EContent back issues from April 2008:
Dreaming in txt.(edit this)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I earned a couple of memorable C's in my academic history. One was for my capricious foray into physics, which I took as a college elective in an effort to follow the cryptic conversations my physics-major best friend had with her science pals. The other was in fifth grade handwriting. My ...
Intranet list manager.(EMail)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I am looking for information about company/corporate intranets in the U.S. that may have modules for "Alternative Transportation" options, including van and carpools. Please tell me of any surveys or research you have done on the subject. Is there a comprehensive list of the hundreds or ...
Corrections.(Correction notice)
Apr 01, 2008 ... In the January 2008 feature "It's a Small World After All" [Ron Miller, pp. 26-31], we misrepresented a comment by Alison Toon, translation and localization manger at HP, stating that "HP's primary translation vendor is SDL." In fact, www.hp.com's primary translation vendor is HP ACG ...
MySpace developer platforms to serve as foundation for new applications.(content news)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Competition in the online social network space continues to heat up, as providers respond to the call from developers eager to create and share applications in an expansive environment. The result is developer platforms that outside developers can tap into to create applications that ...
Microsoft proposes acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per share.(news & product briefs)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Microsoft Corp. announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. board of directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for a per-share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft's proposal would allow ...
Mochila introduces open standards RSS Atom API.(news & product briefs)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Mochila, an online media marketplace for text, photo, and video content, introduced an open standards RSS Atom API that allows publishers to automatically connect their content management and web publishing systems to access ...
SDL acquires Idiom for $22 million.(news & product briefs)
Apr 01, 2008 ... SDL plc. ("SDL"), a provider of global information management (GIM) solutions, announced that it has acquired Idiom Technologies, Inc., a provider of translation management systems. SDL has acquired Idiom for a consideration of ...
What's all the buzz about? washingtonpost.com and outside.in partner to give citizens a voice.(content news)
Apr 01, 2008; ... User-generated content tends to carry a bad reputation within the digital sphere; those opposed to its presence in the information age reject UGC by claiming everyday citizens can't (and shouldn't) have authority over professionally trained journalists when it comes to online news content ....
Clickability launches on demand web content management platform.(News & Product Briefs)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Clickability, Inc., a provider of on-demand web content management (WCM), launched the Clickability On Demand WCM Platform and three new product packages tailored specifically for the company's media and publishing customers, Fortune 500 enterprises, and SMB clients. The Clickability ...
FatWire acquires Future Tense.(News & Product Briefs)
Apr 01, 2008 ... FatWire Software, a provider of web content management solutions, announced that it has acquired Future Tense Solutions, its Australian-based reseller. Prior to the close of the acquisition, Future Tense had exclusive rights to sell and distribute FatWire products throughout Australia and ...
Hoover's launches Hoover's Connect, acquires Visible Path.(News & Product Briefs)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Hoover's, Inc. announced the official launch of Hoover's Connect--a business networking tool that helps users get introduced to and establish relationships with targeted prospects. This launch coincides with Hoover's agreement to acquire Visible Path, the company that had been powering ...
Northern Light incorporates: social search principles into online business research tool.(content news)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Northern Light's CEO, David Seuss, sees social search as a beacon on the horizon. It's still relatively faint, but with his company's help, it's growing ever brighter. "We want to bring a social element to business research in a big way," Seuss says. "We think there is a lot of stuff that ...
Celona Technologies.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Celona Technologies, data migration specialists, has appointed Charles Andrews as CEO. Andrews has nearly 20 years experience in ...
Knovel.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Knovel announced the appointment of Barbara Wasserman to executive VP of ...
Gannett Co., Inc.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Saridakis was named senior VP and chief digital officer for ...
Gannett Digital Ventures.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Also, Jack Williams was named ...
Wikimedia oundation.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... The Wikimedia oundation announced the addition of three new staff members: Veronique Kessler, CFO and COO; Kul Takanao Wadhwa, head of ...
Ingram Book Group, Inc.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Ingram Book Group, Inc. announced that David (Skip) Prichard, COO, is the new president and CEO of the ...
MarketResearch.com.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... MarketResearch.com has appointed Patrick W. Allen as CTO ....
SocialMedia Networks.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SocialMedia Networks announced it has appointed Yahoo! behavioral targeting expert ...
Haymarket Worldwide.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Haymarket Worldwide has appointed Keith Wiegold as director, strategy and business development. Wiegold, ...
FatWire Software.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... FatWire Software announced the appointment of Mark Bridger as president of FatWire International. He joins FatWire from ...
