EContent articles from October 2004

EContent archives from October 2004

2004 event calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... Internet Librarian International October 11-12, 2004 Millennium Gloucester Hotel Harrington Gardens, London United Kingdom www.internet-librarian.com KMWorld & Intranets 2004 October 26-28, 2004 Santa Clara...

School daze.(corporate culture management)
October 1, 2004... Corporate culture can be a lot like high school. The popular kids have the ear of a senior executive and get blatant or subtly preferential treatment as a result. The unpopular kids find themselves clustered around the fringes of the...

We deliver.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Your article "Beyond PDF: Digital Delivery Develops" [July/August 2004, pp. 30-34] gave an interesting overview of some of the technologies that publishers have at their disposal today. However, I think it missed an important point about the...

Communication redux.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... In Kathleen Reidy's article in the September issue of EContent [Successsful Messaging Services: SMS (& MMS) 4 biz 2day, pp. 30-34] she posits that short text messaging is an appropriate form of communication for business users. I would...

Chaise wrong.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Ms. Manafy: I thought I had found a kindred spirit. At last! Someone who appreciates words and their proper usage! But something didn't set quite right. So, I re-read the editorial and discovered what had been nagging me: the odious...

Billions of readers.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I loved Ron Miller's article on where PDF is heading [Beyond PDF: Digital Delivery Develops, July/August 2004, pp. 30-34]. Thanks for including it in the August issue--and Adobe really appreciates the coverage. Just wanted to point out that the...

The wired Democratic National Convention.(News feature)
October 1, 2004... Setting up the technology for major events means creating the infrastructure equivalent of a temporary city. At the Democratic National Convention held in Boston's Fleet Center July 26-29, more than a year of planning culminated with Verizon,...

Web rich with political influence.(News feature)
October 1, 2004... In the world of politics, voters are taking advantage of the Web to track the progress of their favorite candidates, monitor what the other side is up to, and support causes they believe in. The favorable combination of powerful and affordable...

LaserFiche fights crime with document management.(News feature)
October 1, 2004... LaserFiche thinks it has weapons in its arsenal that police departments throughout the country can use to better fight terrorism... but not the kind you might first imagine. The weapons are document imaging and management software tools and...

The EDSF gives industry research its due.(Digital Library)(Electronic Document Systems Foundation)
October 1, 2004... An ever-increasing number of digital libraries are cropping up to fill very specific niches and offer visitors access to documents and materials that the public library has simply not been able to. The Electronic Document Systems Foundation...

Interwoven acquires Software Intelligence, Inc. assets.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Interwoven, Inc., an enterprise content management company, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Software Intelligence, Inc., a provider of records management (RM) systems. Software Intelligence's RM product will be renamed Interwoven...

Sonic Solutions acquires Roxio division; Roxio renamed Napster.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Sonic Solutions and Roxio have announced that Sonic will acquire the consumer software division of Roxio for a total purchase price of $80 million. Under the terms of the transaction, Roxio will receive $70 million in cash as well as shares of...

Infotrieve releases federated search solution.(news & product briefs)(ArticleFinder eXtreme)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Infotrieve, Inc. has announced the launch of its federated search solution, ArticleFinder eXtreme (AFX), designed to shorten discovery cycles and deliver cost savings to special libraries by leveraging their existing resources. AFX can be...

Thomson Gale expands Virtual Reference Library, launches Science Resource Center.(News & product briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Thomson Gale, part of The Thomson Corporation, has added more new content to its Gale Virtual Reference Library platform and has launched the Science Resource Center. The Gale Virtual Reference Library platform now offers 155 eBooks available...

NewsStand introduces Keyword Linking.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... NewsStand, Inc., a digital distributor of newspapers and magazines, has announced the availability of Keyword Linking, allowing unlimited access through hotlinks from its e-editions to Web content. This new feature is designed to accelerate the...

Nstein signs with Computer Sciences Corporation.(news & product briefs)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies Inc., a provider of business intelligence solutions, has revealed details of a contract previously announced on April 29. 2004, signed with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)--an information technology services company. The...

Raising a broadcast flag with the FCC.(News feature)
October 1, 2004... The FCC has mandated that all television stations be capable of broadcasting HDTV by 2006, but that isn't the date that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is counting down to. Instead, it's July 1, 2005--the day that the FCC's broadcast flag...

iMakeNews, Inc. (IMN).(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... iMakeNews, Inc. (IMN), an ecommunications service provider, has appointed David A. Fish, CEO. Under Fish's direction, IMN will offer tailored ecommunications products and services including one that is content--and will shortly launch a blog...

