EContent articles from February 2001

EContent archives from February 2001

EContent Evolves.
February 1, 2001... electronic content is everywhere. It's integral to strategic business decisions on the enterprise level and it's what brings in repeat customers to a Web site. It's chopped up into little pieces, stolen, copied, aggregated, streamed,...

Automatic content enrichment.
February 1, 2001... automatic content enrichment tools have become quite popular downloads among Internet users who look for quick answers rather than the list of links they get on a Web search engine results page. Companies like Atomica, formerly GuruNet, and...

EMusic targets Napster.
February 1, 2001... Online music seller EMusic.com has had enough of Napster users "illegally" sharing music of the thousands of artists and hundreds of independent labels it represents. After several months of what it describes as "good faith" negotiations with...

Stanford University TEAMS with Artesia Technologies.
February 1, 2001... Stanford University has selected Artesia Technologies' TEAMS management solution to serve as the content management framework for its "Dark Cave" project. Stanford plans to utilize TEAMS to create an environment using off-the-shelf technologies...

New eXtended Content Management (XCM) Alliance Formed.
February 1, 2001... In an effort to extend content management, Virage, Inc. has joined forces with Vignette Corp. and Sun Microsystems, among twelve other partners to define enterprise requirements for content management. The XCM Alliance intends to create and...

ScreamingMedia and SilverStream Enable Customer Self-Service.
February 1, 2001... ScreamingMedia will use SilverStream's eBusiness platform to facilitate customer sign-up and customization of News!Stand, their hands-free content solution. Clients will be able to change the formatting of the headlines and the articles, choose...

SolidStreaming and AnyDevice Stream Wireless.
February 1, 2001... SolidStreaming and AnyDevice, Inc. have integrated their software platforms, enabling carriers and enterprises to deliver data, audio and video to wireless Internet-enabled devices such as PDAs, cell phones, and RIM devices. This alliance will...

Infotrieve Expands Content with CatchWord Partnership.
February 1, 2001... Infotrieve has made an agreement with Catch Word that will provide two-way linking of content and partnership on certain cooperative activities. CatchWord, an independent hosting service for scholarly and academic publishers, will link the...

NetLibrary and Houghton Mifflin Launch MetaText.
February 1, 2001... netLibrary and the Houghton Mifflin Company joined to launch MetaText, a netLibrary division that will create electronic versions of Houghton Mifflin College division texts and provide college students and instructors access to electronic...

Reciprocal and Digital Goods join to market and sell DRM.
February 1, 2001... not too long ago, Digital Goods and Reciprocal were competitors in the digital rights management ring. But the strategy of the day in a crowded market is partnership, which has proven too tempting for Digital Goods and Reciprocal to ignore. ...

More Content to LEXIS-NEXIS by Credit Card.
February 1, 2001... The LEXIS-NEXIS by Credit Card product has been significantly expanded with more U.S. and international news, extensive company and financial information, and selected public records, such as UCC Fillings. Users of LEXIS-NEXIS by Credit Card...

EPA Signs LEXIS-NEXIS for Five More Years.
February 1, 2001... LEXIS-NEXIS and the Environmental Protection Agency, partners for more than twenty years, have signed another contract for five more years. The contract will make the LEXIS-NEXIS services available to the EPA staff in headquarters, ten regional...

CinemaNow's Pay-per-view Service Debut.
February 1, 2001... CinemaNow feature films online distributor and iBEAM Broadcasting have made an agreement to launch a film pay-per-view service using iBEAM's integrated ecommerce platform. iBEAM will use digital rights management capabilities and its On-Guard...

Yahoo! Offers Weather in Streaming Video.
February 1, 2001... Yahoo! Inc. has made a content agreement with AccuWeather to provide timely video weather information to Yahoo! Weather. Yahoo! Weather users will be able to access streaming video presentations covering more than one hundred U.S. and Canadian...

iNewsXchange Opens Video Content Market.
February 1, 2001... iNEWS and Media Exchange International Inc., partners since last September, have created a new portal, iNewsXchange.com, which enables fast and simple exchange of news-oriented digital media materials from a broad array of content providers....

Digital House Enters the Digital Distribution Arena.
February 1, 2001... Magex and Mitsubishi Corporation, partners since last April providing digital management solutions for Japan, unveiled their first joint product, Digital House. This new online service sells professional photographs to Japanese media and...

MediaDNA eLuminates Computer Publishing Group's Traffic.
February 1, 2001... Computer Publishing Group will use MediaDNA's eLuminator to drive Internet traffic to specified content on its Web site and thereby make complimentary subscriptions available to qualified readers. This partnership will enable MediaDNA to host...

Lycos and Random House Launch Ebook Marketplace.
February 1, 2001... The Lycos Network launched a new ebooks marketplace with Random House Inc. Modern Library, a Random House Trade Group imprint offering old and new classics, will provide the first offering in the new marketplace, located inside Lycos Shop at...

Northern Light's New Information Management Tool.
February 1, 2001... Northern Light Technology, Inc. has launched SinglePoint, an advanced information portal described as "a relief and boon to enterprises that need to provide excellent and swift access to information." SinglePoint is an addition to information...

