EContent articles from March 2004

EContent archives from March 2004

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March 1, 2004... The other day I was chatting with our copy editor--who was diapers when I was already hammering away on my first typewriter--about the possibility of reviewing an online collaboration tool together. We were outlining the parts of our job it...

The biz and buzz of B2B.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... I enjoyed your article about how B2B publishers are making money [September pp. 24-29]. It is great to see that any number of them are, and how they are organizing their content to do so. I was left with one question, based on the success these...

Too legit.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Another item to consider in the digital-vs-print argument is that a printed publication adds legitimacy to the organization producing the digital document. The cost of production and processing implies that the merit of the content is such that...

Does IT equate?(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... I read Robert Boeri's column in the August/September issue [pp. 63], "Publishing Equations? Do the Math(ML)," with interest. He accurately describes the frustration of translating mathematical equations from word-processing programs to...

RSS delivery gets around with NewsGator upgrade.(news feature)(Really Simple Syndication)(NewsGator Software's Version 2)
March 1, 2004... NewsGator, makers of the NewsGator news aggregator, announced the release of version 2.0 last month, adding a slew of significant new features, including a subscription-driven online service that provides access to exclusive content, the...

EPetitions: power to the people?(news feature)
March 1, 2004... Twice in 2003, Apple stared down the barrel of organized customer dissatisfaction and dissent given life through Internet-enabled technologies. The first involved the iPod's built-in battery and Apple's $255 mail-in replacement service--not...

Infotrieve, Inc. completes $21.8 million financing round.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Infotrieve, Inc., a provider of outsourced document delivery and information services to corporations, academic institutions, and individuals, announced the completion of a $21.8 million round of financing. Leading the financing was new...

SealedMedia secures $8m in funding.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... SealedMedia Inc., a provider of enterprise document and email security solutions, has secured $8 million in additional funding. The $8 million series E financing was jointly led by Crescendo Ventures and Pond Venture Partners. It will be used...

Ektron offers CMS private hosting environment.(news & product briefs)(content management solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Ektron has announced that customers can now deploy content management solutions in a private hosted environment. With hosting provider Verio, Ektron intends to provide its customers a stable infrastructure to implement Ektron CM Solutions. The...

Stellent and Optika to merge.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Stellent, Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Optika, Inc., a provider of imaging, business process management (BPM), collaboration, and records management software, for $10 million in cash,...

Akiva releases upgrade to WebBoard collaboration server.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Akiva has announced the immediate availability of a new version of WebBoard, the company's Web-based collaboration server. WebBoard 7.0 updates WebBoard 6.1 with features that track recent trends in online collaboration including blogging,...

Accelerize New Media announces RSS-based alerting service for SEC filings.(news & product briefs)(Accelerize New Media )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Accelerize New Media announced the launch of EDGAR Index, a subscription-based service providing notification of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR Filings via customizable RSS feeds. EDGAR Index offers a set of online tools for...

MuseGlobal announces personalization features.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MuseGlobal has announced a new optional MuseSearch product version that is designed to allow increased customization down to the level of the individual metasearch user. Individual user preferences can be captured to provide a personalized...

New NetScreen products aim to maximize productivity without compromising security.(news feature)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Increasingly, companies embrace the extranet as a better way to communicate with partners faster and more consistently. But once internal content becomes available outside the firewall, security needs increase exponentially. Thus, the prospect...

ContentGuard: discontent breeds initiative.(news feature)
March 1, 2004... If you need something done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. Such was the case for ContentGuard and their work in the DRM space. In order to develop robust DRM, they decided that they needed to begin by helping to establish industry...

Entopia, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Eric Miles, formerly SVP at Sybase, has joined Entopia, Inc., a provider of information solutions, as CEO effective immediately. Miles assumes the role from Lionel Baraban, co-founder of the company, who has served as CEO for the past four...

ECNext.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... ECNext has appointed Peter N. Morse to the newly created position of director of online sales. Morse is responsible for driving client revenue growth through information products sold via the online sales channels that ECNext creates, hosts,...

STARBAK Communications, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... STARBAK Communications, Inc., a provider of rich media solutions, has promoted Gregory Casale to CEO of the company. Joseph Cameratta, STARBAK's former CEO, will continue in his role as Greg Casale Chairman of STARBAK's Board of Directors....

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Endeavor Information Systems has announced numerous additions to its customer services division since May 2003, including three management announcements. Kay Stanley was appointed in September to the newly created role of digital services team...

Kubi Software, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Kubi Software, Inc., a provider of collaborative email, has announced the appointment of Mussie Shore as VP, product management and design. Shore will lead Kubi Software's product direction and oversee all aspects of its product design. Shore...

SealedMedia Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... SealedMedia Inc., a provider of enterprise document and email security solutions, has appointed a new CEO, George Everhart. Everhart will be based in Los Gatos and will oversee the company's next phase of growth, including its expansion into...

MuseGlobal.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MuseGlobal has announced changes in management responsibilities for several key executives. SVP, business development, Kristina Bivins will assume the additional title of COO as she adds direction of day-to-day company operations to her...

