EContent articles from August 2003

EContent archives from August 2003

Blogged down.(edit this)
August 1, 2003... Once I thought that email might embody a reincarnation of epistolary prose. With the ubiquity of the telephone, discursive letter-writing had become a thing of the past, reduced to bite-sized, prefabricated, Hallmark-branded shorthand. But when...

Portal problems.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Ron Miller's article [June 2003, pp. 26] about the typically poor acceptance of corporate portals, and specifically the reference to "ho-hum" content, is worthy of further consideration since it exposes an issue with much broader negative...

Jaune ou Jeunne?(Letters To The Editor)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... The article on the censorship of yellowtimes.org, written by Kinley Levack [June 2003, pp. 10-11], shows a woeful lack of the understanding that most professional journalists have possessed for decades: Freedom of the press is available only to...

Webfountain of truth?(Letters To The Editor)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I read your piece on Web Fountain [June 2003, pp. 9-10] and looks very compelling, but I have my doubts about a technology that claims it can read every page on the Internet and mine meaningful data from it without a warehouse full of computers...

Syndication tech.(Letters To The Editor)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I enjoyed Tony Byrne's June EContent [pp. 22-26] article on syndication very much. It's clear that syndication has not taken off in the world of Enterprise Content Management as it has in professional publishing, but I think that it has much...

Get smart.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Your June issue contains an article by Marla Misek about TheBrain. Clearly, she has never used the software she reviews, because if she had, she would know that the claim made by the inventor, Harlan Hugh, "TheBrain not only makes it easy to...

Turning the pages of priceless manuscripts.(news feature; British Library digitizing holdings)
August 1, 2003... If you ran the British Library, would you let the general public into your climate-controlled rare books area, allow them to finger the pages of priceless medieval manuscripts, encourage them to touch a 14th century Koran, Leonardo da Vinci's...

Veteran rockers head to the front lines of digital distribution.(news feature)
August 1, 2003... It is a case of musical Darwinism. When your career spans decades, it is inevitable that you have adapted to the times in order to survive. Such is the case with Metallica and Pearl Jam who have both made major strides in adapting to the use of...

Yahoo! acquires Overture.(news & product briefs)
August 1, 2003... Yahoo! Inc. and Overture Services, Inc. a provider of commercial search services on the Internet, have signed a definitive agreement under which Yahoo! will acquire Overture. Under the terms of the agreement, each outstanding common share of...

Google introduces advanced news search.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Google has introduced Advanced News Search, a Google News search feature that is designed to help users to more accurately pinpoint their searches to better find the information they need. Google Advanced News Search offers users the following...

Interwoven launches Interwoven 6.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Interwoven, Inc. has launched Interwoven 6, its the latest content management platform release. Features in Interwoven 6 include: The ContentCenter designed for fast and easy user adoption. ContentCenter empowers all users to contribute and...

Factiva introduces pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, has announced the availability of a pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy with over 800 industry-focused terms, to help companies in those sectors organize and interpret information from both internal...

Neoteris unveils Instant Virtual Extranet.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Neoteris, an Application Security Gateway vendor, has announced a targeted initiative to assist universities and colleges, school systems, and K-12 districts with their secure access needs. The Neoteris Access Series Instant Virtual Extranet...

DAMing marketing communication.(news feature)
August 1, 2003... Outsourcing is the mode du jour for businesses. While budgets and staffing decline, in the quest for economic turnaround the need to manage assets and leverage them to support sales efforts increases. No stranger to the rise and fall of...

Well formed: Adobe announces intelligent forms designer.(news feature)
August 1, 2003... It is still early in the game to determine how smart Adobe's recently announced intelligent forms designer product will actually be. As EContent goes to print, Adobe has yet to finalize the product's name, price point, and certain features, but...

PureEdge Solutions Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... PureEdge Solutions Inc. has announced the appointment of Reid King VP of sales. Prior to joining PureEdge, King served as VP of Eastern operations at Vitria, a provider of business process integration software.

