EContent articles from December 2002

EContent archives from December 2002

The worst of times, the best of times. (Edit This).(development of Internet technology)
December 1, 2002... americans can't get enough entertainment. A spoonful of sugar may make the medicine go down, but if you could make medicine videogame-deliverable, kids would pay for the privilege. Possibly because of this predilection, much of our...

Killer mobility. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... While I really enjoyed Jeff Sauer's article on Mobile Media (June), the article seemed overly weighted to the availability of video services on small devices. Personally, I believe that video on phones will never fully take off, because of...

DRM update. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... Regarding Philip De Lancie's sidebar on DRM Standards in your October 2002 issue: Exactly when did Mr. De Lancie submit the manuscript for this article? The information in it is out of date. The XMCL rights specification language was...

Interview to the max. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... Just to congratulate you on your excellent interview "Online-only Extended Version of An EContent Interview: Four Chief Executives and an Analyst" (www.ecmag.net/bs1/2002/manafy7_02.html). I learned a lot. Thanks for your work. Carlos...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2002... Jim Pflaging was incorrectly referred to as a co-founder of Intraspect in our October profile of the company. The Co-founders are Tom Gruber and Peter Friedland.

Metrics.(content providers poll)(Brief)
December 1, 2002... Metrics Describe Your Organization's View of Web Services Say we want firm standards in place 40% before we proceed with Web services Say now's the time to experiment with 33% Web services Say Web services are not in our...

Watch out: EContent's contributing editors suggest some sites worth bookmarking.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
December 1, 2002... * Apache Project Apache is, "the single most deployed software on the Internet, and increasingly important for publishing because of XML and Web services hooks," according to contributing editor Tony Byrne. The Apache Software Foundation...

2002 EContent 100: welcome to the second annual EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
December 1, 2002... This particular list, not unlike the magazine itself, has a lot of ground to cover. The definition of content continues to take on breadth and depth, with organizations realizing that it isn't just that which is specifically generated as...

The digital content market: rushing toward fate.
December 1, 2002... Like two freight trains rushing toward one another on the same track, two equally powerful forces are propelling the digital content marketplace speedily toward an abruptly altered state. And, as in the train example, something's going to hit...

Recall, relevance, and database design: the role of quality indexing.(Internet search services)
December 1, 2002... How do most people search for information? They don't. Studies of the way people use technology to find information show that most people enter one or two keywords into a search engine and then scan the results looking for a few relevant...

The information marketplace: models and methods.(Gale Group)
December 1, 2002... Information seekers value many things, among them quality, quantity, currency and completeness. Over the years, Gale's distribution strategy has evolved in tandem with these marketplace imperatives. We've carved out a place for ourselves that...

Content integration for customer-focused applications.
December 1, 2002... Most corporate applications focused on delivering client information on an enterprise basis--particularly customer portals and CRM installations--fail to achieve anywhere near their full potential. They don't fail for lack of technical...

Digital content sales: the time has arrived.
December 1, 2002... Over the last year or two, collecting fees for digital content has gone from a fashionable idea to the new reality of online business. With consumers increasingly interested in buying digital wares online--and Web advertising revenues...

Defining an Industry Leadership Series: the EContent White Paper story.
December 1, 2002... The Specialty Publishing Group The digital content marketplace is far too complex, and the competitive landscape too crowded to accurately describe in a simple, short blurb. We believe the proper articulation of something as important as...

The end of free content: I believe that even with easy payment technology, techno-readers still won't pay directly for all content by 2004 or in any other year. (Discontent).
December 1, 2002... Funny thing about the "World Wide" Web--sometimes it's exactly that. When, last July, ZDNet Australia quoted Factiva's CEO as saying that consumers will pay for all content by 2004--after all, "valuable information has a price"--that statement...

CMS redux. (Behind the Firewall).(content management systems sales)
December 1, 2002... A number of CMS vendors are currently finding that sales are difficult to come by. And-having seen how they go about presenting the business case for investment in their products--I am not surprised! Recently, I undertook an interesting...

The streams of 2003: tangibility matters. People resist paying for simple online access to content. (Follow the Money).(Internet companies in 2003)
December 1, 2002... The companies included in this month's ECONTENT 100 list provide a good indication of what's been working in the content industry over the past year, and it suggests the corporate business models that are likely to move forward in 2003. We...

Content-centric XML: where we've been, where we're going in 2003. (Information Insider).
December 1, 2002... Genuine XML skills are so uncommon--and XML use still relatively rare--because of a combination of factors, none having to do with the benefits of XML itself. As EContent readers, you likely develop, manage or deliver content. In doing so,...

"I'll take 500 bytes of info, please". (End of File).(keeping in touch with the office while on the road)
December 1, 2002... One of the joys and challenges of my business is that I travel a lot--to meet with a client for a consulting job, to speak at a conference, or to teach a workshop. I enjoy having someone else pick up the towels and make the bed, and I've had a...