EContent articles from November 2003

EContent archives from November 2003

Onboard the eOriented express.(edit this)
November 1, 2003... For much of my youth, we didn't have a television. This marked us. My family, unusual in many respects, bore a conspicuous blemish the shape of a television's absence. Instead, we had bookshelves lots of them. As a result, I was woefully out of...

Portal pain.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Just a quick note to say I enjoyed Ron Miller's article on corporate portals in the June EContent magazine. Having recently ended a five-year stint as Web application architect for a big financial services firm, I know the pain. For us the...

Source please.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Thanks for a great magazine. I grab EContent as soon as it arrives and always find a great deal of value within its covers. The July issue is especially good. However, I note on page 18, the METRICS page, that there is no source indicated...

Instant message.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Just wanted to let you know how much your August/September editorial "Blogged Down" hit close to home. I, like you, am constantly amazed at the poor effort put forth to draft even a semblance of proper business communications--email or not....

Math problems.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... As a company that has implemented a complete XML content Web site for the K-12 industry over three years ago, I was interested in Bob Boeri's MathML [August September p. 63] article to see what is new. Boeri covers all the MattWIL bases, and...

Correction.(letters To The Editor)(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2003... In Toulouse: A Study in Libraries' Virtual Future [June, pp. 38-41] we mistakenly said that DRA stands for Digital Research Associates. Rather, it is an acronym for Data Research Associates. We also said the company is based in Canada. DRA, now...

New life for .XXX?(news feature)
November 1, 2003... A woman in our office said that her daughter was watching TV with her father recently when a commercial for Froot Loops prompted the child to want visit the company's Web site. As any literate individual would be likely to do, the girl's father...

Stellent releases Content Management 7.0.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Stellent, Inc. has released Stellent Content Management 7.0. Stellent's new version is designed to provide a solution supporting each aspect of content management--document management, Web content management, collaboration, records management,...

IBM and Factiva join forces.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
November 1, 2003... IBM and Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, have announced an agreement to co-develop text analytics solutions built on the IBM WebFountain platform. These new solutions are designed to allow executives tasked with increasing brand equity...

Peppercoin raises $4.25 million in first round funding.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Peppercoin, Inc. a micro-payment services company that enables online merchants to sell low-priced digital goods, has raised $4.25 million in a Series A round of financing from POD Holding and private investors. The funding brings the total...

Vignette acquires Intraspect Software, Inc.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Vignette Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Intraspect Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Vignette will pay $20 million, comprised of $10...

ECNext raises $2 million.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
November 1, 2003... ECNext, a provider of technology and services for selling and delivering commercial business information via the Web, has closed a previously scheduled $2 million in additional financing. Athenian Venture Partners and River Cities Capital Funds...

In-Q-Tel signs deal with Inxight.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Inxight Software, Inc., a provider of software solutions for enterprise search and information discovery, has signed a deal with In-Q-Tel, a private not-for-profit venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Inxight will work...

Seybold's 365 degree view of the trade show today.(news feature)
November 1, 2003... This was the year of steak--lean steak--and little unnecessary sizzle at the Seybold San Francisco 2003 conference held in early September. The Seybold Seminars management team--faced with contemporary economic realities in the IT industry and...

Isilon--trying to make storage dam smart.(news feature)
November 1, 2003... Digital content storage is big and dumb. To effectively do more than sit and store, it requires layers of complexity on top of its simple archival core. But the evolution of digital content has changed our expectations: We don't just want to...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)(appointed Brian R. Bennett and John Y. He)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Verity Inc. has appointed Brian R. Bennett VP, channel sales. He will focus on expanding and developing Verity's strategic business alliances, as well as growing OEM and indirect channels' revenue. Verity has also named John Y. He, VP,...

Peppercoin, Inc.(peopleware)(appointed Allan Greenberg and Robert Kiburz )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Peppercoin, Inc. has appointed Allan Greenberg SVP, business development. Peppercoin has also appointed Robert Kiburz CEO. Kiburz was formerly VP and general manager of the billing and customer care unit at Lucent Technologies.

Sirsi Corporation.(peopleware)(appointed Marty Keeley)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Marty Keeley has joined Sirsi Corporation as VP, strategic initiatives. Keeley will ensure that Sirsi products and services best meet the needs of library directors, library staff members, and library users.

Blue Zone.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Broadband Central CEO, Tali Haleua, has relinquished his position at the wireless ISP to focus on Blue Zone deployment and business development for the company and has taken the title director of business development. Bart Saxey has been...

VitalStream Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... VitalStream Inc. has named Michael Linos VP, sales. Linos will manage direct sales, build a presence with resellers, and develop partnerships with technology providers. VitalStream has also named Arturo Sida VP and general counsel. Sida will...

DM2.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... DM2 (formerly Cahners Business Lists) has appointed Denise Moser, an 18-year veteran of Reed Business Information, as privacy director.

Stellent, Inc.(peopleware)
November 1, 2003... Stellent, Inc. has hired Michelle Tack as VP, Western U.S. region sales. Stellent has also named Michael Rudy, formerly VP of alliances and services for Stellent, to the position of VP and general manager for its expanded Canadian operations.

Tridion.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Tridion has made two new appointments to its executive management team. Roland Slot, founder and chairman of Tridion has been named CEO and Gilles Albaredes joins as COO. Albaredes was most recently VP, sales and marketing, Europe, for...

H.W. Wilson Company.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Heeja H. Chung has joined the H.W. Wilson Company as serials librarian. Chung will oversee all aspects of maintaining the serials subscriptions the company holds, the foundation of its indexing, abstracts, and full-text periodical reference...

