EContent articles from July 2004

EContent archives from July 2004

The social butterfly effect.(edit this)
July 1, 2004... There's only one good reason to smoke: to be a part of the smokers' conversations that take place as they huddle in doorways and parking lots now that smoking is verboten almost everywhere else. Drinking doesn't quite share cigarettes' ominous...

Dam on demand.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Alan Zeichick has written some great articles on Digital Asset Management and I wanted to add a comment or two for future articles. In an article entitled "Collaboration be DAM'd" [June 2004, pp. 24-29], Alan reviewed how different DAM vendors...

Not flipping for flipbook.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Twice I have attempted to: a) load the whole of ECONTENT 100 2003 (www.econtentmag.com/EContentl00/) without it bombing out; b) actually read the report. The flipbook is all very nice and fancy and cool, but, at least on my hi-res...

Math is hard.(Letters To The Editor)
July 1, 2004... Dear Robert; I am a student at the University of Alberta and I am trying to track down documentation for MathML. I read your column, "Publishing Equations? Do the Math(ML)" [INFOINSIDER, Aug/Sept 2003, p. 63], and hoped you could give me...

Correction.(Letters To The Editor)(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2004... In Martin White's June column, he referred to Borders in Union Square, New York. It is a Barnes and Noble store. We regret the error.

British agency proposes content labeling system.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... Ofcom, the regulatory agency for the U.K. communications industries, has proposed a universal content tagging system, according to a consultation document on their Web site. Although this is still very much at the preliminary stage, one of the...

Macromedia takes on the enterprise.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... It's enterprise everything these days. With the exception of gadgets, start big and get bigger seems to be the American way. But Macromedia took a different approach with its products from the start. It focused first on the single user with a...

Ambient devices: content as color and motion.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... Ever wish that you could know the temperature outside without having to read any numbers? Are you the type of person who can't resist going online every five minutes to check the price of your Ebay auction or your stock portfolio? Well a...

Context media closes $11 million in funding.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Context Media, Inc., a provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software solutions, has secured $11 million in funding. Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, a venture capital fund focused on investments in technology companies, led the...

AOL and Yahoo! drop Enterprise IM.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Just days after Yahoo! confirmed that it will no longer sell the enterprise version of its instant messaging service, Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition, America Online Inc. also stopped sales of its AIM Enterprise Gateway. It appears that the...

VitalStream raises $11 million.(news & product Briefs)(VitalStream Holdings, Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... VitalStream Holdings, Inc., the parent company of VitalStream, Inc., a provider of integrated content delivery and streaming media services, has closed a financing transaction with institutional investors generating gross proceeds to the...

CrownPeak introduces Advantage ES.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... CrownPeak Technology has introduced Advantage ES, an extended suite of developer tools and customization capabilities that is designed to enable CrownPeak's On Demand content management solution to compete on even footing with installed...

NXTbook media adds to product line.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... NXTbook Media, a technology-based company that provides multimedia digital publishing solutions, has introduced NXTbook FX, the second generation of its publishing platform. Designed in response to feedback and requests from both customers and...

Endeca announces mezzanine financing.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Endeca, a provider of enterprise search and guided navigation solutions for the enterprise, has announced the completion of an oversubscribed $15 million mezzanine financing round. The round, co-led by Lehman Brothers' Venture Partners and...

A giant leap for academia? Google ventures into DSpace.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... Scholarly research has come a long way since the days of poring over stacks at the library, and search engine companies are beginning to explore the particular opportunities within academic research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

SourceWare: the search engine with good intentions.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... When Doyal Bryant recently took over as CEO of Market Central, Inc., a CRM portal company, he realized that he'd inherited a diamond in the rough. This particular gem was an "intent-based" deductive search engine that was "just sitting there"...

National identity cards on trial in the U.K.(news feature)
July 1, 2004... trials of a national identity card system in the United Kingdom are producing some mixed results as well as some protests from privacy advocates, but will likely get more testing as well as continued support from government officials, according...

