EContent articles from June 2006

EContent archives from June 2006

Social metaphor mixer.(edit this)
June 1, 2006... face it: face time remains the most valuable way to forge relationships. While the Web makes it possible to find almost anyone, nothing compares to shoulder bumping and elbow rubbing when you want to make useful business connections. That's why...

Bloggers bit by Apple; suit targeting trade secret exposure or free speech?(content news)(Apple Computer, Inc.)
June 1, 2006... a judgment entered in December against bloggers, alleging that they illicitly disclosed trade secrets from Apple Computer, Inc., online, may have free speech implications for all online publishers. "This is not the usual, run-of-the-mill trade...

My homework's done: can imbee on my blog.(content news)
June 1, 2006... with new social networking sites springing up daily, it has become more difficult than ever for parents to monitor who their kids are talking to online. We live in an age of connectivity where anyone with an Internet connection--regardless of...

Motion pictures: FrameFree launches studio.(content news)(FrameFree Technologies)
June 1, 2006... thomas Edison conceptualized the moving picture more than a century ago. Since then "we've been refining... but not innovating it," according to FrameFree Technologies president Tom Randolph. FrameFree Technologies plans to pick up where...

Fox Interactive Media (FIM).(Hemanshu (Hemu) Nigam appointed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has appointed Hemanshu (Hemu) Nigam to oversee safety, education, and privacy programs, and law enforcement affairs for MySpace, as well as the network of FIM properties. Nigam, who currently serves as director of...

Ingenta.(Louise Tutton appointed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Ingenta has appointed Louise Tutton to the newly created position, head of client management. Reporting directly to IngentaConnect VP Douglas Wright, the role will consolidate and develop Ingenta's relationships with its IngentaConnect...

Ask.com.(Tao Yang appointed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Ask.com has named Tao Yang SVP and chief scientist. An Ask.com executive since the Company acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc., in 2001, Yang is a co-inventor of the ExpertRank (formally Teoma) search algorithm.

SirsiDynix.(Stephen Abram appointed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... SirsiDynix has elected Stephen Abram, VP of innovation, to serve as the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) next president-elect. Abram is the past president of the Canadian Library Association and was president of the Ontario Library...

Hummingbird, Ltd.(appointments)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Hummingbird, Ltd., has appointed John A. MacDonald and John B. Wade III to the company's audit committee. In addition to these appointments, Stephen A. Crane has been appointed as chairperson of the company's audit committee.

Dialog.(Libby Trudell appointed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Dialog has elected Libby Trudell, Dialog SVP, information professional market development, to SLA board of directors. Prior to joining Dialog, Trudell worked for electronic information services, including OCLC and RLIN.

Brad Lyon.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... SDL International has announced that Brad Lyon has joined SDL in the role of VP, North American Enterprise Sales. Lyon joins SDL following a software and information technology sales career spanning 20 years, most recently with Idiom...

NetManage, Inc.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... NetManage, Inc., has appointed Avl Schlank to the position of VP of strategic partner business development. Schlank joins the NetManage team following six years of business consulting for industry players, including Accenture.

Cadmus Communications Corporation.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Cadmus Communications Corporation has named Peter R. Hanson as COO of Cadmus' Publisher Services Group. Hanson, who served most recently as president of Banta Corporation's Publication Group, began his career at Combined Communications Service,...

Bloomberg L.P. acquires Brainpower.(news & product briefs)(BrainPower Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Data and news provider Bloomberg L.P. will acquire Dutch investment data provider Brainpower NV for $40 million in cash to bolster its services to global investment managers. Bloomberg is paying 1.88 euros per share, or a premium of 20% to...

Microsoft to acquire ProClarity.(news & product briefs)(Microsoft Corp.)(ProClarity Corp.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Microsoft Corp. has announced it has agreed to acquire ProClarity Corp., a software company based in Boise, Idaho, that develops advanced analysis and visualization technologies that work in association with Microsoft's business intelligence...

Salesforce.com acquires Sendia, introduces AppExchange Mobile.(news & product briefs)(Salesforce.com Inc. acquires Sendia Corporation )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Salesforce.com, Inc., a technology and market provider of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), has announced its mobile applications with AppExchange Mobile, through the acquisition of Sendia Corporation for $15 million in cash....

PTC's Arbortext integration: increases windchill.(content news)(PTC Technology product introduction)
June 1, 2006... PTC has launched its enhanced Windchill 8.0 content management system, which features integration with Arbortext XML authoring software. PTC, a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provider,...

Web Junction.(peopleware)(Web Junction appoints Mike Crandall, Sari Feldman and Kara Hannigan)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Web Junction has named members of its E-Learning Advisory Committee: Mike Crandall, senior lecturer, University of Washington; Sari Feldman, executive director, Cuyahoga County Public Library; Kara Hannigan, associate program officer, Bill and...

