EContent articles from July 2006

EContent archives from July 2006

Road tripping.(edit this)
July 1, 2006... i have never lived in a development or suburb, but those I've visited seem to suffer from a confusion of quaint streetnaming conventions in which Honeysuckle Lane intersects Honeysuckle Court. The fact that the houses look nearly identical is...

Meaning mia.(E MAIL)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... One of the major problems of the "information industry" is its use of acronyms. A case in point is the May installment of Behind the Firewall entitled "One CMS or Two?" [p. 37]. What does CMS mean? In the field of online or distance education,...

Corrections.(E MAIL)(Correction notice)
July 1, 2006... In our May news feature "ClearStory Offers Just the DAM Essentials" [p. 12] we misspelled the last name of Louis Gigliotti, VP of ClearStory System's ActiveMedia Essentials business group. Also, we stated that "customers log on to the...

Know your rights with CCC's Rightsphere.(Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (Danvers, Massachusetts))
July 1, 2006... Copyright is not user-friendly. In fact, copyright issues are so complex it is hardly friendly to publishers or lawyers either. While publishers and authors want as many people as possible to use their content--with recommendation and sharing...

Symphony Technology Group to acquire Hummingbird.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Hummingbird Ltd., a global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and network connectivity solutions, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with affiliates of Symphony Technology Group under...

NowPublic closes 1.4 million Angel financing.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... NowPublic, a participatory news network, has announced that is has closed a $1.4 million deal in financing. The deal was led by Brightspark Ventures of Toronto alongside several angel investors including members of the New York Angels and...

Endeca receives patent for Guided Navigation.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Endeca, a search and information access company, has announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,035,864 covering the company's hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval, known in the search and...

Springer goes on the eBook offensive.(content news)
July 1, 2006... With the Google Print initiative on one side and the familiar comfort of traditional publishing models on the other, STM publisher Springer has announced plans to launch an aggressive new ebook initiative this summer. Anchored by its online...

Recommind releases MindServer 4.2.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Recommind, an enterprise search and categorization company, has announced MindServer 4.2, the latest release of its flagship MindServer platform. The platform transforms high volumes of discrete files, documents, and messages contained in...

UBM and Convera to co-develop search engine.(Convera Corp.)(United Business Media PLC)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Convera corporation, a provider of search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies, has announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with United Business Media PLC (UBM), a global business information...

Amazon upgrades book access.(content news)
July 1, 2006... Can't wait for the kettle to boil? Frantically pushing elevator buttons in a futile attempt to make it come a bit faster? Well, Amazon's Upgrade was made for you. In May, Amazon announced Upgrade, which gives users immediate online access to...

MarketResearch.com.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... MarketResearch.com has announced the hiring of Charles (Charlie) W. Terry as president. Terry was the former president and CEO of Comtex News Network. Prior to that, Terry spent 14 years at CompuServe as a regional sales manager, VP, and...

IAC/InterActiveCorp.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... IAC/InterActiveCorp has announced that Jim Lanzono has been appointed CEO of Ask.com, overseeing worldwide business operations. Previously, Lanzone was SVP and general manager of Ask U.S. Lanzone joined Ask.com as VP of product management in...

Peppercoin.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Peppercoin has announced that Charlos Caserta has joined the company as VP of sales and market development. Caserta will lead Peppercoin's financial services partnerships and merchant sales programs. Prior to joining Peppercoin, Caserta served...

Creative Weblogging.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Creative Weblogging has added Anita Campbell as executive editor. Campbell will oversee the editorial quality of the 65-plussite network. She has served as the editor of Creative Weblogging's RFID-Weblog.com for the past two years.

Trovix, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Trovix, Inc., has announced that Lucy Dathan has joined the company's management team as CFO. Lucy brings more than 14 years of finance and management experience to Trovix from organizations such as the London Stock Exchange, First Tuesday, and...

