EContent articles from February 2003

EContent archives from February 2003

Strange bedfellows, or just strange times? (Edit This).(Dun & Bradstreet's plan to buy Hoover's Inc is discussed)
February 1, 2003... The saying goes: "You've made your bed, now lie in it." I wonder why, if I've gone to the trouble to make the dam bed (as it were), my only option would be to lie passively. And if I am only given the option of lying prone, then at least let me...

The International Children's Digital Library takes the World Wide Web world-wide. (News Feature).
February 1, 2003... As the Internet makes the world increasingly smaller, a new project attempts to use its power to open literary doors for children around the globe. The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) launched in late 2002 with approximately 200...

Showdown at COMDEX 2002: the latest battle in the Intellectual Property War. (News Feature).
February 1, 2003... Call it a summit meeting between two superpowers. Call it a confrontation of equals in the Intellectual Property War. Call it what you will, it was one of the most stimulating arguments on content control presented by a mega content provider to...

Controlling Web bugs-online advertisers help shape guidelines. (News Feature).(Network Advertising Initiative is creating new Web beacon guidelines )
February 1, 2003... In an attempt to self-regulate online consumer privacy while conducting online transactions, the Network Advertising Initiative (NAJ), which comprises some of the Internet's leading advertising and ad technology companies, has finalized the...

Traction digs in with traction TeamPage. (News Feature).(Traction Software)
February 1, 2003... Traction Software has been around since 1996, but hovered under the radar until July 2002 when it generally announced TeamPage, a business information sharing system. The solution is sub-positioned as an enterprise Weblog, but with some...

Active-ate your content with FileNET P8. (News Feature).(Filenet's new P8 is latest release of Enterprise Content Management suite)
February 1, 2003... FileNET wants content to get up out of its silo and do something. With the release of its P8 Architecture, the company has shifted the emphasis from simply managing content to making content active in the information workplace. With P8, the...

Divine reorganizes; plans to divest RowCom subscription business. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Divine, inc. announced that it will align the company into three solution areas to streamline the organization and enhance its ability to address specific business problem sets. The creation of these organizational divisions-Web, Content, and...

Associated Press and Yahoo! Introduce AP Archives on Yahoo! News. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Associated Press and Yahoo! Inc. have announced the release of AP Archives, a fee-based news archive on Yahoo! News. This services is intended to reinforce both companies' commitment to providing comprehensive news and information to...

Nstein and Gale announce partnership agreement. (News & Product Briefs).(Nstein Technologies Inc. and Gale Group)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nstein Technologies Inc. and Gale, a part of The Thomson Corporation, have announced an agreement to provide Gale's subject taxonomy through Nstein's flagship automated indexing software. This agreement is intended to enhance content search and...

Infocon America Launches InfoRights Service Web site solution. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Infocon America Corp., a provider of Web solutions for B2B publishers is now offering its new InfoRights Service to publishers as a standalone service, and to current publisher customers as an add-on services to its existing InfoWeb Ecommerce...

Microsoft announces plans for Office 11 with underlying XML structure. (News & Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Microsoft has unveiled plans for turning its upcoming Office 11 business productivity suite into an extensible platform for business applications using a set of tools that will allow Visual Studio .NET developers to build business-specific...

ViewCentral, Inc. (Peopleware).(Karen Willem moves from this firm to iVAST, becoming VP of finance and operations and chief financial officer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... iVAST, has appointed Karen Willem senior vice president of finance and operations and chief financial officer. In her new role, Willem will manage internal and external financial affairs and streamline the company's operations. Prior to joining...

Capella Investments, Inc. (Peopleware).(Founder and president of Capella, Ray Leach, joins executive team of OverDrive)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... OverDrive has added Ray Leach to its executive team as senior vice president, business development. Leach will develop new business opportunities and partnerships for enterprise DRM solutions and lead the company's sales and marketing efforts...

WebWare Corporation. (Peopleware).(names Michael W. Castle vice president)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Michael W. Castle has been named vice president of corporate business development for WebWare Corporation. Prior to joining WebWare, Castle was president of the In-Formation Group, a consulting group providing management consulting services.

GSM Association. (Peopleware).(names John Hoffman, chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Roamware Inc. has appointed John Hoffman CEO. Hoffman most recently served as the senior director of technology evolution and consulting director with the GSM Association (GSMA). With the appointment of Hoffman as CEO, Mohan Uttarwar has...

Arbortext, Inc. (Peopleware).(names David Peralta, chief financial officer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Arbortext, Inc. has named David Peralta CFO. Peralta will report directly to Arbortext CEO Raymond Schiavone and will oversee all of the company's finance, contracts, and human resource functions. Peralta most recently served as vice president...

Progressive's New Media and Electronic Products division. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Progressive Information Technologies has appointed three executives to new roles within the company. Darby Jo Campbell was named vice president of cross-media services. Campbell's new responsibilities include production, technology development,...

RealNetworks, Inc. (Peopleware).(new creative director of RealOne Services)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... John Lyle Sanford has joined RealNetworks, Inc. as creative director for RealOne Services. Sanford will drive the design and creative components of RealNetworks' consumer brand development activities, and support all marketing for RealOne...

TrueNames file identification method and co-founder of Sandpiper Networks. (Peopleware).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Altnet has appointed Ron Lachman, inventor of the TrueNames file identification method and co-founder of Sandpiper Networks, to the newly created position of chief scientist. Lachman will provide strategic and technical guidance on Altnet's...

