EContent articles from May 2006

EContent archives from May 2006

Read me.(ebooks from Sony Corp.)(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... The announcement of the Sony eBook Reader, expected out this month, triggered a flurry of speculation about the ebook market. We at EContent aren't immune: We wrote about its Japanese predecessor (LIBRIe), covered its CES debut, speculated on...

Vive les copies: French legislation tackles copyright.(polical aspects of digital rights and illegal downloading)
May 1, 2006... The French minister of culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, has a growing controversy on his hands: the DADVSI law on copyright in the digital age. The most contentious aspect of the DADVSI law is the attempt to curb illegal downloading of...

Microsoft acquires Onfolio.(news & product briefs )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Microsoft corporation has announced the acquisition of the assets of Onfolio, Inc., a privately held, Cambridge, Mass.-based Internet research and information management provider. Onfolio's technology has been incorporated into the Windows Live...

Vasont CMS provides standard DITA setup.(Vasont Content Management System)(Darwin Information Typing Architecture)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Vasont Systems, a provider of content management software and data services, has announced that a standard Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) setup is included with every installation of the Vasont Content Management System. Vasont's...

Justsystems to acquire blast radius XmetaL.(Justsystems U.S. Holding, Inc.)(Blast Radius, Inc.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Justsystems U.S. Holding, Inc., and Blast Radius, Inc., have announced that they have reached an agreement for Justsystems to acquire the XMetaL software business of Blast Radius. The transaction is subject to various conditions prior to...

Building on basis: for multilingual digital forensics.(management of Basis Technology Corp.)
May 1, 2006... Basis Technology recently announced an initiative to create the next generation of digital forensics products. Basis Technology specializes in multilingual information retrieval, focusing on the problem of searching, sorting, classifying, and...

Lynn Fortney, VP and director of EBSCO's biomedical division, has been elected to lead the Medical Library Association's (MLA) Collection Development Section (CDS).(vice president)(Elton B Stephens Company)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Lynn Fortney, VP and director of EBSCO's biomedical division, has been elected to lead the Medical Library Association's (MLA) Collection Development Section (CDS). Prior to joining EBSCO in 1989, Fortney served as acting director and associate...

Newstex to distribute AFX news.(distribution agreements of Newstex and AFX News, Ltd.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Newstex, provider of Content On Demand, has announced a new strategic relationship with AFX News, Ltd., a European financial news agency. The agreement calls for Newstex to deliver premium financial news content from AFX News. Newstex provides...

Mark logic teams with spectrum systems to offer XML content server.(Mark Logic Ccorporation)(EXtensible Markup Language)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Mark Logic Ccorporation has announced that it has partnered with Spectrum Systems, Inc., of Fairfax, Va., a provider of business process and system optimization solutions, to offer MarkLogic Server to Spectrum Systems' General Services...

Clearstory offers: just the DAM essentials.(content news)(Digital Asset Management)(products of Clearstory Systems)
May 1, 2006... Most companies start small, hoping to attract a bigger clientele as they grow. ClearStory is trying a different approach with its recent launch of ActiveMedia Essentials, a hosted, browser-based digital assets management package that targets...

Datalink.(Datalink Inc. hires Ari Kaplan as senior consultant)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Datalink has announced the hiring of Ari Kaplan as senior consultant responsible for database solutions. Prior to Datalink, Kaplan spent six years as CEO and founder of Expand Beyond and held senior roles at Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz...

Berlin-based Ovidius GmbH.(Ovidius GmbH appoints Phill Barratt as marketing and sales director)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Berlin-based Ovidius GmbH has appointed Phill Barratt as marketing and sales director, Europe, responsible for the development of the marketing and sales strategy for European markets. Before moving to Ovidius, Barratt was European head of...

Inmedius, Inc.(Michael Hickey joins the company's board of directors)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Inmedius, Inc., has announced that Michael Hickey, COO at Maplnfo, has joined the company's board of directors. As COO at Maplnfo, Hickey has responsibility for each of Maplnfo's strategic geographic business units, sales, marketing, product...

Hoover's and visible path announce use of social networks.(marketing agreements of Hoover's, Inc. and Visible Path Corporation)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Hoover's, Inc., a D and B company that gives its customers information about industries, companies, and decision makers, and Visible Path, a developer of relationship capital management (RCM) solutions, have announced an agreement designed to...

VideoEgg acquires assets of Popcast.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... VideoEgg, Inc., a provider of Web-based video publishing solutions, has announced that it has acquired assets of Popcast, LLC. Under the terms of the transaction, several senior members of Popcast?s development team will join VideoEgg. Under...

Born digital, not yesterday: next-generation web user seeks interactivity.(conferences of National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services)(Conference news)
May 1, 2006... Parents: Ask your teenager to write a "get well" letter to Aunt Edith who is confined to a bed at a nursing home. They are probably looking at you like you just asked them to explain Kepler's Third Law. "C'mon mom, nobody writes letters...

Computhink.(Tom Hoffman appointed by Computhink Inc.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Tom Hoffman was named director of business development for Computhink. In this role Hoffman will be responsible for all aspects of business development including channel programs, reseller recruitment, and OEM relationships. Hoffman will manage...

ProQuest Information and Learning.(appointment of Simon Beale)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the appointment of Simon Beale as SVP, global sales. Beale will be responsible for worldwide sales of all published and distributed electronic, print, and microform products to academic, public,...

