EContent articles from November 2007

EContent archives from November 2007

Drink the water.(edit this)
November 1, 2007... My three-year-old looked at her bottled water the other day and asked what the picture on it was. "A waterfall," my husband replied. She followed up with the tried-and-true, "Why?" He hesitated and said that, uh, maybe it was where this water...

Content notions.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Your discussion ("Misc. U," Sept. 2007) touched a lot of issues. You pulled a couple of excellent ideas from Weinberger's book. One was "[b]y discussing differences while standing on shared ground, we work toward understanding." The other was...

Correction.(EMail)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2007... Correction: In an article in our October news section ["Will Fake Steve Change the Face of Blogging?", p. 10], Debbie Weil was incorrectly identified as a contributing editor to EContent. David Meerman Scott, who was also quoted in the article,...

Foul play? CCIA contends companies mislead consumers about fair use.(content news)
November 1, 2007... The next time you watch a Major League Baseball or National Football League game, pay close attention to the disclaimer that runs at some point during the broadcast. Yes, it implies that you can't talk about yesterday's game with your friends...

Mercado Software.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Mercado Software, a provider of eCommerce search and merchandising solutions, has named Justin Foley as VP of North American sales. For the last 10 years, Foley has been responsible for international and U.S.-based direct, channel, and inside...

Coutts Information Services.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Marc Gluckman has been named VP of sales and marketing for Coutts Information Services, North America, a subsidiary of Ingram Book Group. Gluckman will oversee the U.S. and Canadian sales departments, and manage the...

Fios Inc.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Fios Inc., a provider of electronic discovery services, has announced that former New Edge Networks' CFO, John Hesse, has joined its executive team. Hesse brings more than 20 years as a CFO of public and private companies. Most recently, Hesse...

iStor Networks, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The manufacturer of network storage solutions iStor Networks, Inc. announced the addition of storage industry veterans Robert Friend, Gene Nagle, and Adam Zagorski to its marketing and support teams. Friend brings more than 20 years of...

Yahoo! to acquire BlueLithium.(news & product briefs)
November 1, 2007... Yahoo!, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlueLithium, an online global ad network that offers direct-response products and capabilities for advertisers and publishers. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will acquire...

STN AnaVist version 2.0 adds patent data.(news & product briefs)
November 1, 2007... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and FIZ Karlsruhe announce a new version of STN AnaVist analysis and visualization software. The newest version features Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI),...

Nstein announces private placement.(news & product briefs)
November 1, 2007... Nstein Technologies, Inc., a provider of content management solutions for the publishing, media, and entertainment industries, announced that Gesca Digital Investments Ltd., a subsidiary of Gesca Ltd., has the firm intention of making a $2...

YouTube's legal issues grow.(content news)
November 1, 2007... Copyright lawsuits have become commonplace for YouTube. People post videos without the right to do so, leaving YouTube to clean up the mess before the video-sharing site finds itself embroiled in yet another, much larger, legal mess. Some, like...

LifeSize.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LifeSize, a high-definition video communications company, has announced that Joe Marengi will join the company as an independent board member. Marengi is a venture partner at Austin Ventures and a former executive at...

MyiLibrary and Swets team up.(News and Product Briefs)(MyiLibrary Ltd. acquires Swets)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... MyiLibrary Ltd., a global provider of digital content and part of Ingram Digital Group, and Swets, a worldwide subscription services company, announced an agreement intended to change the way customers browse, acquire, and access electronic...

Global Web 2.0 deals up 14% in first half of 2007.(News and Product Briefs)
November 1, 2007... What was once an industry focused almost entirely in the San Francisco Bay area has expanded into new markets within the U.S. as well as in Europe and Israel, according to new data released by Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young LLP. The...

Velocity 6.0 taps into human resources for enterprise search.(content news)
November 1, 2007... When Vivisimo began looking for a fresh take for the annual update to its enterprise search engine Velocity, developers decided to study the employees using it on their intranets every day. They found that workers were used to Google searches,...