COO of Active IQ Technologies, Inc. (Peopleware).(Jack Johnson appointed chief operating office and president)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Jack Johnson has been named president and COO of Active IQ Technologies, Inc. Johnson will be responsible for all aspects of business operations and will report directly to the company's CEO, D. Bradly Olah. Johnson comes to Active IQ from...

Octave Software, Inc. (Peopleware).(Peter solvik appointed to board of directors)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Octave Software, Inc. has appointed Peter Solvik to its hoard of directors. Solvik, former senior vice president and CIO at Cisco Systems, is a managing director at Sigma Partners.

ECNext. (Peopleware).(Chris Skudder appointed chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... ECNext has appointed Chris Skudder CEO. Skudder will be responsible for overall company strategy and operations, with an initial focus on scaling the company's sales and marketing activity to take advantage of growing market opportunities.

Households with Internet Access in the European Union, 2000-2002.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2003... Households with Internet Access in the European Union, 2000-2002 Have Access Don't Have Access October 2000 28% 72% June 2001 36% 64% November 2001 38% 62%...

U.S. Employees who Feel they are Addicted to at-work Internet Usage and Employer Knowledge of such Addiction, May 2002.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2003... U.S. Employees Who Feel They Are Addicted to At-Work Internet Usage and Employer Knowledge of Such Addiction, May 2002 (as a % of respondents) Employees who have ever Employers knowledge of become addicted to or...

U.S. Internet Users' Opinions Regarding the Volume of Email Received at Work, April-May 2002.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2003... U.S. Internet Users' Opinions Regarding the Volume of Email Received at Work, April-May 2002 (as a % of respondents) Email is not a problem whatsoever 65% I manage to stay on top of it 30% I'm over-whelmed by it ...

U.S. Customer Satisfaction with Portals, Search Engines and News Sites, 2001 & 2002.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2003... U.S. Customer Satisfaction with Portals, Search Engines and News Sites, 2001 & 2002 (based on American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) scale of 0-100 EBusiness 2002 2001 Category ACSI...

Are we overloaded yet? (InfoPro).(information menagement methods )
February 1, 2003... Over the last year or so, I've been asked to speak a number of times about the problem of information overload. At the first invitation, my initial thought was, "This topic is so last year!" In fact, there are articles back in the 1960s and...

xDoc Converter. (Review).(CambridgeDocs L. L. C. )(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2003... Company: CambridgeDocs LLC Purpose: Automate the conversion of legacy data, especially documents, into structured and meaningful XML-tagged content. Starting Price: $5,000 per developer desktop (tentative pricing) Reviewer's View:...

WeatherBug: always on, always profitable. (Follow the Money).(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2003... You can learn a lot from a bug. While much of the content community continues to chase sponsor dollars by making ads bigger, louder, more animated, at least one provider understands the alternative Zen way: be there to deliver when the user...

The after Web: digital distribution without the URL.
February 1, 2003... The World Wide Web is so 2001. Forward-looking publishers are, well, looking forward...and beyond a digital platform that often proved to be a wildly popular place for users to engage with content, but a disastrous business proposition. For...

Publish or perish: enewsletters push business communication forward; unless you are in the publishing business, your company probably doesn't consider itself a content creator--and why should it?
February 1, 2003... You may have departments that write marketing and sales collateral, documentation, and even annual reports; but beyond that, you just aren't terribly likely to produce a publication for regular distribution to customers or suppliers. However,...

HITS and misses. (Behind the Firewall).(tracking success of Intranets)
February 1, 2003... the sun shone on Santa Clara in October as the combined Intranets 2002 and KM World conferences took place in the Convention Center. Information Today Inc. took quite a gamble in running the events at such a difficult time for the economy and...

4th Annual: Buying & Selling eContent an executive conference.
February 1, 2003... April 13-15, 2003 Marriott's Camelback Inn Resort, Golf Club and Spa Scottsdale, AZ Tackle Today's STRATEGIC CONTENT ISSUES If you buy or sell (or distribute or market) content in the electronic marketplace, plan now to...

Broken links and broken laws: copyright confusion online.
February 1, 2003... A religious man, and a lover of books, he borrowed a copy of St. Jerome's psalter from his old teacher Finnian and copied it himself word for word--by hand. His intention was to bring copies of St. Jerome to the masses. Finnian, a less...

The search continues: three publishers' site search solutions.
February 1, 2003... Put an infinite number of journalists at an infinite number of keyboards and, sooner or later, they'll generate something that you need to read. But how will you find it? Your local search engine may work well enough for tracking down a...

Building partnerships: adding dialogue to professional writing. (DisContent).
February 1, 2003... Last month, I discussed the relationship between a magazine or Web site and its readers. That relationship can build into a partnership that enriches content. But there's a whole lot more to it than just adding feedback buttons or discussion...

Sandlot Corporation: subscriptions aren't just for print anymore. (Profile).
February 1, 2003... It's been about two years since the dotcom bubble burst and hundreds of "bricks and clicks" companies went out of business, and in that time, the ebusinesses that managed to survive have had to rethink their business models and find new ways to...

Books24x7: all of the info all of the time. (Profile).(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2003... as ebooks slowly begin to eke out a niche in the marketplace, what is the next logical progression? Digital libraries, of course, and Books24x7 has leapt out of the starting gate in an attempt to take an early lead in this burgeoning market....

America's CIO. (After Thought).(America Inc. to add chief information officer to top ranks)
February 1, 2003... Washington DC, November 2002-America, Inc., one of the largest and best-funded organizations in the world, announced that it will add a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to its leadership ranks. This high-profile position will report directly to...