Interwoven, Inc.(appointments of Frank Fanzilli and Max Carnecchia)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Interwoven, Inc., has announced Frank Fanzilli as its new chairman of the board. Fanzilli joined the Interwoven Board in 2002, and last year became the board's lead independent director. Interwoven also announced that Max Carnecchia,...

StreamServe, Inc.(appointment of Tom Brigiotta)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... StreamServe, Inc., has announced the appointment of Tom Brigiotta as SVP of world-wide sales. Brigiotta will spearhead StreamServe's vertically focused global sales strategy, which includes financial services, retail/distribution, utilities,...

Adicio.(appointment of Tony Lee)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Adicio has announced the appointment of Tony Lee to the newly created positions of chief alliance officer and EVP of East Coast operations. Lee joins Adicio from Dow Jones and Company, where he was publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online...

Factiva.(Clare Hart, named to a senior executive role at Dow Jones)(Claude Green will be the interim chief executive officer)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Factiva has announced that president and CEO Clare Hart has been named to a senior executive role at Dow Jones and will be leaving her position at Factiva. As part of her responsibilities as EVP, Dow Jones, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise...

NeoEdge Networks.(appointment of Preetish Nijhawan)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... NeoEdge Networks has announced the appointment of Preetish Nijhawan as VP of strategic alliances. Most recently, Nijhawan was a VP at BMC Software, and prior to that he was a co-founder and VP at iVita Corporation and a consultant for McKinsey...

Brainshark.(appointment of David L, Fitzgerald)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Brainshark has announced the addition of David L, Fitzgerald as EVP, sales and marketing. Most recently, Fitzgerald was the SVP of sales and services at ClearStory Systems. Prior to joining ClearStory Systems, Fitzgerald served as president and...

Stellent, Inc.(promotion of Dan Ryan)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Stellent, Inc., has announced it promoted Dan Ryan, EVP of marketing and business development, to COO. Prior to Stellent, Ryan spent 14 years in northern California where he held several marketing and business development positions, including...

VideoEgg cracks the code.(VideoEgg Publisher from VideoEgg, Inc.)(Company overview)
May 1, 2006... Baffled by the difference between .3gp, .3gp2, .avi, .dv, .mpg, .mpg4, .mov .mqv, .wmv, .asf? Hung up on how to upload these pesky digital video formats into your business Web site, blog, eBay account, or online store? Unsure whether your...

Metrics.(internet services)(Table)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... U.S. Internet Users Visiting Blog Hosts vs. Standalone Blogs, Q1 2005 (in thousands of unique visitors) Blog hosts 38,995 Standalone blogs 28,027 Source: comScore Networks Inc., August 2005 Note: Table made...

Faces of econtent.(interview of Chris Ballard)(Interview)
May 1, 2006... Job Function: In his role as marketing production manager for Itron, a technology provider and source of knowledge for nearly 3,000 global energy and water utilities, Chris Ballard operates behind the scenes supporting the worldwide...

Factiva 2.0.(evaluation of business management software)(Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company)(Product/service evaluation)
May 1, 2006... I am one of those database searchers who loves to build a search by carefully constructing search statements with proximity operators; using Factiva's indexing codes; and limiting my search by subject, region, language, and date. With Factiva's...

And a farting preacher shall lead us.(follow the money)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Until I heard that preacher fart, I was never much of a believer in user-generated media. I don't mean garden variety user-generated content (UGC), which embraces blogs, a few digital photo postings, and the endless scrolls of reader comments....

Finding your own assets: it takes more than just have a DAM.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... As digital asset collections grow, it becomes increasingly important to build a digital asset management system (DAM) with strong classification, taxonomy, and search components to help you locate an asset whenever you need it. Yet digital...

Success has a thousand litigants.(info insider)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Up to the mid-'90s, managing content was easy. Records managers cataloged documents, locked them up, and when their retention period expired, destroyed them. The main threats were fire and water. Today, content comes in thousands of electronic...

Public image limited: monitoring your corporate image online.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... The recent proliferation of blogs and other "consumer-generated media" (CGM) has had a major impact on our culture--affecting the way we get our news, entertain ourselves, and especially the way we do business. A fairly recent Pew Internet...

One CMS or Two?(behind the firewall)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to provide consulting support to a professional association here in the UK as they went out to tender for a CMS. The document provided a very clear analysis of the requirements of the association, but...

Get enriched quick: the rise of Rapid Elearning.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Elearning is already old school. In fact, what used to be cutting-edge digital learning is now referred to as traditional elearning. The new kid on the block is Rapid Elearning, and this younger sibling of old (and presumably slower, less...

Rich media is hard.(disContent)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Heard about the Read/Write Web? It's an instant cliche most econtent professionals need to be aware of: the growing importance of user-generated content--and the preference of many users for content coming from other users. I've discussed this...

A case of delivering family-friendly entertainment.(Sony Computer Entertainment America)
May 1, 2006... Company: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA A subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) markets the PlayStation (PS) family of products and develops, publishes, markets, and distributes software...

Anatomy of a viral marketing campaign.(after thought)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... I've been talking about the power of Web content as a viral marketing tool for ages. It's an obsession of mine and one key subject in my latest dead-tree book: Cashing In with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn...