EContent articles from January 2006

EContent archives from January 2006

Get smart.(edit this)
January 1, 2006... Stereotypes simplify social situations. Old person wise, young person foolhardy; tall person better basketball player, guy with pocket-protector better with computers; and policeman good, robber bad (or vice versa, depending on your...

Oh, no, not (the same) web video again!(United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
January 1, 2006... The industry is abuzz about Web video. The NASA shuttle launch streamed blurry, jerky video to hundreds of thousands of interested viewers. This appeals to advertisers looking for lost audience as broadcast ratings erode: sizable audiences with...

Fairly useful.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... Regarding Jessica Dye's October "Web Site Sued" News article [pp. 6-7], here is another instance of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) rearing their ugly heads. The Wayback Machine functions...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2006... In compiling our annual ECONTENT 100 list (December, 2005), we regret that we made the following errors: FeedBurner is the correct writing of the company's name [p. 22]. PTC's product list should have included Arbortext's Enterprise...

Secure exchanges: the SEC's online alternative to paper proxies.(content news)(Securities and Exhcange Commission )
January 1, 2006... Twenty-first century business is transacted online--even the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has trouble getting people to read paper versions of corporate proxy statements in the econtent age. In a move to regain investors' attention,...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Verity Inc. promoted CFO, Steven R. Springsteel, to president. Springsteel, who had been SVP of finance and administration, will continue to serve as the company's CFO and be responsible for all administrative, financial, and legal functions.

Wolters Kluwer Legal.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... The Wolters Kluwer Legal unit has announced that Steve Errick has joined Aspen Publishers as managing director of the Legal Education Division. Most recently, Errick served as publisher of Foundation Press, a legal education publishing company...

LexisNexis.(appoints)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... LexisNexis has named Christopher Ainsley as SVP, strategy and business development, LexisNexis Group (LNG). Previously, he was president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health. LexisNexis has also announced that Michael R. Higgins, an...

Apple.(Apple Computer Inc. appoints)
January 1, 2006... Apple has named Tim Cook its COO. Cook, who has been Apple's EVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations since 2002, will continue to report to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. Apple also announced that Jon Rubinstein, Apple's SVP of the iPod Division will...

Intelligenxia.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Intelligenxia has announced that Timothy L. Cannon, Ph.D., will become COO. Most recently, Cannon was the director of business strategy for Microsoft Corporation's U.S. Public Sector.

Epocrates, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Epocrates, Inc. has announced the appointment of John D. Halamka, MD, MS, to its board of directors. Epocrates has also announced the appointment of Patrick Jones to its board of directors. Jones will serve as chairman of the audit committee,...

Time for a business-model remix? Music distribution in the wake of the Sony BMG DRM debacle.(content news)
January 1, 2006... The question facing digital entertainment companies seems to have changed from Can we implement effective DRM? to Should we even try? The shift seemed inevitable to some as one digital or audio DRM scheme after the next was swiftly...

SNOCAP.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... SNOCAP, a provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for the digital music marketplace, has appointed Rusty Rueff to the position of CEO. Rueff most recently served as EVP for human resources at Electronic Arts.

OCLC.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Ching-chih Chen has joined OCLC as consultant to the president for global digital initiatives among libraries, museums, and archival institutions. Dr. Chen will consult for OCLC on special assignments and projects led by Phyllis Spies, VP of...

Dow Jones & Company.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Dow Jones & Company has announced that Maria Molland has been appointed GM of MarketWatch.com, which includes the destination site, BigCharts.com, search401k, Virtual Stock Exchange, and the newsletter business. She will report to Nathan...

XyEnterprise.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... XyEnterprise has appointed Camille Roy as VP of worldwide sales, Sally Allen has rejoined the company as director of human resources, and Mary Galoski Parsons has joined as director of marketing communications.

MobileLime.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... MobileLime, a company that allows consumers to make purchases through any mobile phone, has announced the appointment of Jeff Yolen as VP of business development. Prior to joining MobileLime, Yolen served as an expert advisor to Nokia's...

ScholarOne.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... ScholarOne, Inc., a provider of Web-based workflow and management solutions for scholarly publishers, has announced that David Thomas has joined the sales team as European sales manager.

StreamShield Networks.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... StreamShield Networks has named Tony Brett as director of support and operations. Brett has held management positions at global network solution companies including Marconi, Madge Networks, and Red-M.

Sendmail.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Sendmail has appointed Richard Kreysar as president and CEO. Dave Anderson, Sendmail's former president and CEO, will assume the role of chairman of the board for the company. Kreysar comes to Sendmail from Determine Software, an on-demand...

Patently absurd? Report calls for patent system revamp.(content news)
January 1, 2006... A report from the Cutter Consortium, an IT advisory firm, says that the U.S. Patent Office should carefully re-examine its rules and regulations regarding software patents. Cutter believes the U.S. software patent scheme is "badly broken" and...

Online content: mitigates disasters.(content news)
January 1, 2006... Last year, Mother Nature rocked the globe. The world in 2005 had the highest-ever financial losses for weather-related natural disasters. Globally, economic losses will exceed $200 billion and insured losses will be more than $70 billion,...

BitPass, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... BitPass, Inc., a provider of a commerce platform for digital content and services, has named Douglas S. Knopper, formerly SVP and GM at DoubleClick, as CEO. Prior to DoubleClick, he oversaw advertising campaigns for brands and products at Lowe...

Dwango Wireless.(Dwango North America Inc. appoints)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Dwango Wireless, a developer and publisher of mobile entertainment content for lifestyle brands, has announced that Rex S. Jackson has been appointed to its board of directors. Jackson is currently acting CFO, SVP, and general counsel of...

