EContent articles from October 2006

EContent archives from October 2006

RSS: use, lose, or abuse?(edit this)
October 1, 2006... Simply put, really simple syndication isn't simple at all. While ease of use on the consumer side--one-click subscription--is improving through aggregators like syndic8 or NewsGator, finding and using RSS feeds continues to mystify most...

Book 'em.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... I'm disappointed with Walt Crawford's column ["Tracking the eBook Players Today," July/August, p. 43]. I believe it is very incomplete and scattered between ebooks, electronic books databases, readers, and software. I think you need to do some...

Traveling, man.(EMail)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... I was reading the July/August EContent on the train into work this morning and read your column, Road Tripping [p. 5]. I enjoyed it, including your description of why and how streets get named. It reminded me of a quote I saw recently in...

Correction.(EMail)(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... In the July/August issue, Steve Smith's Follow the Money column "Chasing Our Own Long Tail" [p. 28] refers to Chris Sherman as an editor of Wired magazine. Chris Anderson is, in fact, editor-in-chief of Wired. We sincerely regret the error.

Click happy? Fallout from Google's $90 million click-fraud settlement.(content news)(Lane's Gifts and Collectibles)
October 1, 2006... In the wake of July's click-fraud settlement, experts are speculating on its effects on web advertising and on how the industry can prevent crick fraud in the first place. The case, Lane's Gifts v. Google, originated in February 2005, when...

Open Text acquires Hummingbird.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Open Text Corporation, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hummingbird Ltd. under which Open Text will acquire, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, all of...

Stellent acquires SealedMedia Limited and Bitform.(news & product briefs)(Bitform)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Stellent, Inc., a provider of content management solutions, has announced that it has acquired SealedMedia Limited, a provider of enterprise digital rights management solutions, and Bitform, a provider of content cleansing technologies....

Matches made in media heaven: cable companies invest in digital distribution.(content news)
October 1, 2006... In June, cable giant Comcast paid a reported $80 million for thePlatform, an online media publishing system. Then in July, EchoStar, owner of the nation's second largest satellite TV service (the DISH Network), made a sizable investment in...

IBM releases email solution.(news & product briefs)
October 1, 2006... IBM has announced a new hardware and software solution designed to help small- and mid-sized clients address challenges of email management and governance, improve email efficiency, and support legal requests. The new IBM CommonStore EMail...

iStockphoto stocks up on video.(content news)(Istockphoto)(Getty Images)
October 1, 2006... A picture may be worth a thousand words, but at iStockphoto.com, it's also worth between one and forty dollars, iStockphoto, a provider of royalty free stock photography, pioneered a micropayment model to bring affordable stock photographs to...

Archive-It 2: Internet Archive strives to ensure preservation and accessibility.(content news)
October 1, 2006... Preserving seemingly ephemeral web content is a daunting task. The problem is even more difficult because the content of web pages changes and the pages themselves come and go with great frequency, which means simply collecting URLs isn't...

Searchfeed.com.(peopleware)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Searchfeed.com has announced Bryan Brickley as senior director, GM of Searchfeed.com. Bryan has been a member of the Searchfeed.com team since 2002, most recently in the position of business development director. In his new role, Bryan will be...

MuseGlobal Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... MuseGlobal Inc. has announced that Frank Bilotto has filled the newly created position of VP, publishing and digital media. In his former position as head of publishing at Vivisimo, Bilotto introduced the company's clustering technology to...

HiSoftware.(peopleware)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... HiSoftware has announced that John Rogers has joined the company as CFO and COO. Rogers brings to HiSoftware more than 22 years of financial and operations experience. Prior to joining HiSoftware, Rogers was partner of Henniker River Group...

Cabinet NG, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Cabinet NG, Inc. has appointed John Allen as VP of marketing. Allen spent eight years as product marketing manager at Intergraph Corporation, where he secured an exclusive marketing agreement with Sun Microsystems. Between 2000 and 2004, Allen...

ClearForest.(peopleware)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... ClearForest has announced that Thomas Tague has joined the company as VP of solutions and marketing. Tague joins ClearForest from Darwin Partners, where he served as EVP of client solutions and led sales and solutions delivery for the financial...

Discover the definition of search: ISYS 8 speaks the user's language.(content news)
October 1, 2006... In order to support the emerging needs of its clients and meet the expanding definition of search, ISYS Search Software has introduced the latest version of its flagship suite. ISYS, a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business...

Metrics.(statistical data on blogs)(Statistical table)
October 1, 2006... Internet Users Who Create Their Own Online Content, by Access Technology, 2005 All All home internet internet Broadband ...

Faces of econtent.(Marie-Madeleine Salmon)(Interview)
October 1, 2006... Name With The Face: Marie-Madeleine Salmon Job Title: Head of Information Center Organization: Publicis URL: www.publicis.com/corporate/en Job Function: Marie-Madeleine Salmon is transforming the classical information...

Advertising on-demand.(follow the money)
October 1, 2006... When Burger King was looking for an edgy way to promote itself among the coveted (nay, fetishized) young male demographic, it did the only thing a sensible old fart of a corporate entity can do when it struggles to be hip: it handed the camera...

Liferay Portal 4.(Product/service evaluation)
October 1, 2006... Liferay Portal dates back to 2000, when it was founded as an open-source project to provide non-profit organizations with a free intranet portal platform to allow for better collaboration. Like all portal software, the package is first and...

Social networking tools on the road to enlightenment.
October 1, 2006... Emerging forms of online collaboration and social networking foreshadow an always-connected future and perhaps the biggest change in communication in a century. The tools may now focus on accelerating individual careers, but new tools and...

Keep and use your content forever.(info insider)
October 1, 2006... Most of us--even we pack rats--must deal with the practical limits of magnetic and physical storage space. Like it or not, we have to be selective about what we keep and what we delete. While on the corporate side, the threat of litigation...

Searching outside the box: engines search out new business opportunities.
October 1, 2006... Is it just me, or do the massively popular search engines, responsible for over 80% of the web's daily queries, seem a bit distracted lately? Surely, the search paradigm has won the day as the de facto, undisputed interface for digitized...

Four Seasons and a CMS.(behind the firewall)
October 1, 2006... It's a midsummer's day, and I've just come back from a celebration. One of my clients invited me to the launch of his company's new intranet, at which the CEO said some nice words about me. Pity he had forgotten my name and just referred to me...

Why aren't ebooks more successful?(disContent)
October 1, 2006... Ebooks haven't exactly set the publishing world on its ear. Calling ebook sales "disappointing" is an understatement. For years, ebook proponents touted percentage increases in ebook sales (after all, going from $10,000 to $20,000 is a 100%...

A case of automating the workflow.(case study)(Case study)
October 1, 2006... Company: FLUOR HANFORD Since 1996, Fluor Hanford has sewed as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy, charged with the environmental cleanup of nuclear materials at the Hanford site in Richland, WA. The site has a rich history: It...

Oh baby! Buzzing about Shiloh pics.(after thought)
October 1, 2006... So what does a publisher get when the editors choose to purchase an "exclusive" piece of content? How about when it's baby pictures and the price tag is several million dollars? From a marketing perspective, People Magazine in the U.S., Hello!...