EContent articles from June 2002

EContent archives from June 2002

Finder's keepers. (Edit This).
June 1, 2002... Journalism's perpetual learning cycle drew me into the craft and has kept me rapt for a dozen years now. Its appeal lies not only in the process of learning new subjects, but also in the process of learning how to learn as the world of...

Econtent live! (Letters to the Editor).
June 1, 2002... EContent just did us a big favor. We're doing a trade study on content management solutions and www.econtentmag. corn was the first place I saw that eGrail has been purchased by FileNet, allowing us to take corrective action. Thanks! Kurt...

ABCs of XML. (Letters to the Editor).
June 1, 2002... Robert, I thoroughly enjoyed your article in EContent, "XML Across the Publishing Lifecycle: Tools & Strategies to Promote Success" [October 2001]. We will be using your article for important education and decision input in our planning....

Project Oxygen: A breath of fresh air for the internet. (News Feature).
June 1, 2002... researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts are working on an ambitious project dubbed Project Oxygen that aims to change the way we use the Internet. Its ambitions are to create an open Internet...

Sun bursts onto the authentication scene. (News Feature).
June 1, 2002... Now more then ever hackers are getting into government and private corporate computer systems, sometimes costing them billions of dollars in network fraud. Now the problem extends to network identity: hackers steal people's identifies online...

Gale and Dialog to jointly serve academic and public libraries. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Gale and Dialog, both Thomson companies, have announced an alliance to create and market new online products and services for academic and public libraries. This move is intended to increase revenue opportunities by leveraging the strong...

Access acquires Tekora. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Sales and management software developer, Access Commerce has acquired Tekora, a Web content management software provider. In exchange, Tekora's shareholders will receive a convertible bond with a value depending on where Access Commerce shares...

Interwoven introduces content services specification. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc., along with several portal yendora, has announced publication of the Content Services specification--a Web Services specification for access to Enterprise Content Management functionality. This proposed standard was championed...

Quiver to integrate with IBM WebSphere. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Quiver has developed a portlet that allows its taxonomy and categorization applications to be leveraged in IBM's WebSphere portal software. Quiver takes a hybrid approach to categorization and taxonomy development. It provides both highly...

Dialog and BioSpace announce content alliance. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Dialog has announced an alliance with BioSpace, Inc., under which Dialog has made part of the content it collects from information providers worldwide available through BioSpace's public Web site. From anywhere within the BioSpace site, users...

YellowBrix announces technology & content partnership. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... YellowBrix, Inc. has formed an alliance with SAP Portals, a provider of open-enterprise portal and business intelligence products and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP AG. Under terms of the agreement, YellowBrix and SAP Portals will partner to...

ActiveContent Version 2.0 released. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... iKnowledge, Inc. has released ActiveContent Version 2.0, a solution for secure content aggregation, collaboration, management, distribution, monetization, and syndication. ActiveContent Version 2.0 was developed from the ground up with...

Forbes.com chooses microCreditCard for online transactions. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Forbes.com has selected microCreditCard to provide processing services for Forbes.com's new newsletter subscription initiative. The Forbes.com newsletter service using the microCreditCard payment processing system went live in March with the...

EdgeSuite to be developed for Microsoft .NET. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Microsoft Corp. and Akamal Technologies Inc. plan to develop EdgeSuite for Microsoft .NET. EdgeSuite for Microsoft .NET is a service designed to offer Akamai customers high-performance delivery of XML Web services and Web applications built on...

Speedera brings protection to critical web properties. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Secure Content Delivery and Secure Download are Speedera Networks Inc.'s latest services for protecting Web sites and improving secure delivery of Web content and digital media. The new services use Speedera's global content delivery network...

Zycus announces AutoClass. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Zycus' AutoClass, a Universal Standard Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC) classification solution for eCatalogs, is an automated solution for classifying products into one or more of 13,000 categories and for standardizing content...

Stellent upgrades content management solution. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Stellent, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management solutions, announced the release of Stellent Content Management 6.0 with new content contribution, collaboration and delivery capabilities. Version 6.0 includes three new primary...

RealNetworks to offer turnkey subscription service. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... RBN Managed Subscription Service is RealNetworks, Inc.'s customizable revenue-generating business solution generated through Real Broadcast Network (RBN), RealNetworks' content delivery network. Modeled after RealOne SuperPass--a premium brand...

