EContent articles from July 2007

EContent archives from July 2007

The search for meaning.(edit this)(services provided by Google Inc)
July 1, 2007... Everybody's looking for something when they attend trade shows--from cool tchotchkes to contacts, potential customers and, of course, solutions. The 2007 Enterprise Search Summit had some swell booth freebies--my personal favorite was Northern...

Social networking works.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... Fantastic, fantastic article about social networks: "Networking Opportunities: Social Networking for Business" [May 2007, pp. 24-29]. I found it particularly helpful in understanding private-label social networks. Social networks are...

Own up.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... I read--with great interest--and enjoyed Martin White's column in the May 2007 issue ["Wanted: Intranet Leadership," p. 30]. My organization is living through exactly the "ownership" challenges you have articulated so well. I am the...

Newsworthy.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... As I read April 2007's "Change Your Mind" column by Michelle Manafy [p. 3], I was very surprised to learn of the Belgian newspaper that wanted Google to stop linking to its stories because the search giant had not obtained permission to do so....

Corrections.(Correction notice)
July 1, 2007... In Ron Miller's article "The Devil is in the Details: The Revelation of XML Content Management" [April 2007], we referred to the company "Astoria," when in fact, it should have been called Astoria Software; we made a similar error in the URL....

Acquire Media acquires NewsEdge: believes its technical edge will return product to the fore.(content news)
July 1, 2007... News aggregation is a beleaguered market that has become increasingly consolidated and beset by free news portals. However, with its acquisition of NewsEdge from the Thomson Corporation, Acquire Media believes it can sharpen this product with...

CBS Corporation acquires Last.fm.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... CBS Corporation has acquired Last.fm, a global, community-based music discovery network. CBS purchased the property for $280 million in cash. Last.fm currently has more than 15 million active users in more than 200 countries. As part of the...

Google acquires FeedBurner.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Google has acquired FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company that provides media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Its web-based tools, including a feed and blog advertising network, can help publishers promote,...

EMI agrees to $4.7 billion offer from Terra Firma.(news & product briefs)(Terra Firma Capital Partners)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... British music company EMI agreed to a $4.73 billion (2.4 billion-pound) cash takeover from private equity group Terra Firma. Terra Firma intends to keep EMI intact and proceed with plans to securitize the company's music publishing assets,...

A DMCA fix needed: to eliminate online copyright loophole.(content news)(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
July 1, 2007... The second provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, also known as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), gave service providers a "safe harbor" from copyright infringement if they removed...

MySpace agrees to turn over info on sex offenders to state AGs.(news & product briefs)(attorneys general )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... MySpace has reached an accord with eight U.S. state attorneys general and has worked out a legal mechanism to hand over information on convicted sex offenders found on its service. Last week, a coalition of U.S. law enforcement authorities...

Skype co-founders invest in Asian 3D social networking company.(news & product briefs)(Ambient Sound Investments acquires Frenzoo)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), established by the four co-founding engineers of internet telephony software company Skype, will acquire a stake as part of a Series A funding round in 3D social networking company Frenzoo. Frenzoo is designed...

IGP proposal: highlights global nature of digital security.(content news)
July 1, 2007... The Internet Governance Project (IGP) has worked since 2004 to advance the discussion of global internet governance. Its work took a public turn in May when the IGP released a proposal to decentralize authority over domain-name system (DNS)...

RLG Programs.(peopleware)(appointment of Roy Tennant )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Roy Tennant has accepted a position with OCLC in the RLG Programs group. Tennant was user-services architect for the California Digital Library. He has also served as manager of e-scholarship, web, and services design for the California Digital...

Ingram Digital Group.(peopleware)(appointment of Mark Carden)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ingram Digital Group has appointed Mark Carden as SVP and GM for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at MyiLibrary. Carden joins MyiLibrary from OCLC, where he was the worldwide director of sales for the OCLC PICA division, based in the...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(peopleware)(appointment of Mark Spiers)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Wolters Kluwer Health has appointed Mark Spiers president and CEO of its healthcare analytics business unit. Spiers brings over 25 years of pharmaceutical experience to the healthcare analytics business, having previously worked for MedPointe...

