EContent articles from March 2008

EContent archives from March 2008

Oh, the places you'll go!(edit this)
March 1, 2008... I threw away my dictionary. Tossed it. Considered my cluttered desk and decided it was time to take a critical look at what was crowding this valuable real estate. I gathered a stack of books I've always kept near at hand and, as I wiped the...

Share of total time spent online.(metrics)
March 1, 2008... Share of Total Time Spent Online by U.S. Internet Users, by Activity 2003 & 2007 2003 2007 * % CHANGE Content 34% 47% 37% Search 3% 5% 35% Commerce 16%...

Top five industries for median international spending on news & trade content for your own use.(metrics)
March 1, 2008... Top Five Industries for Median Individual Spending on News & Trade Content for Your Own Use MEDIAN SPENDING MEDIAN SPENDING ON NEWS & TRADE ON TOTAL CONTENT FOR...

Media that offers the greatest opportunity for learning and growth for children and teens * according to U.S. Parents.(metrics)
March 1, 2008... Media That Offers the Greatest Opportunity for Learning and Growth for Children and Teens * According to U.S. Parents May 2006 (Percentage of respondents) Radio 1% DVDs/videos 7% TV 8% Magazines 10%...

Social networking websites attitudes.(metrics)
March 1, 2008... Social Networking Websites Attitudes (Q3/07) Please think about the social networking site you use most and tell us if you agree with the following statements: I would stop using this site if it started charging a monthly 72% ...

Let's give them something to talk about.(content news)
March 1, 2008... Humans, by nature, are social beings. Teenagers, by nature, are social machines. The advent of online social networking giants Facebook and MySpace--among others--has reshaped the face of a mainstay within teenage culture: socializing. A...

Microsoft offers to acquire Fast Search & Transfer.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2008... Microsoft Corp. announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), a provider of enterprise search solutions, through a cash tender offer for 19 Norwegian kroner (NOK) per share. This offer represents a 42%...

Collexis completes $2.2 million private placement.(news & product briefs)
March 1, 2008... Collexis, a developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, announced that it has completed a $2.2 million private placement of restricted common stock at 75 cents per share, representing a premium to the price of the...

A single market strategy unified online content for the EU.(content news)(Europen Union)
March 1, 2008... The 27 European Union Member States don't just have a variety of national languages; their markets and laws are equally diverse. As the internet and mobile communication devices become ever more popular, these countries face a new conundrum:...

SurfRay/Mondosoft.(peopleware)(appointment of Steffen Saxil and Martin G. Veise)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... SurfRay/Mondosoft, a provider of enterprise search and information access technologies, announced the appointment of Steffen Saxil as CEO. SurfRay founder Martin G. Veise, formerly serving as CEO, was named chairman of the board. Prior to...

Publishers Weekly's 2005 Publisher of the Year and former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Book Group, Laurence J. Kirshbaum, has joined the OverDrive board of directors.(peopleware)
March 1, 2008... Publishers Weekly's 2005 Publisher of the Year and former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Book Group, Laurence J. Kirshbaum, has joined the OverDrive board of directors. Kirshbaum, who recently founded LJK Literary Management, brings 4 decades...

Sony develops TransferJet.(News & Product Briefs)
March 1, 2008... Sony announced TransferJet, a new Close Proximity Wireless Transfer Technology enabling the high-speed transfer of large data files (photos, HD images, etc.) between electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, digital video...

IBM acquires Solid Information Technology.(News & Product Briefs)
March 1, 2008... IBM announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Solid Information Technology, a privately held company based in Cupertino, Calif., and Helsinki, Finland, that provides in-memory database software. Financial details were not disclosed....

Thomson Scientific launches ResearcherID.com.(News & Product Briefs)
March 1, 2008... Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corp. and a provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, announced the launch of ResearcherID.com. This web environment is intended to enable researchers to create...

Javien applies content commerce know-how to payment gateway.(content news)
March 1, 2008... Javien, Inc. is a well-known provider of content commerce technologies, primarily because of its platform product, Javien Digital Payment Solutions (DPS). The technology is aimed primarily at new media companies, such as digital music sites, to...

OCLC.(peopleware)
March 1, 2008... Larry Alford, dean of university libraries, Temple University, has been named chair of the OCLC board of trustees. OCLC is a library cooperative, a research and service organization. Alford has been on the OCLC board of trustees since May 2002....

Exalead.(peopleware)
March 1, 2008... Exalead, a provider of search software for business and the web, announced the appointment of Kevin R. Kramer as VP of OEM. Kramer joins Exalead from Blue Chip Expert, where he was a founding team member and VP of business development....

Acquia receives $7 million series a financing.(News & Product Briefs)
March 1, 2008... Acquia, Inc. announced it has secured $7 million in Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, with additional investment from Sigma Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to create...

