EContent articles from May 2004

EContent archives from May 2004

Hey, pass it on!(edit this)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Until I moved to Connecticut and embraced the car culture, I never really listened to the radio. Okay, during the few years in my childhood when my father found it more convenient to drive me to school than be ruled by the bus schedule, I...

Access for rent.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Mary Ellen Bates' column "Why I Love Paper" [Jan./Feb. 2004, p. 29] reminded me a bit of the dialogue I had with Walt Crawford on digital archiving that he referenced in his DISCONTENT column in the August/September 2003 issue of EContent [pp....

Highbeams on results.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... I read with interest Marla Misek's profile of HighBeam Research [Jan./Feb. 2004, pp. 44-45] as a company that "wants to be the very best at providing customers with pretty good answers to serious... questions" (emphasis yours). Our initial...

Blog this.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... I just read EDIT THIS column on blogs from EContent's August/September 2003 issue [p. 5]. Sorry I didn't read it sooner. Good piece and great opinion. I absolutely agree that the self-indulgence of blogs can be astounding. Bloggers give a...

Not flipping for flipbook.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Love the ECONTENT 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry issue but found your ebook-format edition impossible to read. Too time consuming to zoom/resize each page and keep the pages from flipping. I would be interested...

EPower to the people.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... Geoff Daily's EPetitions article [March, pp. 8-10] was excellent but it misses the first Internet-driven petition that Apple responded to. The noise problems with the infamous "wind Tunnel" G4 MDD's. The G4 noise Web site was a major factor in...

RSS revisited.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... I read Miller's piece "Can RSS Relieve Information Overload?" [March 2004, pp. 20-24] and have suggestions of what might be added/strengthened: I would emphasize that with email, in comparing email with RSS for distributing information,...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2004... We regret that there were two errors in quotes attributed to Phil Gomes of the Dryden Marketing Group in our March article, "Can RSS Relieve Information Overload?" The quote, "Email is incorruptly opt-in" should have read "RSS is incorruptibly...

AIIM 2004: looking up.(Enterprise Content Management)(Association for Information and Image Management International)
May 1, 2004... In stark contrast to last year's show, when economic concerns (and terrible weather) kept people away, this year's AIIM On Demand Conference and Expo, held in New York City March 8-10, featured crowded hallways and standing room-only attendance...

Investing in European digital content.
May 1, 2004... On May 1st, 10 countries joined the European Union's existing 15 members, increasing the EU's GDP by 5% to 9.6 trillion [euro], its population by 20% to 454 million, and its official languages by 82% from 11 to 20. While taxpayers in existing...

Plumtree announces Applications Incubator program.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Plumtree Software has introduced the Plumtree Applications Incubator, a program that supports partners building service-oriented applications using the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite. The program offers qualified application partners...

Factiva launches iWorker Search Technology.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, has launched Factiva iWorker Search Technology, an algorithm-based product platform capability. This marks a change for Factiva as the company combines its collection of global news and business...

LexisNexis acquires Data.TXT Corporation.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... LexisNexis U.S., a provider of legal, news, and business information services, has acquired the business of Data.TXT Corporation, developer of Time Matters legal practice management workflow software, Billing Matters time-and-billing software,...

Sun and Vignette join forces for collaboration solution.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc. and Vignette Corp. have announced plans to bring to market a joint collaboration solution to address the specialized needs of medium-sized to large organizations. This initiative is based on Sun's internal implementation...

Elsevier releases Scopus.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Elsevier has released Scopus, a full-text-linking abstract and indexing (A&I) database, to select libraries for final testing and user trials. Full commercial release is expected to follow in Q4 2004, Conceived in response to librarian and user...

The LoC: a leader and a work in progress.(library of congress )
May 1, 2004... In 1990, before the World Wide Web played a role in the lives of the general public, the Library of Congress (LoC) set out to build a digital library. The LoC has long served as the nation's library; where the creative and historical endeavors...

Gameboy Advance: not just playing with content.
May 1, 2004... Nintendo's Gameboy has been strengthening kids' thumb muscles since its introduction over a decade ago. But those countless hours of button smashing were invariably spent doing one thing: playing games. Thanks to the initiatives of three...

Workshare and share alike.(product development)
May 1, 2004... Most companies rely on several team members to create documents or employ a review process where a file passes through a potentially labyrinthine approval hierarchy. This once meant a room filled with individuals struggling to coalesce a...

askSam Systems.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Christopher J. Feola has joined askSam Systems as EVP/CIO. Feola is a member of the CIO Magazine Executive Programs Advisory Board; of the North Texas Venture Capital Advisory Council; and of the Newspaper Association of America Technology...