Convera Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Convera Corporation has announced that John R. Polchin has joined the company as EVP, CFO, and treasurer and that Steven M. Samowich has joined the company as COO. In addition to his duties as CFO, Polchin will also oversee the company's human...

EBSCO Industries, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... J.T. Stephens, president and CEO of EBSCO Industries, Inc., concluded his term July 1, 2004. At that time, F. Dixon Brooke Jr., VP and general manager of EBSCO Subscription Services, became the third individual to serve as president in EBSCO's...

Requisite Technology, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Requisite Technology, Inc. has announced the appointment of Larry Lenhart as CEO. Lenhart succeeds Bob King, former CEO and chairman of the board, who resigned in late April. Prior to joining the company, Lenhart served as CEO of Contivo, a...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Verity Inc. has announced the promotion of Mark Seamans to SVP, research and development, and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to SVP and CTO. In his position, Seamans, who joined the company with its acquisition of Cardiff Software, will have...

Atomz.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Atomz has named Jeff Goodman VP, worldwide sales. Goodman, who joined Atomz in 2001, was previously the company's director of worldwide sales. Prior to Atomz, Mr. Goodman worked with Nexgenix, a Web development engineering firm.

HighBeam Research, LLC.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... HighBeam Research, LLC has announced that Joseph B. McWilliams, Jr., has joined the company as VP, advertising. McWilliams was formerly VP, advertising and ecommerce sales, for Hoover's, Inc., a unit of D&B Corporation.

Sirsi Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Sirsi Corporation has announced that Marsha Stark has joined the company as VP, sales, North America and will work from Sirsi's offices in Huntsville. Stark most recently worked in sales and sales management with the Avnet Corporation.

TACODA Systems, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... TACODA Systems, Inc. has announced that former Time Warner Inc. executive, Curtis G. Viebranz, has joined TACODA in the newly-created position of president and COO. Viebranz is one of TACODA's original investors, and he has served on its board...

Open Source Risk Management (OSRM).(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has appointed Bruce Perens to its board of directors. Creator of the Open Source Definition (OSD), the Open Source movement's founding manifesto, Perens also cofounded the Open Source Initiative, an...

VitalStream, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... VitalStream, Inc. has announced the appointment of Mark Belzowski as CFO. Belzowski replaces Kevin Herzog, VitalStream CFO since 2001, who left the company at the end of March. Prior to joining VitalStream, Belzowski was CFO of Universal...

FatWire Software.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Charles Giametta has joined FatWire Software as VP of North America sales. Giametta was previously VP of sales, Eastern region at Legato Systems.

ClearForest.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ClearForest has announced the appointment of Randy Clark as VP, marketing, and Marty Siewert, as VP, sales. Clark joins the company from Parametric Technology Corp., where he was SVP, marketing. Siewert joins ClearForest from Art Technology...

Bowstreet.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bowstreet has announced the appointment of Steven Ricketts as VP, marketing. Ricketts will be responsible for leading Bowstreet's product and corporate marketing efforts including driving Bowstreet's initiatives in new markets, such as online...

Digimarc Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Digimarc Corporation has appointed Doug Pollack SVP, marketing and business development, for the company's Watermarking Solutions business unit. Pollack most recently served as interim president and CEO of Natural Messaging Inc. in Portland,...

Zinio Systems, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Zinio Systems, Inc. has announced the appointment of Scott Kauffman as president and CEO. Kauffman will be responsible for the strategic development and management of more than 120 digital magazines that Zinio distributes globally. Kauffman...

Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report have announced two executive appointments.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report have announced two executive appointments. Mary Laplante has joined the company as VP, consulting services, and will be responsible for the management and operations of the Content Technology Works...

Digital View Group.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Digital View Group, a provider of digital media networks and display technologies for brand marketing at retail and other environments, has announced the appointment of Stuart Armstrong, a former executive of Euro RSCG Meridian, as COO for the...

Thomson Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Thomson Corporation announced that Vin Caraher has been named president and CEO of Thomson Scientific, part of the Scientific and Healthcare market group. Caraher was most recently EVP of Pharma/Chemistry Markets, where he lead a...

