EContent articles from December 2008

EContent archives from December 2008

People powered.(edit this)
December 1, 2008... Ever watch Survivorman? It's a "reality show" about a rugged Canadian who ventures into various wildernesses and roughs it to the extreme. This year, he released a documentary, Off The Grid with Les Stroud, in which he and his family build a...

Time spent on single online information search by U.S. adult broadband users before experiencing search engine fatigue.(metrics)
December 1, 2008... Time Spent on Single Online Information Search by U.S. Adult Broadband Users Before Experiencing Search Engine Fatigue, * May 2007 (% of respondents) 3+ hours 37.0% 7+ hours 5.0% Rarely or Never Experience ...

U.S. B2B online social network advertising spending.(metrics)
December 1, 2008... U.S. B2B Online Social Network Advertising Spending, 2007-2012 (millions and % change) 2007 $15 2008 $40 (169%) 2009 $80 (99%) 2010 $125 (55%) 2011 $165 (32%) 2012 $210 (27%) Note: Includes display, rich...

U.S. bloggers.(metrics)
December 1, 2008... U.S. Bloggers, * 2007-2012 (millions and % of internet users) 2007 22.6 (12.0%) 2008 25.2 (13.0%) 2009 28.0 (14.0%) 2010 30.9 (15.0%) 2011 32.8 (15.5%) 2012 34.7 (16.0%) Note: * Internet users who published a new...

Why is it considered important to support collaborative working from a business perspective?(metrics)(Table)(Survey)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Why Is It Considered Important to Support Collaborative Working From a Business Perspective? Mostly to enhance our ability to innovate 14% Both of the above are equally important 25% Neither is that important...

Which newsroom duties are shrinking?(metrics)(Statistical table)(Survey)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Which Newsroom Duties Are Shrinking? % of Papers Decreased Increased Copy desk editing 42 12 Photographers 31 12 General assign. editing 30 16 Special...

Mobile content used by U.S. iPhone, Smartphone, and mobile phone subscribers.(metrics)
December 1, 2008... Mobile Content Used by U.S. iPhone, Smartphone, * and Mobile Phone Subscribers, January 2008 (% of total) Total Mobile iPhone Smartphone Phone ...

The revenue shmevenue streams of 2009.(follow the money)
December 1, 2008... Time once again to crawl out on that slippery limb encrusted with winter ice: the predictions branch. Above and beyond the expected recession woes, digital content is dangling over some sharp challenges in 2009, or at least it looks that way...

We are all publishers.(agile minds)
December 1, 2008... The emergence of empowered consumers, the advance of so-called digital natives, and the abundance of applications designed to give consumers more control over how they create, access, and enjoy content have transformed publishing and content...

Happy birthday XML.(info insider)
December 1, 2008... As anyone with kids--or a good memory--knows, when you cross the "double digits" birthday threshold, it's a big deal. This year, XML crossed this threshold on Feb. 10, and this got me thinking about questions that I might ask this 10-year-old...

Plus ca change ...(behind the firewall)
December 1, 2008... I recently received a telephone call from a communications manager at a major German company asking if I could provide her with a copy of Intranet Management, a report that I had written 10 years ago when I was working for TFPL, Ltd. TFPL...

Authonomy.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While being a writer is tough, getting your work noticed is even tougher. These days, it seems everyone has a story to tell, but that doesn't make surfacing the best work any easier. This is why a group of book...

Constellation.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... The publishing universe is dominated by a few big names, with thousands of smaller publishers struggling to keep up with evolving digital distribution methods. This dynamic may be changing, at least on the technology front, with Constellation,...

CourseSmart.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With the growing popularity of ebooks and digital content, the stereotypical massive textbook no longer has its usual place in the world of academia--nor in students' weighty backpacks. This is exemplified by...

GALA.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... More than 6,000 languages are spoken in the world today. It has become increasingly important to communicate across global divides, and digital technologies offer many ways to reach out globally and locally. However, this is clearly a complex...

Intellipedia.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] James Bond may not need to play well with others, but in the real world, government agents and agencies do. With the rapid growth of Web 2.0 features in the business world, it is no surprise even the government has...

SlideShare.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... For better or for worse, creating and sharing presentations is an integral part of how people do business. Professionals and academics alike need the ability to share their work with colleagues down the hall and across the world. SlideShare is...

We Media.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These days, anyone with a blog can be a reporter. Anyone with a YouTube account can be a news anchor. We Media is a website, conference, community, and social outlook that focuses on the shifting trends in media and...

Yapta.(InSites)
December 1, 2008... Unless you have your own personal travel agent or a personal assistant with little else to do, finding a good travel deal can be a daunting task. Airfare prices fluctuate constantly, making it nearly impossible for travelers to be certain they...

Blogs I bookmark.(Table)
December 1, 2008... This is a collection of blogs hit by EContent 100 judges on a regular basis. Click and learn. IN OUR OWN WORDS Want to get to know the inner workings of the EContentteam members' minds? Then check out their blogs, which are well worth...

