EContent articles from July 2003

EContent archives from July 2003

Career opportunities. (Edit This).
July 1, 2003... I recently spoke at the local high school career day. These teens, chomping at the bit to end their mandatory education and embark in earnest upon the journey to real life, reminded me that the end of something good often marks the beginning...

Getting your content (to) act together. (Letters to the Editor).
July 1, 2003... Thank you for publishing Tony Byrne's excellent article, "Content Integration: Are You Ready for It? Is It Ready for You?," [pp. 26-31, Ed.] in your March issue. The article paints a great picture of the issues surrounding integrating...

Pay up now. (Letters to the Editor).
July 1, 2003... EContent's April article, "Paying for Content and Making Content Pay" [pp. 26-30] is correct in stating that an "efficient system would open up new selling models including targeted article bundles, day and week passes, and timed access to...

Correction.
July 1, 2003... In our May 2003 issue, in the case study, "CM Helps Paperless Dream Become Reality," (p. 25) we mistakenly spelled Jim Glavan, Acuity's director of information systems' name incorrectly. We regret the error.

Pressing the POD issue: the MIT Classics series. (Content News).
July 1, 2003... a variety of serious problems plague university libraries and the MIT Press believes they just solved (at least) one of them. With diminished library budgets, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep out of print books on the shelves for use...

Gallup takes the reins with digital delivery. (Content News).
July 1, 2003... though perhaps not as well known to the general public as the Nielsen Media Research "Nielsen Ratings," Gallup is practically synonymous with the origins of widespread opinion polling. Founded upon the idea that asking people their opinions...

FatWire completes acquisition of divine's ECM business. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... FatWire Software has completed the acquisition of divine's content management business from Saratoga Partners, a New York private equity firm. As part of the divine bankruptcy auction, Saratoga Partners acquired certain assets of divine,...

WSJOnline launches news features on AOL's instant Messenger services. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Wall Street Journal Online, published by Dow Jones & Company, has announced that it will make news summaries and stock quotes available to users of America Online's Instant Messenger services, including members of AOL, AOL Instant Messenger...

Convera launches RetrievalWare 8. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Convera has announced the commercial availability of RetrievalWare B, a new knowledge discovery platform that helps large organizations automate their knowledge management and discovery processes using an infrastructure that can be optimized...

Synapse corporation launches Taxonomywarehouse.com. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation, a developer of custom taxonomies and taxonomy management software, has launched a new Web service that is designed to help companies identify and acquire professional taxonomies. At launch, Taxonomy...

IBM beefs up WebSphere Portal Collaboration. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... IBM has announced new software designed to make it easier for companies and solution providers to develop and integrate Web portal technologies. IBM now includes out-of-the-box instant messaging, Web conferencing, and people finder tools within...

Stellent launches City/County eGovernment Solution. (News & Product).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Stellent, Inc. has announced the release of the Stellent City/County eGovernment Solution, a content management product suite offering a pricing model designed to accommodate county and municipal agencies' diverse application needs and budgets....

Unraveling the NY times scandal: is information retrieval software the answer? (Content News).
July 1, 2003... the fallout from the actions of the New York Times reporter Jayson Blair has been pervasive. Surely Blair will never regain the trust and integrity he sacrificed, whether prosecuted for plagiarism or not. Such are the consequences of his...

Getting Rich on rich media? Sonic Foundry refocuses and releases. (Content News).
July 1, 2003... With a name like Sonic Foundry, one might expect to find a company founded on things sonic. In fact, the company that has been known as a digital audio and video software developer now bills itself as a provider of professional digital media...

Yaga, Inc. (Peopleware).(new office in London to be led by Andrew Grant)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Yaga, Inc. has opened a new office in London, to be led by publishing and commerce technology veteran Andrew Grant. Grant has prior experience at EMAP and Dialog Corporation and he recently held business development roles at Izodia and eMeta....

NewsStand Inc. (Peopleware).(Myles Fuchs named senior vice president of sales)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Myles Fuchs has joined the NewsStand Inc. executive team as senior vice president of sales. In this new role, Fuchs' responsibilities will include the development and implementation of strategic business and sales initiatives, managing...

WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. (Peopleware).(acquisition of iMimic Networking Inc. has led to a number of staff changes)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... WARP Technology Holdings, Inc.'s acquisition of iMimic Networking, Inc. has led to a number of staff changes. Under the terms of the agreement, Willy Zwaenepoel will join the Board of WARP Technology Holdings. WARP will also retain iMimic's...

Endeavor Information Systems. (Peopleware).(Don Muccino named vice-president of customer services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Endeavor Information Systems has named Don Muccino vice-president of customer services. Muccino has spent 27 years at OCLC, most recently as executive vice president and COO of the library database, research, and services vendor.