Online content model U.S. media & entertainment executives think will "win out," January 2004.(metrics)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Online Content Model U.S. Media & Entertainment Executives Think Will "Win Out," January 2004 (as a % of respondents) 40% Equal adoption between pay-per-use and subscription 32% Subscription 16% Pay-per-use 12% ...

Mobile phone owners in the U.S. text messaging, 2002 & 2003.(metrics)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Mobile Phone Owners in the U.S. Text Messaging, 2002 & 2003 (in millions) 2003 27 2002 18 Note: mobile phone owners ages 12+ Source: Upoc/Frank N. Magid & Associates, February 2003 Note: Table made from bar graph....

Tablet PC shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, by vendor, Q4 2002-Q3 2003.(metrics)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Tablet PC Shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Region, by Vendor, Q4 2002-Q3 2003 Shipments Share BY VENDOR Hewlett-Packard 28,070 30.5% Acer 20,740 ...

Content creation online.(metrics)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2004... Content Creation Online Some 44% of the nation's adult Internet users (those 18 and over) have done at least one of the following: 21% of Internet users say they have posted photographs to Web sites. 17% have...

Fces of econtent.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... Job Functions: As one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, the 130,000 employees at Pfizer who discover, develop, manufacture, and market leading prescription medicines for humans and animals have intense information...

Onfolio Professional Edition 1.0 & Lycos HotBot Desktop (Beta).(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2004... Onfolio Professional Edition 1.0 Company: Onfolio Purpose: Organize Web sites and local content, write notes, and distribute formatted reports. Starting Price: $29.95 Standard Edition, $79.95 Professional Edition ...

Does your Web site need help?(info insider)
July 1, 2004... how could your Web site need Help? You've got three-click-or-so navigation to most content. Your graphic design is professional. The QA group assures that every link is active and points to the right place. You've got simple and advanced...

Create once, use many: content management and digital publishing.
July 1, 2004... It might seem that the most likely industry to embrace content management would be publishing. For who better understands the need to capitalize on costly content? And what better way than to channel content into multiple outlets, allowing an...

Beyond PDF: digital delivery develops.
July 1, 2004... The PDF, Adobe's wildly popular electronic distribution format, has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1993. With more than a half million Acrobat Readers worldwide, it has become the de facto standard for distributing...

Local ad revenues: Google delivers pizza.(follow the money)
July 1, 2004... Just about every two years or so in the short happy life of the Web, we get word that the local online ad market is about to take off... no, really this time. As offline newspapers, TV affiliates, yellow page directories, and even free...

Putting DM into CM: without a careful discussion to define terms in the early stages, buyers may find surprising, even unappealing, products on their plates. (Smarter Information Management).(document management, content management)
July 1, 2004... There are occasions in everyday life when what you call something makes no appreciable difference. We all know a potato when we see one, but ask for chips in England and you won't get the same thin and crispy potato product you'd get in...

It's not just about searching--it's about findability.(behind the firewall)
July 1, 2004... Over the years I've been involved in a number of firsts. Early in my career, I was a member of a team that managed to get a lead balloon to fly. I was a delegate at the very first International Online Information Meeting in London in 1976, and...

May I have your attention, please? People multitask more these days in an attempt to cram more of today's ever-growing selection of information sources into that fixed amount of time.(dis Content)
July 1, 2004... We hear that the true zero-sum situation is time--people only have 24 hours a day, and those who want to stay alert and healthy really only have about 16. Whatever time you want them to spend on your content has to come from that unchangeable...

HighWire Press: keeping the scholars in scholarly publishing.
July 1, 2004... Stanford University's Michael A. Keller is a man of many titles: Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of the Stanford University Press. and Publisher of HighWire Press. He's also a man whose...

Confessions of an electronic news Junkie.(after thought)
July 1, 2004... I just can't help myself: When a hot news story breaks, I'm on top of it immediately, with all the resources that subscription online news and the free Web can muster. Click, click, click--I might scan a dozen different takes on the same story...

