EContent articles from December 2005

EContent archives from December 2005

Take it from me.(terrorists shot )
December 1, 2005... One recent morning, I learned that terrorists shot five Shiite teachers and their driver at a school in Iraq. I wish the event had been remarkable, but instead I find myself in a world in which I hear of such acts with numbing frequency. It was...

Political blogs are most popularly read, followed by humor and entertainment.(metrics)
December 1, 2005... Political Blogs are Most Popularly Read, Followed by Humor and Entertainment % saying they have read a blog with the following theme within the past 30 days Political 53% Humor 49% Entertainment 43%...

Leading causes of security problems.(metrics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Leading Causes of Security Problems in the Past Year, According to U.S. IT Decision-Makers, February 2005 (as a % of respondents) 65% Spyware 42% Employee use of bandwith- clogging applications 39%...

Online revenues of U.S. newspapers.(metrics)
December 1, 2005... Online Revenues of U.S. Newspapers, 2004-2008 (in billions) 2004 $1.03 2005 $1.40 2006 $1.71 2007 $1.91 2008 $2.26 Source: eMarketer, August 2005 Note: Table made from bar graph.

Method of payment favored by mobile phone users currently downloading content worldwide, by region, May-June 2005.(metrics)
December 1, 2005... Method of Payment Favored by Mobile Phone Users Currently Downloading Content Worldwide, by Region, May-June 2005 (as a % of respondents) ASIA- NORTH SOUTH ...

Few think: technology increases sociability.(metrics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Few Think Technology Increases Sociability (% saying the following best describes how they feel about new technology) 26% think that computers and technology make people more sociable 30% think that...

Top deliverabilty concerns for email campaigns according to U.S. email marketers, 2005.(metrics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Top Deliverabilty Concerns for Email Campaigns according to U.S. Email Marketers, 2005 (as a % of respondents) Email filters 92.3% ISP blocking 73.1% Blacklisting ...

U.S. online ad spending growth, 2001-2009.(metrics)
December 1, 2005... U.S. Online Ad Spending Growth, 2001-2009 (as a % increase/decrease vs. prior year) 2001 -11.8% 2002 -15.8% 2003 20.9% 2004 32.5% 2005 33.7% 2006 21.2% 2007 14.1% 2008 13.5% 2009 10.4% Note:...

Online activities of RSS users in North America, by age, 2005.(metrics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Online Activities of RSS Users in North America, by Age, 2005 (as a % of respondents) Adult Adult Young Young RSS non-RSS adult * adult * ...

Chasing the user: the revenue streams of 2006.
December 1, 2005... It is now a tradition in the annual ECONTENT 100 issue that we climb way out on a limb and anticipate promising new sources of revenue for the coming year. Even as 2005 closes, it is already clear that boatloads of money are about to start...

Insites: the EContent team suggests some sites, projects, and resources that--while outside the scope of the EContent 100 list--are well worth taking a closer look at.
December 1, 2005... A9.COM Ever get the feeling that your search is being watched? A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com (which consistently stays at the forefront of leveraging digital content to support ecommerce) can "remember" what sites a user visited and...

Bringing the blogosphere to the masses.(info pro)
December 1, 2005... I recently returned from giving two weeks of workshops on using the Web for research and was surprised at the number of people who were unfamiliar with blogs and their use for research purposes. One of the first questions I heard was, "How do I...

Where the wild CMSs are!(Content Management System )
December 1, 2005... It's really a jungle out there in the Content Management System space. For the past couple of years, I have attended the Gilbane Conference in Boston and reported on the number of CMSs listed in various online directories, like the Google...

Welcome to the fifth annual ECONTENT 100--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.(2005 EContent 100)(Brief Article)(Directory)
December 1, 2005... In compiling this year's ECONTENT 100 list, we found ourselves reinvigorated about the progress, growth, and potential of the econtent industry. While recent years saw astounding M&A activity and attrition, this year witnessed a number of...

Blogging.(2005 EContent 100)
December 1, 2005... AskJeeves, Inc. [www.ask.com, www.bloglines.com] AskJeeves, an early player in the search engine market, has grown into the seventh largest Web property, according to ComScore Media Metrix. The company purchased the innovative online RSS...

Classification and taxonomy.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Clearforest Corporation [www.clearforest.com] Enterprises are overwhelmed by unstructured information too voluminous to be of much use, yet too valuable to ignore. ClearForest helps companies tag key concepts hidden in the text for later...

Collaboration and knowledge management.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... EMC Software See listing under Content Management Jabber, Inc. [www.jabber.com; www.jabber.org] Jabber, Inc. is the product and services firm behind the open-source Jabber instant messaging projects, which aim to elevate IM from the...

Consulting services.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... CM Professionals: [www.cmprofessionals.org] The name says it all. CM Professionals is an organization that provides the structure for its members to come together in what it calls a "Content Management Community of Practice" to share ideas...

Content creation, production & digital publishing.(Econtent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Adobe continues to innovate in the digital publishing space, taking Acrobat to a new level this year with the release of Acrobat 7. But by far the biggest news involving Adobe would have to be the purchase of Macromedia. The two combine to...

Content delivery.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Akamai Technologies, Inc.: [www.akamai.com] Being stuck in a traffic jam online is just as frustrating as getting stuck in one on the way to work, but Akamai breaks up the bottlenecks by using mathematical algorithms to route and replicate...

Content management.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Alfresco See listing under Intranets & Portals CrownPeak Technology [www.crownpeak.com] CrownPeak Technology is proof that innovation often comes in little packages. The 20-person firm originally developed an industry-leading hosted...

Digital rights management.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. [www.contentguard.com] Even before Microsoft, Thomson, and Time Warner completed their three-way acquisition of ContentGuard in early 2005, the company was a core provider of DRM, with multiple patents and...

Fee-based info services.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Alacra, Inc. [www.alacra.com] This year, Alacra made the move from providing exclusively enterprise-level services when the company launched Alacra Store, which exposes "deep Web" content from more than 30 premium business information...

Intranets & portals.(EContent 100 Companies)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2005... Alfresco [www.alfresco.org] While Alfresco may be fresh, the company's approach to CMS is far from breezy. Alfresco is an open source, open standards content repository built by a team of content management veterans that includes the...

Mobile content.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Nokia Corporation [www.nokia.com] Providing access to information and entertainment on-the-go has become the cornerstone of Nokia's mobility vision. In addition to its vigorous support of content providers and application developers--the...

Search Engines & Technologies.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2005... Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server blinkx [www.blinkx.com, www.blinkx.tv] "Blink and you'll miss it" certainly doesn't apply to blinkx, a free search technology that thinks for and links users to relevant information anywhere, in any...

Question what you read--with XQuery.
December 1, 2005... Not long ago, talking to invisible people was a sign of madness. These days, however, it's not uncommon to see a shopper with a Bluetooth cell phone earpiece talking alone in the supermarket. The next big thing may be talking back to your...

What ever happened to "eureka!"?(behind the firewall)
December 1, 2005... This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Alta Vista in December 1995 and more than 40 years since the first full-text search engine with Boolean operators became operational. Indeed, most of the features now commonplace on...

Potholes on the Infobahn.
December 1, 2005... As we wrap up 2005, we should be well on the way to digital nirvana, everyone zooming down the infobahn consuming (and paying for) vast quantities of digital content. We should be getting full measure from our broadband connections--always...

Your buyers don't want gobbledygook.
December 1, 2005... So what's with all the nonsense words being thrown about by well-intentioned marketing people at econtent companies? Nearly every Web site I look at and almost all the press releases I receive are laden with meaningless jargon that's just plain...