Verity Inc. (Peopleware).(vice president and CTO Prabhakar Raghavan has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Verity Inc. has announced that its vice president and CTO, Prabhakar Raghavan, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery UACM). Raghavan, who is a Fellow of the ACM and serves on the editorial...

The NewsMarket, Inc. (Peopleware).(Has named Anthony Plesner COO)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The NewsMarket, Inc., a Web-based video archive and distribution platform for the broadcast industry, has named Anthony Plesner COO. Prior to joining The NewsMarket, Plesner was COO of 24/7 RealMedia, an online marketing services agency. The...

Does wireless have a model? (Follow the Money).
July 1, 2003... Wireless is the new World Wide Web. That is not a compliment. Like the Web of 1995, mobile phone networks promise that we will all be anxious to pony up monthly fees in order to access horoscopes, stock prices, sports scores, and even a...

Metrics.(Functions that enterprises want in portal software are noted; other news is also tabulated)(Illustration)
July 1, 2003... metrics Leading Functions that Enterprises Want to Be Included in Portal Software, 2002 (as a % of respondents) Collaboration 74% Enterprise Search 73% Single Sign-on 73% Content...

Faces of econtent.(Max Erdstein, national manager, Creative Maximizing)
July 1, 2003... Job Function: The Creative Maximizing team works with Google's advertisers and sponsors around the world by writing and rewriting ad copy to improve performance. "My role started as an experiment," says Max Erdstein. "When we launched...

P2P in B2B: getting past the "N" word.(Peer-to-peer distribution and storage technology decentralizes content delivery)
July 1, 2003... Don't even think about it. And for goodness sake, don't even mention the "N" word to the new generation of business-oriented peer-to-peer distribution and storage technology. Companies like NextPage, Kontiki, InView, and Bandwiz have moved way...

Content-centric XML: coming soon to an Intranet near you? (Info Insider).
July 1, 2003... Content-centric XML hasn't followed its original five-year script. Celebrating its fifth birthday as a standard last February, XML was supposed to supplant HTML, shift the burden of processing Web sites from servers to underutilized client PCs,...

Delivering under pressure: business belt-tightening accelerates consolidation and adaptation in the content delivery marketplace.(Content Delivery Networks speed access to digital content, but need to address customers' localization and customization concerns)
July 1, 2003... From a business perspective, the years since have been a roller coaster ride, but the technological progress has been remarkably swift. A key driver of this innovation has been the impulse to enhance and expand end-users' content experience....

Information overlook. (Behind the Firewall).(Eighth Infonortics Search Engine Meeting is discussed)
July 1, 2003... I make no apology for returning to the subject of search technologies and products so soon after covering some aspects of the topic on my April column. Attending the Eighth Infonortics Search Engine Meeting that took place in Boston in early...

Push back: an old technology teaches content new tricks don't laugh.
July 1, 2003... One of the most maligned delivery systems from the early days of the over-hyped Web is ready for its second act...and this time it wants to pay its own way. Push, the technique of streaming near-real-time news and information to a user's...

Keeping content safe is a big job and everyone has to do it: the security of its corporate content can make or break Topps.(Topps employs security consultant to watch network traffic)
July 1, 2003... While its actual product--limited edition baseball, football, and hockey cards--is physical, most of its buyers never take possession of its products. You see, for Topps collectors, it's not about owning the cards; it's about buying and selling...

Getting to know you: personalities bringing me back; you need to have a personality; otherwise, your users are ripe for the taking by another outlet. (Discontent).(Web sites are discussed)
July 1, 2003... Earlier this year, before I got mired in the mechanics of Web sites, I focused on relationships, partnerships, and the people behind the tools. Those are all aspects of why people want to come back to your content-heavy site instead of (or in...

Legalbitstream: taxation now has representation. (Profile).(Mayfield Publishing Co owns and operates Legalbitstream)
July 1, 2003... "When I have an idea, I keep it close to me until I see if it can work," says Jack "Trey" Mayfield, III, founder/president of Mayfield Publishing Company, which owns and operates the online resource known as Legalbitstream. Live since...

Solution center buyers guide.
July 1, 2003... ECNext 10104 Brewster Lane, Suite 125 Powell, OH 43065 Ph: 614-932-0956 Product Overview: ECNext provides a complete solution to help research firms and business publishers target, sell, and deliver premium information over...

See the data for the trees. (After Thought).(New wave of content visualization)
July 1, 2003... The consolidation of vast amounts of information into simple visual representations is one of the best ways to communicate. Charts and graphs make our lives easier. Remember the U.S. map after the 2000 Presidential election? The red or blue...