EContent articles from March 2007

EContent archives from March 2007

Spaced out.(edit this)(space videos)(Column)
March 1, 2007... This month, Charles Simonyi--Microsoft's former chief architect, the man behind its most famous applications as well as the method of writing code the company's programmers have used for 25 years--is headed for space. His ticket to ride cost a...

Ebooks: read 'em and weep.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... Walt Crawford's seven reasons for the lack of ebook success in his October column [p. 44] are summed up in one sentence: "... they're becoming databases rather than ebooks..." What he misses is the basic fact that we, as content providers, are...

Happy mediums.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... OK, in the spirit of insightful rants, and having just been reading part of the November EContent over lunch, here's my letter to the editor: It's probably house style, but is it really necessary to invent a new word for "more than one medium"?...

Microsoft RSS patent applications: cause a stir, then simmer.(content news)
March 1, 2007... When and if McDonald's attempts to patent the cheeseburger, the news of so brazen an effort to claim ownership of such a ubiquitous commodity will likely be met with skepticism, scorn, and no small amount of laughter. When news broke late last...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(Bruno Martel appointed as chief finanical officer)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Nstein Technologies Inc. has appointed Bruno Martel as CFO of Nstein Technologies. Martel had been Nstein's Finance Director since 2001. Before joining Nstein, Martel held various positions within the finance departments of several...

CBS Interactive.(peopleware)(Michael Marquez appointed as vice president of strategy and corporate development)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Michael Marquez has been named VP of strategy and corporate development for CBS Interactive. Marquez, who most recently served as director of corporate development for Yahoo!, will work with Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, to help...

Mercado Software.(peopleware)(Randi Barshack appointed as vice president of worldwide marketing)(David Leibow appointed as vice president of worldwide professional services)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Mercado Software has hired Randi Barshack and David Leibow. Barshack has been named VP of worldwide marketing. She was most recently director of marketing, intercontinental at Silicon Graphics where she oversaw all marketing activities for...

Ex Libris (Australia) Pty Ltd.(peopleware)(Petros Demetriou appointed as managing director)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Ex Libris Group has appointed Petros Demetriou as managing director of Ex Libris (Australia) Pty Ltd. Demetriou brings to Ex Libris more than 20 years of experience in technology companies, 16 years of which he spent in the library...

Complinet.(peopleware)(Mike Tansey appointed to board of directors)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Complinet has appointed Mike Tansey to its board of directors as a non-executive director. A 25-year veteran of the content and technology industry, Tansey is chief executive of Jobson Medical Information LLC and has previously held leadership...

Dow Jones restructures Enterprise Media Group.(news & product briefs)(Dow Jones and Company Inc.)
March 1, 2007... Dow Jones & Company has announced a restructuring of its Enterprise Media Group designed to improve its business in the financial, corporate and media, and government markets. The company has reorganized its management and consolidated its...

Well-traveled documents: IBM FileNet's BPM solution routes documents in organizations.(content news)(IBM FileNet P8 4.0)
March 1, 2007... Business process management (BPM) refers to a set of activities that organizations can perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. An essential part of managing business processes is ensuring...

Digg receives additional $8.5m.(news & product briefs)(financing from Greylock Partners)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Digg Inc., a web community that enables the mass internet audience to prioritize news and content, has closed an additional round of funding in the amount of $8.5 million led by Greylock Partners. Proceeds from this round of funding will be...

Plastic Logic raises $100 million to enable electronic reader products.(news & product briefs)(equity finance from Oak Investment Partners Inc. and Tudor Investment Corp.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Plastic Logic has announced that it will build a factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for 'take anywhere, read anywhere' electronic reader products....

Heavy.com closes $20 million in financing.(news & product briefs)(financing from Polaris Venture Partners Inc.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Heavy.com, an online brand for 18-34 year old guys, has announced that it has closed a $20 million financing round from Polaris Venture Partners. The financing will be used to further expand Heavy's network internationally and to create new...

Mapping disease: microarrays super-power genetic content analysis.(content news)(Affymetrix Inc. and Illumina Inc.)
March 1, 2007... New DNA microarrays that can profile more than 500,000 exact genetic variations are giving researchers a better view of the genetic causes of many illnesses and helping them work towards more personalized treatments. While experts are nothing...

CrossRef.(peopleware)(Geoffrey Bilder appointed to management team)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... CrossRef has added Geoffrey Bilder to its management team. Bilder will assume the newly created role of director of strategic initiatives at CrossRef. Bilder has been a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd....

CM Professionals.(peopleware)(Scott Abel appointed as executive director)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... CM Professionals has announced that Scott Abel will become its new executive director. Abel, who currently serves as VP of CM Pros, and is also a founding member, has been chosen by the board of directors to be the next executive director.

Blue Order.(peopleware)(Andreas Eder, Ulf Genzel, Wilhelm Krueger appointed to executive board)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Blue Order has announced a management buy-in and a new management team. The new executive board includes Andreas Eder (CEO), Ulf Genzel (CSO), Dr. Wilhelm Krueger (COO), and Dr. Peter Thomas (CTO). Sales and services will be offered through and...

Upoc Networks, Inc.(peopleware)(Steven Spencer appointed as chief operating officer)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Dada has announced the appointment of Steven Spencer as the CEO of Upoc Networks, Inc. For the past two years Spencer has been the CTO of Upoc Networks. Previously, Spencer was the EVP for wireless systems at Pinnacor. He began his career with...

