EContent articles from March 2005

EContent archives from March 2005

Shout it out loud.
March 1, 2005... On October 17, 1989, my best friend Mish made fun of my hair. I had tried something new with a scarf, and she laughed outright when she saw me. It didn't make me mad so much as just confirm a feeling I'd had all day: that I wanted to be...

Singapore strives to be Asia's digital content hub.
March 1, 2005... Singapore, long a central shipping hub for the e distribution of physical goods throughout Asia, now wants to be Asia's hub for the distribution of digital goods, as well. To realize that goal, and to cash in on its telecommunications...

TE3C committed to curing compliance confusion.
March 1, 2005... Committing sexual harassment. Engaging in insider trading. Divulging corporate secrets. The list of malicious acts that employees can commit via electronic communication is staggering, and companies are scrambling, or at least on the lookout,...

IBM acquires SRD.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... IBM has acquired SRD, a privately held company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and provider of identity resolution software. SRD's operations will be integrated into IBM's Information Management software organization, and SRD products will be...

CMS Watch releases CMS report.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates enterprise content management strategies and technologies for prospective solutions buyers, has released its semi-annual CMS Report. The report finds that mid-market Web content management...

Size matters: OneSource to fit all.(OneSource Information Services Inc.)
March 1, 2005... Physicist Richard Feynman once gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" in which he discussed the problems of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale. The bottom, as envisioned by Feynman, didn't have the...

Film Foundation strives to raise visual literacy.
March 1, 2005... Nearly a decade ago, Margaret Bodde, co-executive director of the Film Foundation, began having a discussion with Martin Scorsese about how best to teach film to a broader audience than simply those studying film in college. "We started to see...

Six apart acquires LiveJournal.(News & Product Briefs)(Danga Interactive Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Six Apart, maker of the Movable Type publishing platform and TypePad personal weblogging service, has acquired Danga Interactive, Inc., operator of the LiveJournal service, for an undisclosed amount of stock and cash. LiveJournal, an online...

ebrary introduces Isaac.(News & Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ebrary, an information services and technology provider, has introduced a new enterprise, server-based technology that is designed to improve the way ordinary documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF) are viewed, distributed, and shared....

Time Warner/Sprint combo: moving more content to wireless devices?
March 1, 2005... The potential combination of Time Warner and Sprint, which was still only in the discussion phase as of January, has caused a great deal of speculation about how it would change the mobile content marketplace. Undoubtedly, the merger would...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(peopleware)(makes three executive appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Welters Kluwer NV, has made three executive appointments in its Medical Research division, which includes Ovid Technologies and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Journal Publishing Linda Holder was named...

TACODA.(peopleware)(David C. Markowitz)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... TACODA, a behavioral targeting and audience management company, has announced that David C. Markowitz has joined the company in the newly created position of director of marketing. Markowitz, previously VP, product marketing for DataSynapse,...

Factiva.(peopleware)(Alan Scott)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Factiva, a Dew Jones and Reuters Company, has promoted Alan Scott to CMO. Scott joined Factiva on June 30, 2003 as VP and director of global marketing.

Plateau Systems.(peopleware)(Linda Lazor)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Plateau Systems, a provider of enterprise software that manages learning and knowledge readiness, has hired Linda Lazor as SVP, marketing. Lazor comes to Plateau from PeopleSoft, where she held the position of VP, global product marketing.

Forrester Research, Inc.(peopleware)(George M. Orlov)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Forrester Research, Inc. has appointed George M. Orlov to the position of CIO and CTO. Orlov will report to George F. Colony, Forrester's chairman of the board and CEO. Orlov replaces Richard Belanger, who left the company in November.

Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) has announced its 2005-2006 executive committee and newly elected board of directors. Brian M. Baxendale, SVP of Pitney Bowes, president of Enterprise Relationship Development, was elected as...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(Stuart Woodring)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Nstein Technologies Inc. has appointed Stuart Woodring as advisor to the CEO. Woodring's professional experience has focused on analyzing growth and opportunities in the technology markets.

