EContent articles from July 2008

EContent archives from July 2008

A question of semantics.(edit this)
July 1, 2008... My family and I recently hiked to the top of the Pinnacle at Steep Rock--apt name. It is a very steep rock, but the view from the top is worth the climb: a panorama of the Litchfield hills and Lake Waramaug, Connecticut's second-largest natural...

On average, for each type of Social Media you use professionally, how many hours do you spend per week using it?(metrics)(Table)
July 1, 2008... On average, for each type of Social Media you use professionally, how many hours do you spend per week using it? Less than 1 to 2 2 to 4 1 hour hours ...

U.S. user-generated content advertising spending.(metrics)
July 1, 2008... 2007-2012 (millions and % of online ad spending 2007 $162 (0.77%) 2008 $278 (1.07%) 2009 $391 (1.30%) 2010 $519 (1.48%) 2011 $657 (1.60%) 2012 $824 (1.62%) Note: Includes spending on display and rich media...

Reasons that U.S. internet users read blogs.(metrics)
July 1, 2008... November-December 2006 (% of respondents) Entertainment 65.7% Personal Interest/Hobbies 42.5% Education/Information 32.5% Relationship to Author 13.1% Work/Business 12.3% Note: n-266:...

Ways that U.S. journalists use blogs.(metrics)
July 1, 2008... January 2008 (% of respondents) Measure sentiment 57.7% Find out what other mainstream publications are writing about the Issue 51.0% Find subjects to write about 38.7%...

Please stand by.(follow the money)
July 1, 2008... 'Is anyone making money on web video?" The publisher of one of the most popular and long-running video shows online recently posed that question to one of his peers and me. The other publisher, who is responsible for hundreds of hours of video...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... Name With The Face: Roy Jacobsen Job Title: Senior Technical Writer Organization: Protech Associates, Inc. URL: www.ptassoc.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Job Function: Roy Jacobsen is the lone technical writer at...

Google connects with 'Friends': Facebook gives cold shoulder.(content news)
July 1, 2008... Boom, boom--boom. On May 8, 2008, MySpace introduced Data Availability. On May 9, Facebook Connect was announced. Then 3 days later, Google Friend Connect showed up on the "open social web" scene. Friend Connect lets websites grow traffic by...

Ingram Digital acquires assets of Audiofy Corp.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Ingram Digital Group, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corp., reseller of digital audiobooks. Audiofy offers a media...

Twitter gets $15 million second round.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... Twitter has reportedly reached an agreement with investors to raise $15 million in funding at approximately an $80 million premoney valuation. Existing investor Union Square Ventures is participating along with an as yet unspecified new...

Vivisimo announces enterprise social search.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... Vivisimo, Inc., provider of enterprise search software and expertise, launched the Velocity Discovery Module, an addition to the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform, which allows organizations to classify data by topics and themes. The new module...

CBS Corp. to acquire CNET Networks, Inc.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... CBS Corp., a mass media company, has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, Inc., a global interactive media company. CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share....

Wikipedia weighs information against indecency.(content news)
July 1, 2008... One of Wikipedia's defining characteristics is the space it creates for healthy debate from around the world. But one thing is not up for discussion, at least not anymore, according to the wiki discussion page for the entry on the album Virgin...

New ProQuest resource targets hospital information needs.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... ProQuest LLC, which provides access to and navigation of digital scholarship, unveiled ProQuest Hospital Collection. ProQuest Hospital Collection centralizes access to discovery and advisory tools essential to the practice and business of...

Traction announces TeamPage 4.0.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... Traction Software, developer of products for hypertext collaboration, announced TeamPage 4.0, the latest version of Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. Traction TeamPage 4.0 delivers a combination of wiki, blog, tagging, and social...

North Plains Systems unveils TeleScope OnDemand hosted DAM solution.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2008... North Plains Systems Corp., provider of video and digital asset management (VAM and DAM) solutions, launched TeleScope OnDemand, a hosted DAM solution. TeleScope OnDemand is a digital asset management solution deployed in a hosted,...

Visually impaired gain greater access to digital information: with the DAISY Digital Talking Book.(content news)
July 1, 2008... In an age when most information is transmitted digitally and most digital information takes the form of words and letters projected on a computer monitor, the visually impaired may often feel hopelessly and helplessly left out in the cold. The...

Publishing Technology.(peopleware)(Randy Petway )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Publishing Technology, provider of software and services for the publishing industry, has appointed Randy Petway to the newly created position of EVP, strategy and business development. Petway will lead the business...