Convera Corporation.(peopleware)(Matthew G/ Jones appointed as chief financial officer, treasurer)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Convera Corporation has named Matthew G. Jones its CFO, treasurer, and secretary. Jones had been serving as acting CFO, treasurer, and secretary since July 2006. Prior to joining Convera, Jones served as CFO for Space Adventures Ltd., a space...

DITA Machine Industry Sub-Committee.(peopleware)(Klaus Fenchel joins committee)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Klaus Fenchel, managing director at Ovidius, Berlin, has recently joined the DITA Machine Industry Sub-Committee. His experience has been primarily in designing and developing content management systems for companies working in the field of...

Searching for the latest in managing content: Ektron updates CMS400.NET.(content news)
March 1, 2007... Ektron Inc. has introduced new, enhanced search capabilities and other features for version 7.0 of its CMS400.NET Ektron Markup Language, which the company released in late February at the cost of $9,650 for a 10-user license. This version had...

Library Dynamics.(peopleware)(Howard Harris promoted as president)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Howard Harris, previously GM of Library Dynamics was named president. Harris' prior work experience includes the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, the Maryland State Board for Higher Education, RMG Consultants and...

Liberty Alliance.(peopleware)(Roger Sullivan, Jason Rouault and Bill Smith appointed to management board)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Liberty Alliance has announced officers on the Liberty Alliance Management Board for the 2007 calendar year. Roger Sullivan, VP of Oracle Identity Management and VP of the Liberty Alliance Management Board for the past two years, has been voted...

H.W. Wilson Company.(peopleware)(Mark Gauthier appointed as vice president of indexing services)(Joseph Miller appointed as vice president of cataloging)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The H.W. Wilson Company has announced promotions for two Wilson executives to vice president positions: Mark Gauthier has become H.W. Wilson VP, indexing and editorial services, and Joseph Miller, H.W. Wilson VP, cataloging and general...

Gaming the system: can movie downloads revive sales of Sony's PSP?(content news)(PlayStation Portable)
March 1, 2007... Anticipation grows as technophiles eagerly await the launch of Sony's new video download service for its PlayStation Portable (PSP). Although Sony spokesperson Al de Leon declined to comment on the service's launch, there's no shortage of...

Metrics.(Internet services users)(Statistical table)
March 1, 2007... Current Events Sources Used Most Often by U.S. Young Adult Internet Users, by Age and Gender, June-July 2006 (% of respondents in each group) 18-20 18-20 TOTAL 21-24 21-24 TOTAL MALE ...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Endeca Technologies Inc.'s Deidre Caldbeck)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... Job Function: In the library, media, publishing, and directories markets, Endeca helps companies attract and retain customers by making it easier for users to locate information quickly and easily, and discover information that was...

Adobe Contribute 4.0.(DECISION-MAKER: review)(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... Since its inception, Contribute has served as the missing link in web development. There have always been fine tools available for website designers, but there was nothing in the workflow for content producers until Contribute. Version 4.0...

The opiate of content--search.(follow the money)(internet marketing)
March 1, 2007... Buying traffic is the easy part. Keeping those eyeballs is where things get dicey. Back in the day, when sock puppets and indecipherable dotcom ads dominated Super Bowl Sunday, we bought traffic the old fashioned way: We got VC investors to pay...

Move it or lose it: content migration strategies.(content management system )
March 1, 2007... Moving from one office to the next takes hundreds of boxes and backbreaking labor. By contrast, moving a company's entire digital content collection from a variety of locations or a legacy content management system into a new CMS to the next...

Acrobat 8 and Content 2.0.(info insider)(Column)
March 1, 2007... By now you've probably heard about the upcoming transformation of the web--so-called Web 2.0. Though it depends on whom you ask, Web 2.0 emphasizes the central importance of data, making the web an application platform, with netizens...

Schedule of events.(Calendar)
March 1, 2007... Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Registration (Attendees may pick up bags and materials.) 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Golf Tournament (Golf is open to all registered ...

Hits, but mainly misses.(behind the firewall)(Column)
March 1, 2007... I've had a depressing month, despite spending time in lovely Seattle and San Francisco. I've been finishing the text of a book on how to implement and manage search applications for websites and intranets, as well as running workshops for the...

The truth is in there: sleuthing for data with digital forensics.
March 1, 2007... As the computer becomes more intertwined in our every action, it naturally follows that digital information will become increasingly important in legal processes as well. Today, digital information is increasingly used as evidence in criminal...

The renascence of the writer.(disContent)(Online writers and user generated content)(Column)
March 1, 2007... I ended last year with a dour projection suitable for a dark winter's night. I'd like to start this year with encouraging signs more suitable for a springtime of renewed possibilities. I believe the encouraging signs are real, and as a reader I...

(Why) taxonomies need XML.(Extensible markup language)
March 1, 2007... Taxonomies are everywhere these days. They organize our content management systems. They drive navigation through our websites. They even rewrite the queries we submit to search engines. Even more ubiquitous is XML, the acknowledged lingua...

A case of individual adaptation for universal accessibility.(California State University Long Beach)
March 1, 2007... Organization: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Founded in 1949, CSULB is part of the 23-campus California State University system. Its 35,000 students are served by nearly 2,000 faculty members within eight colleges, which offer 81...

Marketing a second life.(after thought)(Column)
March 1, 2007... As a marketer and communicator, I'm fascinated with what companies are doing in Second Life, the 3D online world entirely built and owned by its nearly two million residents. The Second Life economy is built on the Linden dollar in which...