EContent articles from October 2005

EContent archives from October 2005

Ties that bind.(interpersonal relations)
October 1, 2005... each of us can look back on our lives and pinpoint individuals whose influence shifted our course for the better. It might have been the teacher who gave you a book of MC Escher drawings and talked to you about the interconnectedness of things...

Creationism.(EMail)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... I came to Bob Boeri's column, "I'm Adobe, and I'll Be Your Server" [July-August 2005, p. 29]. Thanks for sharing your insight into Adobe's Intelligent Document Platform strategy, how the server products stack up against Microsoft and...

Correction.(EMail)(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2005... In the article entitled, "A Case of Production Whoas," July/August, pp. 44-46, the company legally known as Xyvision Enterprise Solutions should have been referred to by its more readily known name, XyEnterprise. We regret this error. WE...

Web site sued: for controversial trip into Internet past.(content news)
October 1, 2005... Cyberspace doesn't give its travelers much room for reflection. Every day, millions of Web sites are updated, and older versions are erased from existence with the click of a button. Remember when Amazon.com sold only books? Or when WebCrawler...

Interwoven announces acquisition of Scrittura.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Interwoven, Inc., provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, announced that it has acquired Scrittura, a provider of document automation technology and straight-through-processing for the complex non-exchange based...

ClearStory announces latest version of Radiant EMS.(Radiant Enterprise Media Server 2.1)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... ClearStory Systems, a provider of digital asset management (DAM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems, has announced the release of the Radiant Enterprise Media Server (EMS) 2.1, an enhanced version of its media services platform....

Consumers want personalization, but are cautious, survey says.
October 1, 2005... According to a recent national survey, the vast majority of consumers want an online experience that is highly personalized. However, 63% of those same consumers are concerned that their personal data might not be secure with personalization....

Good reception: using cell phones to predict behavior.(content news)
October 1, 2005... if your cell phone knew what you were going to do at two o'clock, would that change how you planned your day? If your cell phone "predicted" correctly where you would be at a particular time of the week, how would you feel? No longer...

Standardization: kick starts digital cinema.(content news)
October 1, 2005... techno-geeks and futurists like George Lucas say that digital video-based "Digital Cinema" is superior to today's standard film-based cinema. Many beg to differ, especially when it comes to image quality. Regardless of videophiles' varying...

Inxight offering government extraction bundle.(Inxight Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Inxight Software, a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, is offering its government customers a unified Extraction Bundle, comprising the software that agencies need to get started with entity extraction. The...

Scopus of influence: content selection committee announced.(Reed Elsevier's Scopus project)
October 1, 2005... the peer-review process is part of the foundation on which academic publishing was built, and while Open Source publishing models are emerging along with alternative outlets for scholarly publication, it remains the most respected method for...

CAS.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... CAS has announced the appointment of Jack Bornhoft as Account Executive in the Richmond office. Bornhoft comes to CAS with over 10 years experience working for IBM.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. LLC.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Berkery, Noyes & Co. LLC, an independent investment bank specializing in the global information and technology sectors, has announced the addition of John D. Guzzo as VP to manage all aspects of buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions.

Inxight Software, Inc.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Inxight Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, has announced the hiring of Donald Reigrod as GM for OEM. Prior to Inxight, Reigrod was VP of OEM at FAST Search & Transfer.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.(promotions)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. has announced two promotions: Chip Nilges has been promoted to VP, New Services and Mike Teets has been promoted to VP, Global Product Architecture. Nilges was formerly Executive Director, OCLC WorldCat...

Thomson Scientific.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Thomson Scientific has announced that Richard "Rick" Riegel has been named GM of its Liquent regulatory solutions business. Riegel formerly worked at Taratec, a life science consultancy and also served as GM for the pharmaceutical industry at...

thePlatform.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... thePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing solutions, has announced that Warren N. Lieberfarb has joined its board of directors. He began his career at Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox before heading Warner Home...

Advanced Publishing Corporation.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Advanced Publishing Corporation, a digital edition service provider, has appointed Elizabeth Thrasher to direct the company's sales and business development activities in the New York tri-state area. Prior to joining Advanced Publishing,...

Wausau Financial Systems.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Wausau Financial Systems (WFS) has announced the addition of Nancy Langer as president of payment solutions. Langer will lead the software and services for WFS' distributed capture, payment processing, and archive solutions.