Media6[degrees].(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... Media6[degrees], provider of analytics and insights for advertisers, announced that Joe Doran has been named founding CEO. Prior to this position, Doran led Microsoft's proprietary advertising platform solutions as general manager of the...

Ziff Davis Media.(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... Peter Weedfald, a 25-year veteran of the technology industry, was named president of Ziff Davis Media. Weedfald most recently held the post of SVP, CMO at Circuit City and served as SVP, CMO of Samsung Electronics America, Inc. He was also EVP...

Ikivo AB.(peopleware)(Huw Hampson-Jones )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ikivo AB, supplier of rich media application enabling solutions, has appointed Huw Hampson-Jones as CEO of the company. His role will involve overseeing the development and implementation of business strategies to...

Day Software Holding AG.(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Day Software Holding AG, provider of global content management software, appointed Erik Hansen as its new CEO. Hansen has more than 30 years of experience as a senior executive at leading software companies,...

Outside.in.(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... Outside.in, web platform for neighborhood news and conversation, announced the hiring of Mark Josephson as CEO. Josephson is the former president of Seevast Corp. and former general manager of About.com. Previous positions include SVP of...

Copyright Clearance Center.(peopleware)(A. Miles McNamee )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), provider of copyright licensing solutions, announced that A. Miles McNamee has joined CCC as VP of business development. He will head CCC's efforts to expand its licensing and rights management services and...

patientINFORM.(peopleware)(Kathleen Case )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] patientINFORM, an international coalition of patient organizations, medical societies, and scholarly publishers, has appointed Kathleen Case as executive director. Prior to this role, Case held the position of...

BudgetTravel.com puts readers in the driver's seat: Social Media initiative powered by KickApps.(content news)
July 1, 2008... Readers of BudgetTravel.com, the companion website to Budget Travel magazine, have always been eager to share their travel tips with one another. Whether it's an out-of-the-way breakfast place in Santa Fe, N.M., a kiosk in Rome that sells...

The Online Computer Library Center.(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has elected two delegates to 6-year terms on the OCLC board of trustees: Tony Ferguson, university librarian, University of Hong Kong Libraries; and Sandy Yee, dean of libraries, Wayne State University,...

Panther Express.(peopleware)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Panther Express, global provider of content delivery services, named Steve Liddell CEO. Most recently, Liddell was an independent consultant, and prior to this, was COO of Clearwire Corp. Liddell worked at Level 3...

Wrike.(DECISION-MAKER: review)(Product/service evaluation)
July 1, 2008... One of the central tenets of Web 2.0 is the ability to get your information anywhere you have an internet connection, so web-based project management software makes a lot of sense. The Wrike project management tool is delivered as software as a...

Your search system could keep you out of jail.(info insider)
July 1, 2008... Are you sure that the search system you're using will satisfy the requirements of the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures (FRCP) regarding electronically stored information (ESI)? If your first reaction is "not more acronyms," I feel your pain....

The blogging business.(Cover story)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Blogs have come a long way from their earliest manifestations as little more than the online journal entries of individuals wearing bunny slippers while typing away on a home computer. Blogs are proliferating on the...

Exploitation and discovery.(behind the firewall)
July 1, 2008... A few years ago, the department of information studies at the University of Sheffield invited me to be a visiting professor. At every visit, I find myself challenged and stimulated by the questions I am asked by undergraduate and postgraduate...

The new journalism: it's audience participation time.
July 1, 2008... The 20th-century notion of a journalist acting as a professional surrogate for his or her readers and helping them understand the nature of a story is, well, so last century. Today, audiences want to be involved in the process. That means that...

The E-reader experience: an inside look at the leading E-book readers in action.
July 1, 2008... To tell you the truth, I decided to review the Kindle, Amazon's new wireless reading device, and some of the other newer e-readers to rid myself of the urge to own one. Actually, I am a lot like my 6-year-old when it comes to electronic toys....

Civilizing the wild, wild web.(disContent)
July 1, 2008... Should we establish codes of conduct for econtent? Do we need to bring civilization to the wild, wild web? Or, to put it in Old West terms, does this cybertown need a sheriff--or at least some law 'n' order? Whenever you have apparently...

A case of bridging the language gap.(case study)(Company overview)
July 1, 2008... Company: HI5 Founded by Ramu Yalamanchi and Akash Garg, hi5 is a social networking site that is not just another Facebook or MySpace; its main target is international markets. Headquartered in San Francisco, hi5 is a privately held company...

Will your company be successful in 2208?(after thought)
July 1, 2008... I recently spent the day with my editor and his colleagues on the marketing, editorial, and PR teams at my publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. We had wide-ranging discussions about a revised paperback edition of my current hardcover, The New...