EContent articles from September 2007

EContent archives from September 2007

Misc. U.(edit this)(Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger )
September 1, 2007... David Weinberger should sort his silverware as he puts it into the dishwasher. How this man has struggled: From his collegiate days of dumping all the silverware unsorted into one drawer to his current domestic cold war, in which he is happy to...

Video, video everywhere. But where is it?(follow the money)(video search )
September 1, 2007... The problem of video search has been waiting in the wings for a number of years now. True believers like Blinkx and Truveo (now part of AOL) were patiently experimenting with ways of indexing and tagging video assets long before the broadband...

No credit card? No problem: Bill2Phone lets customers tack online purchases onto their phone bill.(content news)(BSG Clearing Solutions)(online payment solution )
September 1, 2007... It wasn't all that long ago that, if you wanted to purchase an item online, you needed at least a credit card or a checking account to complete the transaction. Not so any longer. With the latest online payment solution developed by BSG...

Text tips: VeriSign & Hill Holliday provide an answer to Boston crime problem.(content news)(Hill Holliday (Boston, Massachusetts)(VeriSign Inc.)
September 1, 2007... The problem in Boston was not the number of violent crimes (which had indeed been rising), but the "code of silence and lack of cooperation" from the community, according to Boston Police Department (BPD) spokesperson Elaine Driscoll. Boston...

Thomson Learning announces new name: Cengage Learning.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Thomson Learning has announced that it will change its name to Cengage Learning. The company, recently acquired by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners, says the new name is based on being at the "center of engagement" for its customers...

SpringCM releases SpringCM 3.9.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... SpringCM has released SpringCM 3.9, designed with versions of the SpringCM Proposal Accelerator and Contract Accelerator for Salesforce.com, which are designed to help Salesforce.com users manage documents, streamline collaboration, accelerate...

Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) formed.
September 1, 2007... Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) is available, designed to develop standardization of audience measurement and advertising for downloadable media. The ADM focuses on podcasting, downloadable media, and portable content monetized by...

Look smart: UCSD works to improve images searches.(content news)(University of California (San Diego))(Supervised Multiclass Labeling)
September 1, 2007... Images are searched for in web search engines more frequently than any other content type except basic text. "People want to find pictures," says Chris Sherman, executive editor of Searchwise. However, he adds, "image search in general is...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Louis Mousseau)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Nstein Technologies Inc. has appointed Louis Mousseau VP of corporate development, reporting to the president and CEO. Mousseau's responsibilities will be to identify and negotiate Nstein's strategic partnerships and to act on new opportunities...

OCLC Online Computer Library Center.(peopleware)(appointment of Don Fabricant)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Don Fabricant, former executive with Thomson Learning, has joined the OCLC Online Computer Library Center leadership team in the newly created position of VP of library services for the Americas. Prior to joining OCLC, Fabricant was SVP of...

TheLadders.com.(peopleware)(appointment of Robert Turtledove )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... TheLadders.com has announced that Robert Turtledove has joined the company as chief marketing officer. In this role, Turtledove will help lead the global brand expansion of TheLadders.com. Turtledove joins TheLadders.com from Metromedia...

TheLadders.com. has also announced that Sarah Drew has joined the company as consumer GM and director of marketing for TheLadders.com U.K.(peopleware)(appointment of Sarah Drew)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... TheLadders.com has also announced that Sarah Drew has joined the company as consumer GM and director of marketing for TheLadders.com U.K. Prior to TheLadders.com, Drew was U.K. senior manager at Match.com, where she oversaw marketing and...

In addition, TheLadders.com has announced that Douglas Zarkin has joined the company as VP and GM of TheLadders.com resume service.(peopleware)(appointment of Douglas Zarkin)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In addition, TheLadders.com has announced that Douglas Zarkin has joined the company as VP and GM of TheLadders.com resume service. Zarkin will oversee all aspects of the company's resume business. Prior to TheLadders.com, Zarkin was a...

SpringCM.(peopleware)(appointment of Christopher Ryan )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... SpringCM has appointed Christopher Ryan as the SpringCM VP of marketing. Ryan served as chief marketing officer at Inmon Data Systems (IDS). Prior to IDS, Ryan was VP of marketing for both Stellent Inc. and Optika.

Freewebs.(peopleware)(appointment of Michael Burke )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Freewebs has named Michael Burke director of ad sales. Burke will work with Chris Cunningham, Freewebs' VP of advertising, to help drive the company's advertising and widget sales strategy. Burke has 10 years experience in sales, strategy...

NowPublic.com closes $10.6 million series a financing.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... NowPublic.com has announced that it closed a $10.6 million Series A financing, led by Rho Ventures, based in New York and Palo Alto, and its affiliate Rho Canada, based in Montreal. The round also includes two other venture firms, Brightspark...

Action Engine raises $20m for mobile software business.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Action Engine Corporation, the On-Device Portal Company, has announced that it has raised $20 million of equity in its round of venture funding. This round brings the total funding raised to date to $65 million and was led by current investor...

Taking it off the streets: activism goes online.(content news)(Greg Hewlett, an amputee )(International Fund for Animal Welfare )
September 1, 2007... Activism has stepped off the soapbox and moved online. When Greg Hewlett, an amputee from Richardson, Texas, wanted to encourage his state senator to support a "prosthetic parity" amendment to a bill that was to come before the state...

Freewebs has also named JP Kemp as head of U.K. sales.(peopleware)(appointment of JP Kemp )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Freewebs has also named JP Kemp as head of U.K. sales. Kemp spent the last eight years delivering sales opportunities for companies such as the Telegraph and MediaTel Group. Most recently he was the head of agency sales for Handbag in the U.K.