Quiver to integrate with IBM WebSphere. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Quiver, Inc. has developed a portlet that helps companies running IBM WebSphere Portal leverage Quiver's hybrid taxonomy and categorization application, QKS ClassifierT. Quiver's categorization product delivers classification of unstructured...

LexisNexis debuts application for Insurance industry. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... LexisNexis Insurance Solutions is LexisNexis' one-stop Web-based investigative research tool, built upon what LexisNexis says is the largest public records collection available to the insurance industry for investigations and information...

Divine acquires Viant Corporation. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... divine, inc. and Viant Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement under which divine will acquire Viant in a stock-for-stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, approved by the Board of Directors of each company, divine...

Screaming Media and Midwest Wireless unveil micro-local content application. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... ScreamingMedia Inc., a provider of information management products and services, announced that it entered into an agreement with Midwest Wireless, a wireless service provider, to deliver customized, micro-local content to wireless applications...

Obtree Technologies attracts additional capital. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Obtree Technologies, an enterprise content and knowledge management provider, has secured $10.8 million in additional capital. Obtree will use the new funding to accelerate delivery of software products in cooperation with implementation...

NYTimes.com launches times news tracker. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Times News Tracker is NYTimes.com's personalized service that lets users customize email alerts by topic. The service helps users follow coverage in The New York Times regarding specific subjects, people, places, or companies of interest, and...

Rightsline and Artesia partner. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... RightsLine, Inc. and Artesia Technologies have signed a Global Technology Partnership Agreement. Under this agreement, the companies will work together to offer integrated, bundled solutions of RightsLine's Rights Licensing Server and Rights...

Octigon announces Octane8 version 4.0. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Octigon LLC, a Web development and content management solutions provider, today announced the availability of Octane8, version 4.0. Octigon's flagship product, Octane8, enables a company to create, deploy, and manage individual or multiple...

XPower Newsroom converges web and broadcast news. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... Ingeniux Corporation has released XPower Newsroom, an integrated platform fox television stations to simultaneously publish content on-air and to the Web. XPower Newsroom is built on the Ingeniux Web CMS platform, a modular, XML-based system...

NewsEdge introduces new information product. (Product News).
June 1, 2002... NewsEdge, a Thomson business and leading provider of real-time news and information products and services, has announced new release of its flagship NewsEdge Insight information product. The NewsEdge Insight 6 upgrade combines key features of...

Adobe completes acquisition of Accello Corporation. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Adobe Systems Incorporated has completed acquisition of publicly held Accelio Corporation. Under the terms of the transaction, each Accelio common share was converted to 0.072573 shares of Adobe common stock. In total, Adobe issued...

Thomson Financial and Grand Central Communications to deliver financial Web services. (Industry News).
June 1, 2002... Thomson Financial and Grand Central Communications, Inc. plan to work together to deliver Web services to the financial community. As part of the agreement, Thomson Financial will make several of its databases available to its customers via...

Jeffrey R. Tarr. (Peopleware).
June 1, 2002... Hoover's, Inc.'s board of directors has appointed the company's president and chief executive officer, Jeffrey R. Tarr, to the additional capacity of board chairman. Tarr replaces former Chairman Patrick J. Spain, who continues to serve the...

Cynthia Hill. (Peopleware).
June 1, 2002... Overture Services has promoted Paul Ryan, formerly VP of technology for Overture, to CTO and hired Dan Morefield, formerly of PayMyBills, for the new position of Chief Information Office. The Special Libraries Association has named Cynthia...

Craig Hodges. (Peopleware).
June 1, 2002... Inmagic Inc. has promoted Craig Hodges to National ILS sales associate: BiblioTech PRO, where he will lead efforts to promote BiblioTech PRO benefits, including attending special library trade shows, as well as hosting industry-specific monthly...

Technological Profile of US Wireless Users, 2001. (Metrics).
June 1, 2002... Technological Profile of US wireless users, 2001. (metrics) Access the Internet 72% Use email 66% Shop online 31% Play games online 21% Source: Scarborugh Research

US Video on Demand Forecast. (Metrics).
June 1, 2002... US Video on Demand Forecast. (metrics) 2001 0.04 2002 0.3 2003 1.0 2004 2.1 2005 3.5 2006 4.9 2007 6.6 2008 8.2 Source: Strategy Analytics Broadband Entertainment Strategies service Note: Includes TV-based...

