EContent articles from June 2005

EContent archives from June 2005

Higher ground.(edit this)
June 1, 2005... What goes on in some people's minds? On an April business trip to the Buying & Selling eContent show (BSeC) in toasty Arizona, I got stranded in a blizzard in Colorado. Surrounded by 40,000 other travelers in various states of distress, I...

Broaden your Scopus.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... I think your readers deserve to know that the interview you printed with a marketing executive for Scopus ["Scopus: Elsevier Expands the Scope of Research," November 2004, pp. 9-12] cannot be expected to present a balanced view of the product....

Wi-not-Fi?(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... I laud the efforts of Tempe, AZ to bring WiFi to every corner of the city ["Untethering Tempe: A City Goes Wireless," Kinley Levack, January/February pp. 11-12]. It is impressive that the city responded to the need for connectivity exhibited by...

Better your RSS.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... I was on the EContent RSS Feeds page just now hoping to add a few RSS feeds to my aggregator. http://www.econtentmag.com/rss/ rss_feeds.aspx I thought you should know that all of the RSS feeds on this page have the same title:...

Corrections.(EMail)(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2005... In our profile of Mirror Image ["Mirror Image Internet: Through the Looking Glass," March, pp. 44-45], we referred to the X PRIZE as involving 13 teams from 6 countries. The correct numbers are 26 teams from 7 countries. In the first part...

Bertelsmann gives P2P another try.(content news)
June 1, 2005... German media giant Bertelsmann reportedly pumped $85 million into the beleaguered Napster between 2000 and 2002, before Napster finally declared bankruptcy and its remains were scooped up by Roxio. So what did Bertelsmann get for its $85 mil?...

Art finds a mobile home.(Digital Museum of Modern Art )
June 1, 2005... People already create distribute and consume mobile information and entertainment in the forms of news, music, and games; now art has gone mobile too. Several organizations are harnessing mobile technology to bring art to the masses and to...

Adobe acquires Macromedia.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors,...

Idiom closes $6 million round of venture financing.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Idiom Technologies, Inc. (Idiom), an enterprise software company that combines XML publishing and globalization, has closed a $6 million round of venture financing. The Series E round includes investors Sigma Partners, North Bridge Venture...

thePlatform releases Media Publishing System 5.0.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... thePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing solutions, has announced the release of thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS) 5.0. thePlatform MPS is a digital media publishing solution, designed to enable content owners,...

HopStop.com: mastering mass transit.
June 1, 2005... New Yorkers always look like they know where they're going, barreling down avenues, cell phone in hand. The secret is that they don't, or rather they haven't--until now. In fact, they may not actually be talking on those cell phones anymore,...

HighBeam Research announces suite of tools for bloggers.
June 1, 2005... HighBeam Research has announced a suite of blogging tools designed to offer bloggers a more trustworthy voice and blog readers access to its content collection. HighBeam Research Blog Enhancer is intended to help bloggers improve their blogs by...

Adobe.(peopleware)(Computer industry)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Upon completion of Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, Stephen Elop, president and CEO of Macromedia, will join Adobe as president of worldwide field operations, and Reb Burgess, chairman of the Macromedia Board of Directors, will join the Adobe...

Akamai Technologies, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Akamai Technologies, Inc., a service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, confirmed that Paul Sagan has assumed the role of CEO of Akamai. Sagan, company president since 1999, now holds the title of president & CEO,...

Viacom.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Leslie Moonves, chairman, CBS and co-president/ co-COO, Viacom, has announced that Larry Kramer has been named president, CBS Digital Media. Kramer, who founded Dow Jones' MarketWatch, Inc. (formerly CBS MarketWatch), will now oversee all...

One for all and all for one: Ourmedia.org empowers content producers.(content news)
June 1, 2005... When Ourmedia.org launched this past March, it provided a free space for creators of all types of content--including video, audio, and the written word to distribute their content. Perhaps more importantly, however, it stepped in to fill an...

Knovel Corporation.(peopleware)(Appointments )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Knovel Corporation, a provider of Web-based information services, has announced that J. Thomas Gensch has been appointed as VP, worldwide sales. Prior to joining Knovel, Gensch was VP of content and premium service at Payment One.