Xinet, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Xinet, Inc. has named Cynthia Ahart Wood, formerly content director of Seybold Seminars & Publications, as director of marketing in which she will also work closely with Xinet's sales department and integrator channel to oversee the company's...

Innovative Interfaces.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Innovative Interfaces has announced that Colin Carter has joined the company asa sales account manager for the UK and Northern Europe. Carter has served in the libraryautomation industry for over a decade, amassing a range of experience with...

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Endeavor Information Systerns has appointed John Roseas director of sales, eastern region. Rose most recently held the title of director, eastern region U.S. sales at SirsiDynix, where he supervised the efforts of sales representatives.

Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH (FIZ CHEMIE Berlin).(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Richard Huber will take over as head of marketing and communication at the Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH (FIZ CHEMIE Berlin). Huber, a specialist in Technical Computer Science, has worked at FIZ CHEMIE Berlin for the last six years.

CSA.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... CSA has announced the appointment of Boe Horton to the position of COO and GM. Horton will direct the sales, marketing, and editorial divisions of CSA and oversee the Ulrich's product line. He will report directly to Matt Dunie the president of...

National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC).(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC), the newly formed company that comprises three business units acquired from ProQuest Information and Learning, has named Kimberly R. Durliat asa VP of finance and administration.

Springer Wien.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Rudolf Siegle, managing director of Springer Wien, retired from the company as of January 1, 2006. His successor will be Jan Sramek, previously responsible for the publishing program and product management as director of the editorial...

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has appointed Dr. Catharina Maulbecker as VP, marketing and sales. Prior to joining CAS, Maulbecker served as a consultant to clients in Europe and the United States, including CAS.

Celltick Technologies.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Celltick Technologies has announced that ir has appointed Pompillo Roselll as sales director heading the new regional office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to joining Celltick, Roselli was a sales director at SupportComm, StarMedia Mobile, and...

Groople.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Groople, an online group travel booking resource has appointed Michael Stacy as CEO. David Loy will maintain his role as president and founder of Groople. Stacy most recently served as president of Cendant's CheapTickets.

Nine Systems.(peopleware)
January 1, 2006... Nine Systems has announced the appointment of Steve Christian as the company's VP of marketing. Prior to joining Nine Systems, Christian tan bis own technology marketing consultancy.

Creating a network of ourselves.(agile minds)
January 1, 2006... The seismic shift to a participatory online culture has made us all co-creators of the content we consume. Simple technology tools enable us to write and publish to the Web with a single click. We can mix and mash music to make the tracks and...

Faces of econtent: ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(HighBeam Research)
January 1, 2006... Job Function: As customer service manager for HighBeam Research, LaMont Clements manages a group that provides 24-hour support. He also serves as the escalation person when the call center staffers have questions, and the issues run the...

Resistance is futile ... get a vid-cam.(follow the money)
January 1, 2006... Two words: video podcasting. Go ahead and snicker, becanse a couple of months ago I would have smirked right along with you. Then I got me a video iPod. Within weeks of its hellaciously hyped launch, the new video podcasting section of...

Namo Web Editor 2006.(Adobe Systems Inc.)(Microsoft Corp.)
January 1, 2006... The makers of Namo Web Editor 2006 must have found themselves in a marketing conundrum. Caught between two industry powerhouses--Adobe's Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage--Namo developers had to do something to differentiate...

Web content takes the access ramp: designing sites with accessibility in mind.
January 1, 2006... Consider for a moment how many visual cues you rely on when accessing a Web site. Without even thinking, your eyes quickly scan navigation menus, examine main headings, spy the search box, and skim over other links. Your hand automatically...

Memography and the Memetic Web.(new information retrieval method)
January 1, 2006... Want to try for yourself a new information retrieval method that is powerful yet very simple to understand and implement? One that will affect everything from enterprise search to your own desktop search? Follow these simple steps... 1....

Discovery channel: getting content discovered.
January 1, 2006... Think you are giving customers what they want? Not if they have to navigate through multiple menus and sift through search results to find it. And what if the customer isn't entirely sure what she needs in the first place? If companies...

Scanning the stacks: the digital rights issues behind book digitization projects.(Google Inc.)(Microsoft Corp.)(Yahoo! Inc.)
January 1, 2006... Ask fans of the dearly departed free file-swapping software Grokster--if digital content sounds too good to be true, or too cheap to be legal, it probably is. While building a free digital library might not seem like an audacious move at first...

The future? It ain't here yet!(info pro)
January 1, 2006... I'm going through one of my periodic moments of future-angst, and wondering whether and how I'll adapt to the New Infosphere. As my favorite 1970s comedy group, the Firesign Theatre, reminds us, "The future... you may already be there." Back...

Buying & selling: eContent[TM] an executive conference.
January 1, 2006... April 9-11, 2006 Camelback Inn Scottsdale, Arizona HIGHLIGHTS & Special Events * Leading Industry Speakers * Content Industry Outlook * Insightful, High-Level Sessions * Sunset Welcome Reception * Southwestern Dinner * Pre-Conference...

A case of relief renewed.(case study)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... Company: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS Governed by volunteers and supported by community donations, the American Red Cross provides relief to disaster victims and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. The humanitarian...

Tag, I'm it.(after thought)
January 1, 2006... With the number of blogs now in the tens of millions and the availability of niche blogs on virtually any topic, attention has shifted to the hot space of blog search. The simple truth is that it isn't easy to find a blog post on subjects of...