EContent articles from June 2007

EContent archives from June 2007

Viral video.(edit this)(video marketing new tool for marketing)(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... Bad marketing makes me sick. From releases comprised of extreme hyperbole to buckshot-spray pitches and spam-filter clogging quantity, I am inundated with the bad and the ugly, along with the good. This week, I read a press release that had the...

My internet, my self.(follow the money)
June 1, 2007... Recently, I asked my 14-year-old daughter Sam to let me follow her around on the web. I wasn't trying to pry, mind you. "Oh yeah, right, Dad!" says Sam. (What is the emoticon for an adolescent eye-roll, by the way?) I really just wanted to...

Thomson Financial wires the world for international business news.(content news)
June 1, 2007... Investors never stray very far from their favorite source of financial news. Whether it comes in over the internet, their BlackBerries, or even old-fashioned newspapers, getting business information from Bangladesh to Boston before it becomes...

Akamai acquires Red Swoosh.(news & product briefs)(Akamai Technologies Inc)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Akamai Technologies Inc. has acquired Red Swoosh Inc. in an all-stock merger transaction. The acquisition of Red Swoosh is valued at approximately $15 million, net of cash acquired. Red Swoosh has developed client-side technology for supporting...

Forbes Media acquires Investopedia.com.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Forbes Media has acquired Investopedia.com, a website for investor education. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Investopedia.com was founded in 1999 by Cory Janssen...

FAST acquires Convera Corporation's Retrievalware business.(news & product briefs)(Fast Search & Transfer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a developer of search technologies, has announced its agreement to purchase selected assets of Convera Corporation, a provider of information-retrieval solutions. Under the terms of the signed agreement, FAST will...

Is timing everything? Emergency portals seek to fill tragic information gaps.(content news)
June 1, 2007... One of the immutable laws of life in the information age is that at certain times, in the wake of unsettling events, questions and concerns that we wrestle with on a daily basis become infused with more prominence, more pertinence, and a...

Thomson Gale launches new reference website.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Thomson Gale, a provider of electronic research and educational solutions, has launched WiseTo Social Issues, a new reference website dedicated to exploring divisive topics. Available at http://socialissues.wiseto.com, WiseTo Social Issues...

TV Guide's online video guide: cutting down on clutter.(content news)
June 1, 2007... A search for "American Idol" on Google Video yields 66,280 results. The same video search on MySpace Video returns 500 results, most of which are users creating videos of themselves or of little kids--with search-engine-misleading titles like...

Interwoven Inc.(peopleware)(Joseph L. Cowan appointed as chief executive officer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Interwoven Inc. has named Joseph L. Cowan as its CEO. Cowan has also been appointed to the company's board of directors. Max Carnecchia continues to serve as Interwoven's president. Most recently, Cowan served as chief executive officer of...

Nstein.(peopleware)(appointment of Luc Filiatreault)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Nstein has appointed Luc Filiatreault as president and CEO. Prior to joining Nstein, Filiatreault worked in the information technology industry for close to 20 years. Filiatreault was cofounder of Informission Group before being acquired by...

SirsiDynix.(peopleware)(appointment of Keith Sturges)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... SirsiDynix has announced that Keith Sturges has joined the company as president of SirsiDynix International. Most recently, Sturges was business unit chief executive officer and corporate chief marketing officer for Misys Healthcare. He was...

Open Text Corporation.(peopleware)(appointment of Gail E. Hamilton)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Open Text Corporation has named Gail E. Hamilton to its board of directors. Hamilton is the former EVP of Symantec and has over 20 years experience growing technology and services businesses in the enterprise market. Most recently, Hamilton led...

Volantis.(peopleware)(appointment of Dave Raggett)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Volantis has appointed Dave Raggett as chair of the W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. Previously the principal researcher at Volantis Systems, Raggett is a W3C Fellow and has been closely involved with work on web standards since...

NTT DoCoMo Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Michael K. Powell)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... NTT DoCoMo Inc. has launched a fourth U.S. Advisory Board, chaired by former United States Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael K. Powell, currently chairman of the MK Powell Group and senior advisor of Providence Equity Capital,...

Xerox Corporation.(peopleware)(appointment of M. Stephen Cronin)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Xerox Corporation has appointed M. Stephen Cronin president, Xerox Global Services. He replaces Tom Dolan, who is assuming the role of president, Xerox Global Accounts. Cronin joined Xerox in 1989 as HR director for Xerox's European Systems...

Apex CoVantage.(peopleware)(appointment of Sayan Bhattacharjee)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Apex CoVantage has announced that Sayan Bhattacharjee has joined the company as VP of strategic sales and business development of Apex Research & Content Solutions. He will be responsible for developing new business in the market research and...

Karen Calhoun.(peopleware)(appointment of Karen Calhoun)(Online Computer Library Center)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Karen Calhoun, senior associate university librarian for information technology and technical services at Cornell University Library, has joined the Online Computer Library Center leadership team as VP, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services. She...

Blogger behave: blogger code of conduct proposed.(content news)(publisher Tim O'Reilly)
June 1, 2007... In the wake of the Kathy Sierra incident--in which a female technology blogger received misogynistic hate comments on her Creating Passionate Users blog and elsewhere on the internet that eventually escalated to death threats--publisher Tim ...

