EContent articles from October 2002

EContent archives from October 2002

Turning the page. (Edit This).
October 1, 2002... to effect significant change, significant chances must be taken. In actuality, in most scientific endeavors, there are two paths: refining or building upon the work of others and genuine innovation. One is not inherently better than the other,...

Bar-hopping: searching on the desktop. (News Feature).
October 1, 2002... Over the past few years, almost every major search engine has released their individual version of the downloadable search bar targeted at corporate desktops. While each bar's features vary, the fundamental premise is the same: they allow users...

Vignette puts the CM in WS-I. (News Feature).
October 1, 2002... In a perfect world, Web services would form a quilt out of the patchwork of IT industry products, sewing together software from partners and foes alike with the thread provided by common standards. But in reality, software vendors may not be...

USATODAY.com selects Applied Semantics. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... USATODAY.com has licensed the Applied Semantics News Series, an integrated set of enhanced content management applications developed specifically for the publishing industry. USATODAY.com is using the Applied Semantics products to add automatic...

CEA and APA partner to create digital audiobook standards. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced that its R6 mobile electronics committee will partner with the Audio Publishers Association (APA) to develop audiobook standards for digital media and devices. This decision was reached...

Inktomi to acquire Quiver, Inc. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Inktomi Corp., a provider of information retrieval solutions, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Quiver, Inc. The addition of Quiver's portfolio of categorization and taxonomy software is intended to strengthen Inktomi's enterprise...

Opencola debuts new strategic direction. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Opencola Ltd., a pioneering developer of distributed content search technology for knowledge workers, has launched its new Web site in preparation for its product launch in the fall of 2002. Opencola's new site reflects the company's new...

Paid content spending rises 155%. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... A study released by the Online Publishers Association indicates that the willingness of online users to pay for content is on the rise, although it is still in the early stages of acceptance. The study, conducted by online research firm...

Playboy teams with Legend Mobile. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Playboy Enterprises has teamed up with Legend Mobile to produce and distribute its content on storage media such as digital cards and CDROMs. Legend, which develops branded handheld devices and accessories, will produce expansion cards that are...

RealNetworks cuts 10 percent of jobs; restructures business operations. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... RealNetworks will lay off about 10 percent of its workforce and restructure its operations, as it moves to cut costs in response to corporate spending. The reorganization is intended to help the company focus on two areas of its business: its...

AccuSoft enters collaboration market with ReviewNow. (News Feature).
October 1, 2002... AccuSoft, makers of document imaging software, have entered the collaboration marketplace with ReviewNow 1.0. The new product is designed to, "harness the corporate intellect and simplify business processes to increase collaboration with...

Divine reintroduces SinglePoint. (Product News).
October 1, 2002... divine, inc., has announced the availability of divine SinglePoint Search for accessing enterprise content and Web search. Traditional search tools place the burden of finding information on the user and base results on single-factor relevance....

Documentum unifies Collaboration and ECM. (Product News).
October 1, 2002... Documentum, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), has announced the Documentum Collaboration Edition, comprised of two new product offerings: Documentum Team Center and Documentum Collaboration Services. The Collaboration Edition...

Dialog re-enters document delivery market; newsroom now stands alone. (Product News).
October 1, 2002... Dialog has announced its re-entry into the document delivery market with an expanded list of sources from which articles and reports can he ordered. Available documents include articles and reports from scholarly journals, legal materials,...

Interwoven, Inc. (Peopleware).
October 1, 2002... Interwoven, Inc. has announced the appointment of John Van Siclen as CEO. Van Siclen succeeds Martin Brauns who will continue as chairman of the Board of Directors. Brauns will remain active in his chairman role on Interwoven's strategy and...

En Pointe Technologies, Inc. (Peopleware).
October 1, 2002... En Pointe Technologies, Inc. has appointed Robert M. Turner as director of diversity business development. Turner will be responsible for En Pointe's marketing and sales initiatives directed at major enterprise customers in the U.S. that have...

Marianne Parkhill has joined Endeavor Information Systems as director of product management. (Peopleware).
October 1, 2002... Marianne Parkhill has joined Endeavor Information Systems as director of product management. At Endeavor, Parkhill will guide the growth and enhancement of the Voyager integrated library information management system; the ENCompass Solutions...

