EContent articles from May 2007

EContent archives from May 2007

Who's zooming you?(edit this)(web based service ZoomInfo)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... the other day I was trying to track down someone I haven't seen in about 20 years. I tried Google and, shockingly, received too many results. The two links on the first page of results that I clicked and skimmed through were old and not...

Virtual worlds open for business.(follow the money)
May 1, 2007... Business in the virtual world got very serious, very quickly in 2006. There have been a lot of false starts over the years. The massively multi-player gaming worlds like EverQuest and the eight-million strong World of Warcraft were always...

Word play.(EMail)
May 1, 2007... I was just thumbing through my most recent EContent and saw Walt Crawford's letter about the plural usage of the word "mediums" in my November article, "Screen-Play: Building A Multi-Screen Entertainment Strategy." Since my days as an...

Wise up.(EMail)
May 1, 2007... Sometimes within a wave of popular opinion comes a single voice asking, "Why? What for?" This is exactly the message that Michelle Manafy sent in her EContent column, "The Collective Wisdom at Work" [September 2006, p. 6]. And yet six...

National emergency warning systems: go wireless.(content news)
May 1, 2007... most citizens equate the national emergency alert system with an annoying green screen accompanied by a high-pitched screech that inevitably interrupts a favorite TV program. However, recent natural disasters have left Americans wondering why...

Viacom sues YouTube and Google for $1 billion in damages.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Viacom Inc. has sued YouTube and Google in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom's entertainment properties. The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as...

OCLC acquires TechAtlas.(news & product briefs)(Online Computer Library Center)(a technology planning software )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... OCLC Online Computer Library Center has acquired TechAtlas technology planning software with a $1.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. WebJunction, OCLC's online community where library staff share ideas and use online...

Thomson Financial integrates video, audio, and flash in new platform.(news & product briefs)(Thomson iShowcase)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation and provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, has launched Thomson iShowcase, an on-demand communication platform that integrates...

TechPresident takes a Web 2.0 look at the 2008 presidential campaign.(content news)
May 1, 2007... if you were to catch former Senator George Allen (R-VA) in a moment of candor, and you asked him to name the one factor that was responsible for bringing down his campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate last fall, he might very well tell you...

Eurekster secures $5.5 million in series B funding.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Eurekster Inc., a provider of social search has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. Eurekster's institutional financing was led by Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the...

MXP4 interactive music secures $6.5 million investment.(news & product briefs)(Sofinnova Partners and Ventech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... MXP4 Interactive Music has secured a $6.5 million investment from Sofinnova Partners and Ventech, which will enable MXP4 Interactive Music to develop its digital audio technology and underwrite its commercial development. MXP4 Interactive...

EBSCO Information Services.(peopleware)(appoints Petro van der Berg )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... EBSCO Information Services has appointed Petro van der Berg to the position of business development consultant. She will report to Katy Ginanni, sales manager, EBSCO Southern Africa. Prior to joining EBSCO, van der Berg was information...

Jordan Posell.(peopleware)(appointed by ContentNext Media Inc.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... ContentNext Media Inc. has announced Jordan Posell as COO. Posell was most recently the CFO of Neven Vision. Prior to that, he was the VP of finance and administration for GameFly. Previously, Posell has held executive-level roles at...

Global alliance bridges the great divide.(content news)(Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development plans to provide disabled access to information)
May 1, 2007... The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), borne from the United Nations' Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Task Force, has some ambitious plans regarding accessibility. Kofi Annan,...

OCLC.(peopleware)(appointment of Andrew H. Wang)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... OCLC has promoted Andrew H. Wang to VP of OCLC Asia Pacific. Wang has served the library community in a variety of capacities during his 31 years with OCLC Online Computer Library Center, most recently as executive director of OCLC Asia Pacific...

Coemergence.(peopleware)(appointment of Rodney F. Burgar)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Coemergence has appointed Rodney F. Burgar as CEO of the company. Burgar succeeds Michael Chender, founder and major shareholder of the company, who will remain as Coemergence president. Burgar has 25 years of experience as a businessman, an...