ProQuest CSA.(peopleware)(appointment of Bipin Patel )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... ProQuest CSA has appointed Bipin Patel as CIO. Patel comes to ProQuest CSA from Ford Motor Company, where he spent 25 years working in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the United States. Most recently, Patel served as North America director of IT...

ProQuest CSA has also appointed Simon Beale to SVP of global sales, Mark Hyer to VP of sales for North America, and Terry Robinson to VP of sales for EMEA and Latin America.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... ProQuest CSA has also appointed Simon Beale to SVP of global sales, Mark Hyer to VP of sales for North America, and Terry Robinson to VP of sales for EMEA and Latin America. Beale will be responsible for sales of all products to all markets...

Ingram Digital Group has also named Martin Marlow as the new VP for product and marketing of MyiLibrary.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ingram Digital Group has also named Martin Marlow as the new VP for product and marketing of MyiLibrary. Marlow comes to MyiLibrary from Atypon Systems Inc., where he has been VP for sales and marketing since 2005. Earlier in his career, he...

Serials Solutions.(peopleware)(appointment of Michael Platt )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Serials Solutions has announced that Michael Platt has joined the company as director of library support. Platt comes to Serials Solutions with over 15 years experience in the software and network communications industry. In addition to serving...

Online native ventures off: Wikipedia released on CD.(content news)(Version 0.5)
July 1, 2007... Change is normal for articles on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. An entry can look one way at 11 a.m. and completely different at 11:10. One recent Wikipedia project, however, represents a more fundamental change than any edit:...

SpringCM.(peopleware)(appointment of Dan Carmel )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... SpringCM has appointed Dan Carmel as CEO. Prior to joining SpringCM, Carmel served as president and CEO of Itemfield. Previously, he served as part of the senior management team at iManage.

Swets.(peopleware)(appointment of Johan van Campen )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Swets has appointed Johan van Campen as its new COO/CIO. In this dual role, van Campen will be responsible for the IT development of Swets worldwide and the global operational service delivery to both customers and publishers. Van Campen joins...

Simon Dessain, COO of Publishing Technology PLC and former CEO of Ingenta PLC, has announced his departure from the company.(peopleware)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Simon Dessain, COO of Publishing Technology PLC and former CEO of Ingenta PLC, has announced his departure from the company. Dessain will remain with the company until the end of July in order to make a smooth handover of responsibilities.

Ex Libris Group.(peopleware)(appointment of Robert J. Mercer )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ex Libris Group has appointed Robert J. Mercer president of its North American subsidiary. Dan Trajman, the current president, will continue to consult for the company through the end of 2007. Previously, Mercer was the regional VP and GM of...

CVISION Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Eitan Agai )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... CVISION Technologies Inc. has appointed Eitan Agai as VP of professional services. Recently, Agai was VP of technology at FTS, where he was responsible for development of billing software for the telecom industry. Prior to that, he served as...

Mercado Software.(peopleware)(appointment of Ken Holmes )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Mercado Software has named Ken Holmes as the company's CFO. Holmes brings over 17 years of financial experience in the software and high-tech industries, most recently as CFO for BackWeb Technologies. Prior to BackWeb, he was the CFO of...

Fortune 1000 senior executives' opinions: regarding blogs and their company, February 2006.(metrics)(Table)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Fortune 1000 Senior Executives' Opinions Regarding Blogs and Their Company, February 2006 (% of respondents) Believe their companies should have corporate 77% policies to address the writing of blogs sanctioned by the...

What best describes your organization's position on social networking tools as an internal communication medium?(metrics)
July 1, 2007... What best describes your organization's position on social networking tools as an internal communication medium? Total % We have no interest at this time ...

Large U.S. companies with a corporate blog, 2006.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Large U.S. Companies with a Corporate Blog, 2006 (% of respondents) Plan to institute a corporate blog this year 35% Currently have a corporate blog 34% Source: JupiterResearch, June 2006 Note: Table made...

Top 5 functions for median individual spending on news and trade content for your own use.(metrics)(Statistical table)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Top 5 Functions for Median Individual Spending on News and Trade Content for Your Own Use Median Median Spending on Spending on N&T N&T...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent.(senior online projects editor Ian Lamont)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Job Function: As senior online projects editor for Computerworld, Ian Lamont recently launched a user-generated feature called Shark Bait (http://sharkbait.computerworld.com) that relies entirely on user submissions and user feedback....