Asset Control.(peopleware)(appointment of Peter Bennfors and Rich Katsoff)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Asset Control has announced that Peter Bennfors has joined the company from Misys as CFO and Rich Katsoff has joined from IBM in a newly created role as head of services. Bennfors was most recently operations director with the treasury and...

Generate Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Tom Aley)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Generate Inc. has appointed Tom Aley, president and CEO of Generate Inc. to the Software and Information Industry Association's content division board of directors. Aley, and his twin brother Darr Aley, founded Generate in 2004. Prior to...

Facebook.(peopleware)(appointment of Chamath Palihapitiya )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Facebook named Chamath Palihapitiya VP of product marketing and operations. Palihapitiya most recently served as an investor for the Mayfield Fund. Prior to that, he served as VP and GM of the Desktop Messaging group for AOL.

NewBay Media LLC.(peopleware)(appointment of Joe Ferrick )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... NewBay Media LLC has named Joe Ferrick VP of web development. In this position, Ferrick is responsible for growing NewBay's online products and extending the company's reach through new web-based offerings. Prior to joining NewBay,

Canto Software.(peopleware)(appointment of Steffen Setzer)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Ferrick was Nationals Sales Director for ITtoolbox. Canto Software has added Steffen Setzer to its global marketing team. Acting as director of marketing, Setzer will oversee worldwide marketing operations from the company's Berlin...

BridgeDoc.(peopleware)(appointment of Neil White)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... BridgeDoc has appointed Neil White as CEO. White will be responsible for scaling the company's outsourced business model to global markets, with a particular focus on Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was CEO and co-founder of Ejility Inc.

Inmedius Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of Ken Stillwell )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Inmedius Inc. has appointed Ken Stillwell to VP of finance and CFO. Stillwell will be responsible for the leadership and management of all financial and operational functions worldwide. Stillwell most recently served as president and CFO of...

EGistics Inc.(peopleware)(appointment of George F. Thomas)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... EGistics Inc. has announced that George F. Thomas, CEO of Radix Consulting and a former EVP of The Clearing House Payments Company (TCH), has been elected to the company's board of directors. Thomas has over 25 years of financial services...

Coutts.(peopleware)(appointment of Steve Forrest )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Coutts has appointed Steve Forrest director of econtent sales to develop econtent sales in North America. Forrest has over 17 years experience in the North American publishing industry with Prentice Hall, Thompson, Macmillan, and Pearson...

ASTM International.(peopleware)(appointment of Katharine Morgan, Teresa Cendrowska and Jeff Grove)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ASTM International, a standards developing organization, has announced the promotions of three senior level staff members: Katharine Morgan, GM of technical committee support, was promoted to VP of technical committee operations. Morgan has...

ECNext.(peopleware)(appointment of RJ Valentine )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ECNext has announced that RJ Valentine has joined the company as CFO. Prior to joining ECNext, Valentine served as VP and COO/CFO of MPW Industrial Services. Prior to joining MPW, Valentine served as CFO for Liqui-Box Corporation.

Move on mobile content.(agile minds)(Mobile Publisher Services)
September 1, 2007... Publishers may have been short-changed when they embraced the fixed internet only to see their brands and offerings diluted by major search-engine brands that called the shots and picked the content. Thus, they would be shortsighted not to...

Metrics.(Statistical table)
September 1, 2007... Payment Options Are Prime Factors Driving Online Content Purchases Which of the following would be most likely to persuade you to make more content purchases online? More secure 25% payment...

"I go out and play on the Internet at least once a month just to see what is going on out there.".(faces of econtent ... interviews from the econtent trenches)(Daniel Harrison-Senior Research Associate)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Name With The Face: Daniel Harrison Job Title: Senior Research Associate Organization: Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports URL: www.consumerreports.org Job function: Consumers Union (CU), publisher of Consumer...

How networked are you?(behind the firewall)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2007... Helen is one of my best friends in the information business. We have known each other for about 30 years, but as Helen lives in the United States and I live in the U.K., we now meet all too infrequently. Helen and I have developed our careers...

Euromonitor passport.(Euromonitor International)
September 1, 2007... Euromonitor Passport is indeed just that: a passport to a world of consumer market research and country analysis. The data and analysis tools Passport provides allow organizations to monitor new product launches, marketing strategies, and...

Wanted: FUMSI professionals.(info pro)
September 1, 2007... I recently received an email from a long-time info pro who was concerned about the viability of her corporate job and asked me for my thoughts on how librarians will use their skills in the future. What I found most interesting was her...

Know your rights: keeping up with copyright in the digital age.(Copyright infringement)
September 1, 2007... The digitization of content, from print to video to audio and beyond, has major implications for corporations and consumers. Never has content been more flexible and accessible, and never has the threat of misuse of copyright been greater. As...

To catch a thief: tools and tips to combat digital content plagiarism.(Jonathan Bailey)(imitation ofcontent )
September 1, 2007... The saying goes, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Yet in the world of web content, imitation often goes beyond emulation of style or even subject matter. With cut-and-paste ease, imitation becomes plagiarism. Jonathan Bailey,...

A look at portals inside and out.(web portals)
September 1, 2007... Web publishing is surely very different from collaboration, and both are altogether very different from ebusiness. Yet all of these are frequently labeled "portal projects." Even though we recognize the major differences among these types of...

A case of global understanding.(case study)
September 1, 2007... Organization: NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS The name and scope of this association based in Washington, D.C., has changed several times in its nearly 60-year history, but its primary mission--to set and uphold standards of...

Attention corporations: hire a journalist.(after thought)(Public relations firms)
September 1, 2007... The most effective way to market products and services online is to develop thought leadership-based content that existing and potential customers will actually want to read. Companies, nonprofits, rock bands, political candidates, and churches...