Google, Inc.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Google, Inc. has announced that George Reyes has informed the company that he plans to retire as CFO. Reyes indicated that he will remain to assist in the search for a new CFO and to assure an orderly transition, which Google expects will occur...

OCLC.(peopleware)(Online Computer Library Center )(promotions)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... OCLC has announced executive staff promotions: Rick Schwieterman has been promoted to EVP and CFO. In his role, Schwieterman will continue to oversee all enterprise activities related to finance, accounting, OCLC's Board of Trustees...

Nuxeo.(peopleware)(appointment of Steve Raby )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Nuxeo, a provider of Open Source ECM solutions, announced the appointment of Steve Raby as U.K. country manager. Raby has more than 25 years of sales and management experience within the IT industry. He will be responsible for sales and channel...

Podbridge, Inc.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Podbridge, Inc., a provider of measurement and advertising solutions for downloadable media, has named Brian Steel, former president of Yahoo!'s international search marketing, as CEO. The company also appointed Jeff Karnes, another former...

Groxis.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Groxis, a provider of exploratory search and visualization, has appointed Randall Marcinko as its CEO. Marcinko brings to Groxis more than 20 years of senior-level leadership, strategy, and advisory experience in the information industry.

Eluma: merging personal productivity with social search.(content news)
November 1, 2007... Organizing your online life just got a little easier. Launched on Oct. 30, Eluma 2.0 is a new personal web organization tool designed to aid personal productivity. Founders Richard Buck and Paul Christen created Eluma with one goal in mind: to...

Glam Media.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Glam Media, a women's web property and distributed media company, announced that Ralf Hirt will join the company as VP of International. In this position, Hirt, formerly the VP of operations and strategic partnerships for DoubleClick, will...

BlueCielo ECM Solutions.(peopleware)(Pamela Aloia appointed to the position of quality manager)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... BlueCielo ECM Solutions has appointed Pamela Aloia to the position of quality manager. A specialist in quality, validation, and document management who has worked with regulated industries for 12 years, Aloia joins the company from DataCore...

NewsGator Technologies.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Jeff Nolan has joined NewsGator Technologies as VP of corporate development. The former Teqlo CEO and SAP veteran has experience in the areas of social media and enterprise 2.0 technologies. Prior to joining NewsGator, Nolan led Teqlo, a...

Associated Content.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... Associated Content has announced that Dan Shanoff has joined as VP of content. Shanoff will be based in New York and will be responsible for directing the company's programming, producers, and publishing platforms. Shanoff joins Associated...

Swets.(peopleware)(Louise de Miranda appointed as new communications director)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Swets announced the appointment of Louise de Miranda as its new communications director. Working out of the company's head office in Lisse, the Netherlands, de Miranda will be responsible for developing and implementing the company's global...

SpringCM.(peopleware)
November 1, 2007... SpringCM recently appointed Frank Skubal and Schalk Theron to its executive team. VP of sales Skubal and VP of operations Theron bring more than 30 years of cumulative experience to SpringCM. Skubal joins the company from Xythos Software, where...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Job Function: Starting off in the network operations center and working his way up into his current role of streaming media systems engineer, Adam Copeland's primary responsibilities are new services deployment and network build-out of...

Methods by which U.S. online video viewers search and locate online videos, April-May 2007.(metrics)
November 1, 2007... Methods by Which U.S. Online Video Viewers Search and Locate Online Videos, April-May 2007 (% of respondents) Discover online videos randomly while on the web 44% Click links in emails from friends/family ...

Online activities of U.S. broadband users, 2007.(metrics)
November 1, 2007... Online Activities of U.S. Broadband Users, 2007 (% of total time spent online) Communication 27% Leisure or Entertainment 27% News or Information 19% Personal Productivity 15% Shopping...