Not-so-moving pictures.(follow the money)(video usage in online services)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... Years ago, the CEO of a then-young video search firm insisted that some day soon everyone would need a query box to navigate the video records of their own lives. Video camera technology was becoming so cheap and light that many people would...

Microsoft Office Professional 2007.(business application software)(Product/service evaluation)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... I evaluated the Professional edition of Microsoft Office 2007, with special emphasis on the Outlook email system, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. I tested Office on my HP Compaq Presario 2100 using Windows XP SP2 and 1/2GB of memory. (For...

Office suite strategies.(info insider)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... In mid-March, I received a quote from a local family-run roofing firm via email. The quote used the new Office 2007 format. I had no trouble reading it, but the roofer noticed he wasn't getting responses from other potential clients. On another...

The changing face of content management.(Best Practices: CONTENT MANAGEMENT)(Editorial)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Some things never change. Digital content is not one of those things. This is a fast moving space, with an evolutionary pace markedly faster than that found in nature. The nature of the beast called content is in constant turmoil, which...

Enterprise content management--a partnership between business and IT.(EMC)
July 1, 2007... The continuous growth of information presents a challenge to IT organizations and, if it remains unchecked, will become a crisis that impairs the ability of IT to meet the strategic and business needs of the organization. Information, including...

Connecting your business to the services you need.(thePlatform)(digital media management solution technology)
July 1, 2007... Find what fits your Business Getting the best digital media management solution means getting the solution you need--not one that's built for someone else's business. To meet businesses' varying requirements, the solution needs to be...

Dynamic publishing for today's enterprise.(XyEnterprise)
July 1, 2007... Is "dynamic publishing" a useful and widely understood term in 2007? For many people, dynamic publishing is tied to web content management systems and the ability to create HTML pages on the fly from a database or repository of content. There...

Automating your technical publishing processes.(PTC)
July 1, 2007... The quality of your technical publications directly influences the success of your products. Ninety percent of published information is stale; customers are overloaded with information, but usually cannot find what they need; the field force is...

Crystal-ball gazing.(behind the firewall)(technologies to come to the best intranets in next five years)(Viewpoint essay)(Column)
July 1, 2007... I have spent much of my career trying to foretell the future. I am no astrologer, but I have worked for high-tech market analysis companies that offer five-year market and technology forecasts to their clients. At the time of publication, the...

The medium gets the message: post-print publishing models.(technology application in publishing)(Cover story)
July 1, 2007... The rise of interactive Web 2.0 technologies has changed user expectations relating to the immediacy and accessibility of content in context. Nearly every day there's a press release touting a new tool or site that allows users to customize,...

Web news aggregation: conjuring trick or brave news world?(research on global news flows)
July 1, 2007... In the spring of 1846, Moses Yale Beach, publisher of The New York Sun, established a horse-drawn carrier service to deliver news of the Mexican War to the nearest telegraph point at Richmond, Virginia. In selling an equal interest in the...

Keep your eyes on the enterprise: Emails, wikis, blogs, and corporate risk.(managing corporate risk)
July 1, 2007... Webster's New World College Dictionary defines "risk" as "the chance of injury, damage, or loss." In the corporate world, "risk" translates into the possibility of lost assets, decreased productivity, loss of reputation, and liability--all of...

Security, naivete, and the limits of pseudonymity.(dis Content)(pseudonymity in blogs and anonymity in comments make it easier to bend confidentiality and securtiy)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... two years ago, I considered the "permanent record" we create online when we least expect it. In keeping with the security theme, let's look at some other unintended consequences of easy econtent creation. Say you have a blog as well as a...

A case of increasing the functionality and profile of ebooks.(Springer ebook program to help researchers find information easily)(Case study)
July 1, 2007... Company: SPRINGER Springer Science+Business Media is an international publisher of STM (scientific, technical, and medical) information. The company publishes more than 1,200 journals and 3,500 new books each year. In addition to its print...

You oughta be in pictures.(after thought)(use of video in web marketing)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2007... prior to YouTube making video commonplace on the web, you'd only see small forays into corporate video and usually these efforts were mundane and predictable--things like a broadcast of the CEO speech at the annual meeting. Well, okay, some...