Cloakware Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Cloakware Corporation has appointed Alec Main, CTO. Main, previously Cloakware's VP, products and services, is now responsible for setting the company's technology direction, and championing application security products and services. He also...

Isilon Systems, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Isilon Systems, Inc., a provider of intelligent storage systems for digital content, has appointed Steve Goldman president and CEO. Goldman takes over as CEO from Isilon founder, chairman, and CTO Sujal Patel, who has been acting CEO since the...

FileNet Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... FileNet Corporation has named Ken Fitzpatrick CMO. Fitzpatrick is responsible for FileNet's global marketing strategy and operations including the company's product, industry, and channel marketing efforts.

iPhrase.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Daniel A. Keshian has been named chairman of the board and CEO of iPhrase. Keshian will focus on several areas including: growing iPhrase's revenues through its blue chip customer roster and prospect pipeline; a renewed focus on strategic...

United Press International (UPI).(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... United Press International (UPI) has announced appointments to its marketing and sales team. Bill Creighton was named VP, global sales and marketing and Craig McKinnis was hired as strategic content partnership manager. Creighton leads a global...

STARBAK Communications, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... STARBAK Communications, Inc. has appointed David McSweeney VP, engineering. McSweeney manages STARBAK's engineering team and oversees all product development projects. The company also added Jan Timmer and Patrick Miller to its sales team.

Thomson ISI.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Thomson ISI has named chief scientist Dr. Henry Small, president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). Typically, ISSI office holders are selected at Board meetings held in conjunction with the ISSI...

Applied Discovery, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Applied Discovery, Inc., a member of the LexisNexis Group has named Mark Kindy CEO of Applied Discovery operations. Kindy was formerly managing director and co-leader of the digital content practice of BearingPoint.

Venetica.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Venetica has appointed Eric Sail VP, marketing. Sail will oversee all marketing activities at the company, including product management, product marketing, marketing communications, corporate communications, and partner marketing.

Faces of Econtent ... interviews from the Econtent trenches.
November 1, 2003... Job Function: eMeta focuses on the security and commerce of information and digital services, enabling enterprises to maximize the value of their digital assets. "We provide software that helps people sell things online, particularly...

Metrics.
November 1, 2003... Comparative Estimates: Worldwide Corporate Elearning Revenues, 2000-2010 (in billions) 2000 2001 2002 2005 2006 2010 Cortona Consulting *, November 2002 -- $5.0 -- -- -- ...

Office 2003 InfoPath and MS Word professional.
November 1, 2003... Company: Microsoft Corporation Purpose: General productivity software Starting Price: Suggested retail price for the Office Professional Edition 2003 has been set at $499. Upgrades will cost $329. Reviewer's View:...

Hoover's online.
November 1, 2003... Company: Hoover's, Inc. Purpose: Hoover's Online provides business information on U.S. and global companies, industries, and the people who shape them for sales, marketing, business development, and other professionals. ...

KeepMedia.com: what we learned at the crash.(follow the money)
November 1, 2003... It all sounds so familiar. If online users won't buy content in the usual offline model of subscribing to individual titles, let's try aggregating a number of top offline brands like Esquire, Family Circle, Variety, Forbes, and sell 'em all for...

Get smart with business intelligence software: companies faced with ever-expanding information sources both in and outside the firewall are scrambling to find easier ways to collect, aggregate, and report on data and make it available throughout the enterprise.
November 1, 2003... At first blush, that would seem to be the territory of database reporting tools, and to some extent it is, except that most corporate information does not reside in structured databases. In fact, a great deal of it is unstructured information...

Can XML drive taxonomies categorization? XML might seem like it is everywhere, but it is not--at least not yet.
November 1, 2003... If you google "XML," you do get a stunning 20.5 million hits, which is about tour times as many as "Britney," but--sensibly--half as many as "God." So I guess XML falls short of omniscience. Still, the prevalence of XML has led to its being a...

Read up.(behind the firewall)
November 1, 2003... For reasons entirely unclear to me, there are not many books on the subjects of content management, intranets, and portals. Look along the shelves at any major bookshop and you will be hard-pressed to find books on content management, a...

Digital ECCOs of the eighteenth century.
November 1, 2003... Any high school worth its salt teaches students the immeasurable impact of the eighteenth century. Counted among the events of those scant hundred years are the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution--but it...

Acrobat scores again ... in a changing game.(info insider)
November 1, 2003... For nearly 10 years, Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) has remained the undisputed standard for visually-faithful electronic renditions of print documents. Developers build extensions to Acrobat; users easily distribute PDF files...

Fleeing the Internet: time to call it quits? Maybe the wonders of the Web were overhyped--and still are.(dis Content)
November 1, 2003... Millions of Americans have stopped using the Internet. That's what a recent Pew study show--42% non-users, 17% former Internet users who've dropped out. They're fleeing the Web, avoiding online, dropping dialup, and banning broadband. The...

Language Analysis Systems: Intelligence by Any Name.(Profile)
November 1, 2003... The assassinations of Frank Darling and Lansing Bennett could have been prevented. The Central Intelligence Agency employees were waiting in traffic outside headquarters in Langley, Virginia, when they were gunned down nearly 11 years ago by...

The Intranets newsletter: strategies, tips, and tools.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The INTRANETS newsletter covers the strategies, tips, and tools required to help organizations develop, deploy, and manage intranets, extranets, portals, and other knowledge and information management initiatives. We recognize that the role of...

But is your Econtent cool?(after thought)
November 1, 2003... As I have traveled the tradeshow circuit throughout 2003, I've noticed more and more companies falling back on a classically dumb sales and marketing standby: promoting user interfaces and other tangible manifestations of econtent products and...