NewTek, Inc.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of 3D animation and video products, has announced the promotion of Philip Nelson to VP, video sales and marketing. Nelson will oversee the strategic and tactical sales and marketing initiatives of NewTek's line of...

New York Times.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... New York Times staffer Rich Meislin was named associate managing editor for Internet publishing. Prior to this position, Meislin was the technology news editor for the business section and head of the paper's news surveys operation.

Mindbridge Software.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Mindbridge Software, a provider of intranet and business portal software, has announced the addition of Mike Clovis as director of software development. Clovis joined Mindbridge Software in 1998 as a senior application developer.

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Endeavor Information Systems, a provider of library management software, has announced that Donna Hillcoat has been named director of library information management systems with responsibility for managing the company's Voyager and Meridian...

Cyriac Roeding.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Cyriac Roeding has been named VP, wireless of CBS Digital Media. Roeding, who co-founded 12snap AG, a European mobile marketing and mobile entertainment company, will oversee all wireless operations for CBS, including deals and programs related...

Nine Systems.(peopleware)
October 1, 2005... Nine Systems has announced that John Watson has been appointed EVP, sales and marketing, to lead Nine Systems' global expansion. The company has also promoted its current EVP, engineering, Kit Knox, to CTO.

Metrics.(Illustration)
October 1, 2005... Rich Media's share of total online ad spending in the U.S., 2000-2008. 2000 2.0% 2001 2.5% 2002 5.0% 2003 8.0% 2004 8.5% 2005 9.5% 2006 10.5% 2007 11.5% 2008 12.5% Note: Table...

Faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches.(Steve Wilson)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Job Function: McDonald's restaurant, with its famous golden arches, is one of the most recognized brands in the world. Steve Wilson, senior director of global Web communications for McDonald's Corporation, operates behind the scenes,...

WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word 9.0.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... if you ask any technical writer about the best single sourcing tool on the market--a tool that allows you to generate multiple output types from a single source document--chances are they will tell you about WebWorks Publisher from Quadralay....

Searching for commitment.(engine switching)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... the world loves automobiles, and nobody loves them more than Americans do. What other country writes pop tunes about its cars, from "My Merry Oldsmobile" in 1905 to the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe," not to mention the travails of daddy...

Raising the host bar: hosted CMS model comes of age.
October 1, 2005... There was a time when analysts believed that we would buy all our software using the ASP, or hosted, model. Why bother with all the issues of installation and upgrades, server maintenance and security, when for a fee, you could let the vendor...

Search envy is the mother of invention.(follow the money)
October 1, 2005... admit it, you're jealous. The massive bounce-back in online ad revenues in the past two years has been driven--nay, commandeered--by search. For all of the talk about the branding value of the Web, the fact is that highly targeted,...

Radio free: enterprise: podcasting helps companies communicate.
October 1, 2005... gerald Buckley, production manager at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, is the first to admit, "I am not Bob Costas. I am not a broadcast-quality personality." And yet in the first day on iTunes' new Podcast Directory, his...

Connecting the connectors.(behind the firewall)
October 1, 2005... going away on holiday provides an opportunity to catch up on reading some of the many books I have bought over the last few months. In the days when I commuted to London, reading was an excellent way of coping with overcrowded carriages and...

On message: the maturing market for marketing-specific CM.
October 1, 2005... for decades, marketing professionals have focused exclusive attention on the creative aspects of their craft and blissfully flown under the accountability radar in their organizations. Many marketing people traditionally have relied on flashy...

Econtent and academic libraries.(disContent)
October 1, 2005... "divining the future of technology and econtent--and the relationships between the two--is, at best, an inexact science." That's the opening sentence of Arnold Hirshon's "A Diamond in the Rough: Divining the Future of E-Content," which...

A case of clustered clarity.(case study)
October 1, 2005... the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) provides information services to and serves as the central repository of print and electronic resources for faculty, medical staff, students, and researchers in the School of Health Sciences and the...

The flip side of free.(after thought)
October 1, 2005... analysis of free versus fee content invariably focuses on content that must be paid for by consumers in its original form (such as newspaper and magazine articles) but that is often offered for free at an advertising- and sponsorship-supported...