David Shaffer.(peopleware)(appointment of David Shaffer)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Knovel Corporation has announced that David Shaffer will join Knovel as chairman of its board of directors. Shaffer retired as EVP of The Thomson Corporation at the end of 2006 and he also sat on the Thomson Corporation board of directors....

Knovel.(peopleware)(appointment of Robert E. Smith, John Dooley and Delores Meglio)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Knovel has also appointed Robert E. Smith as the VP of information technology; John Dooley has joined Knovel as the VP of sales; and Delores Meglio has been promoted to VP of content management. Smith was most recently the director of...

Exalead.(peopleware)(appointment of David T. Lingley)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Exalead has appointed David T. Lingley as VP of services. Lingley joins Exalead from Autonomy, where he was VP of consulting services for the past year. Prior to that, he oversaw the consulting services unit of Verity's professional services...

Rare Method.(peopleware)(appointment of Nick Noronha)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Rare Method has appointed Nick Noronha as controller. Noronha is a Chartered Accountant who brings experience in the areas of corporate finance, financial reporting, internal control, and corporate income tax. Noronha comes to Rare Method from...

Scopus Video Networks.(peopleware)(appointment of Eitan Koter)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Scopus Video Networks has appointed Eitan Koter as president. Koter, promoted from his position as VP of sales, will be responsible for enhancing Scopus' business operations and improving the synergy of sales and marketing. The company has also...

Arxan Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Amena Ali)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Arxan Technologies Inc. has appointed Amena Ali to chief marketing officer. Ali, a 16-year industry veteran, most recently held the position of SVP of marketing and product strategy at Softek Storage Solutions. Previously she was marketing VP...

CBS Interactive.(peopleware)(appointment of Patrick Keane)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Patrick Keane has been named EVP and chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive. Keane, who most recently served as head of advertising sales strategy at Google, will help CBS implement systems to market and sell its content on a variety of...

Zannel Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Bill Godwin, Jeanne Burgman and Scott Bendar)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Zannel Inc. has appointed Bill Godwin to VP of business development and strategy, Jeanne Burgman to director of marketing, Scott Bendar to VP of engineering, and Mark Netter to director of business development. Godwin comes to Zannel from...

H.W. Wilson.(peopleware)(appointment of Frank Daly)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... H.W. Wilson has appointed Frank Daly to director of marketing. Daly will work with VP of sales and marketing Deborah Loeding to develop, implement, and monitor marketing and sales programs for Wilson databases and print products. Daly's...

Akimbo.(peopleware)(Ed Lee promoted)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Akimbo has promoted Ed Lee to VP. Previously, Lee served as the company's director of business development. Lee has over 18 years of experience in business development, strategy, and sales and has worked with companies including ReplayTV and...

Form favors function: Vasont's facelift in version 11 facilitates use.(content news)(Vasont Systems introduces Vasont version 11)
May 1, 2007... Vasont Systems, supplier of content management systems to Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and General Electric Healthcare, rolled out a new version of its flagship software earlier this month, with a drastically revamped user interface that aims to...

ClipBlast!(peopleware)(appointment of Rhaz Zeisler)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... ClipBlast! has appointed Rhaz Zeisler to the new post of VP of product development and chief creative director. She has worked to create interactive products and properties for The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, Sony Entertainment,...

SirsiDynix has announced that CEO Patrick Sommers has resigned from the company.(peopleware)(resignation of Patrick Sommers)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... SirsiDynix has announced that CEO Patrick Sommers has resigned from the company. The company has begun to search for a new chief executive officer. Martin Taylor, operating principal of Vista Equity Partners, which acquired the company in...

ECopy Inc.(peopleware)(Tim Corkery promoted)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... ECopy Inc. has promoted Tim Corkery to COO from SVP of worldwide sales and services. In this new role, Corkery is responsible for the majority of eCopy's business functions, including selling, manufacturing, and delivering products and...