Handshake Server 3.1 Introduced by iLumin.
February 1, 2001... iLumin has officially introduced the Digital Handshake Server 3.1. iLumin's Digital Handshake Server 3.1 promises to enable a secure "Online Signing Room," where authenticated business participants can originate, renew, modify, and digitally...

Moreover Introduces Solution for Dynamic Web Content.
February 1, 2001... Moreover has launched its Business Intelligence Solution for corporate intranets, extranets, and e-marketplaces. The Business Intelligence Solution will provide direct access to up-to-the-minute business news, analysis, and information from...

Information for Sale at Inmagic.NET.
February 1, 2001... Inmagic, Inc. has released Inmagic.NET, an extension of its core text-based information management product, DB/TextWorks, and soon to be an extension of its second major product, BiblioTech PRO. Inmagic.NET will enable information professionals...

Inktomi's Traffic Server 4.0 Ready to Ship.
February 1, 2001... Inktomi Corp. has released the latest version of the Inktomi Traffic Server 4.0. The new release extends the Traffic Server Platform for the first time to the Linux operating system providing a compelling price/performance combination for...

Vignette Releases eWireless Application.
February 1, 2001... Vignette Corp. has released its new product, Vignette eWireless, an ebusiness application that enables companies to conduct B2B transactions and exchange information with business applications using any wireless device. This new product...

Kinecta Unveils First Free Content Distribution Tool.
February 1, 2001... The Kinecta Syndicator Lite is the first free content distribution tool. This tool will enable organizations to set up open, dedicated channels for automating ongoing B2B content delivery instead of relying on manual methods, such as email or...

RealSystem iQ Unveiled.
February 1, 2001... RealNetworks, Inc. unveiled RealSystem iQ, a new foundational architecture for digital media delivery. The standards-based RealSystem iQ promises to dramatically increase the reliability of Internet broadcasts, scale to the largest audiences...

History of Film Available for the Asking.
February 1, 2001... Movies.com and Fact City have joined to introduce a facts-on-demand service that enables movie fans to ask questions and instantly receive answers on more than 400,000 actors and actresses, 40,000 directors, and a number of movies and movie...

FT.com Content Available Through Factiva.
February 1, 2001... Factiva has added on the complete set of content of FT.com, the internet partner of Financial Times. Additional content from the Financial Times will be available to Factiva's customers through the relationship with FT.com, enabling them to...

Akamai and BT Ignite Deliver Global Internet Content.
February 1, 2001... BT ignite Content Hosting and Akamai Technologies Inc. have joined to market and promote Internet content delivery services. Under the agreement, Akamai will deploy its FreeFlowSM and FreeFlowSM Streaming servers throughout BT Ignite Content...

Akamai Streams for BMG.
February 1, 2001... BMG Entertainment has launched an online video syndication initiative along with Akamai Technologies. Akamai will otter streaming services for more than one thousand music videos to BMG global end-users through this partnership. BMG will use...

Inside.com and MSNBC's Content Unite.
February 1, 2001... Inside.com and MSNBC.com have agreed on a content alliance. The agreement will allow MSNBC.com to incorporate Inside.com news and information into its new Media & Entertainment section, as well as other sections of the Web site.

New York Times Goes Wireless.
February 1, 2001... New York Times Digital has formed partnerships with Nextel Communications, Inc. and Bell Mobility Inc. to bring NYTimes.com's content into the wireless space. The content is now accessible to Nextel customers through its Nextel Online wireless...

Flywheel Shuts Down.
February 1, 2001... Flywheel, a division of The Thomson Corporation and content syndicator, has been shut down. Thomson sold out all newspapers in January 2000, and followed with an attempt to sell Flywheel, which syndicated content for online newspapers. CEO &...

Digital Island Displays Its Agility.
February 1, 2001... Anystream, Inc. agreed to implement its Agility Enterprise encoding platform into Digital Island, Inc.'s managed Internet infrastructure. This implementation will enable Digital Island to deliver an unprecedented level of streaming performance...

New SoundCast Streams Conference Calls.
February 1, 2001... Premiere Conferencing, a business unit of Ptek Holdings, Inc. has launched Soundcast, a new audio streaming service that enables companies to have their conference calls heard via the Internet simultaneously with their teleconference. SoundCast...

InfoPort Provides High Speed Infrared Broadcasting.
February 1, 2001... Clarinet Systems, Inc. launched what is the first in a series of wireless Infrared Access products under the PASSPORT family name. The InfoPort will enable a new breed of applications by storing up to one hundred pages of text and instantly...

Peopleware.
February 1, 2001... Tim Andrews was named Primedia's Intertec Publishing and Event Unit's chief executive officer. Andrews had been president and chief executive officer of the company's IndustryClick Unit. Andrew Elston was named vice president, content for...

Moreover Expands Inktomi's News Search.
February 1, 2001... Inktomi has licensed Moreover's Web database to enhance its news search capabilities within Inktomi's Search Solutions offerings for portals, destination sites, and enterprise customers. Inktomi will access Moreover's Web database, which...

