EContent articles from May 2002

EContent archives from May 2002

Playing with Elephants. (Edit This).
May 1, 2002... I can't remember the first time I was admonished to play well with others. I don't remember if it was in the playground or the park, but I can still hear a voice (that uncannily resembles my mother's) coaxing me to be good, to share, and for...

MIA from content 100. (Letters to the Editor).
May 1, 2002... I just was forwarded an email with a link to your listing of 100 companies to watch in content management. I was quite surprised to see our company, FileNET, omitted from this listing. As a long-standing leader in enterprise content management,...

Eating up the Free Lunch. (Letters to the Editor).
May 1, 2002... I enjoyed the February article "The Free Lunch is Over--Online Content Subscriptions on the Rise" by Steve Smith. What grabbed my attention was the fact that the Forrester Research / University of Missouri study found that students were more...

SoftQuad, Corel, and the XML of content's future. (Content News).
May 1, 2002... At this February's New York Seybold conference, SoftQuad's XMetaL 3.0 was one of ten products honored as a "hot pick" by conference organizers. Why? The simple answer is XMetaL's set of new technical features. However, the real answer also...

DRM Standards pave the way to custom content delivery. (Content News).
May 1, 2002... Imagine that, for a monthly fee, a cable subsidiary delivers content specifically tuned into your interests. After scrolling through a few pages of the latest John Grisham novel on your ebook reader, you switch on your TV with its Web-enabled...

Stadtwerke Bochum chooses Day's Communique to build portal. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... (www.day.com) German power utility, Stadtwerke Bochum has chosen Day's Communique to build a portal to service consumer and business customers. In addition to providing regional information about energy and utility services, the portal...

Swets Blackwell orchestrates eAccess consortium for Belgium. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Swets Blackwell has announced the successful conclusion to negotiations mediated between Elsevier Science and the Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire de la Communaute francaise de Belgique (BICfB). Under terms of the agreement, the BICfB will have...

Rhythmyx chosen to Manage Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Content. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has selected Percussion Software's Rhythmyx Content Manager V4.0 to streamline the creation of online content and automate its publishing across the enterprise. The DTCC is a holding company...

Compaq Computer selects Trapezo to drive online channel sales. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Collaborative ecommerce solutions provider. Trapezo, has signed a multiyear contract with Compaq Computer Corporation to distribute promotional content throughout Compaq Web sites. Trapezo's software helps companies manage product information...

JSR 170 initiates work on content access API standard effort. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... A Java Specification Request (JSR) approved by the Java Community Process Committee has initiated work to address global problems with accessing proprietary data repositories. The Java Community Process (JCP) Committee is an open organization...

Convera's Screening Room helps with product research. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... European product innovation consultant, Pankhurst Design & Developments (PDD), has installed Convera's Screening Room video content management software to help with product research efforts. PDD's team of 50 researchers and product designers...

Virage partners with Verity for next generation server. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Virage, Inc. has partnered with Verity, Inc. to integrate the Verity's infrastructure software, Verity K2 Developer (K2D), into Virage's next generation server. Virage customers will now be able to use Verity's search technology to search large...

Dialog improves SourceOne patent document ordering system. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Dialog plans to improve its SourceOne patent document ordering system, including making retrieved documents available as full-text PDF and restoring the "order review" feature. SourceOne is available through those services on Dialog online...

Copernic Empower released. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Copernic's recently released business software solution, Copernic Empower, combines searching, indexing, tracking, and document summarizing technologies. Additional features include a single access point to a company's information assets, an...

Netcentric launches two new Lychee Content Management products. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Netcentric has released two new editions of its flagship Lychee Version 4.1.1 Web Content Management System--Lychee Professional Edition and Lychee Enterprise Edition. Lychee Professional is designed for small to medium companies, while Lychee...

Dialog launches DialogPRO for small business. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... DialogPRO is a new Web-based information retrieval service that tailors Dialog's online searching and content aggregating attributes for small business owners and managers. The service is available for fixed monthly fees with unlimited usage....

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield selects Interwoven's Content Infrastructure. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has selected Interwoven Inc.'s Content Infrastructure to enhance information distribution via its intranet and Web site to all employees and 1.7 million customers. Wellmark has more than 30,000 pages of...

Netcentric Licenses the Lychee content management system. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Netcentric Systems PLC has announced a Software Licensing Agreement in which the former European Sales Director, Phillip Campbell, will assume full responsibility for marketing, sales, and support of Netcentric's Lychee Version 4.1.1 flagship...

Cable & Wireless provides 2Way Web Services for Factiva. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Cable & Wireless will provide 2Way Web Services to support FACTIVA'S Web-based news and business information service, Factiva.com. Factiva selected Cable & Wireless' 2Transact and 2Deliver services to deliver Factiva content to its users....

Documentum delivers Portal Integration Pack. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Documentum's new Portal Integration Pack helps companies give customers, partners, and employees the ability to access, contribute and interact with all types of enterprise content--Web pages, documents, and rich media, such as audio and...