Mobile Phone Subscribes Worldwide 1996-2002. (Metrics).
June 1, 2002... Mobile phone subscribes world wide 1996-2002. (metrics) (in millions) 1996 136 1997 204 1998 307 1999 474 2000 722 2001 941 2002 * 1,054 * Note: as of Q2 Source: EMC Note: Table...

Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Hardware Market Worldwide, 2001 & 2005. (Metrics).
June 1, 2002... Firewall and virtual private network (VPN) Hardware Market Worldwide, 2001 & 2005. (metrics) (in billions) Firewalls VPN Hardware 2001 $1.7 $1.3 2005 $3.8 $2.9 Source: Infonetics Research ...

Mobile media: The future now.
June 1, 2002... The possibilities sound like a scene from The Jetsons: smart cellular phones playing movie trailers while you're in line for cinema tickets; video conferencing on video camera- and LCD screen-equipped mobile devices; GPS-endowed phones...

Drowning in a sea of information?
June 1, 2002... Content Integration Survival Today's information landscape reminds me of the line from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poem, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" Today, we find ourselves adrift in a sea of...

Masterminding content management: Content management(CM) systems are a critical piece of infrastructure in today's enterprise.
June 1, 2002... As Web sites have grown in size and importance, so has CM. Many corporate Web sites suffer from problems, such as non-standard presentation, inconsistency of content, nonexistent editorial process, content publication choke points, and the...

Adding value--looking at Literacy: Complex stories could be better served online. They could be packaged in a way that allows readers to test assumptions and find their own understanding. (Dis Content).
June 1, 2002... There's one great way to make econtent important: add value in ways that can only be done online. As a reader and Internet user, I like to see innovative approaches and I have a specific challenge for econtent producers. Many think...

Intranets and extranets: Playing the numbers; there is considerable interest in deploying content management software applications. (Behind the Firewall).
June 1, 2002... Having spent a significant part of my career in market research, I collect market surveys squirrel-style, stashing them away just in case they might one day be useful. Over the last few months, a number of surveys on the intranet market have...

Online advertising: The big slow sell; it goes one to one with your customer...it slices, it dices, it helps the kids with their homework, and opens a bottle of beer. (Follow the Money).
June 1, 2002... In the advertising world, when the going gets tough, the tough start hyping. When agencies and publishers started seeing their revenues tank in early 2001, they responded with an unprecedented barrage of flashy new ad formats and research study...

Arbortext Epic Editor 4.2. (Decision-Maker Review).
June 1, 2002... Company: Arbortext Purpose: XML Authoring Tool Starting Price: $695 Reviewer's View: Epic Editor is a robust, reliable native XML authoring tool. Arbortext has a track record of participating in the development of SGML and XML...

Making it easy to customize rich media: Web sites that can combine rich media with customization will have a definite advantage over their competitors. (Profile: Concentric Visions).
June 1, 2002... Customization is the latest buzzword in Web development. Companies want to design hundreds of microsites that are specifically focused to meet the needs of customers, suppliers, and end-users that will inspire loyalty that pays off in the form...

Making meaning matter: "Creating new ways of interfacing data, or mining for new knowledge that may not have been apparent at the surface level, is one of the biggest challenges content managers face.". (Profile: Applied Semantics).
June 1, 2002... We've all been there: You enter a word or phrase into the "search" field of any major search engine, and instead of netting a targeted list of hits worthy of further exploration, you're inundated with page after page of sites featuring one or...

Investing in community and banking on trust: Content on a web site is most powerful when it hits the bull's-eye of the visitors' interests. (Profile: iVillage).
June 1, 2002... a company's good brand name relies on the trust it builds with its customers. Trust keeps them loyal and helps inform the company of what the customers truly want. When the company's primary product is the content on a Web site, trust and...

Looking for information in all the wrong places. (End of File).
June 1, 2002... i'm not one to live in the past--well, except for my taste in music-but recently, I had an interesting conversation about research. My friend, like me, had somehow survived at least 35 years before the advent of the Web. I'm a librarian by...