch announced that Larry Augustin and Matt Asay have joined its board of advisors. Augustin invests and advises early stage technology companies and was CEO and founder of VA Linux. Asay is GM, Americas, and VP of business development for...

Sleight of hand or heavy handed? Will AT&T's pirate-sniffing proposal end the net neutrality standoff?(content news)
April 1, 2008... Net neutrality advocates are riled up over AT&T's recent announcement that it may start playing traffic cop, sniffing and snuffing out illegally transmitted copyrighted material sent over its network. But the issues and motives behind the move,...

Digital B2B media tactics: that U.S. B2B marketers used in the past year, 2007.(metrics)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Digital B2B Media Tactics That U.S. B2B Marketers Used in the Past Year, 2007 Advertising on a website for an event 51% Advertising in industry-specific magazines with fulfillment on...

Social network advertising spending, 2006-2011.(U.S. Online)
April 1, 2008... U.S. Online Social Network Advertising Spending, 2006-2011: (in millions and percentage change) 2006 $350 2007 $920 (163%) 2008 $1,560 (70%) 2009 $2,020 (29%) 2010 $2,400 (19%) 2011 $2,700 (13%) ...

Video advertising spending, 2001-2011.(U.S. Online)
April 1, 2008... U.S. Online Video Advertising Spending, 2001-2011: (in millions) 2001 $40 2002 $55 2003 $85 2004 $135 2005 $225 2006 $410 2007 $775 2008 $1,350 2009 $2,100 2010 $3,100 2011 $4,300 ...

Social media * users and broadband penetration worldwide, 2007-2012.(metrics)
April 1, 2008... Social Media * Users and Broadband Penetration Worldwide, 2007--2012 (in millions and percentage of broadband users) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2007 373 (46%) 2008 489 (52%) 2009 628 (60%) 2010 774 (67%)...

... Interviews from the econtent trenches.(faces of econtent)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Name With The Face: Biliana (Bili) Dolaptchiev Job Title: Customer Relations Manager Organization: iStockphoto (a subsidiary of Getty Images, Inc.) URL: www.istockphoto.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Job Function: "I...

The rising price of privacy.(follow the money)
April 1, 2008... The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the digital content industry a dubious present last Christmas. At the same time the FTC approved a merger of Google with ad network and services provider DoubleClick, it also lobbed the issue of privacy...

Brewing the perfect blend of free and fee.(Cover story)(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the icon of high-priced business information tells its readers to line up for their "free lunch," you know that the game of digital content economics has changed. "We're delighted to offer our worldwide readers...

Where it's at.(agile minds)
April 1, 2008... If Web 2.0 is all about the tools and technologies that allow users to freely create, share, and connect around content, as well as interact with content companies, then the next evolutionary step is Mobile 3.0, which places location and the...

B2B gets social media.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Social media tools such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts have become commonplace in the business-to-consumer marketing world. However, adoption of social media tools in the business-to-business environment is still in...

From free to three (100K).(i column like i cm)
April 1, 2008... Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML structured publishing solutions, like content management systems in general, run the gamut in cost from free to millions of dollars for some of the largest implementations in big corporations,...

Moving your office online.
April 1, 2008... Whether or not you like Microsoft Office 2007, there is no debating that it dramatically changed the familiar Windows program's look and feel. This dramatic change, coupled with the fact that users are growing increasingly comfortable working...

Privacy? Fuggedaboutit!(info pro)
April 1, 2008... Back in ancient times when the Earth's crust had not fully hardened and bulletin board services (BBSs) were bleeding edge, I got hooked on The Well (www.well.com), a vibrant BBS with an unusual premise--no anonymous users. Subscribers had a...

Taxonomy tool roundup.(MultiTes Pro, Term Tree 2000, TCS-10)(Product/service evaluation)
April 1, 2008... There are quite a few products on the market called taxonomy tools. To choose just a few for a comparative evaluation requires narrowing the field a bit. Since taxonomies are typically used for tagging and searching, a number of taxonomy...

A case of improving content flow--from storage to access.(case study)
April 1, 2008... Company: R.R. BOWKER R.R. Bowker is an ISBN (international standard book number) agency for the U.S. The company receives data feeds from publishers, wholesalers, and distributors. New Providence, N.J.-based Bowker, which has served the...

An open letter to Warner Music Group.(after thought)
April 1, 2008... Dear Warner Music Group Executives: The BBC reports that 20 million people wanted to purchase tickets to the historic Led Zeppelin show held at the O2 Arena on Dec. 10, 2007. Needless to say, with only 20,000 tickets available, there were...