EContent articles from January 2002

EContent archives from January 2002

A pox on premium content. (editor'snote).
January 1, 2002... It's a pattern we've seen over and over again--and sometimes we re guilty of perpetuating it ourselves: a Web-based content provider, after having provided quality content for free, makes the decision to bolster declining ad revenues by...

What? No goodbye?: Letters to the editor. (Streaming).
January 1, 2002... I was surprised by today's story that Reciprocal had ceased operations [EContent Xtra: Volume 1, Issue 19]. Any information available on what led to the closure? I can't believe that Microsoft didn't see potential in the DRM market,...

Standard reality: Letters to the editor. (Streaming).
January 1, 2002... Thomas Pack's otherwise interesting article on piracy, "Keeping Digital Text Safe" [EContent, November 2001] had one error that's worth pointing out. Pack says the rights language XrML is "supported by...Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard,...

ScreamingMedia powers tribune's new content syndication network. (news feature).
January 1, 2002... the Tribune Media Services division of media giant Tribune Company announced the launch of its Web-based information service for the enterprise market, FluentMedia. Powered by ScreamingMedia's Syndication! Connect platform, the new...

thePlatform selected by microsoft for streaming ads. (industry news).
January 1, 2002... thePlatform, provider of content management and publishing services, announced it has been selected to power the new streaming advertising program at Microsoft Corporations' WindowsMedia. corn. thePlatform's software, delivered as a Web...

Starbase corporation teams with levi, ray & shoup inc. (industry news).
January 1, 2002... Starbase Corporation, provider of content development and management products, announced that Levi, Ray & Shoup Inc. (LRS), a global provider of information technology solutions, has developed an employee and customer knowledge portal that...

Simon & schuster opens ebook store. (news feature).
January 1, 2002... Will this be the year that ebooks finally take off? Many analysts have their doubts, and many others say it will take a while for ebooks to take hold in the general consumer market. Even though consumers are not buying ebooks, publishers keep...

Applied semantics supports IPTC's auto-categorizer. (Product news).
January 1, 2002... Applied Semantics, Inc., provider of information management and retrieval products, announced it added direct support for the International Press Telecommunications Council's (IPTC) subject codes to its Auto-Categorizer enterprise software...

CCBN and businessweek online jointly webcast. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... CCBN, provider of internet-based shareholder communications services, announced a content and Webcast distribution agreement giving BusinessWeek Online users access to CCBN's investment event calendar, including Company Boardroom content and...

Group EM3 inc. and XCache technologies. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Group EM3 Inc., provider of Web content management products, and XCache Technologies, provider of Internet acceleration and manageability solutions, announced a technology partnership that includes integration of the XCache dynamic content...

Information holdings acquires liquent. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Liquent, Inc., provider of electronic publishing solutions for the life sciences industries, announced that Information Holdings Inc. will start a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Liquent common stock for cash consideration of...

Atypon powers blackwell publishing's econtent offering. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Blackwell Publishing and Atypon Systems announced that Blackwell Publishing selected Atypon as the technology provider for the next generation of Blackwell Synergy, Blackwell's electronic journal service at www.blackwellsynergy.com. With Atypon...

Impact media to acquire nextstep broadband. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Impact Media Inc., provider of interactive multimedia design and services, announced that it entered into a letter of intent to acquire NextStep Broadband Corporation. NextStep Broadband is a broadband content enabler and rich media service...

Equilibrium availability of MediaRich 2.0. (Product news).
January 1, 2002... Equilibrium, provider of automated imaging solutions, announced the availability of MediaRich 2.0 for corporations to dynamically generate, update, and deliver visual content to Web sites and data-enabled devices. New features in version 2.0...

HotRoof enhances streamWriter product line. (Product news).
January 1, 2002... HotRoof Inc., a software company providing media customization and fulfillment technologies for content owners and enterprises, announced it expanded its Stream-Writer product line with the release of StreamWriter Select and StreamWriter...

Interwoven TeamXML ready to ship. (Product news).
January 1, 2002... Interwoven announced the availability of Interwoven TeamXML software, its innovative XML repository that allows companies to increase efficiency throughout the enterprise. Interwoven also announced new technology alliances with XML providers...

Percussion releases rhythmyx 4.0. (Product news).
January 1, 2002... Percussion Software announced enhancements to its content management solution. Percussion's Rhythmyx Content Manager v4.0 provides a content management solution that allows organizations to reduce initial implementation costs and control...

Inktomi to develop microsoft producer for powerpoint. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Inktomi Corporation announced that it is a developer partner for Microsoft's new Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002, a new tool that enables media professionals to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create rich media...

Interwoven integrates TeamXML to arbortext's epic editor. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Arbortext, Inc., provider of XML-based software that enables the creation, editing, and publishing of information from a single source of content to multiple types of media, announced an integration between Interwoven's TeamXML software and...

Telstra chooses documentum. (Industry news).
January 1, 2002... Documentum, provider of enterprise content management, announced that Telstra, a telecommunications company, is using Documentum 4i eBusiness Platform and Web Content Management Edition to fuel the content for telstra.com and its other online...

