EContent articles from March 2006

EContent archives from March 2006

Hitting the mark.(Google Inc.)
March 1, 2006... I've always liked raccoons' affinity for shiny things. I find it sort of endearing that these rugged, resourceful omnivores will gather up brilliant baubles for aesthetic appeal alone. I can relate. Sometimes I'll find myself almost...

XQuery marks the spot.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... Robert Boeri's column on XQuery was right on target [December 2005, p. 59]. The W3C specification is pretty much done, and lots of companies have XQuery implementations. If Boeri wants more examples, then I am happy to provide them with the...

No host no-show.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... I was glad to see hosted CMS finally get its due in Ron Miller's October article entitled "Raising the Host Bar: Hosted CMS Model Comes of Age" [2005, pp. 22-27], but was incredibly surprised that Clickability, and its on-demand CMS product...

Tools for real people.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... Here's a note of appreciation for the extremely clean and readable layout, design, and art selection in EContent. I'm not a huge consumer of IT trade magazines, but I know what I like and don't like. Your story layout and other design choices...

Tools for real people.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2006... Just read your editorial in the new issue, and you really hit a chord [November 2005, p. 4, "Inside Out"]. A Web/HTML tool that is truly easy to use and does not require me to know or understand HTML code would change my life in some profound...

Splogs serve up spam to the blogosphere.(content news)
March 1, 2006... It is the subject of much debate whether or not many of the bloggers posting to the roughly 80,000 blogs created daily actually have something worth writing about, but it might come as a surprise that as many as 10,000 of these blogs are, in...

DICOM Group, PLC.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... DICOM Group, PLC, has announced the appointment of Robert E. Klatell as CEO. Klatell was previously E-VP and a board member of Arrow Electronics, Inc., where he has worked for the previous 25 years.

H.W. Wilson.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... H.W. Wilson has announced the appointment of Deirdre Simmons to the position of manager, sales and marketing administration. In this newly created post, Simmons will help organize and manage WilsonWeb license agreements, trademarks,...

Factiva.(Karin Borchert as a chief operating officer)(Arthur Rassias as a director of sales and services)(Dennis Cahill as a vice president)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Factiva has announced new appointments for six executives. Karin Borchert has been appointed to CO0, and was previously chief product officer. Dennis Cahill has been appointed to VP, product, and was previously associate VP, technology. Arthur...

Vasont Systems.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Vasont Systems has announced that Bret Freeman has returned to the company as senior sales engineer. He will beverage more than nine years of experience to provide technical support for the Vasont sales and marketing staff, Vasont...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the appointment of Marilyn Quinsaat as VP of publishing. Quinsaat will oversee all publishing activities for the school library offerings, including eLibrary, SIRS, CultureGrams, and K-12 ProQuest...

Liquid Machines, Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Liquid Machines, Inc., has announced the appointment of Kevin W. English to its board of directors. English is co-founder and managing director of Board Effectiveness Partners, an organization that teams with directors and CEOs to analyze and...

AOL announces acquisition of Truveo.(Truveo Inc. acquires America Online Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Internet video search provider Truveo, Inc., has been acquired by America Online, Inc. AOL's acquisition agreement with Truveo was signed and closed on December 21, 2005. Financial terms were not disclosed. Truveo was previously privately held,...

Spark Capital leads thePlatform's series B financing.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... thePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing solutions, has announced it has closed series B financing from Spark Capital, a new venture capital partnership. Additionally, Generation Partners renewed its commitment to...

Inxight expands sales in China, South America and Eastern Europe.(Inxight Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Inxight Software, a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, has announced that it has expanded its sales and marketing efforts in China, South America, and Eastern Europe with three new reseller agreements. Inxight...

Surf and shop: Google launches video store.(content news)
March 1, 2006... Google co-founder Larry Page's much ballyhooed unveiling of the Google Video Store made official the company's plan to launch a video content marketplace. The announcement came in January at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas...

Skype takes VoIP on the road.(content news)
March 1, 2006... Promising to free users from the bondage of PCs and headsets, Skype is bringing its signature voice over IP (VoIP) services--which let individuals and companies make cheap or free phone calls over the Internet--to the mobile space. To this end,...

E Solutions Corporation.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... E Solutions Corporation has promoted Ken Seitz to CIO, responsible for overseeing availability, performance, and security of E Solutions' network and the customers. Prior to joining E Solutions in 2003 as director of data center operations,...

Interwoven, Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Interwoven, Inc., has announced the appointment of Bill Seawick to the Interwoven executive management team as the company's SVP and chief marketing officer. Seawick has more than 20 years of experience with technology companies including...

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Endeavor Information Systems has announced the appointment of Geoffrey Adams as director of archive solutions. Adams previously held the position of director of IT solutions for Elsevier.

Endeca.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Endeca has appointed Jason Lewis to VP of marketing. In this role, Lewis will lead Endeca's global marketing efforts, including corporate positioning and communications, market solutions, product marketing, customer marketing, and demand...

Telestream.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Telestream has announced that David Heppe has been promoted to president and CO0, stepping up from his sales and marketing position. Prior to Telestream, Heppe served as managing director of TDK's European Communications business unit in the...