Velocity and ComVentures merge.(News & Product Briefs)
March 1, 2008... Velocity Interactive Group, a new global digital media and communications investment firm, was unveiled as a result of a merger between Velocity, the firm founded by Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller, and ComVentures and its venture investors,...

Social networking goes pro (woman).(content news)
March 1, 2008... The Ladies Who Launch site provides a social networking hub for working women--offering resources that range from business development to nannies. Since 2000, the site has enabled women to connect with other women to help better themselves and...

Apex CoVantage.(peopleware)(promotion of Radhika Murari )(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Apex CoVantage, a knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, announced the promotion of Radhika Murari to GM for content solutions. Murari will be responsible for the management of the content solutions business unit, which focuses on...

Ingenta.(peopleware)
March 1, 2008... Ingenta, a technology provider that connects the publishing and information industries, announced that Rebecca Lenzini, president of The Charleston Co., will join the firm as director of business development, publisher services. Lenzini was...

MessageGate, Inc.(peopleware)
March 1, 2008... MessageGate, Inc., a provider of practical email controls for corporate governance initiatives, appointed new leadership as Norbert Orth rises to president and CEO, Shaun Wolfe assumes the role of chairman, and Chris Bradley now serves as VP of...

Wikimedia Foundation.(peopleware)(appointment of Erik Moeller )(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Wikimedia Foundation announced the appointment of Erik Moeller as deputy director. In this new role, Moeller will lead the development and execution of Wikimedia's technical strategy, and a variety of specific initiatives and projects. He...

Faces of econtent: ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(dialogue with Armand Brevig)(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Job Function: Brevig's primary responsibility is to ensure that AstraZeneca obtains the best value from its external spending on published information content, which he achieves by taking a strategic approach to information acquisition. "I...

Digital magazines: in search of a problem.(follow the money)
March 1, 2008... I admit that I have been a longtime skeptical observer of the digital magazine format, although 6 or 7 years after its introduction the platform is getting some traction with readers and publishers. Generally designed as facsimiles of printed...

The Bango button.(Company overview)
March 1, 2008... Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and father of the internet, isn't the only one worried the mobile web will ultimately break apart from the World Wide Web and endanger the free flow of content and commerce. Bango...

The 24x7 ubiquitous connectivy blues.(disContent)(Survey)
March 1, 2008... The pundits assure us that some day soon, we'll always be connected--24x7x52--anywhere on earth. Ubiquitous computing. Full-time interactivity. Always reachable, always connected: We will never be alone again. Most articles I've read about...

The Ektron Intranet: harnessing the power of social networking on the corporate intranet.(BEST PRACTICES: ENTERPRISE AND WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At most companies, the intranet is not the "go-to" source for important business documents. In fact, for many companies the intranet has no real role in how employees and managers interact day-to-day or in the...

The true price of privacy: what users are willing to exchange for (free) content.
March 1, 2008... We all treasure our privacy, but just what exactly do we mean by that? In the United States, the right of privacy is written into the 1st, 4th, 5th and 14th amendments of the Constitution. These amendments mainly protect various aspects of our...

Little by little.(behind the firewall)
March 1, 2008... Twenty-two hours in an aircraft is a small price to pay for being able to work with James Robertson and his colleagues at Step Two Designs in the wonderful city of Sydney, Australia. However it is admittedly disconcerting walking around Sydney...

Take a look at today's vibrant ebook market.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The cover of the Nov. 25, 2007, issue of Newsweek shouted, "Books aren't dead. (They're just going digital)." From Amazon's Kindle to academic tomes, electronic books are changing the way we think about reading and...

How much is your content worth? Measuring website content ROI.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since the advent of the web channel for content delivery in the mid-1990s, practically every company has been happily generating content and publishing it online. Organizations post content for any number of reasons,...

It ain't easy being green.(info insider)
March 1, 2008... It's 6 a.m. I just finished checking WSJ.com for business news and Weather.com for today's weather. I hear a car moving slowly outside, so I close my laptop as I recognize the familiar "plop." My daily Washington Post has just arrived. I...

A case of improved efficiency, productivity, and quality control.(case study)
March 1, 2008... Company: SQ GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC SQ Global Solutions LLC is a joint venture between Strategic Resources, a U.S. legal staffing firm, and Quislex, an India-based legal process outsourcer (LPO). SQ Global provides legal outsourcing for law...

Do not read this column.(after thought)(Column)
March 1, 2008... So you're reading this column, huh? Kind of an enticing title, isn't it? Why is that? I have strong evidence that "negative" headlines often generate a lot more clicks than "positive" ones. Why do tabloid newspapers put scandals on the...