SiteScape.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... SiteScape, a provider of secure Web-based enterprise collaboration, has named Brian J. Hays as CEO and chairman of the board. Hays joins the company from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a systems integrator. He replaces...

EDGAR Online, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... EDGAR Online, Inc. has announced several additions to its management team in the areas of technology, sales and marketing, and product development. EDGAR has hired two new executives and promoted two employees to executive-level positions....

Authentica, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Authentica, Inc., a provider of Enterprise Digital Rights Management (E-DRM) software, has appointed Laurie Riedel as CFO. Riedel will manage overall finance, administration, and operating plans as the company continues to pursue its aggressive...

eiStream, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... eiStream, Inc., has announced that Michael K. Crosno has joined its senior management team as EVP, director. Crosno most recently served as Vignette's EVP, worldwide operations. Crosno has served as CEO and chailxnan of the board of Epicentric,...

Metrics.(Illustration)
May 1, 2004... Digital Directories' Share of North American Yellow Page Market, 2002 & 2008 2002 2.4% 2008 24.0% Source: Kelsey Group, August 2003 Note: Table made from bar graph. US Marketers'...

Faces of econtent.
May 1, 2004... Name With The Face: Lois Remeikis Job Title: Director of Web Communications Organization: Booz Allen Hamilton inc. URL: www.boozallen.com Job Function: In her ten years with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and...

NewsGator 2.0 & NewsGator Online Services.(Company Profile)
May 1, 2004... Company: NewsGator Technologies Purpose: View news feeds delivered using RSS or Atom XML standard. Also view custom keyword feeds and premium content. Starting Price: $29.95, subscription service runs $5.95 to $49.95 ...

Searching for ROI.(Return On Investment)
May 1, 2004... Several times this year I've read proclamations from journalists and consultants that 2004 will be "The Year of Search." My first reaction was "didn't search already arrive?" Is there anybody with Web access who hasn't heard of Google? Doesn't...

Enterprise Information Architecture: don't do ECM without it.(enterprise content management)
May 1, 2004... Two questions resound throughout the content industry: Why do Enterprise Content Management (ECM) projects take so long to implement? And why do they fail with such alarming frequency? While all enterprise-level IT projects prove to be...

Where are the tools?(enterprise information architecture tools)
May 1, 2004... Since Enterprise Information Architecture can become quite laborious, you might think a thriving market for EIA automation tools would emerge. Think again. Enterprises are investing in content integration applications, although that's not...

No more static cling: making the move to dynamic content.
May 1, 2004... When you think about it, a Web site's primary purpose is to provide content to visitors, but the real trick is presenting the most relevant content for any given visitor at any particular moment in time. If a site suffers from static cling, the...

Wanna-have content sells ... when it gets personal.(web site personalization)
May 1, 2004... In the never-ending campaign to convert users of free Internet content to paid subscribers one mantra emerged in the first decade of the Web: onliners will pay only for content that makes or saves them money... or involves sex. The rather...

Content in context: emerging portal standards facilitate content integration.
May 1, 2004... This quote greets MDS Capital employees when they log in to their Eliot enterprise portal. Jacki Jenuth, director of business intelligence at MDS Capital, describes the Eliot portal, which is used by directors and analysts at the venture...

Building an intranet: home sweet homepage.(behind the firewall)
May 1, 2004... The opening line of Under Milk Wood by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas says "To begin at the beginning." It seems a good place to start looking by at the homepage of an intranet. Home should be a familiar place to its inhabitants. They will know...

Context still matters: some bloggers aren't so careful, particularly those with axes to grind and lower ethical standards.(Column)
May 1, 2004... My very first DISCONTENT column was about content and context. Three years later, context: remains an important topic, ripe for a revisit. It's one that affects academic and public libraries in troubling ways--but it also affects every creator...

FatWire Software: content management takes a divine turn.(Profile)
May 1, 2004... A year has passed since FatWire Software announced that it would acquire the content management business of divine, the Chicago-based enterprise solutions provider that filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2003 following a three-year...

Newswire serendipity.
May 1, 2004... Ever since news first hit the wires some 100 years ago, it really hasn't changed. Sure, we've come a ways from the days of paper delivered by carrier pigeons and delivery bikes, but not that far. A newswire is basically a big fat fire hose of...