EContent articles from March 2002

EContent archives from March 2002

Brother, can you spare a dollar? (Editor's Note).
March 1, 2002... Bill Mickey are you the charitable type? Or have you worn out your moral fiber from years of reading and trading free electronic content on the Web? I'm beginning to see brave comments that venture the idea that surfers are ready and...

Digital Island versus Akamai: Both winners. (News Feature).
March 1, 2002... digital Island and Akamai's patent feud is over. A U.S. District Court jury ruled that the companies' patented technologies don't infringe on each other. The jury declared Digital Island first inventor of Internet content delivery network (CDN)...

Listen.com's Rhapsody scores deals with 3 major labels. (News Feature).
March 1, 2002... listen.com launched its subscription service, Rhapsody, last December, and has since scored deals with three major music labels: Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and BMG. These announcements don't come as a surprise, since recording labels have...

BlueMatrix and stockpoint announce partnership. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... BlueMatrix and Stockpoint, a ScreamingMedia company, and a provider of online and wireless invetment analysis tools and global financial information, announced a new partnership. Investment banks and brokerages that use BlueMatrix for workflow...

Loudeye and Audible Magic manage and track digital music. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Loudeye Technologies, Inc., provider of Webcasting and digital media streaming services, and Audible Magic Corporation, provider of content-based identification (CBID) technologies, announced the availability of a digital music tracking and...

Northern Light Technology shuts down free search. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... Northern Light Technology, traditionally know as a Web search provider, has officially jumped on the enterprise train and turned its business strategy away from the Web. The company announced today that it will be concentrating its business on...

Triarc content labs formed by Lineo, Metrowerks, and Motorola. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Lineo, Metrowerks, and Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector announced that they have joined forces to form Triarc Content Labs. Triarc Content Labs will facilitate the design and development of Linux-based, advanced-interactive...

Digital Island's 2way web services on Sony Pictures' sites. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Digital Island, Inc., a Cable & Wireless company, announced an agreement to provide 2Way Web Services to Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment Inc. (SPDE). Digital Island's 2Way Web Services help SPDE to deliver its online digital entertainment...

Quinnipiac University chooses Ingeniux's Xpower. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Ingeniux Corporation, a developer of XML publishing systems for the wired and wireless Web, announced that Quinnipiac University chose XPower to expand and manage the content on their Internet and intranet Web site. The content management and...

TheStreet.com launches The Daily Swing Trade. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... TheStreet.com, Inc., multimedia provider of financial commentary, analysis, and news, announced the launch of The Daily Swing Trade, its ninth subscription product offering. The latest service comes after the launch of The Chartman's Top...

RealOne player and RealOne Music integrated to Tivo DVR. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... TiVo Inc. and RealNetworks, Inc. announced that TiVo DVR (Digital Video Recorder) customers will be able to download, personalize, manage, and play their favorite music, streaming video and other digital content from the comfort of their living...

ESynch releases enhanced DVD-ROM. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... eSynch Corporation, a developer and distributor of digital content delivery tools and media rights management software technology for the streaming media market, announced that its Oxford Media Division released Enhanced DVD-ROM that delivers...

Oracle expands AppsWorld online's content. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... Oracle Corp. announced an expanded menu of content for Oracle AppsWorld Online, the continuous online resource accessible via AppsNet, Oracle's applications user community. Oracle AppsWorld Online complements the programming offered at Oracle's...

Stellent releases IBM WebSphere Portlets. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... Stellent, a global provider of enterprise content management solutions, released portal applications, or "portlets," to allow greater functionality and integration with IBM's WebSphere Portal platform--a software platform that allows companies...

M2 systems selects Cytura's Contenuity V4. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Cytura Corporation, provider of enterprise content management software and services, announced that M2 Systems Corporation, provider of real-time transaction processing applications selected Contenuity V4 as its content management solution. M2...

IBS provides Martindale-Hubbell's lawyers.com database. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Martindale-Hubbell, publisher of a directory of the worldwide legal profession, announced an agreement with Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS) to provide access to Martindale-Hubbell's lawyers.com database and other site content. IBS...

Cadbury Schweppes selects Plumtree. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Cadbury Schweppes, a global beverage and confectionery company, has chosen Plumtree to roll out its Corporate Portal to 10,000 employees. Functional groups include HR, manufacturing. sales and marketing, and distribution. Cadbury Schweppes...

The British Red Cross selects Stellent's content management. (Industry News).
March 1, 2002... Stellent, Ltd., the London-based subsidiary of Stellent, Inc., a global provider of enterprise content management solutions, announced that the British Red Cross selected the Stellent Content Management system to manage internal information....

Ask Jeeves acquires Octopus Software's Technology assets. (Product News).
March 1, 2002... Ask Jeeves, Inc. announced that it acquired the technology assets of privately-held Octopus Software, Inc. and hired the majority of the engineering team that built its software. Octopus is an enterprise integration and information presentation...

Peopleware. (Content News).
March 1, 2002... ScreamingMedia Inc. announced that it appointed Kirk M. Loevner as president and chief executive officer. Loevner was also elected to the company's board of directors, with prior CEO, Kevin Clark, remaining as chairman of the board. Previously,...