Welcome to the eighth annual EContent 100--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.(Introduction)(Editorial)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Right after I joined this magazine, we built our first content management system. One of the most challenging parts was choosing the topics for our website's research centers, which also serve as the subject matter classifications for our...

Categories.(Category Descriptions)
December 1, 2008... Classification & Taxonomy Taxonomy is one of those words that just sound hard. Well, it is. But the good news is that it is simply a way of classifying things. When it comes to classifying content, tools range from autocategorization...

Meet the EContent 100 judging team.(EContent 100 Judges)
December 1, 2008... Robert J. Boeri is a senior business systems analyst and project manager at the PCAOB. He has more than 30 year's experience as a publishing and content management systems professional in both the private and public sectors. A recurring theme...

EContent 100 companies.
December 1, 2008... 37signals [WWW.37SIGNALS.COM] CATEGORY: Collaboration FOUNDED: 1999 EMPLOYEES: 11 CHIEF OFFICER: Jason Fried, CEO KEY PRODUCT(S): Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, Writeboard, Ta-da List, Getting Rea l Book, Ruby on...

Attributor Corp.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... Like so many internet publishing strategies before it, hyperdistribution has been more of a web ethic than a business model. Let content run free, Web 2.0 pundits recommended, and the revenue would somehow follow from all those bloggers quoting...

Autonomy Corp., PLC.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... "We were way ahead of the rest of the market, in terms of looking at this broader area of unstructured data," boasts Nicole Eagan, CMO for Autonomy, Corp., speaking of the company's place in the enterprise search marketplace. In 1996, the...

ChangingWorlds, Ltd.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... Delivering the content that consumers want to their mobile devices where tiny screens and keypads make finding and buying content a chore is no small task. To break this usability barrier, an increasing number of mobile network operators and...

Code Green Networks, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... When consumers and businesses think of online security, firewalls and passwords are likely to be the first things that come to mind, not data loss prevention (DLP)--at least not yet. Code Green Networks sees that changing, and the company...

Demand Media, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... You're not likely to hear the terms "social networking" or "Web 2.0" being bandied about in the halls of Demand Media's Santa Monica offices. The term of preference at the company is "social media," which CEO Richard Rosenblatt believes more...

Ektron, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... Staying ahead of the curve in content management is a tough assignment when Web 2.0 technologies, user habits, and content distribution methods seem to evolve on a daily basis. The decade-old content management fixture Ektron not only kept up...

Pressmart Media, Ltd.(EContent 100 Companies)(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... It is no secret that print media around the globe is struggling to keep up with the rich, on-demand news content that the internet offers. In today's everything-can-be-found-on-the-web world, publishers (particularly smaller ones) are forced to...

ProQuest.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... When taking the ProQuest CEO job 2 years ago, Marty Kahn knew his main task would be forging one company out of two. Going in, he knew he had two aging technology platforms to modernize. He didn't expect he'd be integrating yet a third...

Quark, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... Quark is best known for its QuarkXPress desktop publishing software, which revolutionized the way we approached designing documents back in 1987. Today, we take for granted the ability to design and edit documents electronically, but 21 years...

SchemaLogic, Inc.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... The idea for SchemaLogic, Inc. was born when its founders, former Microsoft employees, saw the need to bring all of the company's information resources under the umbrella of a single, unified search structure. It seems fitting that in 2008...

SORCE, Ltd.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... Focusing on efficiency and cost reduction for mid-sized companies may not be the most glamorous goal, but it is a strategy that has enabled SORCE, Ltd. to grow at 40%-50% per year since its founding in 2000. SORCE builds prepackaged intranet...

TransMedia Corp.(EContent 100 Companies)
December 1, 2008... TransMedia Corp.--makers of Glide, the online operating system and collaboration environment--was literally born in fire. The company launched on Sept. 7, 2001, in offices located below 14th Street in New York City, just 4 days before the 9/11...

Information philosophy.(i column like i cm)
December 1, 2008... When I joined EContent in June 2004, I was attracted by its parent company, Information Today, Inc., publishers of many valuable texts and reference volumes for the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the home of...

Thinking out of the box about communities.(technology watch)
December 1, 2008... A significant segment of the enterprise social software landscape has gone comparatively under-reported: white label community services. These commercial offerings allow companies to use their platforms to create branded online communities....

Welcome to the neighborhood.(disContent)(Editorial)
December 1, 2008... What does every company on the EContent 100 list have in common--other than some connection to econtent, that is? They all have some form of income, either current revenue or backing until they arrive at a sustainable revenue plan or go...

Make mine interactive.(info pro)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2008... I replace my car every 20 years, whether I need to or not. Needless to say, I am on the lagging edge when it comes to new automotive technology. When I first encountered a GPS system in a rental car, I felt like I had landed in an alternate...

Asking the right questions about social media.(after thought)
December 1, 2008... Have you noticed there are a bunch of polls and research reports that ask questions such as, "Do you read blogs?" or "Do you use social media?" or "Do you go to video-sharing sites?" The resulting data often show rather small use compared to...