MediaSpan Group.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... MediaSpan Group, a provider of digital content management systems and online marketing solutions for media companies, has announced that Tony Formichelli, former sales manager of WOR Radio New York, has joined the company in the newly created...

TACODA.(peopleware)(Appointments)(Tacoda Systems inc )
June 1, 2005... Matt Arkin has joined TACODA, a provider of behavioral-targeted online advertising solutions, as SVP, advertising sales. Arkin, who until recently was VP, advertising sales for MarketWatch, Inc., will direct ad sales operation for TACODA...

DayPort.(peopleware)(Appointments)(Technology firms)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... DayPort has appointed Tom Guzik to SVP, general manager of business development, streaming, and IP solutions. He will also serve on the company's senior management committee. DayPort has also named Lon Bencini to the position of VP, director of...

Asset Control.(peopleware)(Asset Control international)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... David J. Hirschfeld has joined Asset Control, a provider of centralized data management solutions to the financial industry, as SVP of operations. Hirschfeld was most recently the managing director of enterprise data services at Citadel...

The Thompson Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Richard J. Harrington, president and CEO of The Thomson Corporation, has announced a series of executive appointments. Sharon Rowlands, currently president and COO of Thomson Financial, has been named president and CEO of Thomson Financial and...

AvantGo takes travel info on the go.(content news)
June 1, 2005... AvantGo, a service of the Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions, is moving fast in its efforts to push mobile content forward. The company beta launched the AvantGo Travel Tab at the end of May, with the specific intention of assisting its...

Metrics.
June 1, 2005... Reasons for Subscribing to DIGITAL EDITION Easier to save 55% More convenient than print 54.2% Ability search 51.5% Saves trees ...

Faces of econtent.(Department of Energy. Sandia National Laboratories)
June 1, 2005... Job Function: Sandia National Labs, a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory funded primarily by the NNSA, is involved in a full range of national security research and development projects. The 8,600 people who work at Sandia...

When knowledge sharing works.(info pro)
June 1, 2005... I have been reading about the value of knowledge management for years. The underlying idea is an appealing one--not only do all of us collectively know more than any of us individually, but when we combine our knowledge, we can glean additional...

TypePad pro.(review: DECISION-MAKER)
June 1, 2005... TypePad is a powerful, hosted Weblogging service that makes setting up a blog and posting regularly simple and fun. With the Web-based TypePad interface, there's no installation or configuration required. In the quick sign-up procedure at...

Jump start mobile content.(follow the money)
June 1, 2005... Several months ago, I urged major publishers to consider distributing content to the emerging mobile phone platforms. For all of the hype surrounding wireless (my own included), however, 2004 was not exactly the breakthrough year some had...

Journalism returns to its (grass)roots; when Christopher Grotke and Lisa LePage moved their Web site development business from Boston to Brattleboro, Vermont a couple of years ago, they were impressed by a local radio station that allowed anyone in the community to become a disc jockey.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... They decided to apply the same concept to a Web site, and invited anyone in the community to contribute content and discuss community issues in an open forum. Grotke and LePage did not know it at the time, but iBrattleboro.com, the site they...

Opening access to content.(i column like i cm)
June 1, 2005... Open access is an initiative to distribute content over the Web at no charge to the reader. It is not an attack on copyrights, nor does it imply that no money is to be made on the content. Innovative business models suggest that sales of...

Power to the people: do it yourself content distribution.
June 1, 2005... In the Old Economy, those who owned the exclusive rights to a product or service could become very wealthy. Today the tables have turned, and it's openness and the free availability of good ideas that drive value. "The simple truth is that...

Open access and survivable libraries.(disContent)
June 1, 2005... Open access, OA for short, sometimes seems like a religion or a crusade. I've been writing about it for years, probably more than a book's worth to date, and I'm still astonished at the fervor of so many parties. That may be partly because OA...

iUpload: any author, any content, anywhere.(Company Profile)
June 1, 2005... Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you've heard of blogs. Signals of their proliferation and increasing influence on both individual expression and enterprise communications have saturated the media--on and...

Thinking right about content.(after thought)
June 1, 2005... As I evaluate and use information products and services, one thing I look for is evidence of right-brain thinking--in products and services offered as well as in companies' marketing and communications approaches. Sadly, we are primarily a...