EContent articles from December 2007

EContent archives from December 2007

Good and bad news.(edit this)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2007... today in Arizona, pack mules will deliver mail to the Havasupai tribe. Their village, Supai, clings to the side of the Grand Canyon, and--as has been the case for a century--mules still provide the most efficient means of delivering the mail....

U.S. internet users.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Interest in Online Shopping Activities Among U.S. Internet Users Who Are Also Interested in Social Networking Sites 51% Find out about upcoming sales in stores or discounts on products 51% Download coupons 47% Search for gift...

Top U.S. online streaming video properties.(metrics)
December 1, 2007... Top U.S. Online Streaming Video Properties by Video Streams May 2007 Share (%) of Property Video Streams (m) Video Streams Total Internet 8,357 ...

U.S. adults who read * print and online newspapers, by age, April-May 2006.(metrics)
December 1, 2007... U.S. Adults Who Read * Print and Online Newspapers, by Age, April-May 2006 (% of respondents) 18-29 30-49 50-64 65+ Total Print only 20% 27% 41% 55% 34% Web only ...

I value the opportunity to get news using internet/wireless technology.(metrics)
December 1, 2007... I Value the Opportunity to Get News Using Internet/Wireless Technology "Strongly" and "Somewhat Agree," by Demographic Groups Gender Male 60 Female 52 Age 65+ 35 55-64 44...

Forbes 500 companies and Forbes 200 best small companies with a public blog, 2005 (% of total).(metrics)
December 1, 2007... Forbes 500 Companies and Forbes 200 Best Small Companies With a Public Blog, 2005 (% of Total) Blog No Blog Fortune 500 5.8% 94.2% Fortune 200 1.5% 98.5% Note: Table made from bar graph.

The revenue streams of 2008.(follow the money)
December 1, 2007... keeping with years of tradition, I always like to mark the EContent 100 issue with brash predictions about where publishers will start seeing some money or investment in the coming days. For 2007 my prognostications focused on the rising...

Tap the wisdom of the wise.(agile minds)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2007... the proliferation of people-powered search engines and social media services, which effectively tap the wisdom of crowds to bubble up the good ideas and good content we care about most, are enabling a profound shift in how we locate, create,...

InSites: the EContent team suggests some sites, projects, and resources hat--while outside the scope of the EContent 100 list--are well worth a closer look.(InSites)
December 1, 2007... The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) is a division of the World Health Organization that has stood up for the rights of the poorest people in the world since 2002. Most of us take the internet and its wealth of...

Donne and Lennon said it so well.(behind the firewall)
December 1, 2007... i've just returned from representing EContent at the second Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in London. This turned out to be an excellent conference in every respect. It was especially notable for the balance of strategic...

Content 2.0 converges.(info insider)(Column)
December 1, 2007... what a difference a year makes. Since my column in last year's EC100 issue, content applications of all types have been showing their 2.0 stripes, increasingly blurring the boundaries between web and print, and where their content resides. As...

Blogs I Bookmark: a collection of blogs hit by EContent 100 team members on a regular basis. Click and learn.(Blogs I Bookmark)
December 1, 2007... IN OUR OWN WORDS Want to get to know the inner workings of the EContent team members' minds? Then check out their blogs, which are well worth bookmarking. Bob Doyle Blog: Bob Doyle www.bobdoyleblog.com Content Curmudgeon: Bob...

Welcome to the seventh annual EContent 100--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.(Introduction)
December 1, 2007... Welcome to the seventh annual EContent 100--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. It seems like the whole world is creating, tagging, and delivering content these days. Once the domain of trained...

Meet the EContent 100 judging team.(EContent 100 Judges)
December 1, 2007... Robert J. Boeri is currently a senior business systems analyst at the PCAOB. He has more than 30 years experience as a publishing and content management systems professional, in both the private and public sectors. A recurring theme in these...

Content 100 companies.
December 1, 2007... 37signals [WWW.37SIGNALS.COM] CATEGORY: Collaboration FOUNDED: 1999 EMPLOYEES: 8 CHIEF OFFICER: Jason Fried, CEO KEY PRODUCT(S): Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, Writeboard, Ta-da List, Getting Real, Ruby on Rails, Highrise...