Yahoo! Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Yahoo! Inc. has appointed Cammie Dunaway as chief marketing officer. Dunaway will lead Yahoo!'s worldwide branding as well as drive the company's product marketing initiatives. She oversees all consumer, enterprise, and partnership marketing...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Nstein Technologies Inc. appointed Jean-Pierre Soubliere to the company's Board of Directors. Soubliere, formerly president of Andersen Soubliere Inc., sits on several Councils and Boards and is a member of the Canadian e-Business Opportunities...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Verity Inc. has announced the promotion of four key executives. Sunil D. Nagdev was promoted from VP to SVP of professional services. Andrew D. Feit was promoted to SVP of marketing. Feit joined Verity as VP of product marketing with the...

Stellent, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Stellent, Inc. has hired Robert Crossman as VP of Eastern region sales and Jud Coleman as VP of sales operations. Prior to joining Stellent, Coleman was a six-year veteran of Siebel Systems, Inc. Before joining Stellent, Crossman was regional...

Fast-Talk Communications.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Fast-Talk Communications named Ray S. Naeini president and CEO. Naeini will lead a management team focused on the development of solutions for intelligence gathering and surveillance, quality control and business compliance, and advanced...

Ingenta, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Ingenta, Inc. is recruiting to expand its teams both handling relations with its U.S.-based publisher customers and generating business with new clients. It is also re-locating these and its other U.S. activities from Cambridge, MA to its...

Yaga, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Yaga, Inc. has named Halley Suitt director of client development. In this role, Suitt will provide client development in the area of publishing and webblogs to assist in acquiring new business for the company. Most recently Ms. Suitt was the...

Factiva.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Factiva has appointed Alan Scott, VP and director of global marketing. Formerly an executive with Giga information Group, Scott will be based in Factiva's Princeton, New Jersey office.

Northern Light.(peopleware; three executives hired)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Northern Light has announced the addition of Robert Nelson, Patrick O'Malley, and Igor Razboff to its executive management team. Nelson joins as SVP of corporate development responsible for developing sales opportunities and new lines of...

Wolters Kluwer Legal, Tax & Business.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Wolters Kluwer Legal, Tax & Business North America, has appointed CEOs for the organization's four new customer units: Tax and Accounting, Legal, Financial Services, and Corporate Legal Services. Three Wolters Kluwer executives have been named...

Metrics.(statistics about PDA usage, mobile data usage, and related topics)
August 1, 2003... PDA Across the Globe Worldwide PDA Unit Shipments, by Vendor, 2001 & 2002 2001 2001 2002 2002 % Change Shipments Market Shipments Market ...

Faces of econtent.(interview with Mary Kay McDonald of Dialog)
August 1, 2003... Job Function Dialog provides online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages. "Dialog has over 500 databases and multiple product offerings," says Mary Kay McDonald. "I work the Dialog Knowledge Center as...

Archiving the attic.(infopro)
August 1, 2003... I was chatting online with a friend the other night, and she mentioned the lyrics of a Reba McEntire song from 1979. Within 15 seconds, I had the lyrics in front of me; my friend assumed that I had the song memorized. To be honest, even I was...

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional.
August 1, 2003... Company: Adobe Systems Incorporated Purpose: Create and distribute electronic documents, including engineering and CAD documents, for reading or reviewing. Starting Price: $449 new; $149 upgrade Reviewer's View: ...

In the move from free to fee: where lies B2B? in the wild and woolly days of the dot-com boom, almost all Web-based content business models were built on advertising.(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... As free-flowing venture capital or profits from print publications provided fuel for publishers, online properties organized for growth and assumed profits would inevitably follow at a later date. However, most advertising-based online business...

Playing to learn.(follow the money)
August 1, 2003... Psychologists have been preaching to parents for eons about the importance of play in a child's development. Virtually all types of sport and games help extend hand-eye coordination, negotiating skills, and lend kids a sense of achievement and...

Getting the message: enterprise IM goes mainstream.(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... As time goes on--and technology allows--we seek (and find) faster ways to get our messages across. First came the telephone, then the fax, then email, and most recently instant messaging (IM). Once the province of teenagers, IM has percolated...