WebCollage.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... WebCollage has appointed Frank Eleaio as CFO. Immediately prior to joining WebCollage, Elenio was the interim CFO of TWS Holdings. Elenio also served as CFO of GoAmerica, Inc.

IMN.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... IMN has appointed Jo Ellen Collins as VP, marketing. Before joining IMN, Collins was director, marketing communications, with Nuance Communications, Inc. (formerly ScanSoft, Inc.).

Ingenta.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Ingenta has named Carol Rice as the VP of product development in the company's Information Commerce Division. Rice has over 20 years' experience in software development, application architecture, infrastructure architecture, and program...

iCrossing.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... iCrossing has appointed Don Scales as president. In his new role as president (and COO), Scales will oversee all operations for iCrossing. Prior to joining the iCrossing executive team, Scales served as the CEO of Agency.com. In addition, he...

The Economist Intelligence Unit.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The Economist Intelligence Unit has appointed Robin Bew as its new editorial director. Bew started his career with the UK Treasury, joined the EIU in 1995, and has been the company's chief economist since 1997 as well as director of risk...

Endeca.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Endeca has named Endeca founder Steve Papa as CEO, and Dan Detainer as president and COO. Papa will continue to serve as a member of the board of directors. Steven Walske will now serve as chairman of the company's board of directors. Prior to...

A SENSEable solution to Real-time Maps.(content news)
July 1, 2006... Look closely at your cell phone. Watch out! It might be looking right back at you, sending information about your location to a map, where you will join other people in your town as dynamic parts of a real-time geophysical landscape. Cell...

Endeca has also announced that Michael Porter and Edwin Gillis have been appointed as independent members of the company's board of directors.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Endeca has also announced that Michael Porter and Edwin Gillis have been appointed as independent members of the company's board of directors. Porter will chair the newly formed strategy committee of the board, and Gillis will chair the new...

Critical Path, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Critical Path, Inc., has announced that Ray Coyte has joined the company as VP of Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, and Robert Zuber has been promoted to chief mobile strategist. Coyte most recently served as managing director and VP of...

American Psychological Association (APA).(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The PsycINFO unit of the American Psychological Association (APA) has appointed Janice L. Fleming to director of business and planning. Fleming comes to APA from Cadmus Professional Communications.

Fios Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Fios Inc. has announced that Michael Harnish was named the company's VP of service delivery and Matthew Lane has joined the company as director of client services for the enterprise. Prior to joining Fios, Harnish led a technology consulting...

LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... LexisNexis Group has announced that Michael Walsh has been named president and CEO of LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets. Walsh joined the company as global head of LexisNexis strategy and business development in 2003. Walsh will continue to report...

OCLC CAPCON.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Irene M. Hoffman has been named executive director, OCLC CAPCON, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library, Previously, Hoffman was with the Georgetown University Library, in Washington, D.C., where she was associate university librarian for...

Epocrates Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Epocrates Inc. has appointed David Nagel to its board of directors. Nagel will serve as Epocrates independent lead director and chair the board's compensation committee. Nagel was president and CEO of PalmSource, Inc., and is currently...

ACOM Solutions, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The eBusiness Division of ACOM Solutions, Inc., has named Glenn David Pagel to head sales of the division's EZConnect EDI-XML translation and integration solution. Pagel has been in the information technology field since the early 1980s.

Wi-fi in-flight auction: lands the U.S. treasury $38.3 million.(content news)
July 1, 2006... While Government regulation of communication may seem like a crystal-clear area of the law, the internet has kicked up a whole lot of static. The demand for anytime, anywhere internet access has gone sky-high. In June, the FCC auctioned off...

Types of sites visited by U.S. employees while accessing the Internet at work for personal reasons, 2005: (as a % of respondents).(metrics)(Table)
July 1, 2006... Types of Sites Visited by U.S. Employees While Accessing the Internet at Work for Personal Reasons, 2005 (as a % of respondents) News 81% Personal email 61% Online banking ...