Blackwell Publishing. (Peopleware).
October 1, 2002... Paul Calow joins Blackwell Publishing as their new Journal Sales Executive covering Belgium, France, Portugal, Scandinavia, and Spain. Paul works within the global sales team, developing journal sales to academic and commercial libraries,...

LexisNexis. (Peopleware).
October 1, 2002... LexisNexis has appointed Eric Geringswald director of corporate services for LexisNexis Document Solutions. In addition, Geringswald will manage all seven LexisNexis Document Solutions branch offices. Geringswald previously was UCC operations...

Web services: stages of adoption. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Web services technology can be exploited as a remote-procedure-call mechanism, a component interface mechanism, an enterprise application integration (EAI)-style integration mechanism, a way of standardizing portal technologies, and a means of...

Simon & Schuster, Accenture, and Artesia implement DAM transformation. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Simon & Schuster has selected Accenture and Artesia Technologies to help develop and implement an enterprise-wide Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution for its collection of digital content and information. The project focuses on the creation...

Metrics.
October 1, 2002... Metrics US DSL and Cable Modem Subscribers, 2002 (in millions) Cable modem 7.1 DSL 4.6 Source: In-Stat/MDR, July 2002 Average Online Ad Size, Q1 2001-Q1 2002 (total area in pixels) Q1 2001 22,582 Q2 2001...

Personalization and portals: if you build it (right) they will come.
October 1, 2002... John Q. Employee gets to work in the morning. He turns on his computer and starts browsing for information. He hits CNN.com, Yahoo!, and the Web sites of trade publications that he regularly reads. Then he checks his email, searches Business...

The many faces of DRM: delivering secure enterprise content; Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been something of an enigma for the computer industry since it burst onto the scene in the late 1990s.
October 1, 2002... Originally conceived as a way to lock and protect electronic content, such as music and ebooks, this vision never really materialized. A few years ago, Forrester Research published a report called Content Out of Control, in which they asked...

Putting Web Services standards to work.
October 1, 2002... "Web Services are really a new answer to an old problem," according to Daniel Austin, senior architect and architecture team lead for ebusiness at W. W. Grainger in Lincolnshire, Illinois. "The question is: How do we develop software...

Groove Workspace 2.0 Professional. (Review).
October 1, 2002... Company: Groove Networks Purpose: Allow small groups of employees to meet and collaborate online. Starting Price: $99/seat (server components could add to this cost) Reviewer's View: Groove Workspace 2.0...

Copyright out of whack II: control run amok. (DisContent).
October 1, 2002... In last month's disCONTENT, I quoted the Constitution, and some quotes are worth repeating: "The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the...

Ten steps towards intranet success. (Behind The Firewall).
October 1, 2002... This column is being written on Independence Day, so I thought it would be appropriate to bring a transatlantic affiance to bear on the issue of how to ensure the success of an intranet. Howard McQueen, CEO of McQueen Consulting, (www.mcq.com)...

Listening to Audible. (Follow The Money).
October 1, 2002... Unlike just about every other content publisher online, spoken word audio seller Audible.com did not come to the fee-based model late in the game. Founded in 1995, the company knew from the start that users would have to pay to play, and so...

Rich media knowledge strategies: why aren't we SMILing? (Information Insider).
October 1, 2002... although some buyers of IT solutions like the comfort of an established vendor like Microsoft, increasingly IT organizations want open solutions based on standards. This is because standard solutions are often (initially) not as efficient or...

OneSource: value-added business info. (Profile).
October 1, 2002... "People don't buy content. They buy results, they buy insights, they buy better decisions, they buy productivity. That's really the business we're in. You have to do more than sell content. That's where the integration and the application of...

Intraspect: making KM work the way people do. (Profile).
October 1, 2002... Imagine a harried advertising executive sitting at his desk late on a Friday. He's spent many hours during the week exchanging emails with a particularly difficult client, but has finally hashed out the details of the client's new ad campaign....

"Welcome to our store; that'll be $19.95, please". (End of File).
October 1, 2002... Everyone's heard the definition of a consultant: someone who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, charges you for the information, and probably keeps the watch as well. As a some-time consultant, I do occasionally marvel at all these...