Peopleware.
January 1, 2002... Akamai Technologies Inc. expanded its board of directors by adding an Eastman Kodak Co. executive and a consulting firm partner. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Akamai announced the election of Martin Coyne II, a Kodak executive vice president,...

Metrics.
January 1, 2002... Top Ten Authors Targeted by Ebook Pirates 1. Stephen King--over 1,600 individual copies Example titles include: Dreamcatcher, It, Misery, The Shining 2. J. K. Rowling--over 700 individual copies Example titles include: All four Harry...

Labels? We don't need no stinkin' labels. (Gearing up).
January 1, 2002... Affex's inkjet CD printer renders surprisingly high-quality images on printable surface CD-R media. The image-obsessed will appreciate that they can leave the more rudimentary sticky labels behind and create detailed text or graphic images on...

Land of a thousand songs. (Gearing up).
January 1, 2002... You want one. You know you do. Here's why: 1,000-song capacity. Five-gig hard drive. Ten-hour battery. Six-and-a-half ounces. That's basically all you need to know. But we'll tell you more anyway. The iPod's FireWire connectivity allows an...

Bag it. (Gearing up).
January 1, 2002... Crumpler has come up with a unique line of messenger, camera, shoulder, and laptop bags that steers decidedly away from the more corporate looking carriers. Made from tough materials--ripstop nylon, Dupont Cordura Plus, and seatbelt material...

No cuts, no glory -- commercial intelligence publishing comes of age: How the freedonia group expanded market share, reduced cost, and increased profits with ECNext. (Special advertisement).
January 1, 2002... In the world of commercial intelligence publishing, maintaining market leadership is an all-consuming mission. With so many issues plaguing publishers today, the need to create new revenue streams is not an optional initiative but, an absolute...

Not your father's website: Corporate sites emerge as new content innovators.
January 1, 2002... Corporate Web sites are not fun. They're about as exciting as an annual report or the fine print of an insurance policy. At best, they may have color pictures of the company's products. If this is your idea of corporate Web sites, you've...

Game on: Spiderdance powers NBC's weakest link.
January 1, 2002... Here's the question, and it's a brutally tough one, for executives at NBC and Venice, California interactive pioneer Spiderdance, which specializes in creating tools that allow for synchronized, real-time online counterparts to TV shows: can...

RSS: Lo-Fi content syndication.
January 1, 2002... if a technology develops without the continued support from a single major vendor can you still call it a standard? That's the question that two groups of enterprising XML developers are asking themselves today as they move forward on a...

Creating the customer-obsessed web team.
January 1, 2002... Unless you've been asleep for the last five years, you've probably noticed that corporate intranets have changed dramatically. No longer ad-hoc collections of Web pages and applications, intranets have become productivity engines that help busy...

The magazine quandary: When you subscribe to a magazine, you begin a relationship. (disContent).
January 1, 2002... "the party's over. Now the blame game begins." That's the tagline on The Industry Standard for August 20-27, 2001. Although the article was about "Tech bankers on trial," the line hit closer to home. Two days after that issue appeared in my...

Content by the pound: Packaged and priced to sell; with the subscription model working for only a select few, publishers are beginning to experiment more aggressively and creatively with selling their wares by the pound. (Follow the money).
January 1, 2002... as any good butcher knows, and many Web publishers are beginning to appreciate, you can't always sell customers the whole hog all at once. The art of merchandising is knowing how to slice, trim, package, and price the pieces for easier sale....

Investing in intranet infrastructure: There are at least five good reasons for investing in an intranet infrastructure. (Behind the firewall).
January 1, 2002... in a number of my columns last year, I made reference to the skill sets that are desirable for intranet managers. I probably need to add the ability to speak French. Let me explain. While at the Intranets 2001 conference in Santa Clara last...

Content a Ia wmode serving up solutions for wireless content: With the rollout of the next generation, higher bandwidth infrastructure and the development of the newer handsets, we're going to see things open up. (Profile).
January 1, 2002... if industry soothsayers are right, the whole world of mobile commerce, including that of wireless content, is about to explode. Research and consulting firm, the Yankee Group, estimates that the value of goods and services purchased via mobile...

eMeta facilitates information commerce: "What we've done is create a system that allows publishers to implement anything they want and then find out whether or not those business models will be profitable". (Profile).
January 1, 2002... "there has been a perception that no one is making money online, but there are some people who have done very well," says Ethan Mollick, vice president of business development at eMeta. "Several of our customers have proven you actually can...

Profitable transactions: DeSilva & phillips: Defining the new internet. (Profile).
January 1, 2002... many of today's publishing companies recognize the value in being able to take the content they produce and put it to work across multiple platforms, thereby extending their reach and increasing their bottom line. No longer will a magazine stay...

Is it a hal-9000 or a walkman? (end of file).
January 1, 2002... an article in Salon.com back in August 2001 profiled Ray Bradbury, that imaginative sci-fi writer who introduced me to the world of the weird back when I was in middle school. What is perhaps most striking about some of his works was his...