TACODA.(peopleware)(appointment of Daniel Jaye)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... TACODA has announced that Daniel Jaye, the former cofounder and CTO of Engage Inc., has joined TACODA as EVP of product management and development. Jaye will report to CEO Curt Viebranz. Prior to joining Engage, Jaye had stints at Fidelity...

Internet Security Alliance (ISAlliance).(peopleware)(appointment of Larry Clinton)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The board of directors of the Internet Security Alliance (ISAlliance) has appointed Larry Clinton as its new president. Clinton previously served as deputy executive director and COO and has been with the ISAlliance since 2002. Prior to coming...

ARMA International.(peopleware)(appointment of Carol E. B. Choksy)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... ARMA International has announced its 2007-08 board of directors. Carol E. B. Choksy, Ph.D., of IRAD Consulting, was appointed president; Susan McKinney, of the University of Minnesota, was appointed chair/immediate past president; John Frost,...

Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.(peopleware)(appointment of Andreas S. Weigend)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. has appointed Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D., the former chief scientist of Amazon.com, as special advisor. Weigend teaches data mining and ebusiness at Stanford University, and works as an independent consultant with...

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).(peopleware)(appointment of Amy Friedlander )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Amy Friedlander has been appointed director of programs of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Friedlander is senior program manager at Shinkuro Inc. Prior to Shinkuro, she was special projects associate at CLIR, working...

Publishing Technology.(peopleware)(appointment of Gary Bowman)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Publishing Technology has appointed Gary Bowman as product engineering director of the VISTA business unit, where he will take responsibility for the company's author2reader application software and the development of a digital publishing...

Elaina Norlin.(peopleware)(appointment of Elaina Norlin)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Elaina Norlin has joined the OCLC CAPCON staff as manager of new initiatives and Outreach. Norlin came to OCLC from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Grid (un)lock: using a data grid to fight avian flu.(content news)
June 1, 2007... A one-year global initiative may prove to be not only a vital step in developing a vaccine for avian flu and other viruses but also a revolutionary scientific method. A research team with members from the University of California, San Diego and...

Metrics.(Statistical table)
June 1, 2007... User-Generated Online Video Content As a Percent of Total Online Video Content Watched in the U.S., 2006 & 2010 2006 47% 2010 55% Source: Screen Digest, January 2007 Note: Table made from bar graph. Emerging Media...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Paige Krause marketing manager of Esker Inc.)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... Job Function: Esker, a document management and delivery company, specializes in linking fax integration with enterprise resource planning applications. Paige Krause, the company's marketing campaign manager, was brought in to help launch...

PodXite Media Publishing System.(Product/service evaluation)
June 1, 2007... Perhaps the podcasting bug hasn't nipped you yet, but it has bitten thousands of bloggers out there, many of whom might be inside the walls of your enterprise. And as more and more users turn to blogs, wikis, and podcasts for both entertainment...

Communications two point oh!(info pro)(blogs, wikis as medium of expression for people)(Viewpoint essay)
June 1, 2007... OK, let's start out by acknowledging that Web 2.0 is so last week--or, in the parlance of Wired magazine, "expired." Guess if I were really wired, I'd be writing about Web 4.3 or something. That said, I still find it intriguing to think about...

Lights, camera, action: is vodcasting ready for primetime in the enterprise?(Cover story)
June 1, 2007... The use of RSS is on the rise for both professional and personal purposes. Its subscribe-and-push paradigm has been embraced as an effective way for disseminating textual information and is increasingly being adopted for the delivery of audio...

Globalization as a service is a GaaS.(i column like i cm)
June 1, 2007... The localization industry is, by its nature, distributed worldwide. The best translators are native speakers living in their locales, though their knowledge of technical content means many are part of the brain drain from developing countries....

Multimedia search matures ... but not without growing pains.
June 1, 2007... The web was once all about text and an occasional picture, but broadband begat bandwidth and bandwidth spawned a boom in multimedia content through which video and music sites like YouTube became wildly popular and were bought and sold for huge...

The WCM renaissance.(web content management software)(Product/service evaluation)
June 1, 2007... Since automated web content management (WCM) emerged during the crazy days of dot-com bubblemania, many people believed the whole idea of WCM was just a hype-induced fad that would never become more than just "document management for the web."...

Mobilizing the shared wealth.(agile minds)(plans to build mobile social networks)
June 1, 2007... Caught off guard by the explosive growth of online social networking sites like MySpace and Flickr, many companies are racing to replicate this success in the mobile space. However, building mobile social networks to meet the needs of diverse...

A case of justice served.(services of Pennsylvania. Office of the Attorney General)
June 1, 2007... Organization: PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (POAG) The role of attorney general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was created in 1643, evolving in 1980 into the elected position it is today. The Harrisburg-based office's three...

Syndication then, now, and beyond.(forecasts and trends of syndication business)
June 1, 2007... I have been in and around content syndication since 1983. Just writing that sentence makes me feel like an old-timer, yet I remember as if it were yesterday how bond prices and news were the fuel of the bond-trading work I did right after...