WAVO and Morningstar Introduce MediaXpress to Livelink Customers.
February 1, 2001... WAVO Corporation has introduced MediaXpress, the company's Internet media delivery service, across the NewsWire, a plug-in knowledge management tool developed by Morningstar Systems Inc. NewsWire was specifically created for Livelink, Open...

Information Content Industry Segmentation.
February 1, 2001... Information Content Industry Segmentation Reference 2% $2.9 billion General Aggregators, Distributors & Services 4% $5.4 billion Scientific,...

Dot Com Shutdowns 2000.
February 1, 2001... Dot Com Shutdowns 2000 Shutdowns By Month Month Shutdowns November 21 October 22 September 16 August 8 July 20 June ...

THE WRITE STUFF.
February 1, 2001... Skipped that typing class in the 8th grade? No matter. Anoto's remarkable pen and paper let you circumvent the whole keystroke thing and remotely transmit your sketches and notes directly to an awaiting device. The pen, due on the market Q3...

WELCOME TO MY SPACE.
February 1, 2001... Yes, it's peer-to-peer. No, it wasn't developed by a teenager. It's called Groove and it has content creation, sharing, and communication applications that go beyond the individual into the realm of an enterprise platform. In a Groove...

I'M BURNING FOR YOU.
February 1, 2001... Mac users and CD-recordable aficionados rejoice! Your USB frustrations are over. CD CyClone's speedy 12x10x32 CD Revo takes full advantage of the slick FireWire interface and presents a proper recording experience that USB never seemed able to...

Content Anywhere, Anytime.
February 1, 2001... To try to make sense of an old industry with new issues and characteristics, we've come up with three flash points that tie it all together: Technology Legal Considerations Pricing A couple decades ago, business-based online...

Content Management Technology.
February 1, 2001... A Booming Market The names may change, but in many ways the story is the same. Over the past several years, we have seen a quick and accelerating shift from one term to another that attempts to name the technology responsible for creating,...

Entering the Content Space CARRY YOUR LAWYER AT ALL TIMES.
February 1, 2001... If the title of this article is posted on a sign somewhere, I've never seen it. But there's a case to be made for posting it on the office walls of every executive of today's econtent companies. There was a time, a quarter of a century...

Content Unchained The New Value Web.
February 1, 2001... "Demand-driven Value Chains are replacing old make-and-sell push models, as producers build business webs that link and respond directly to customers," note the authors of Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (Harvard Business...

Arnold on Pricing: Disturbing Trends Ahead.
February 1, 2001... A an earlier article of mine for EContent on content revenue models (August/September 2000 EContent, "The Joy of Six: Internet Content Revenue Models") stimulated a number of comments from readers. My hope that price lists would be posted on...

ODP Shakes up Search Directory Content Revenues.
February 1, 2001... Like the daunting task faced by the OED, the trouble with cataloging the more than one billion Web pages of cyberspace is that the number just keeps growing. Talk about your bad business models. Imagine a company with a product that takes...

On the Edge with NewsEdge.
February 1, 2001... We're focused on being the leading provider of news and current awareness to the information-intensive user. it's probable that the only company to use the term "econtent" as much as the staff here at EContent is NewsEdge. A search for...

DisContent.
February 1, 2001... Getting the Context have you been quoted out of context? It's an infuriating aspect of writing, speaking, or sending email--and it's more infuriating when you're quoted correctly. Yes, you wrote that string of words; no, you didn't mean...

Behind the firewall.
February 1, 2001... Info Vendors Need Market Education Strategies I sit on an intranet fence. I design intranets, but I also support information vendors in the development of product marketing strategies for intranet delivery. My current concern from this...

Model behavior.
February 1, 2001... Considerations for Profitable Business Models Until April 2000, it didn't really matter whether a dot corn had any profit prospects. April 2000's dot corn stock market crash changed all that. By December 2000, most publicly traded dot corns...

A Leap of Faith: Factiva to IndustryClick.
February 1, 2001... Andrews' strategy in building IndustryClick is to add yet one more way for Primedia to "touch its users as many times as we can." In February 2000, when Tim Andrews moved from the leadership of Factiva--the Dow Jones/Reuters traditional...

Quiver Takes Aim at Directory Building.
February 1, 2001... Scott Poller sums up Quiver's solution as having the "scalability of a search engine with the relevance of an editorial-driven directory." With their constant grab for eyeballs, many Web sites make their subject directories freely...

Meckler's Media Methods.
February 1, 2001... "My theory--and I think it's being proven--is the whole Internet is moving towards vertical Web sites." "People believe the great horizontal portals--the original model for content on the Internet--are the keys to the future, but they're...

DRM Emerging as Must-Have Content Solution.
February 1, 2001... "The key thing to understand about DRM is that it is not the system; DRM is a component of a larger commerce system." When it comes to digital rights management, there are two kinds of people: those who are occupied with the issue, and...

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February 1, 2001... Sharing Each Other's Pain as I write this, we have finally figured out who the next president of the United States is. I presume that George W. Bush will not be as prone to "share your pain" as was Bill Clinton, but I'd like to at least...