EContent articles from July 2009

EContent archives from July 2009

Faces of econtent.(... interviews from the econtent trenches)
July 1, 2009... Name With The Face: Akshobhya Mann Job Title: Software Engineer URL: ww.clickability.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Job Function: As a software engineer at Clickability, a San Francisco-based company that provides on-demand...

Information sources used by U.S. market research professionals, 2005 & 2007-2009 (% of respondents).(metrics)
July 1, 2009... Information Sources Used by U.S. Market Research Professionals, 2005 & 2007-2009 (% of respondents) 2005 2007 2008 2009 Surveys 94% 96% 96% 95% Syndicated research 83% 81%...

U.S. adult twitter users, 2008-2010 (millions and % of adult internet users).(metrics)
July 1, 2009... U.S. Adult Twitter Users, 2008-2010 (millions and % of adult internet users) 2008 6.0 (3.8%) 2009 12.1 (7.4%) 2010 18.1 (10.8%) Note: ages 18-plus; internet users who access Twitter via any platform at least monthly...

Frequency with which U.S. college student internet users use social networking sites, 2006-2008 (% of respondents).(metrics)
July 1, 2009... Frequency With Which U.S. College Student Internet Users Use Social Networking Sites, 2006-2008 (% of respondents) Daily 2006 (n=14,959) 32.8% 2007 (n=13,368) 49.6% 2008 (n=13,031) 58.8% Several times per week ...

Follow that lead!(follow the money)
July 1, 2009... As I write this at the end of 1Q 2009, things look especially grim for business information on almost any platform. In print, across 200 B2B titles that ad auditing group IMS tracks, ad pages were down in January and February 28.3% from the...

Curtailing unintended file sharing: may take an act of Congress.(content news)
July 1, 2009... Gone are those innocent days at the turn of the century when the worst accusations being leveled at peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks were that they facilitated the unauthorized swapping of Metallica songs among tech-savvy teenage boys....

Swets.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... Swets appointed Eduard Cohen as its new CEO. Prior to this appointment, Cohen was managing director of the Science & Technology division at Elsevier.

Dow Jones & Co., Inc.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... Dow Jones & Co., Inc. named James Becker as VP of product management for the Business & Relationship Intelligence group. Becker was a founding member of the OneSource executive team and most recently served as the VP of Hoover's, Inc. at Dun &...

Sitecore.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sitecore, a provider of .NET web content management system (CMS) software, named Kerri Jankelow as regional director of Canada. Prior to joining Sitecore, Jankelow was national sales manager for Sun Microsystems,...

Google.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... Google announced that Tom Phillips, director of search and analytics, has left the company. Ien Cheng, a director of product management, has also left Google and will join Bloomberg as the chief of staff of its multimedia group. Before joining...

Amazon adds kindle self-publishing for blogs.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2009... Amazon.com, Inc. went live with a beta program that allows bloggers to self-publish their content for the Kindle using RSS subscriptions at Kindle Publishing for Blogs. Amazon keeps 70% of the monthly blog subscription fee and pays 30% to the...

Infotrieve releases new solution.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2009... Infotrieve, Inc., a provider of business-service solutions for information centers, announced that its customers can now opt to receive copyright-compliant PDFs that do not require a plug-in. This solution, developed in cooperation with Adobe,...

Vivisimo forms OEM agreement with LexisNexis.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2009... Vivisimo, Inc., a provider of enterprise search, announced a strategic OEM agreement with LexisNexis, a global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions. Through this partnership, Vivisimo's Velocity Search platform will be integrated into...

New York Times Co. releases Times Reader 2.0.(news & product briefs)
July 1, 2009... The New York Times Co. announced that the Times Reader 2.0 is now available to download. This version is powered by Adobe AIR and will run on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Times Reader 2.0 users will now see only one day's stories at a...

The future in journalism online.(content news)
July 1, 2009... Whether it's the Seattle Post-Intelligencer giving up the printed ghost and going all-digital or the Rocky Mountain News going out of business, the world of journalism has been in a constant state of flux lately. As media giants such as News...

Chegg.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jim Safka has stepped down as CEO of Ask.com and has been named CEO of Chegg, a textbook rental provider. Safka will succeed Chegg's co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid, who established the company in 2005, and will now...

Ask.com.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... Scott Garell, president of Ask.com, will assume Safka's responsibilities. Garell, who joined IAC in 2004, was promoted to president of Ask.com in 2008. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

JustSystems Corp.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... JustSystems Corp., an independent software vendor and provider of XML and information management technologies, announced that Diane Mueller, VP of XBRL development, has been appointed to the board of directors of XBRL International. In...

Medfusion, Inc.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Medfusion, Inc., a provider of enhanced communication solutions, named Bill Loconzolo as CTO. Most recently, Loconzolo was CTO at Performix Technologies.

TheStreet.com, Inc.(peopleware)
July 1, 2009... Daryl Otte, who has served as TheStreet.com, Inc.'s interim CEO since Thomas Clarke stepped down, has been selected to remain in the post. Before joining TheStreet, Otte was SVP and a member of the executive committee of media company...

Proofpoint(s) out 2009's: best and worst email blunders.(content news)
July 1, 2009... If you use email, you've probably managed to embarrass yourself by hitting "reply all" and broadcasting what was supposed to be a private email to the masses. You are not alone; email blunders have become almost as ubiquitous as the use of...

Still searching for e-readers.(info insider)
July 1, 2009... I'm still searching for e-readers... but I'm getting close. Last year in my column "It Ain't Easy Being Green," I noted the problems newspapers face and the benefits of "going green." Since then, subscription costs have continued to rise and...

Zmags.(DECISION-MAKER review)
July 1, 2009... Zmags is a web-based service that enables you to produce any publication in the form of an online magazine. The idea is not original by any means, but it provides a way to deliver your content online in a format that some readers may prefer to...

Take action with business intelligence.(Cover story)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From Google to the Grateful Dead and from direct response fulfillment to sustainability management, interactive intelligence is helping a variety of organizations and operations extend tightly stretched resources to...

Search for people.(eureka)
July 1, 2009... A few days after Easter, I went up into the attic of our house, picked up an owl, put it in my suitcase, and flew with it to Finland. This, as you might already have figured out, was no ordinary owl: It was a Strix owl. That is, a likeness on...

People-centric: content management.
July 1, 2009... As far as metaphors go, a 1920s-era steel filing cabinet remains a rather apt construct for considering the management of enterprise documents. Documents were traditionally organized and stored in hazard-safe corporate filing cabinets according...

Seven things you should know about digital publishing: the benefits and challenges of implementing a digital publishing solution.(www.ECONTENTMAG.com)
July 1, 2009... Ever since Johan Gutenberg invented the printing press, the mass distribution of the written word has been used to inform, educate, entertain, and enlightened the world. Publishing on printed materials has worked well for centuries, but the...

A case of piloting NASA's social network.(case study)
July 1, 2009... Company: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a partial response to the first artificial satellite launched by the...

An open letter to underemployed journalists.(after thought)
July 1, 2009... A remarkable convergence is upon us right now, bringing a perfect opportunity for open-minded journalists: You have an amazing career opportunity on the Dark Side. Sadly, many mainstream media outlets are reducing their staff journalists....