A panel for search progress.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... Our premise was pretty simple: Let's get a bunch of vendors who understand the "search" industry (formerly known as the "search and retrieval industry," I suppose) and get various opinions from them regarding the marketplace in general, their...

How online e-mail deflection can benefit your bottom line.
July 1, 2004... Content management is typically applied to the functional content that users and employees consume every day. Support for authoring, approval workflows and publishing has been a boon to this process. These same capabilities, however, can be of...

Answering the right questions about search.
July 1, 2004... Today the typical mid-sized organization accumulates more information in a week than the whole of mankind did between the years 1 and 1500 A.D. Masses of documents, e-mails, databases, images, audio and video recordings form vast repositories...

Moving beyond search.
July 1, 2004... Organizations are continuously investing resources in technology in order to improve disappointing search results. End users, customers and employees alike complain that they cannot find anything. However, search only addresses a portion of the...

Creating and using taxonomies to enhance enterprise search.
July 1, 2004... businesses today have invested heavily in enterprise applications such as CRM, ERP and content management. These investments have led to the creation of vast repositories of corporate information. In addition, these applications contain...

Getting just what you need: strategies for search, taxonomy and classification.
July 1, 2004... In a recent keynote speech delivered to the 11th European Business Information Conference (EBIC), Richard J. Harrington, president and CEO of The Thomson Corporation, said, "We need to get the right information to the right people at the right...

Beyond search: the business case for intellectual capital management.
July 1, 2004... the statistic that only 20% of a company's information is in the form of structured data found in databases, while the remaining 80% consists of unstructured and unmanaged documents and content, is cited so often that it's become a cliche. Yet,...

Search and the strategic value to the enterprise.
July 1, 2004... it's impossible to know how much content on your intranet or corporate Web site people need to find, but can't. What is known is the amount of critical information generated across an enterprise continues to multiply like never before....

Automate classification and improve information discovery.
July 1, 2004... Whether you are in a large or small company serving as a line-of-business manager or an IT professional, chances are there are large stores of unstructured information--word processing documents, presentations, e-mail, even Web content--within...

Solving Web search dilemmas.
July 1, 2004... the Web is the world's greatest repository of information... if you can efficiently find what you're looking for. The ability of Web sites and intranets to effectively deliver information to users often depends on a critical, overlooked...

Good taxonomy is key to successful searching.
July 1, 2004... today's knowledge workers increasingly demand immediate access to precise, current and trustworthy content to meet their information needs. A properly constructed taxonomy is key to meeting this demand. Business taxonomies must be constructed...

Site search: delivered on-demand.
July 1, 2004... there are two primary ways to navigate a Web site: searching and browsing. According to Jupiter Research, 90% of consumers who have made an online purchase in the past six months said they used site search to access self-service content. With...

True relevancy: who cares?
July 1, 2004... Search has improved dramatically over the last 20 years from the humble beginnings of full text (or keyword) search in the early '70s, to the paradigm shift of semantic search in the late '90s. However, enterprise content is multiplying at...

Categorization it's all about context.
July 1, 2004... Unstructured data is estimated to comprise more than 80% of all corporate data. To tackle this "elephant in the corner," a multitude of technology solutions have been offered up--search, visualization, entity extraction, link analysis, etc....

One-stop searching bridges the digital divide.
July 1, 2004... The term "digital divide" is often used to describe the difficulty of making information easily available, despite the explosion in networked collections of digital content. A lot of information is available only from the so-called "hidden...

Is better search the answers?
July 1, 2004... The answer is "yes" for users that can afford to read volumes of information, but "no" for organizations that increasingly rely on business intelligence systems. Both search and business intelligence handle text information in a simple...

A world of search: key thoughts from an expert panel.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The marketplace for search technology is filled to overflowing with bright and thoughtful marketers, technicians and visionaries. We gathered many of the leading ones into a panel in March, 2004, to discuss the state of the search market...