EContent articles from September 2004

EContent archives from September 2004

2004 event calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
September 1, 2004... WebSearch University September 27-28, 2004 Hilton Washington Washington, DC www.websearchu.com Internet Librarian International October 11-12, 2004 Millennium Gloucester Hotel Harrington Gardens, London...

Panacea green.(edit this)
September 1, 2004... The summer I turned 18, I dreamed green. No, I don't mean about green things; I mean a moving canvas of hues spanning the limited spectrum of pea to asparagus. That was the summer I worked desperately to earn money for college, yet the shade...

Portable Media Centers: entertainment to go.(news feature)
September 1, 2004... Picture this. You're going to visit relatives across the country; to amuse yourself on the journey you take a few movies and favorite TV shows, a couple of audio books, a few thousand of your favorite songs, and an inordinate number of new...

Stake your claim in the community ... newspaper.(news feature)
September 1, 2004... newspapers grew out of local communities' need to communicate, for the most part, the more mundane aspects of life: auctions, real estate transactions, events, and, occasionally, a more scintillating tragedy or crime. But over time, the...

EU probe focuses on content and competition.(European Union)
September 1, 2004... increasing complaints by new media firms that big-name media companies are blocking their access to content has prompted EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti to launch an investigation. Speaking before an audience of telecommunications and...

IBM acquires Alphablox Corporation.(news & product Briefs)
September 1, 2004... IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alphablox Corporation, a privately held company based in Mountain View, California. Financial details were not disclosed. Alphablox's operations will be integrated into IBM's Information...

Hoover's releases subscription-based Pro Premium.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Hoover's, Inc. has announced the release of Hoover's Pro Premium, a subscription-based business information service designed to help small and mid-sized businesses identify sales and marketing opportunities. Pro Premium subscribers will have...

FileNet releases ECM 3.0.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... FileNet Corporation has announced that its FileNet P8 3.0 platform now offers XML Web Service-based access in an effort to provide a new level of platform-independent connectivity and interoperability, and support growing market requirements...

Duke to give iPods to first-year students.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Duke University has announced that it will distribute Apple iPods to its incoming freshmen, as part of an initiative to encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life. The devices will be preloaded with Duke-related content,...

ProQuest introduces Smart Search.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ProQuest Information and Learning has released the latest version of the ProQuest online information service. New features include Smart Search query analysis, enhanced email capabilities, and advanced browsing for better access to...

Google acquires Picasa.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Google Inc. has announced that it acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo management company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Picasa was founded in October 2001. In May 2004, Picasa announced a technology...

More eyes on the brand: TriggerNews Multi-Brand edition.(news feature)
September 1, 2004... news Technologies LLC has introduced the latest member of its TriggerNews family dubbed TriggerNews PL Multi-Brand. The product, announced in late August, builds on the company's premise that information consumers need meaningful ways to bypass...

Log your email abuse complaints here.(Iowa Internet Abuse Logging Protocol (IIALP))
September 1, 2004... "the world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain." While novelist Ronald Firbank wrote these words at the beginning of the 20th century, they ring even more true in the 21st. As spam, adware, and other abuses of the...

LexixNexis U.S.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Angela Maynard has been named VP and chief regulatory compliance officer for LexisNexis U.S. Most recently, Maynard was SVP and chief privacy executive at KeyCorp in Cleveland. LexisNexis U.S. has also named Michael Cham, formerly of FactSet...

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Inc. founder and former CEO David M. Burns has been named as Copernic's new CEO, and former FAST VP, strategic accounts, and Raymond A. Romagnolo has been made EVP of strategic development. Copernic's new executive...

OneSource Information Services, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... OneSource Information Services, Inc., an infoUSA company, has appointed Yvonne Cekel president. Cekel will be responsible for the strategic direction and overall operations of the company. Cekel has been a OneSource executive team member since...

Reed Elsevier.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Erik Engstrom has been appointed CEO of Elsevier, the global scientific and medical publishing division of Reed Elsevier. He will be a main board director of Reed Elsevier Group plc, will be appointed to the boards of Reed Elsevier plc and Reed...

Authentica, Inc. has formed the Authentica Technical Advisory Board, intended to develop strategies to accelerate adoption of the company's technology in the emerging market for E-DRM.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Authentica, Inc. has formed the Authentica Technical Advisory Board, intended to develop strategies to accelerate adoption of the company's technology in the emerging market for E-DRM. The board will be co-chaired by Allen Rogers, VP,...

PureEdge Solutions Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... PureEdge Solutions Inc., a provider of automation for form-based business processes, has announced the appointment of Tom McBride as VP, business development. McBride has executive management responsibility for expanding and deepening the...