Content on the Internet is focused towards an audience that is ...(metrics)(Table)
July 1, 2006... Content on the Internet Is Focused Towards an Audience That Is... Younger than Older than I am My age I am 14-17 Years 5.6% 39.3% 34.0% 18-24...

Usage of electronic resources--by total respondents.(metrics)(Table)
July 1, 2006... Usage of Electronic Resources--by Total Respondents Email 74% Search engine 72% Instant messaging 51% Online news 50% Online bookstore ...

Single purchases vs. subscription sales of online content in the U.S., by category, 2005: (% of total paid content spending).(metrics)(Table)
July 1, 2006... Single Purchases vs. Subscription Sales of Online Content in the U.S., by Category, 2005 (% of total paid content spending) SUBSCRIPTION SINGLE PURCHASE Personals/dating 98.0 ...

StarOffice 8.(Product/service evaluation)
July 1, 2006... microsoft office is the office toolset of choice for the majority of users worldwide. However, there is a movement among users, corporations, states such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and international government agencies such as the...

Faces of econtent.(Interview)
July 1, 2006... Name With The Face: Charity Curley Job Title: Brand Director Organization: HGTV URL: www.hgtv.com Job Function: As brand director for the popular HGW website, Charity Curley is responsible for all the site's content,...

Multilingual content management: found in translation.
July 1, 2006... Whether by acquisition, merger, or the expanding global marketplace, more and more companies find themselves handling content in multiple languages. Managing multilingual content adds (at least) a layer of complexity to the overall content...

Translation issues: Ektron helps Printronix manage.(Ektron CMS 400(website management software))
July 1, 2006... Three years ago when Printronix, an industrial printing manufacturer, decided to translate its website content from English to additional languages, it hired Karen Jensen as director of ebusiness to handle the transition. "I was hired to bring...

Chasing our own long tail.(follow the money)
July 1, 2006... All due respect to Wired editor Chris Sherman, but the currently hot topic of the internet's "long tail" has been with us at least since I started writing about digital in 1995. To be sure, Sherman deserves the credit for bringing into focus...

Use it or lose it: tracking content usage and ROI.(return of investment)
July 1, 2006... Readers of the online version of the San Diego Union-Tribune (SignOnSanDiego.com) may be greeted by very different electronic versions of the publication, depending on when they log in to the site, how they click around, as well as the actions...

Future-proof your records.(info insider, electronic records introduction)
July 1, 2006... asubtle shift is occurring in the way we value and manage our office content--those fries that constitute 80% of the investments we all make in our mainstream office work: text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Today there are...

Portals show signs of sanity.(behind the firewall)
July 1, 2006... Merrill Lynch may well have released the only investment analyst report that created an entire industry, in November 1998. It was titled "Enterprise Information Portals" and written by Chris Shilakes and Julie Tylman. They defined an EIP as an...

Open source portals: frustration and promise.(evaluation of web portals)
July 1, 2006... Enterprise portal have become a common component of IT infrastructures, even if many portal software customers struggle to get full value from their portal investments amid basic questions about their purpose and value. While portal remains a...

Tracking the eBook players today.(disContent)
July 1, 2006... let's take a look at what's happened to the ebook market players of 2000: it's not a pretty picture. "Tracking the eBook Vendors" appeared in the August 2001 EContent, following up on 24 "ebook market players" mentioned by Don Hawkins in two...

A case of securing critical coursework.(case study.German Sports University Cologne introduces sports course)
July 1, 2006... Company: THE GERMAN SPORTS UNIVERSITY COLOGNE The German Sports University Cologne, or GSU, based in Cologne, Germany, offers research, Ph.D., M.S., and undergraduate programs to more than 7,000 students covering 21 sports-related...

Fearing content cannibalization.(after thought)
July 1, 2006... i'm just back from the Buying & Selling eContent conference in sunny Scottsdale. I always find BSeC a bit manic because I must exercise so many different parts of my brain. The high-level crowd spurs on fascinating conversations; the relaxed...