EContent articles from July 2002

EContent archives from July 2002

Peer-to-peer without peer. (Edit This).
July 1, 2002... I have no shortage of opinions. Name an issue and I'll plant my feet firmly on one side of it, and take great pleasure in arguing my side ad infinitum. Copyright used to be such an issue for me. Things were clear: creators should have...

What makes Google run? (Content News).
July 1, 2002... With a simple, uncluttered interface and an uncanny ability to find meaningful results, Google.com has grown into an increasingly popular search engine. But gone are the days when hits on your Web site and display ads (even the innovative text...

Adobe acquires Accelio. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Adobe Systems Incorporated has completed acquisition of publicly-held Accelio Corporation. Under the terms of the transaction, each Accelio common share was converted to 0.072573 shares of Adobe common stock. In total, Adobe issued...

Tribune provides headlines for AT&T Wireless mMode. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Tribune Interactive, a subsidiary of Tribune Company announced that five of its newspaper Web sites are providing news headlines and full. length news stories to AT&T Wireless mMode users via 2.5G wireless platform. mMode provides services that...

Inktomi and Stratify forge alliance. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Stratify, Inc. and Inktomi Corp. have formed an alliance under which Inktomi and Stratify will offer joint customers a scalable, integrated categorized search solution for large, information-intensive enterprises. The alliance combines...

Arbortext Epic 4.3: more than just a point release. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... On May 6, Arbortext announced Epic version 4.3, its XML multichannel publishing solution. This robust release demonstrates Arbortext's continuing, deep commitment to XML standards and business results. Epic is one of three popular XML authoring...

Stellent Audio Video Indexer released. (Product News).
July 1, 2002... Stellent, Inc.'s has released a new module for its Content Management suite, Stellent Audio Video Indexer, along with other enhanced rich media and digital asset management features. The new product and expanded functionalities are designed to...

Primedia partners with iCopyright. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Primedia Business Magazines & Media, a division of Primedia, Inc. announced a partnership with iCopyright, a provider of copyright compliance and licensing of digital content. The Copyright Instant Clearance Service allows readers to license...

New York Times' print revenues down, digital revenues up. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... The New York Times Company reported a decrease in its earnings for the first quarter results, purportedly because it is still recovering from the weak advertising market, although this drop-off was offset by an increase in newspaper circulation...

Biography Reference Bank enhanced. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... Biography Reference Bank (BRB) has been enhanced with wider coverage, plus 100,000 now searchable additional names. The enhanced resource retrieves data from the full line of WilsonWeb databases. Every article about any individual on any...

Akamai and IBM unveil EdgeSuite computing solution. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... Akamai Technologies, Inc. and IBM have unveiled EdgeSuite for Java based on IBM WebSphere, which will help enterprises and developers extend more business functions to the Web. EdgeSuite for Java based on IBM WebSphere will deploy application...

New IBM ebusiness products focus on Web services. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... IBM has introduced several new products targeted at the ebusiness market. One, WebSphere, is infrastructure software intended to reduce the cost and difficulty of integrating disparate business applications and systems. Products include new...

Divine offers competitive conversion program. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... divine. inc. has released a new competitive conversion program for companies using content management tools from Interwoven and Vignette that allows them to change to divine Content Server. For a limited time, divine is offering software...

enScaler acquires Lariat Software. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... enScaler, Inc., a streaming and rich media applications provider, has acquired Lariat Software, Inc., a streaming media measurement and broadcast solutions developer. The Lariat acquisition helps enScaler offer customers a portfolio of...

Sun and Yahoo! alliance creates new Portal environment. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Sun Microsystems Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. have formed an alliance to create an enterprise portal environment that blends personalized content and services from Yahoo! with the functionality of the Sun ONE Portal Server. Through this alliance, it is...

Serials Solutions and Endeavor partner to benefit libraries. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Serials Solutions and Endeavor Information Systems have announced a working relationship that will allow mutual clients to transfer and integrate data between their respective content management systems. Libraries using the OPAC of Endeavor's...