TechBooks.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... TechBooks, a provider of electronic content services and solutions, has named W. Bartlett Snell CFO and general manager, administration. Snell will be responsible for leading finance and administration throughout the organization and will also...

Metrics.(Illustration)
September 1, 2004... Online Payment Revenues in the U.S., 2003 & 2005 (in billions) 2003 $8.0 2005 $12.5 Note: Table made from bar graph. Source: Celent Communications, February 2004 Percent of Internet Security Attacks that...

Faces of econtent.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... Job Function: Many roles in the econtent business lack instant gratification. Marketing and sales professionals, for example, may not see the fruits of their labor for many months as their products are built and sold. But Linda Fung,...

The law of unintended consequences.
September 1, 2004... One of my more perverse hobbies is keeping track of my local city council. And yes, living in the People's Republic of Boulder means that it's a lot more entertaining than it might be in mainstream America; what other city would redefine dog...

RelationsCentral Communications Dashboard.(DVCO Technology)
September 1, 2004... Company: DVCO Technology Purpose: Platform for communication professionals to manage relationships, projects, and information across their company and with suppliers and agencies. Starting Price: Monthly fee starts at $250; one-time...

Let's get hired! The age of consultative content.(follow the money)(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... new communication technologies interact with cultures and economies in many subtle, unforeseen ways. Publishing used to be a fairly top-down affair; seasoned and expert editors enlightening readers about what was new, hip, and necessary to...

Content on target: content can be specialized to fit virtually any business need--no matter how obsecure. Here we take a look at five vertical and one horizontal offerings to demonstrate how content helps companies do business.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... The Oxford English Dictionary defines serendipity as "the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident." The word's origins lie in The Three Princes of Serendip, an ancient Persian fairy tale involving three heroes who had a...

So just how many intranets are there?(Intranet Focus Ltd.)
September 1, 2004... i have spent much of my career counting things. From 1985 until 1995, I managed market research teams trying to work out not only the size of the European market for IT and telecommunications products but also providing five-year forecasts....

Successful messaging services: SMS [& MMS] 4 biz 2day.(Short Messaging Service)(Multimeida Messaging Service)
September 1, 2004... While their spelling would make your English teacher cringe, the brevity and simplicity of SMS (Short Message Service) messages can't be denied. Long the rage in Europe and Asia, SMS, which allows text messages of up to 160 characters to be...

Enabling the adaptive enterprise: using mobile content to increase productivity and operate in real-time.
September 1, 2004... the ability of wireless networks to reach virtually any point on the planet makes mobile communications one of the most important and challenging frontiers for the enterprise. To be successful, organizations must absorb mobility into their way...

Keeping the faith: playing fair with your visitors.(disContent)
September 1, 2004... does your econtent site play fair with your visitors? Are you keeping the faith--behaving reasonably with each person who visits your site? I believe most of you intend to do so, but good intentions don't always yield good results. I'm going to...

Recommind: recommending information management.(Profile)(Company Profile)
September 1, 2004... One of the biggest challenges companies face today is managing information. There is such an inundation of information that, instead of finding it useful, employees are paralyzed by it. So how does an organization sort the wheat from the chaff?...

Where's the content?(after thought)
September 1, 2004... what's with the first week of June? After being cooped up for months with nowhere to go, four interesting conferences all happened the same week. I wish I didn't have to choose between Book Expo America (Chicago), National Investor Relations...

So you want to be a publisher?
September 1, 2004... you are a publisher. Oh, you might work for an insurance company. Or a bank. Or you might run an agency of the federal government, or maybe you manage the drivers' license bureau at the local DMV. Heck, for all I know, you sell whoopee...

Content and the diversity of science.
September 1, 2004... all disciplines change over time, but perhaps none more so than the physical sciences. In chemistry, developments in organic synthesis occur daily, while biology has changed dramatically through new insights gained from genomic investigations...

Printers profit from new business model.
September 1, 2004... commercial print businesses face mounting pressure to deliver faster turnaround times and more custom publishing solutions. From all sides, these businesses are bombarded with dire warnings to add new services or sacrifice competitive position....

Web publishing power to the people.(Alameda County Social Services Agency )
September 1, 2004... promoting the economic and social well-being to one of California's largest and most diverse counties depends on rapid delivery of services--from elder care to child protective services, from food stamps to healthcare. When the Alameda...

The medium is the message.(digital publishing)
September 1, 2004... while printed books pre-dated Gutenberg by thousands of years, his name is practically synonymous with their widespread availability. But in publishing's digital age, e-terms emerge from the ether, many vanishing as mysteriously as they...