Zinio Systems, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Zinio Systems, Inc. has appointed Mike Perlis as chairman of the board. In his expanded role as non-executive board chairman, Perlis will be responsible for board management and also serve as strategic and market advisor to the company.

LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... LexisNexis Group has named Kurt Sanford president and CEO of corporate and federal markets, replacing Bill Pardue, who has resigned to join Gartner, a technology-related research and conference business.

US customer satisfaction with ebusiness, 2002 & Q2 2003 (based on a 100-point scale).(metrics)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... US Customer Satisfaction with Ebusiness, 2002 & Q2 2003 (based on a 100-point scale) 2002 2003 Portals 68 70 Search engines 68 78 ...

Media in which US consumers pay attention to advertising, according to consumers and media planners November 2003 (as a % of respondents).(metrics)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... Media in Which US Consumers Pay Attention to Advertising, According to Consumers and Media Planners, November 2003 (as a % of respondents) Consumer Response Industry Response Network TV ...

Average visitor-to-searcher conversion rate worldwide, by provider, four weeks ending, January 26, 2003.(Searching)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... Average Visitor-to-Searcher Conversion Rate Worldwide, by Provider, Four Weeks Ending, January 26, 2003 Average visitor-to-searcher conversion rate Dogpile ...

Ten most commonly used instant messaging acronyms in the workplace.(metrics)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... 1. BRB--Be Right Back 2. CTRN--Can't Talk Right Now 3. IMO--In My Opinion 4. HTH--Hope This (or That) Helps 5. IAM--In A Meeting 6. WFM--Works For Me 7. BFO--Blinding Flash of the Obvious 8. DHTB--Don't Have The...

Worldwide email archiving vendor revenues, 2003 & 2007 (in millions).(metrics)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Worldwide Email Archiving Vendor Revenues, 2003 & 2007 (in millions) 2003 $126 2007 $1,000 Source: Radicati Group, April 2003 Note: Table made from bar graph.

Faces of econtent: interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Name With The Face: Jean O'Grady Job Title: Director of Information Services Organization: Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP URL: www.wilmer.com Job Function: "Wilmer has a reputation of handling difficult and cutting edge...

Developing a taste for XML-standard alphabet soup.(info insider)
March 1, 2004... I've lost count of the number of XML standard acronyms in this alphabet soup, distinguished from the myriad of technology acronyms by the preponderance of letters X and M. Switching food metaphors, I like broccoli but I know many people do not....

Quask FormArtist.(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2004... Company: Quask Purpose: Create and publish Web and email based forms, surveys, ebrochures, and opinion polls. Starting Price: Presto $49, Standards $199, Professional $899, Enterprises varies Reviewer's View: Quask FormArtist is...

Can RSS relieve information overload? Today's enterprise employees have more information at their fingertips than at any point in history.(Really Simple Syndication)
March 1, 2004... According to the Online Computer Library Center, the number of distinct Web sites grew from 2.8 million in 1998 to more than 9 million by 2002, when they stopped keeping track. When you consider that these sites consist of billions of pages and...

Where the future of content is decided: April 25-27, 2004 Marriott's Camelback Inn Resort, Scottsdale, AZ.(Buying & Selling eContent conference)
March 1, 2004... If you buy, sell, distribute, or market electronic content, plan now to attend the fifth annual Buying & Selling eContent conference. Buying & Selling eContent is where content industry executives, major enterprise buyers, and content solutions...

Context is everything.(follow the money)(online advertising)
March 1, 2004... Some lessons need to be repeated no matter how obvious they may appear. When it comes to online advertising effectiveness, the perennial lesson is that context is everything. The Internet is for information seekers. So, when content publishers...

Creating content ROI: bundle and sift.
March 1, 2004... "The brain is hungry not for method but for content, especially content which contains generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit." --Frederick Turner The brain may hunger for content but employees and internet...

EScholars of the World, Unite!(University of California research collection management)
March 1, 2004... The dawn of the printing press in 1452 ushered in an era of transposing movable type to paper that continues to this day. The emergence of desktop publishing in the mid 1980s as a viable alternative to traditional printing techniques may have...

Does your intranet have a win-win strategy?(behind the firewall)
March 1, 2004... In London late last year, I took part in a rather interesting conference on "Practical Strategies to Encourage the Frequent and Consistent Usage of the Intranet for Demonstrable ROI." This title probably merits an entry in the Guinness Book of...

Losing it: a contrarian's thoughts on digital content retention.(disContent)
March 1, 2004... I wrote a column about digital archiving last August/September, addressing some of the problems and some solutions now being worked on. That was a serious column in keeping with the gravity of the situation. This is a semi-facetious follow-up....

Ozmosys: a faster way to absorb information.(Profile)
March 1, 2004... What's not to like about osmosis? Better known for its fanciful definition as the apparently effortless absorption of ideas, feelings, attitudes, etc. than for its more practical scientific definition, the word conjures images of learning made...

The new publishers.(after thought)
March 1, 2004... Back in the days of print domination, there were basically two choices an author had to publish content: Try to garner the interest of a big publisher or do it yourself. Before the Web, if brand name publishers like Random House, Time magazine,...