MediaBin integrates with Microsoft Content Management Server. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... MediaBin Inc. has integrated its brand asset management system with Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2001. Developed in conjunction with Plural, a technology consulting and development firm, the MediaBin CMS connector provides a way to...

Semio unveils SemioTagger 5.0. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... SemioTagger 5.0 is the latest version of Semio Corp.'s flagship indexing and content categorization engine. SemioTagger organizes and exposes information contained within all unstructured data that exists across an enterprise, including email,...

Inxight Categorizer organizes unstructured information. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... Inxight Software, Inc.'s Inxight Categorizer 3.0 is designed to help publishers and information aggregators classify unstructured information into taxonomies. The product is also intended for enterprise and government organizations needing a...

Insevo business integration framework to be incorporated into Day's Communique Unify. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... Under an agreement between Day and Insevo, a provider of J2EE Connector Architecture standards-based application integration solutions, Day will incorporate the Insevo Business Integration Framework into Communique Unify. Day's Communique Unify...

MindBranch releases solution for purchasing "by the piece". (Content News).
July 1, 2002... MindBranch, Inc., a market research services company that provides research from 300 publishers and research firms, has developed technology to give users the ability to purchase market research by the chapter, offering more flexibility in...

ACS Journal Archives now available online. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced online availability of its Journal Archives which encompass 2.5 million pages of chemical research dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879. The...

FatWire Software offers Portal content management product. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... FatWire Spark portal Content Management (pCM) is FatWire Software's content management product for portals, and is an integrated portlet interface for the BEA WebLogic Portal. Spark pCM includes basic CM functions, including workflow, a "to do"...

FileNET to power advance bank's customer service portal. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Advance Bank, a direct access private client bank subsidiary held by Allianz/Dresdner Bank located in Germany, has chosen FiIeNET's Panagon Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions to support Advance Bank's new customer service portal....

ARL Libraries launch Scholars Portal Project. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has launched the Scholars Portal Project, a collaboration between several ARL member libraries and Fretwell-Downing Inc. (FD). The initial libraries participating in the project are the University of...

Day and SAIC partner to deliver business unification solutions. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Business Unification software provider, Day, has partnered with SAIC, a large employee-owned research and engineering firm, to deliver business unification solutions for commercial clients and the federal government. Day's Communique Unify is...

Product News Network and Factiva team up. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Product News Network' (PNN), a product of ThomasNet Incorporated, has announced a content distribution agreement with Facliva. PNN delivers new product information to the industrial marketplace. Factiva customers will now have complete access...

Documentum uses semio taxonomies for new content intelligence services solution. (Industry News).
July 1, 2002... Documentum has licensed and integrated Semio's industry standard taxonomies solution for the Documentum Content Intelligence Services offering. The Semio taxonomies, built on industry-standard thesauri, consist of standard categories and...

LexisNexis adds Ethnic and Regional news sources. (Content News).
July 1, 2002... LexisNexis has added Ethnic Newsline and Regional Newsline to LexisNexis Academic Universe and LexisNexis at nexis.com. Ethnic Newsline contains articles selected from the ethnic and minority press in America, representing the viewpoints of...

Jordan Libit, a former senior executive of FileNET Corp. (Peopleware).
July 1, 2002... Jordan Libit, a former senior executive of FileNET Corp., has joined Applied Semantics, Inc. as CEO. Most recently, Libit was managing partner of Peninsula Strategy Partners. At FileNET, Libit was senior vice president of business development...

Sawyer Media has appointed Peter R. Tierney president and CEO. (Peopleware).
July 1, 2002... Sawyer Media has appointed Peter R. Tierney president and CEO. He will lead Sawyer Media's venture funding efforts, define its business strategy, and help further shape the company's service and product offerings. Tierney is a 30-year veteran...

Frank Florence has joined InStranet, Inc. (Peopleware).
July 1, 2002... Frank Florence has joined InStranet, Inc. as senior vice president of corporate development, where he will help shape InStranet's business development and marketing efforts, including strategic alliances, branding, and product marketing....