U.S. online video viewers.(metrics)
November 1, 2007... U.S. Online Video Viewers As a Percent of Broadband Users, Total Internet Users, and Total Population, 2003-2010 2003 2004 2005 2006 % of broadband users 73.1% 80.5% ...

Cost of business staff searching for company information.(metrics)
November 1, 2007... Cost of Business Staff Searching for Company Information Belgium France Germany Holland Portugal Av. No. of 65 75 66 64 73 Minutes Per Day % of Work Time...

LeapTag (beta).(DECISION-MAKER: review)(LeapTag, Inc.)
November 1, 2007... In the Web 2.0 world, we search, we bookmark, we tag. We find sites we like and we subscribe via RSS. We approve and we disapprove of content. LeapTag attempts to build on this Web 2.0 functionality by providing a way to do all of this (and...

I know you're out there.(follow the money)(publishers places 'community' high on their agenda this year)
November 1, 2007... Almost all publishers I speak with lately have placed "community" high on their agenda this year. Well, right after video, which seems to have become everyone's pet obsession online. The problem with community is that it is not really a...

More content delivers a good buzz.(agile minds)(BuzzTracker)
November 1, 2007... The Long Tail, the milestone book by Wired editor Chris Anderson, points out that popularity no longer has a monopoly on profitability. In the digital space, both hits and misses make money. In some cases, it is the misses that matter most....

Intranet detective.(behind the firewall)
November 1, 2007... You have to feel sorry for my wife Cynthia. Ever since we first met in 1971 her response to inquiries about what her boyfriend/fiancee/husband does for a living has been, "He's an information scientist." That tends to stop any conversation dead...

The search continues.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... When people hear the word search, they think web search. For better or worse, their minds go to a single blank box in which they key in one or two words, hit Enter, and are then barraged with an incomprehensible quantity of results. If the...

Searching for efficiency: making content manageable for knowledge workers with enterprise search.(EMC)(Company overview)
November 1, 2007... Your knowledge workers are some of your organization's most valuable assets. But through no fault of their own, these employees waste a great deal of time and energy inefficiently navigating the vast amounts of information available to...

Building a better search query: through content mining.(SWETS)
November 1, 2007... Federated Search Alone Is Not the Complete Answer With the amount of online information rapidly expanding and residing in increasingly disparate sources, organizations need a way to simplify how their users discover and access the...

Teams work: social search gets results.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whether you are a student, a scientist, or a silver surfer, horizontal search engines are designed from the ground up to deliver the same results to all searchers based on queries and key words. While this...

DITA redux.(i column like i cm)
November 1, 2007... Nearly two and a half years ago, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) officially approved the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Standard 1.0, completing the transition from many years of software...

Go with the flow: navigating streaming communication.
November 1, 2007... The trouble with streaming communications begins when you try to define it. Ask 10 people, and you'll likely get 10 different answers. There is some general agreement that streaming communication is the transfer of data or video from a server...

Smart search: business intelligence and search converge.
November 1, 2007... Not so long ago, business intelligence (BI) and search existed in two different realms. Business intelligence was the purview of highly trained professionals mining structured data sets with precise queries to arrive at quantifiable result...

Unknown unknowns.(info pro)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2007... When I think of memorable quotes from military leaders, Winston Churchill comes to mind, with "nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat, and tears." But the United States has been blessed with a poet in the upper echelons of government: former...

A case of storage space.(case study)(MyPhotoAlbum)(Company overview)
November 1, 2007... Company: MYPHOTOALBUM MyPhotoAlbum is a photo-sharing service offering features for creating personalized online photo albums and photo keepsakes. Founded in 2004, MyPhotoAlbum set out to take the online photo experience beyond the...

Shaking up disclosure.(after thought)
November 1, 2007... In late July 2007, Sun Microsystems scared the wits out of executives at some of the press-release distribution services, news aggregators, and financial disclosure networks by announcing its financial results via its investor relations website...