Tecmath AG / Blue Order.(peopleware)(appoints Kim Wiencken CEO)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... tecmath AG / Blue Order, a provider of media asset management solutions, has appointed Kim Wiencken as CEO. This appointment completes the new executive board at tecmath AG, to which Uwe Bingel was recently appointed as CFO. Dr. Wilhelm H....

Eyeblaster.(peopleware)(Doug McFarland, Fred Tietze, Wilma McDaniel)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Eyeblaster, a provider of rich media advertising delivery and management, has announced the addition of a general manager and two new senior staffers. Doug McFarland, named to the board of directors in November, has been given the...

Vivisimo.(peopleware)(hires three new employees)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Vivisimo, a provider of clustering, search, and meta-search software for organizing search results, has hired three employees to help lead customer support, community affairs, and European operations for the company. Leading Vivisimo's new...

Blackwell Publishing.(peopleware)(Christopher Hall)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Blackwell Publishing has appointed Christopher Hall as CFO. Hall assumed the role on February 1, 2005, replacing Mark Houlton, who retired from Blackwell after 14 years with the company. Hall will oversee global finances as well as human...

Metrics.
March 1, 2005... Internet Portals' Market Share of U.S. Online Advertising Revenues, End of 2004 AOL 8.0% MSN 9.6% Google 18.1% Yahoo! 22.3% Others 42.0% Note: based on eMarketer's estimate for U.S. online...

Mobile content: it's time to hitch a ride.(Column)
March 1, 2005... I have been putting off writing this column for months, but I think lit is time to come out and say it. Now is the time to ready your content for cell phone delivery. What seemed like a pipe dream of mobile telcos a year ago--getting people to...

Systran 5.0 Professional Premium.(Decision-Maker)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2005... English is touted as the international language of business. Why bother learning one of those nonessential languages that the rest of the world speaks? The problem is that more and more business is being conducted across national borders and an...

Transparent XML.(info insider)
March 1, 2005... Gartner Group developed a concept called the "Hype Cycle" to show common patterns of technology adoption. The cycle starts with manic enthusiasm followed by a depressive plunge into self-doubt, then cautious use, and finally, steady-state...

Oh what a feeling: applying usability principles to your CMS.
March 1, 2005... Usability has moved to the forefront in the past few years, especially for corporate Web sites, as marketing managers seek to understand and measure whether their investments in Web communications are really paying off. Now that Web-based...

Faces of econtent.
March 1, 2005... Job Function: Rob Patton, who has spent an entire career in the purchasing organization at Procter & Gamble, recently focused his vast knowledge on evaluating, testing and launching what P&G calls "eTools" to support the 1,000-person...

Tapping the feed: in search of an RSS money trail: a year ago I would have said that the XML-based RSS (real simple syndication) protocol is still way too geeky for mainstream users.
March 1, 2005... Even now, when most of us hit one of those orange "subscribe" buttons at a site we get a screen of cryptic code for RSS or Atom (a related protocol) that looks more like a browser error than the hot new way of pulling in a publisher's content...

Intranets and portals: vive la difference!
March 1, 2005... A feature of the very successful Intranets 2004 conference was the number of presentations that were given on portal application development. One of the best of these was given by Hewlett Packard's director of knowledge and intranet management,...

Epaper: the flexible electronic display of the future.
March 1, 2005... Since the advent of television, human beings have become increasingly comfortable receiving information via a backlit screen, albeit primarily in video form. The dawn of the digital age radically increased the number and type of screens in...

Contemplation and content: getting under their skins.
March 1, 2005... Does your site get under people's skins? Do people click away with something to think about--something from your econtent that warrants contemplation? That's a tough question for most econtent sites. It might even be considered unfair. After...

Mirror image internet: through the looking glass.
March 1, 2005... Like the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who finds herself in a fantastical place where things are not always as they seem, Internet users generally have no idea what's going on behind the scenes of a Web site. As...

Big business blogging.
March 1, 2005... With all the political blog hype during the 2004 election cycle, many observers missed the quieter emergence of blogs in the business world. My guess is that we're just getting going here and that business blogs will grow rapidly in numbers and...