EContent articles from January 2008

EContent archives from January 2008

Email crimes and misdemeanors.(edit this)(Report)
January 1, 2008... In 1973, Len Kleinrock may have committed the first cybercrime. He'd just returned to UCLA from a conference on computing and communications at Sussex University, and he found that he'd left his razor behind. So he went to his computer terminal...

YouTube hate mail.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... In your story ["YouTube's Legal Issues Grow," November 2007, p. 10], most of which I agree with and is correct, you made these assertions: "Americans, after all, have the First Amendment, which protects us from censorship and allows us to...

Speaking Swahili.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... Regarding this section of your piece ["Wikimedia Takes its Academic Approach to Africa," Oct. 26, www.econtentmag.com] on Wikimedia & Africa: "aim to extend the reach of Wikipedia by preserving many smaller languages such as Maori and Swahili."...

Considering privacy's price.(EMail)(Medical condition overview)
January 1, 2008... I wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your Drink the Water piece in the November 2007 issue and mentioned it to Tom Hogan in London. I thought you really captured the digital divide that separates young and old content users. The point...

Corrections.(EMail)(Correction notice)
January 1, 2008... In the EContent 100 section of our December issue, Coveo Solutions' key products (p. 37) were incorrectly identified as Enterprise Search 4.0, Enterprise Search for SharePoint 4.0, and Audio Video Search (CAVS). In fact, Coveo's key products...

Metrics.(attitudes of middle managers towards receiving information)(Survey)
January 1, 2008... Attitudes of Middle Managers at U.S. and U.K. Large Companies Toward Receiving Information That Is Necessary to Their Jobs, June 2006 (Percentage of respondents) Miss information that might be valuable almost every day 59% because...

Google's OpenSocial juggernaut gets this party started, right?(content news)(Google Inc.)
January 1, 2008... Google's recent surprise entry into social networking has kicked off a land rush that has developers scrambling for real-estate and first-mover status in a massive, largely untapped, and previously closed-off market. When Facebook released...

Macrovision agrees to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide.(news & product briefs)
January 1, 2008... Macrovision Corp., a provider of protection, enablement, and distribution solutions, and Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., a provider of video and entertainment guidance, announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement...

News Corp. completes Dow Jones & Co. acquisition, Dow Jones CEO leaving.(news & product briefs)
January 1, 2008... News Corp. announced the completion of its acquisition of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. pursuant to the previously announced merger agreement. Under the terms of the merger agreement, each share of Dow Jones common stock was converted into the right to...

Foundry: helping people find ease in content management.(content news)
January 1, 2008... Everyday people are now able to manage content," says Darren Guarnaccia, VP of product marketing for Sitecore. Sitecore, founded in 2001, is a San Rafael, Calif.-based company that provides web content management and portal software for...

Technorati, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Technorati, Inc., a provider of blogs and social media on the web, announced the appointment of Richard Jalichandra as president & CEO. Prior to joining Technorati, he held leadership roles at Exponential Interactive, Fox Interactive Media, and...

Socialtext.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Socialtext has named Eugene Lee CEO and member of the board of directors of the provider of enterprise wiki and social software solutions. Prior to joining Socialtext, Lee held senior management positions at Adobe,...

Medio Systems, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Mobile search and advertising provider Medio Systems, Inc. has appointed Ben Tatton-Brown as the head of advertising sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Tatton-Brown will be responsible for driving advertising and publishing sales...

Swets.(peopleware)(Swets North America appoints Jose Luis Andrade)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Swets announced the appointment of Jose Luis Andrade as the new president of Swets North America. Andrade will be based in Swets' North American headquarters in Runnemede, N.J. He has been appointed to the new role from his position as Swets'...

Cengage Learning.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Cengage Learning, a provider of print and digital information services for the educational and library reference markets, has appointed Patrick C. Sommers president of Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Sommers, who will be based in Farmington...

NewsGator secures $12m in Venture Capital funding.(News & Product Briefs)
January 1, 2008... NewsGator Technologies, Inc., a provider in RSS and Enterprise 2.0, announced that it has closed a $12 million round of funding. Led by new investor Vista Ventures, the round also includes existing investors--Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead...

Alfresco launches content collaboration & Social Computing Platforms.(News & Product Briefs)
January 1, 2008... Alfresco Software, Inc., a provider of open source enterprise content management (ECM), announced the availability of an integrated Red Hat-Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The joint solution,...

Copyright Clearance Center launches Copyright Labs.(News & Product Briefs)
January 1, 2008... Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a provider of copyright licensing solutions, announced the launch of Copyright Labs, a testing ground for new services, applications, and products. The site launched with three applications already available: a...

A digital CITY is born.(content news)
January 1, 2008... In a world where the internet is our main source of information, few find themselves researching in libraries, at least not brick-and-mortar ones. Recently, the European Commission announced its plans for the European Digital Library (EDL) to...

Fios, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Fios, Inc., a provider of electronic discovery readiness and response services, announced that Rj Smith has joined the company as VP of sales. Smith brings to Fios more than 25 years experience building national and worldwide sales...

Dan Grigorovici has joined TACODA as VP of data strategy and analytics, a newly created position where he will concentrate on developing integrated, automated data reporting solutions and complex user modeling techniques for segmentation, targeting, and personalization.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Dan Grigorovici has joined TACODA as VP of data strategy and analytics, a newly created position where he will concentrate on developing integrated, automated data reporting solutions and complex user modeling techniques for segmentation,...