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Jeroen Reiniers has joined Endeavor Information Systems as director of marketing, working from the company's Chicago headquarters. Most recently Reiniers was based in Singapore as the business development manager for LexisNexis Asia.

Chaffee Interactive.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Chaffee Interactive has appointed Lou Bahin to VP, client services. In this role, Bahin will direct Chaffee Interactive's marketing strategy and business development. One of Bahin's first initiatives will be the launch of ePublishing, a hosted...

Infotrieve, Inc.(peopleware)(Appointments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Infotrieve, Inc. has hired John Lippert as VP, sales. Lippert will be responsible for increasing revenues and improving customer acquisition and retention. Lippert previously served as director of North American sales operations for Invitrogen...

TACODA Systems.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... TACODA Systems has announced that William C. Jarls has joined the company in the newly created position of director, East Coast publisher sales. He will report to Charles Smith, TACODA's VP, U.S. publisher sales, and add strength to client...

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has appointed Brian Bergner VP, information technology. His principal responsibilities include maintaining and developing the technical infrastructure to support CAS' extensive worldwide database building and...

Snapshots International.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Snapshots International, a market research firm, has announced that it is opening an office in New York and has appointed Denise Slifer as U.S. director of sales. Slifer was most recently with Alacra Inc.

Metrics.(Internet)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... U.S. Video-on-Demand (Vod) and Subscription Video-on-Demand (Svod) Revenues, 2003 & 2007 (in millions 2003 2007 Video-on-Demand $293 $1,400 Subscription Video-on-Demand...

Faces of econtent: ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Sharon Levy, manager of information resources National Wildlife Federation )
October 1, 2004... Job Function: In 20 years with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the nation's largest and oldest protector of wildlife, Sharon Levy has reinvented her role. "I've been with NWF since BC... before computers," Levy says with a laugh....

Don't file in triplicate: use eforms.
October 1, 2004... Among the chores people hate most--following closely on the heels of navigating interactive phone voice menus--is filling out forms, paper or electronic. When completing forms, it can be tough even to understand what's being asked. Erasing (or...

anacubis Desktop v3.0.(visual research and analysis software)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2004... Company: anacubis, a division of the i2 Group Purpose: Uses a visual interface to retrieve, consolidate, and analyze information from business information vendors, Web sites, internal databases, and spreadsheets. Starting...

Turn content into tools.(internet advertising)
October 1, 2004... As anyone who has ever filled her gas tank while a marketing pitch runs on the pump's LCD screen or through the island's speaker knows, advertising has reached total saturation. There is no safe place left: Marketers chase our famously...

Content goes Hollywood: how the film industry is struggling with digital content.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... Everyone in Tinseltown sought desperately to solve the fiddle of how Hollywood's content would merge with emerging digital technologies. The bigwigs at Microsoft made a bold march onto studio lots and proclaimed that they held the keys to the...

Bringing business intelligence to the masses.
October 1, 2004... Boy, how things have changed. Just think about how fast information is transmitted today. In 1805, it took six weeks before word of Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar reached Montreal. Now, news from any remote place in the world is flashed...

To metadata or not to metadata: to metadata or not to metadata, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous search results. Or to take up metadata against a sea of irrelevance. And by organizing them, find them?
October 1, 2004... With all due apologies to the Bard, the questions of whether to add metadata to unstructured content and how much effort is really justified to do so have been raised with increasing frequency and vigor in the last year. These issues and...

Knowledge management involves neither knowledge nor management.(behind the firewall)(Column)
October 1, 2004... The title of this column is not one that I invented, though it sums up the way that I feel about knowledge management. It is the title of a very provocative chapter by Marc Effron in a collection of essays edited by Marshall Goldsmith, Howard...

Know your niche: thinking about specialization and intended audience.(website design)
October 1, 2004... Everybody loves Google, with its sparse and fast interface, context-sensitive ads that aren't in your face, and vaunted ranking system that still works some of the time. So every Web site should strive to be like Google. Everyone loves Yahoo!...

Kinja: blogging blogs.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2004... William Randolph Hearst, Malcolm Forbes, Rupert Murdoch... Nick Denton? While he might not place himself in such lofty company, publishing's newest tycoon has been building quite a reputation in the relatively uncharted territory of blogging...

Here's the content.(after thought)
October 1, 2004... Since the dark ages of the econtent business, publishers of various shapes and sizes have added revenue streams or generated exposure through content syndication. While the core business model remains virtually unchanged, the new wave of...