EContent articles from February 2002

EContent archives from February 2002

What makes you so special? (Editor's Note).
February 1, 2002... Bill Mickey the subject of pay-to-play content models comes up a lot in these pages. It's certainly the crux for established content sites making the fee leap of faith, not to mention new sites about to hang out their signs. Pricepoints...

LexisNexis adds Knight Ridder Digital's content. (Content News).
February 1, 2002... lexisNexis announced an alliance with Knight Ridder Digital to integrate both services to an interactive content exchange. According to the terms of the agreement, Real Cities Network's creator Knight Ridder will syndicate its content vailable...

Vivendi buys ten percent of echostar. (Content News).
February 1, 2002... media giant, Vivendi Universal announced its latest deal--the company will pay $1.5 billion for a 10 percent stake in EchoStar Communications Corp. This move strengthens Vivendi's plan to acquire a U.S. distribution channel for its content....

IBM bundles Vignette's content suite 6. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Strategic alliance partners Vignette Corporation and IBM announced they will jointly market IBM's packaged e-infrastructure solutions with Vignette Content Suite V6. The new bundled service is called Blue Pack, and it enables customers with a...

AltaVista engaged. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Engage, Inc., an enterprise marketing software company, and AltaVista Company announced an OEM alliance to incorporate AltaVista's Enterprise Search software into Engage's Content-Server 7 solution. Engage and AltaVista will also collaborate on...

Intellectual Property Supply Chain software for publishers. (Product News).
February 1, 2002... OuterForce Systems, Inc., a leading provider of business process automation, introduced the OuterForce Intellectual Property Supply Chain (IPSC) solution for the publishing, advertising, and media industries. The solution allows managers to...

ProactiveNet Unveils ProactiveWeb. (Produt News).
February 1, 2002... ProactiveNet, Inc., provider of end-to-end performance management solutions for Web-based applications, announced ProactiveWeb, a monitoring and content verification software for complex Web transactions. ProactiveWeb enables ebusinesses to...

Documentum acquires Bulldog Group's DAM. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Content management provider, Documentum, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Digital Asset Management technology of the privately held Bulldog Group. Based in Toronto, Bulldog provides solutions to media-rich...

Dialog's Profound adds BrandLine and tableBase. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... The Dialog Corporation announced that it has added BrandLine and TableBase to its Profound online service. The first of the two new services available through Profound is BrandLine, now part of Profound's WorldSearch feature. BrandLine combines...

Realnetworks' Realone available. (Product News).
February 1, 2002... RealNetworks, Inc. announced the availability of RealOne for consumers to discover, play, and manage digital media. RealOne Player provides consumers with everything they need to enjoy and organize their media including the ability to stream...

Serena supports change management for the Microsoft .Net platform. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Serena Software, Inc., a supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, announced that Serena ChangeMan DS will support the Microsoft .NET Platform. Upon the release of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the combination...

Primus answer engine version 2.0 now available. (Product News).
February 1, 2002... Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc., provider of knowledge application software for customer contact centers and portals, announced the availability of Primus Answer Engine Version 2.0, extending the scale, integration capability, and ease of...

Interwoven releases MetaTagger 3.0. (Product News).
February 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc. announced the release of MetaTagger 3.0, software which provides Global 2000 enterprises with an enterprise metadata solution enabling them to effectively and accurately reuse and repurpose content across any and all...

Univision and America Online form content and marketing alliance. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... America Online, Inc. and Univision Communications Inc., a Spanish-language media company in the United Slates, announced an extensive strategic content and marketing alliance that will expand both companies efforts to increase U.S. Hispanic...

Turlock Irrigation District and Zinpro select stellent. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Stellent, Inc., a global provider of enterprise content management solutions, announced that Turlock Irrigation District, an irrigation water and electricity provider, and Zinpro Corporation, a manufacturer of trace mineral nutrition for...

ExciteAtHome to cease operations on Feb. 28. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Internet service provider, ExciteAtHome Corporation, announced it would cease operations on February 28. The company cut its staff by about 400 employees last December. The troubled ISP had been expected to cease operations after AT&T...