Adobe Systems, Incorporated.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.ADOBE.COM Since its start in 1982, Adobe has always been about innovation on the desktop. In the early days, that meant developing cutting-edge technologies like PostScript. Later, it created industry-standard tools Photoshop and...

Bango.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.BANGO.COM When co-founders Ray Anderson and Anil Malhotra teamed up to start New York City-based mobile service provider Bango in 1999, they envisioned the mobile web someday becoming as open and user-friendly as the PC web. Working...

Connectbeam, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.CONNECTBEAM.COM Its product may have launched in January 2007, but Connectbeam, Inc. has already earned a high profile and glowing reviews by offering an ingenious combination of bookmarking, tagging, and social software functionality...

iCopyright, Inc.(ECOntent 100 Companies)(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... WWW.ICOPYRIGHT.COM iCopyright is a business built for publishing in the 21st century. iCopyright, which is short for Intelligent Copyright, boasts an 80% market share of major publishers and newswire services in the United States. The...

Liferay, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.LIFERAY.COM Brian Chan considers himself one lucky man. What started as a website project for his church has turned into a leading open source enterprise portal framework for integrated web publishing and content management, an...

LinkedIn Corporation.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.LINKEDIN.COM Social networks aren't just for kids anymore. Instead of telegraphing social status and posting party photos, social networks like career-focused LinkedIn attract a mature audience by emphasizing the "network" over the...

Macrovision Corporation.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.MACROVISION.COM How do you get the most out of digital content? It might mean getting consumers to pony up, but these days, content can be just as valuable when it's given away for free. To maximize value in the tricky world of online...

Near-Time, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... WWW.NEAR-TIME.NET The enterprise may be lagging a bit when it comes to Web 2.0, but Near-Time is trying to help business users tap its promise by offering a way to build wikis as publishing and collaboration platforms without IT help. ...

Newstex, LLC.(ECOntent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.NEWSTEX.COM Type "Newstex" into a search engine and not only do you pick up a number of hits on the company itself, but you'll find links to individual bloggers proudly announcing their affiliation with Newstex's Blogs on Demand. This...

O'Reilly Media, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... WWW.OREILLY.COM The first image that is likely to come to mind at the mention of O'Reilly Media is a wild animal. O'Reilly--a publisher of books and websites and producer of conferences on computer technology topics--has earned renown for...

Siderean Software, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.SIDEREAN.COM Siderean CEO Michael Schmitt calls it "dirty returns." That's what happens when an enterprise search brings up unwanted information. For workers relying on searches to find essential information, dirty returns waste a lot...

Sitecore A/S.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2007... WWW.SITECORE.NET Content management system (CMS) and portal software solutions-provider Sitecore has built a strong presence in the U.S., the U.K., and Scandinavia in its more than five years in business, with more than 700 partners...

Assembly line writers.(i column like i cm)(content management systems)
December 1, 2007... for the past three years, my annual wrap-up of content management systems has mostly counted the exploding number of branded products, for sale and open source, on the world market--now nearing 3,000. This year, I want to focus on a handful...

Positioning to capture context.(view from (the) shore)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2007... the annual EContent 100 list provides an opportunity to consider the industry as a whole, and it reflects the content industry's need to look at its present and its future from many perspectives. Long gone is the era in which print, online,...

Will you be my friend?(discontent)(peer networking)(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2007... sorry I didn't read your blog yesterday. I was busy responding to my many friends on Ning, getting down with my fellow avatars in Second Life, tweeting with my Twitter friends and followers, checking out my friends' Facebook pages and MySpace...

Industry growth by the numbers.(outsell outlook)
December 1, 2007... along with the explosion of social media and user-generated content, the information industry continues to grow. Outsell predicts that the information industry will reach $448 billion in revenues by 2010, with a compound annual growth rate...

What's that content doing?(info pro)(Personal account)
December 1, 2007... it's funny how, once you get an idea in your head, you start seeing things in a different light. I recently got on a tear about repurposing information, whether it's electronic content, virtual worlds, blogs, or just email discussion lists. I...

Social media debate.(after thought)
December 1, 2007... while it might seem that choosing the 100 companies that matter most in the econtent industry is our biggest challenge in this issue, I find the more difficult (and fun) aspect of participating in the selection of the annual EContent 100 list...