Liquid Machines, Inc. has formed a public sector advisory board comprised of leaders from federal, state, and local defense, and major vertical industries.(peopleware)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Liquid Machines, Inc., has formed a public sector advisory board comprised of leaders from federal, state, and local defense, and major vertical industries. Members of the board include Richard A. Clarke, former special advisor to the president...

iO Global Limited.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Martin Knestrick has been appointed CEO of iO Global Limited. Knestrick has more than 20 years' experience in international management within high-tech industries on several continents. His most recent role was as CEO of Vidus Limited.

ProQuest Information and Learning.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning has appointed Vince Price as VP of content operations for the higher education and library business segments. Price joined ProQuest in June 1996 as product manager for ABI/INFORM. In late 1997 he was promoted...

SirsiDynix.(peopleware)(SirsiDynix appoints Talin R. Bingham )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... SirsiDynix has appointed Talin R. Bingham as SVP of technology. Bingham brings to SirsiDynix more than 20 years of software engineering experience, including 10 years at the management level for a range of product development organizations.

William Binch.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Stellent, Inc., has announced that William Binch, an independent director, has joined its board of directors. Binch currently is the lead director for SPSS, Inc., a worldwide provider of predictive analytics software and solutions, and also is...

MobileLime.(appointment)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... MobileLime has appointed James Cooper to the position of SVP of sales. Prior to joining MobileLime, Cooper was VP, worldwide sales and field operations of Troux Technologies.

SealedMedia releases new version of Enterprise DRM.(News & Product Briefs)
June 1, 2006... SealedMedia, Inc., has launched version 5.0 of its enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) platform. SealedMedia 5.0 features a Standard Administrative Model and a Web-based Management Console. Key SealedMedia 5.0 features include...

Social media spending to hit $757m in 2010, according to report.(News & Product Briefs)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The total marketing spent on social media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1% from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010, according to a research report available from PQ Media. The report discusses, by comparison,...

Faces of econtent.(dialogue with Roy Fielding )(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Job Function: In his role as chief scientist for Day Software, a provider of integrated content, portal, and digital asset management software, Roy Fielding looks well beyond the current products that the company sells. "I look at the ways...

R&D is the only cure for chaos.(follow the money)(media industries)(research and development)
June 1, 2006... as our content divides, sub-divides, and disperses like so many amoeba into the new digital mediaverse, anxiety must be running high among media companies. Ad dollars visibly drained from network television and print this past year, and most...

JabberNow.(review: DECISION-MAKER)
June 1, 2006... ever popular among teens and tweens, instant messaging has wheedled its way into the enterprise. With its immediate-informational appeal and presence-awareness potential, IM has a lot to offer organizations with rapid-fire workgroups or other...

Inspired tools.(i column like i cm)
June 1, 2006... one of the great things about technical journalism is getting to talk to the people who are making the tools of tomorrow and thus changing the way we work. It's also an opportunity to take the tools out for a spin. In this issue, I do my first...

Marks the spot: let's take today's XML content-creation tools for a spin.(Extensible Markup Language)
June 1, 2006... Tim Berners-Lee's dictum, "If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist," may now be supplemented with, "And if your business is not creating XML content, it may soon cease to exist." XML is changing the way content is created--for print...

Cutting edge or over the edge?(info pro)
June 1, 2006... we librarians have always been cutting edge: We were often the first within our organizations to have online search capabilities; remember Lexis Ubiq terminals? Our colleagues and coworkers caught up with us, sort of... at least they all got...

Complex search @ your Web Service.
June 1, 2006... @s enterprise users face growing repositories of valuable data, it becomes increasingly important to be able to search across these data storehouses (and the Web) to find the best available answers to a query, then to effectively apply that...

Building the foundation for content success.(publishing industry)
June 1, 2006... Last fall, two leading periodicals--one Web-native, another a traditional print publication-instigated much-needed redesigns. The publications, Salon.com and the Onion, are as different as can be: Salon is a liberal, literary magazine for...

Mobile delivery discoveries.(agile minds)
June 1, 2006... with an avalanche of mobile content coming online this year, subscribers can't say they don't have choices. They can complain about the tedious navigation process and confusing hierarchical menus they must endure to find and buy content,...

A case of marine life online.(case study)(RedDot)
June 1, 2006... Company: NATIONAL AQUARIUM A city-owned nonprofit dedicated to environmental education and stewardship, the 265,000-square-foot National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB) houses more than 15,000 animals representing some 650 species of...

Get your eye off the ball!(after thought)(content marketing)
June 1, 2006... marketing people in technology companies don't know what winning looks like. It's not that we marketers don't want to win. We do. But we have a collective difficulty aligning our departmental goals so that they are in sync with the rest of the...