Teleglobe and Streamway deliver Rich Media. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Teleglobe and Streamway, a streaming media services provider, announced a strategic partnership to deliver Rich Media and Web content to the corporate marketplace. The new managed service for broadcasters has an encoding platform provides a...

Peopleware.
February 1, 2002... i3 Mobile, Inc., a provider of wireless media content and services, announced that Sharon Podwol joined as vice president of Interactive Marketing. Podwol will oversee the Web strategy and interactive marketing of Pronto, the Company's new,...

What infurmashion liturasy problem? (End of File).
February 1, 2002... I'll be the first to admit that I have certain blind spots. My Generation X brother is alternately amused and mortified when I have to ask him to explain the rules of the TV show, Survivor. And, try as I like, I just don't grok the appeal of...

Metrics.
February 1, 2002... Metrics Consumer Interest at Auto-Related Web Sites Detailed Product Info 42% Ratings & Reviews 9% Side-by-Side Comparison 23% Other 26% Source: Jupiter Media Metrix, December 2001 Note:...

That's a wrap. (Gearing Up).
February 1, 2002... To say the least, it's a little more involved than Apple's free consumer-grade iMovie video editing software. A steeper learning curve to be sure, but Final Cut Pro 3 offers seriously high-end functionality for a fraction of the cost. Perks...

Fingertip communique. (Gearing Up).
February 1, 2002... In the what-else-can-we-squeeze-into-this-thing category is Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 mobile device. Cleverly hiding a QWERTY keyboard, the Zaurus frees those of us who haven't quite developed our PDA handwriting skills. Not only can we simply...

Wap crusher. (Gearing Up).
February 1, 2002... Motorola's new Timeport 280 comes with GPRS network compatibility for speedy data services. And the device enjoys a new level of connectivity with its IrDA functionality, which allows wireless infrared communication with compatible PCs. And...

The free lunch is over: Online content suberiptions on the rise; High need, rather than high use, may be what really determines a user's willingness to pay.
February 1, 2002... The one thing we do know about the viability of the online subscription model is that we just don't know much about it yet. And what we do know about getting people to pay for Web content is pretty much what we have known since 1997 and the...

The Salt Lake scramble: Online Coverage of the Olympic games.
February 1, 2002... On the final leg of the torch relay at the 1956 Cortina Games, the last torch carrier tripped over a television cable, dropped the torch, and extinguished the flame. It was then quickly relit, but the mishap prompted Avery Brundage,...

Defeating the downturn: Syndicators turn to the enterprise.
February 1, 2002... We didn't have a crystal ball, but I think one of the important things we did right at the end of 1999 and early 2000 was to start reshaping our offerings, our products, and our services towards the marketplace that was looking for...

Training for trouble: Accident Response Group serves video at Sandia.
February 1, 2002... When we think of content management for video assets, we tend to focus on obvious applications such as entertainment, news, and advertising. But as events of the last couple of months have reminded us, there is more to a secure society than...

Turn on the radio: I wanted to keep an eye or an ear on the events, and the web just didn't cut it. Then I remembered that I had a crummy little radio at work... (Discontent).
February 1, 2002... Two mottoes appear on facing doors at most Max's restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area: "This is a bad place to diet" and "This is a good place to diet." Both sayings are true. Max serves big portions of traditional and deli-style American...

Buying the proper search solution for your intranet. (Behind The Firewall).
February 1, 2002... There has been considerable awareness among intranet managers about the benefits of good content management software, but the message about the importance of good search software has still to be heard, let alone understood. i seem to have...

Groove Networks: Matching technology with human needs. (Profile).
February 1, 2002... "If what has been occurring in information technology during the past decade or so can be classified as the 'Information Age,' then going forward, I believe it's going to be viewed more as the 'connection age'," says Ray Ozzie, CEO and...

Kontiki: Shortcuts for content's trip to the edge. (Profile).
February 1, 2002... When electronic files get zapped from one location to another, you probably aren't thinking about the physical distance they must travel--or how that distance might affect the time it takes to get there. But if you work for CDN company Kontiki,...

Financialcontent: Credibility is king. (Profile).
February 1, 2002... If you went to a site named Financialcontent.com, you'd probably expect to find, well, financial content. Maybe stock prices or company earnings or market charts or economic statistics or corporate news reports. Well, you'd be partially...