Kazeon.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Kazeon, a provider of unstructured content management solutions, has announced the appointments of Ed Bauer as VP of sales, and Michael Marchi as VP of solution marketing.

Heavy.com.(peopleware)
March 1, 2006... Heavy.com has announced that Alex Green will join the company to run its new mobile content division in the position of SVP and GM. Prior to joining Heavy.com, Green was SVP of business development and VP of sales for Mforma.

National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC).(Wesley W. Tapp appointed, Colleen Patterson promoted)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC) has named Wesley W. Tapp as director of technology and project management. Most recently he served as development center director and senior project manager for Interactive Business Systems. NAPC has...

Wolters Kluwer announces two acquisitions.(Best Case Solutions Inc., NDCHealth Corp. acquired)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... Wolters Kluwer Tax. Accounting & Legal, a division of Wolters Kluwer, has announced that is has acquired the assets of Best Case Solutions, Inc., and that the company's Best Case Bankruptcy software and services will become part of the Wolters...

BBC Blast awarded grant for upcoming creative program.
March 1, 2006... BBC Blast, in partnership with the Prince's Trust and Artswork led by the Arts Council of England, has been awarded 1m [pounds sterling] over three years from the Big Lottery Fund--Young People's Strategic Funds--for a program of creative...

The search for podcasts is on with Podzinger.(developed by BBN Technologies)
March 1, 2006... With each emerging content type comes the ever-present need to help users find it. While text-based search has continued to evolve, effective tools for rich media are still nascent. For the Web's hot content-type du jour, podcasting, search...

Metrics.(awareness of podcasting, user statistics of information services, weblogs)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2006... Awareness of Podcasting Aware 28% Not Aware 72% Source: "RSS--Crossing into the Mainstream" white paper, Yahoo! & Ipsos Insight, October 2005 Note: Table made from pie chart. First Choice for Information...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Scott Finley of EBSCO Industries Inc.)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Name With The Face: Scott Finley Job Title: EJS Customer Care Supervisor Organization: EBSCO Industries URL: www.ebsco.com Job Function: Scott Finley, customer care supervisor for EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service...

Managing the mob.(follow the money)(messaging boards )(Column)
March 1, 2006... Sometime before the big Web bubble burst, a men's media brand splashed itself online with an enormously ambitious content-rich portal. Prescient of the au courant mantra of "content, commerce, and community," it innocently invited its...

Macromedia Studio 8.(from Adobe Systems Inc.)
March 1, 2006... The merger between Adobe and Macromedia announced in April, 2005, was finalized in early December, but it was still unclear at press time which products would survive the merger and in what form. Right after the merger was completed, Adobe...

Email's mid-life crisis: can we tame the "killer app"? Do we really want to?(Cover Story)
March 1, 2006... Did we really receive or send 19,200 email messages last year? Well, we'll let you tally up your own inbox. Then again, that will only add time to the two hours a day that training firm CohesiveKnowledge says we already devote to fielding...

Coming to your desktop soon: clash of the titans.(Microsoft OpenOffice, business application suite)
March 1, 2006... Vendors always compete for your computing desktop. Some competition takes a whimsical form, like "Flying Toaster" screen savers. Some competition is strategic: operating systems, browsers, Internet services, and more recently, desktop search....

Revving up elearning to drive sales.
March 1, 2006... In its earliest incarnation, elearning was viewed by businesses as a tool to provide basic education to employees, many of whom no longer occupied desks at the office. The subject matter was hardly revolutionary; many firms simply transported...

Just how good is your intranet?(behind the firewall)(Intranet Benchmarking Forum created benchmarks for intranet)(Column)
March 1, 2006... Very few organizations can answer that question with anything more than an emphatic "It's fine!" If the question is instead, "How good is your intranet compared to other organizations like yours?" then the answer involves usually a more...

DAM the torpedoes! The value of information has never been higher than it is today.(TARGETING VERTICAL ISSUES)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2006... WalMart may best embody the competitive advantage of information management in the way it has leveraged precise inventory workflow management and past performance information to become the largest retailer in history. Also consider the current...

The shifting dynamics of the content market.(BUYING & SELLING eContent[TM]: An Executive Conference)
March 1, 2006... April 9-11, 2006 Camelback Inn Scottsdale, Arizona 2006 Conference Preview Produced by Information Today, Inc. BUILD strategic partnerships UNDERSTAND your customers EXAMINE new revenue models LEARN about new market...

Building the econtent commons.(disContent)
March 1, 2006... What do you get when you combine a four-year-old licensing system and two possibly complementary projects to digitize substantial quantities of print information? With luck, a substantial ecommons: millions of digital items that can be used...

A case of disc-based digital content thriving in an online world.(Bondi Digital Publishing)(New Yorker Magazine Inc.)
March 1, 2006... Company: THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE The New Yorker is a literary giant, one of the cornerstone magazines of the past 100 years. Now part of Conde Nast Publishing, the New Yorker continues to have a healthy print publishing business, and has...

Chewing gum, blogs, and wikis.(after thought)
March 1, 2006... It's been fascinating to both observe and participate in the debate about blogs and wikis in the enterprise. Just like the hand-wringing over personal computers entering the workplace in the 1980s and echoing the Web and email debates of the...