Datawatch Corp.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Datawatch Corp., a provider of enterprise information management (EIM), announced that president & CEO Robert W. Hagger will retire effective Dec. 31, 2007. Kenneth P. Bero, company COO, has been appointed to succeed Hagger as president and CEO...

Thomson Scientific launches Thomson Innovation.(News & Product Briefs)
January 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corp. and provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has launched its new intellectual property research and analysis solution, Thomson Innovation. With Thomson...

eZ Systems introduces eZ Publish 4.0.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... eZ Systems, an open source enterprise content management (ECM) company, announced the immediate availability of eZ Publish 4.0, the latest version of its flagship ECM product. eZ Publish 4.0 features complete PHP 5 compatibility, as well as...

Rethinking knowledge management: PersonalBrain user accumulates 80,000 thoughts.(content news)
January 1, 2008... The market for content and knowledge management systems and solutions is a crowded one--so much so that it can sometimes feel as if there are as many offerings out there as there are, say, neural pathways in the human brain. But there is...

Credo Reference.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer), provider of customizable online reference collections, announced two key additions to its advisory board: Erin McKean of Oxford University Press and Anthony Watkinson of University College London.

NewsStand, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... NewsStand, Inc., a digital distributor for newspapers, magazines, and other print media, has named Scott Lubeck VP and general manager of the company's division providing digital services to newspaper and magazine publishers. Lubeck is a...

United Mobile.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... United Mobile, an international mobile communications provider, has appointed mobile communications expert Charles Frankl as its new CEO. Frankl joins United Mobile from his previous position as CEO at AOL Germany.

End2End.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... End2End, a provider of consumer mobile data applications, announced the appointment of Charles Damen as VP of business development for its VAS business unit. End2End's full-service capabilities are designed to help operators increase content...

Cindy Cunningham, most recently director of Media Metadata at Corbis Corp., will join the OCLC staff as director of partner programs.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cindy Cunningham, most recently director of Media Metadata at Corbis Corp., will join the OCLC staff as director of partner programs. Cunningham will play a leadership role in expanding the coverage of WorldCat and...

Adobe Systems, Inc.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Adobe Systems, Inc. announced its board of directors has appointed current president and COO Shantanu Narayen as its president and CEO. Narayen will also join Adobe's board of directors at that time. Narayen replaces Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen, who...

LibreDigital.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., announced the promotion of Craig A. Miller to the position of VP in addition to his current role as GM. In his new role, Miller will be responsible for worldwide product definition, sales, marketing,...

Timo Kissel.(peopleware)
January 1, 2008... Timo Kissel, Symantec Corp.'s former senior director of program management, has joined web data aggregation and integration firm Fetch Technologies as VP of engineering. Before joining Symantec in 1999, he led the development of VMAx 3D audio...

Faces of Econtent ... interviews from the Econtent trenches.(Manda Choi of SLI Systems)
January 1, 2008... Job Function: As Customer Success Manager for SLI Systems, a provider of search solutions for ecommerce and content-rich sites, Manda's goal is to help SLI customers maximize search performance by continually improving click-throughs,...

Recommendations and revelations.(agile minds)
January 1, 2008... Search engines are indisputably a potent way to generate value, but it may be recommendation engines, which encourage users to keep coming back for similar content, that actually pay the biggest dividends for content companies and publishers in...

Adobe Technical Communication Suite.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Earlier this year, after years of neglect, Adobe resurrected the long-dormant FrameMaker (Frame) and RoboHelp (RH) products. Then last fall, Adobe announced it was releasing the Adobe Technical Communication Suite...

Is free the next big moneymaker?(follow the money)
January 1, 2008... As most traditional publishers are painfully aware, digitization has a tendency to commodify everything in its reach. Just think how much of the content we paid for a decade ago--from newspapers to premium video and audio content--is available...

It's a small world after all.
January 1, 2008... Chances are if you are a public-facing, enterprise-class company, you have at least some international customers. The U.S. may be a large market, but it's subject to economic cycles just like any other, and a presence in multiple foreign...

Digital designs: a look at the role of real typographic design in effective content delivery.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The essence of the New Typography is clarity. This puts it into deliberate opposition to the old typography whose aim was "beauty" and whose clarity did not attain the high level we require today. This utmost clarity...

Wikiful thinking.(i column like i cm)
January 1, 2008... For those wishful thinkers who dream of corporate "knowledge management," few tools are more seductive than the enterprise wiki. The dream goes like this: Just set up a wiki (really inexpensive because some tools are open source and free),...

Smarter, better, stronger, together: a closer look at how collaboration is transforming the enterprise.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine, for a moment, trying to get two people to sit down together to write a book. Think of the effort it would take. First, schedules would have to be reconciled. In this age of multitasking and living out of a...

A case of collaboration made simple.(case study)(Company overview)
January 1, 2008... Company: MWW GROUP MWW Group, headquartered in East Rutherford, N.J., is a full-service public relations firm that employs 250 communications professionals spread across 11 offices around the U.S. Founded in 1986 as a one-person operation,...

Nice storefront, but what's behind the counter?(info pro)(www.ResearchBuy.com)
January 1, 2008... A colleague recently pointed me to ResearchBuy.com, a market research aggregator that promotes its free, short industry profiles as well as access to off-the-shelf market research reports and customized research. What I initially found...

PR's dirty little secret.(after thought)
January 1, 2008... As the web has made communicating with reporters and editors extremely easy, breaking through and getting a journalist's attention using the email methods everyone else uses has become increasingly difficult. These days, anyone can find the...