Viva! Vision.(peopleware)(Nick Montes promoted)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Viva! Vision has promoted Nick Montes to president of the company. Justin Stockton will serve as COO. Montes previously served as VP and GM for the company. Before joining Viva! Vision, Montes was VP of mobile sales and marketing at American...

Fortiva.(peopleware)(appointment of Eric Goodwin)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Fortiva has announced that Eric Goodwin, who was appointed chairman of the board of directors for Fortiva in 2003, is coming out of retirement to take the role of CEO. Prior to joining Fortiva, Goodwin headed a series of technology firms...

ARMA International.(peopleware)(appointment of Marilyn Bier)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... ARMA International's board of directors has announced Marilyn Bier as its new executive director. Bier has been the association's interim executive director since March 2006. Prior to that, Bier was the association's deputy executive director...

Bill Lipner.(peopleware)(appointment of Bill Lipner)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... DocsCorp has added Bill Lipner to the North American DocsCorp team as regional sales manager. Lipner will be responsible for expanding the company customer base in the New York and New England areas, and in Florida and Georgia while also...

The meaning of modern communities.(content news)
May 1, 2007... One of the internet's founding objectives was to create a network of users who could share information on a variety of topics. As the internet matured, smaller groups of people emerged who required more specialized information, forming...

Metrics.(Statistical table)(Survey)
May 1, 2007... U.S. Online Social Network Ad Spending, by Type of Network, 2007 (millions) MySpace $525 Other general social network sites (Facebook, Bebo, Piczo, Friendster, etc.) ...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Vamosa Inc. )(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Name with the Face: David Abraham Job Title: Senior Technical Architect/Consultant Organization: Vamosa Inc. URL: www.vamosa.com Job function: Glasgow, U.K.-based Vamosa Inc. has carved out a niche by...

Referenceware by Books24x7.(product introduction)
May 1, 2007... Books24x7 was created when its parent, SkillSoft, went to top technical and business book publishers, licensed the full text of their books, tagged the content, and added a powerful, patent-pending search engine. Every bit of each book is...

Human nature and XBRL.(info insider)(extensible business reporting language)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... As a teenager in northern New Hampshire, I worked after school and on weekends in a small country store. I calculated retail prices, stamped them onto cans, then stocked the shelves. I also worked the checkout register, carefully entering each...

Networking opportunities: social networking for business.(report on digital content providers)
May 1, 2007... When a major national newsmagazine identifies "You"--that is, anyone blogging, posting videos, or networking online--as the Person of the Year, it's fair to say that social collaboration has hit the mainstream. There are a few consumer-oriented...

Wanted: intranet leadership.(behind the firewall)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... as an intranet consultant, there are times when I am tempted to say that all my clients have the same problems; only the solutions differ. The best example of this is when I am asked which department should be responsible for intranet...

Today content delivery is a two-way street.(planning of content industries)
May 1, 2007... not all that long ago, content flowed one way. You posted content to your website and just how much you posted and when was entirely up to you. That model is changing quickly, however, as Web 2.0 concepts flow into the enterprise, and companies...

Ghosts in the social networking machines.(disContent)(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... at the rate some social networks (and other social software) grow, by the end of the decade everyone in the world will belong. Twice. Ridiculous, I know, but so are some of the numbers and growth rates that get tossed around. The numbers...

Meet generation C: creatively connecting through content.
May 1, 2007... When you drew a fantastic picture or wrote an A+ paper back in grade school, the best place you could hope to show it off was the family refrigerator. Today, however, that A+ paper could be blogged about by complete strangers and your pretty...

A case of measuring content's impact.(case study)(www.sohh.com )(Website overview)
May 1, 2007... Company: SOHH.COM SOHH.com is a destination site for fans of hip hop music. The site was created in 1997 as a more cost-effective information alternative to a monthly print publication called 4Control Media, which launched two years...

Building econtent companies to last.(after thought)(Industry overview)(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2007... after witnessing many econtent companies start up, grow, sometimes die, occasionally go public, and often be acquired over the past (gasp) 24 years, I've finally come to the realization that the best companies follow a defined birth and growth...