Digital asset management: off the shelf or on your own: looking for a solution to manage all your digital assets? You may be able to find one off the shelf or you may have to build it on your own. It all depends on your content and your plan for distribution. EContent tooks at two companies that look divergent paths in building a DAM solution.(Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Shoah Foundation)
August 1, 2003... Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia www.marthastewart.com Assets: 97,000 www.webware.com DAM Solution: WebWare's ActiveMedia Enterprise Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is enormous. Stewart's conglomerate encompasses multiple...

Bringing people together--it takes more than an intranet.(behind the firewall)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... There is a considerable amount of interest of late in "collaborative working" and "communities of practice." I have a sense that, in many organizations, these terms are the acceptable face of Knowledge Management! KM does seem to have fallen...

Caution: mobile content at work.(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... Mobile cannot be confined; that goes against its very nature. It needs to be free to take any shape in order to find and empower users when and where they need it. But by virtue of its malleable nature, mobile is difficult to grasp and as a...

On the road 1.(Men At Work)
August 1, 2003... Walter McQuillan Sales Manager, EContent magazine, WebSearch University, Buying & Selling eContent Estimated Days on the Road Per Year: 35 When UPS delivered my first PDA, a Sony Cite PEG NZ90, I had Visions of off-loading my...

On the road 2.(Men At Work)
August 1, 2003... Dick Kaser Vice President of Content, ITI Estimated Days on the Road Per Year: 110+ MyAdvantGo, a leading provider of news and professional content for mobile devices, descnbes its million users as IT/IS professionals, physicians,...

Cheetos and a ringtone?
August 1, 2003... With the near ubiquity of cell phones themselves, mobile content providers are scrambling to make their offerings cheaper, more interesting, and easier to obtain than those of their competitors. nReach, a Colorado-based mobile content provider,...

Mobile content goes to the doctor: first and foremost, medical professionals love the convenience of having information at their fingertips in a device that fits in their pockets.(The Doctor Is In)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... Perhaps no group of workers (along with intelligence and law enforcement) needs quicker access to accurate, current information than medical professionals. So it comes as little surprise that the medical community has been among the early...

Are we there yet?(The long wait to mobilize content)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... Wireless technologies and services are clearly capable of delivering corporate information within the enterprise. The business literature is replete with case studies showing notable operational efficiency improvements and even competitive...

Publishing equations? Do the Math(ML).(info insider)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... If you work with STM (scientific, technical, medical) publishing, sooner or later you'll need to produce mathematical expressions beyond the reach of a QWERTY keyboard. Until recently, the solution was simple: Use the equation editor in your...

Stick around: notes on long-term digital content retention: anything under a century doesn't begin to qualify as archival.(discontent)
August 1, 2003... Hugh Glazer's April 2003 letter commenting on my January column included the following question: Walt... Here's a thought for you: Given the increasing amount of content that is published in only a digital format, what is being done to...

Exalead: don't search, navigate.(Profile)
August 1, 2003... With the ever-growing mass of information on the Web, finding what you're looking for has become an increasingly difficult and frustrating process (nothing like wasting time trying to figure out what word configuration will yield the...

Merant: investing in change.(Profile)
August 1, 2003... The English poet and critic Samuel Johnson once observed that, "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." Indeed, those among us who tend to resist change are often baffled--and, occasionally, threatened--by those...

Solution center & buyers guide.(Buyers Guide)
August 1, 2003... Disc Makers 7905 N Route 130 Pennsauken NJ 08110 Ph: 1-800-237-6666 www.discmakers.com Overview: Disc Makers is the one-stop source for all your CD, DVD, duplicator, and blank media needs. Disc Makers manufactures,...

If you brand it, they won't just buy, they'll buy in.(after thought)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2003... "The Brand." Ugh. Just hearing the term makes me want to puke. "Branding" was the most over-hyped concept forced on econtent companies by the media and VCs in the dot-com era. And that's saying a lot because almost everything in the online...