Grey Zone, Inc. (Peopleware).
July 1, 2002... Grey Zone, Inc. has selected Thomas Steding as chairman of the board of directors. Steding has extensive experience in high technology and startup environments directly related to Grey Zone's market focus. While CEO of Metacode Technologies, a...

John Lysinger has joined Hoover's Inc. (Peopleware).
July 1, 2002... John Lysinger has joined Hoover's Inc. as vice president of enterprise subscription sales. Lysinger has experience with such companies as Ingram Micro, Sprint, and AT&T. Most recently, Lysinger served as general manager of sales with Birch...

Metrics.
July 1, 2002... Metrics Federal IT Budget to Increase 16% FY 2002 $44.8 billion FY 2003 * $52.1 billion * proposed Federal IT budget Source: Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Factors US Wireless Users Consider Most Important When...

An eContent interview: four chief executives and an analyst.
July 1, 2002... At this year's Buying and Selling eContent conference--where top-level content executives gather to bone up on the latest industry trends while doing a whole lot of networking--I had the opportunity to sit down with a few of the content...

Corporate learning gets digital.
July 1, 2002... During the past year, elearning has been on the rise with more companies than ever before launching or enhancing digitally-based programs. According to Bryan Chapman, an analyst with the elearning research and advisory firm Brandon Hall, a...

Keeping the world a safer place: better learning through better learning content management.
July 1, 2002... Department of Energy employee # 3368, a gate guard at a nuclear power plant, hasn't completed his mandated training. The necessary learning content (course #25) has been available, but due to lack of a good system for tracking and managing...

Keeping a civil tongue: Web lab's plan to extinguish flame wars.
July 1, 2002... Imagine an online discussion about one of the most divisive issues in recent years, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, in which participants from different sides of the issue complimented one another about the quality of their arguments. Imagine...

Print-a-bil-ity: I'm bemused by the ways professionally-designed Web sites get in the way of printing content so that it can be read offline. (DisContent).
July 1, 2002... here's a quote from an April 2,2002 AP story as carried on Yahoo! News: "Ryan has not bee with wrongdoing." Here's another, later in the same story: "Falwell and others were behind the creation of false documents in the secretary of state's...

Managing content management system selection: organizations planning to implement a content management system should take heed of the benefit of forward planning. (Behind the Firewall).
July 1, 2002... In London this past April, the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was held. In the space of a week, all the complex arrangements were made, even resurfacing the road outside of Westminster Abbey to remove the very visible road...

Is direct marketing the undiscovered revenue stream for publishers? fearful as online publishers seem to be about renting their lists, it is an almost universal practice in the offline world. (Follow the Money).
July 1, 2002... You don't sell advertisers space anymore. You sell your audience. It seems like such a tiny shift in sensibility, perhaps even a painfully obvious one, but this new mantra among online publishers can make all the difference when it comes to...

Ektron CMS200. (Decision-Maker).
July 1, 2002... Company: Ektron Purpose: Allow non-technical content contributors to update Web pages. Starting Price: $3,000 per server, plus database license. Reviewer's View: Ektron's CMS200 provides very high value for its price, but should...

YellowBrix: transforming content into action.
July 1, 2002... "Application integration is the number one priority for IT budgets in 2002." every company has assets, but not every company fully understands the breadth and depth of those assets, or how to manage them, says YellowBrix CEO Randy Lampert,...

Verity: true value: astute corporations have recognized the value in organizing such information and categorizing it so that it can be disseminated in real-time fashion. (Profile).
July 1, 2002... the word verity can be defined as something of inevitably true value. As its growing list of customers can attest, Verity, Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California is making every effort to live up to its name by developing portal infrastructure...

Going where the (Info) climate suits my clothes. (End of File).
July 1, 2002... medical technology is amazing--at least to those of us who only see it from the consumer's side, rather than as researchers or suppliers. Did you know you can now fine-tune the settings on your pacemaker with a remote control device? (Better be...