Metrics.
March 1, 2002... Top 10 Viruses of 2001 1. Win32.Badtrans.B 2. Win32.Sircam.137216 3. Win32.Magistr 4. Win32.Badtrans.13312 5. Win32.Magistr.B 6. Win32.Hybris.B 7. Win95.MTX 8. Win32.Nimda.A 9. VBS.VBSWG.Generic ...

Your own Entourage. (Gearing up).
March 1, 2002... With the release of Microsoft Office v. X for the Mac came Entourage X, Microsoft's robust email-cum-personal information manager--an email package that manages your email, address book, and calendar. The program adopted the Mac OS X look and...

Handycam's blues. (Gearing up).
March 1, 2002... Wireless networking has moved into the home with the release of Sony's DCR-PC120BT MiniDV Handycam. Equipped with Bluetooth technology, video footage can be emailed directly from the camcorder, essentially cutting out the desktop PC middleman....

DAM amateurs. (Gearing up).
March 1, 2002... Apple's release of Photo essentially completes Apple's digital hub agenda--making your Macintosh the center of your digital universe. It's the latest release of ultra-easy software that closes the digital loop along with music (iTunes) and...

P2P is dead long live P2P: Napster has been clobbered by courts, Scour has effectively vanished, KaZaA (the Dutch Napster) has been hit by huge legal sticks and shut down.
March 1, 2002... Dozens more Napster lookailke P2P services have gone under, too, as legal assaults mounted by the record industry have exacted a bloody body count. But here's the chewy paradox: P2P definitely is not dead. "There's a great deal of vitality in...

Taxonomy's role in content management: Taxonomy technology greatly assists the sharing of enterprise knowledge. But don't expect to sit back and watch it go.
March 1, 2002... "A TAXONOMY DOES NOT REQUIRE TECHNOLOGY AT ALL," notes Daniel Rasmus, vice president and research leader at Giga Information Group. "A taxonomy is simply a way of classifying things." Still, there is a rapidly growing list of vendors...

Extracting Linguistic DNA.
March 1, 2002... NStein goes to work for UPS; It's a tantalizing problem for categorization. United Press International (UPI) has more than 700 correspondents creating thousands of stories every week, running the gamut from business news to sports to...

PDF subscriptions bolster revenue. (Electronic Acrobatics).
March 1, 2002... In 1999, Ted Bahr, president and cofounder of BZ Media and publisher of start-up software development magazine SD Times, had what he thought was a great idea. He was launching his new publication and he wanted to get it out to as many readers...

Watery lessons in partners and audience: Here are some of the ways a line--or a site--can fail despite considerable promise. (DisContent).
March 1, 2002... What do cruise ships and econtent have in common? Useful lessons for success or failure in a venture that depends on an audience and partners--and that includes most attempts to make money from econtent. You're smart people; you can draw your...

A trickle from your tchotchkes. (Follow the Money).
March 1, 2002... The Habaneros chili sauce is flying off the shelves at F*ckedCompany.com, and at $9.50 a pop no less. CEO Philip Kaplan has already sold through his first allotment of 600. That's a lot of burnt gringo palates, but what is the infamous...

Essential reading for intranet professionals: I am often asked, especially by delegates at conferences, if I can recommend a book specifically on intranets, and I have to say that at present I am not able to. (Behind the Firewall).
March 1, 2002... If you search for "intranet" at Amazon you will find around 80 titles, but most of these were either published in the latter half of the 1990s and/or are exclusively concerned with intranet technology. There are also a few more recent titles,...

PacketVideo one step ahead of the streaming wireless market: Go beyond the hype, however, and it's clear that packetvideo is making strides in delivering streaming multimedia content to wireless devices. (Profile).
March 1, 2002... Soon to appear on a cell phone screen near you: Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote, in all their pay-per-view glory. Or perhaps you'd like to have video games delivered to it, instead? Then again, maybe you'd rather learn something useful with...

Documentum completes CM Trifecta: "Many companies do business with documentum not only because of our international offices and support, but also because our products are very internationalized". (Profile).
March 1, 2002... Daily, people participating in clinical trials for drug companies fill out forms describing how they feel physically and emotionally. For some trials, there are hundreds, possible thousands, of participants. The drug companies must compile all...

Craigslist virtual community maintains human touch: "[Polling users] was a good way for us to connect with our members, this is the way to operate successfully in situations like these--your members come first". (Profile).
March 1, 2002... If it works why change it? This might have been the thought on the minds of dot com executives back when Internet businesses were booming, and most of the Web content was free. Web sites were overflowing with advertisements of every kind and...

Got the time? (End of File).
March 1, 2002... A writer's secret that I picked up years ago was to keep index cards with me wherever I go. When inspiration strikes, I jot it down, stash it away, and see how well it ages. Well, I was digging through my files the other day and unearthed one...

Correction.
March 1, 2002... January's "Not Your Father's Web Site: Corporate Sites Emerge as New Content Innovators" incorrectly listed FluentMedia's Web address. Visit www.fluentmediainfo.com for information on the company and its products.