Trapezo 4.0 speeds collaboration between manufacturers. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Trapezo 4.0 is Trapezo's newly upgraded channel sales solution that enables real-time collaboration and communication between manufacturers and multitier networks of distributors and resellers. Trapezo 4.0 helps manufacturers in the high...

Inxight unveils worldwide channel partner program. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Inxight Software, Inc.'s worldwide channel partner program offers a range of services designed to help partners develop, integrate, resell, and market knowledge management (KM) solutions. The program was launched with partners including General...

Softheon forms strategic alliance with Vytek Wireless. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Softheon, Inc. and Vytek Wireless have formed an alliance, under which both companies will deliver collaborative applications for Fortune 1000 customers. Softheon, Inc. provides enterprise content and business process management solutions....

McGraw-Hill Education and Content Directions Agree to Register DOIs. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... McGraw-Hill Education and Content Directions, Inc. have signed a Registration Agreement whereby McGraw-Hill Education will begin registering Digital Object Identifiers (DOls) across all of its major book publishing programs. The DOI is a system...

Ecommerce companies score high on ACSI survey, but decline from 2000. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... According to the most recent results of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which measures consumer satisfaction, ecommerce companies are providing higher levels of customer satisfaction than offline businesses in a number of key...

Georgia Technology Authority selects Sun ONE for portal initiative. (Industry News).
May 1, 2002... Sun Microsystems, Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) for a leading role in developing and integrating the state's enterprise portal and interoperability architecture project. The GTA oversees state...

Peopleware. (Product News).
May 1, 2002... Kevin McKay, former CEO of the American subsidiary of German software company SAP, has been appointed CEO and president of Verticalnet. McKay replaces Mike Hagan, who co-founded Verticalnet in 1995 as a business-to-business Internet portal....

Refreshing media management: Coca-Cola turns archives into assets.
May 1, 2002... With a newly implemented DAM system, Coca-Cola's Archive Department is bringing the firm's rich collection of graphics, video, audio, and text to company desktops worldwide, facilitating access to a valuable resource for ongoing promotional and...

Less is more: ASCII might trump rich media in the world of online advertising; From humble beginning, banners evolved rapidly.
May 1, 2002... Popular lore has it that the first banner ad appeared on HotWired in October 1994. It was from AT&T and though it was a little longer than today's banner ad, it set a standard. From that humble beginning, banners evolved rapidly. They...

Revenge of the librarians: Journal prices under siege.
May 1, 2002... Not since Melvil Dewey came up with his now-ubiquitous Decimal System have librarians faced such a challenge to their status quo. The dawning of the information age, with all its consequences, has transformed the job of the "keeper" more than...

What consumers tell us about paying for news online. (The Free Versus Paid Debate).
May 1, 2002... Previous research on the question of charging for Web site content has not been encouraging for publishers. In a Spring 2001 survey, Lyra Research found that only 10% of online respondents acknowledged paying for "premium music and news...

Electronic access to scientific articles: Another perspective; Here I am again, library person in a content-producer's land, annoying you with a different perspective. (DisContent).
May 1, 2002... martin White's Behind the Firewall in the December 2001 EContent presents a publisher-oriented perspective on the current situation with scientific journals and electronic access. His story is one way of viewing history and the present, but...

Making context king...or...can relevance engines make content pay off? (Follow the Money).
May 1, 2002... Many publishers are determined to get a bigger slice of the ecommerce pie, and they are hoping that a new generation of relevance engines will get them there. Content is all well and good. We love it. We revel in it. We target our...

Defining your content management strategies: I have a very straightforward approach to intranet and content management strategy planning, and it is based on three core elements. (Behind the Firewall).
May 1, 2002... All the action in intranets at present seems to be focused on content management. Many Web content management vendors I have spoken to in Europe over the last couple of months have indicated that the intranet market is now at least as important...

TheStreet.com: Strategic content. (Profile).
May 1, 2002... "As a content generator, it is easier to figure out what the market wants if you offer specialized content to a targeted group of users." theStreet.com's fame--due in large part to its cantankerous cofounder Jim Cramer--makes it a useful...

AtomShockwave Corp.: Short movie supplier. (Profile).
May 1, 2002... "Better quality and more choice--that's what we'll give entertainment consumers, regardless of the medium." "We had a strong sense when we started there was an audience that wanted alternative entertainment content--whether it's games you...

Digital World Services: It's all about the experience. (Profile).
May 1, 2002... "We see ourselves as being in a unique position because we offer a multi-DRM solution." If you think digital rights management (DRM) technology has collapsed into a melee of file-grabbing anarchy, Arni Sigurdsson, CEO of Bertelsmann's...

Brother, can you spare $4.95? (End of File).
May 1, 2002... Web sites have gotten twitchy lately. It seems like they've developed one heck of a nervous tick... or maybe it's just me. Have you noticed that more and more banner ads feature flashing colors, spinning logos, and other gimmicks to get you to...