Datawatch Corp.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Datawatch Corp. announced the appointments of Robert Clemens, VP of worldwide sales; Robert ...
Endeca Technologies, Inc.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Endeca Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Joel P. Friedman to the company's board of ...
LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... LexisNexis Group announced the appointment of Joe Eberhardt to the newly created position of global ...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Elinor Hirschhorn has been named to the newly created position of executive VP, chief digital officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ...
MindTouch.(peopleware)
Apr 01, 2008 ... MindTouch announced that Larry Augustin and Matt Asay have joined its board of advisors. Augustin invests and advises early stage technology ...
Sleight of hand or heavy handed? Will AT&T's pirate-sniffing proposal end the net neutrality standoff?(content news)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Net neutrality advocates are riled up over AT&T's recent announcement that it may start playing traffic cop, sniffing and snuffing out illegally transmitted copyrighted material sent over its network. But the issues and motives behind the move, like the content in question, are not at all ...
Digital B2B media tactics: that U.S. B2B marketers used in the past year, 2007.(metrics)
Apr 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] <Pre> Digital B2B Media Tactics That U.S. B2B Marketers Used in the Past Year, 2007 Advertising on a website for an event 51% Advertising in industry-specific magazines with fulfillment on the web ...
Social network advertising spending, 2006-2011.(U.S. Online)
Apr 01, 2008 ... <Pre> U.S. Online Social Network Advertising Spending, 2006-2011: (in millions and percentage change) 2006$350 2007$920 (163%) 2008$1,560 (70%) ...
Video advertising spending, 2001-2011.(U.S. Online)
Apr 01, 2008 ... <Pre> U.S. Online Video Advertising Spending, 2001-2011: (in millions) 2001$40 2002$55 2003$85 2004$135 2005$225 2006$410 2007...
Social media * users and broadband penetration worldwide, 2007-2012.(metrics)
Apr 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Social Media * Users and Broadband Penetration Worldwide, 2007--2012 (in millions and percentage of broadband users) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2007 373 (46%) 2008 489 (52%) 2009 628 (60%) 2010 774 (67%) 2011 907 (72%) ...
... Interviews from the econtent trenches.(faces of econtent)(Interview)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Name With The Face: Biliana (Bili) Dolaptchiev Job Title: Customer Relations Manager Organization: iStockphoto (a subsidiary of Getty Images, Inc.) URL: www.istockphoto.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Job Function: "I often ...
The rising price of privacy.(follow the money)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the digital content industry a dubious present last Christmas. At the same time the FTC approved a merger of Google with ad network and services provider DoubleClick, it also lobbed the issue of privacy back over the net for the companies to solve ....
Brewing the perfect blend of free and fee.(Cover story)(Company overview)
Apr 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the icon of high-priced business information tells its readers to line up for their "free lunch," you know that the game of digital content economics has changed. "We're delighted to offer our worldwide readers access to our message of free people and ...
Where it's at.(agile minds)
Apr 01, 2008; ... If Web 2.0 is all about the tools and technologies that allow users to freely create, share, and connect around content, as well as interact with content companies, then the next evolutionary step is Mobile 3.0, which places location and the mobile device at the core of this exchange. ...
B2B gets social media.
Apr 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Social media tools such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts have become commonplace in the business-to-consumer marketing world. However, adoption of social media tools in the business-to-business environment is still in early stages, as companies contend with ...
From free to three (100K).(i column like i cm)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML structured publishing solutions, like content management systems in general, run the gamut in cost from free to millions of dollars for some of the largest implementations in big corporations, such as Adobe, Autodesk, BMC, EMC, IBM, Nokia, ...
Moving your office online.
Apr 01, 2008; ... Whether or not you like Microsoft Office 2007, there is no debating that it dramatically changed the familiar Windows program's look and feel. This dramatic change, coupled with the fact that users are growing increasingly comfortable working in online applications, provides an opportunity ...
Privacy? Fuggedaboutit!(info pro)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Back in ancient times when the Earth's crust had not fully hardened and bulletin board services (BBSs) were bleeding edge, I got hooked on The Well (www.well.com), a vibrant BBS with an unusual premise--no anonymous users. Subscribers had a persistent username, and, in fact, people were ...
Taxonomy tool roundup.(MultiTes Pro, Term Tree 2000, TCS-10)(Product/service evaluation)
Apr 01, 2008; ... There are quite a few products on the market called taxonomy tools. To choose just a few for a comparative evaluation requires narrowing the field a bit. Since taxonomies are typically used for tagging and searching, a number of taxonomy products integrate taxonomy creation and maintenance ...
A case of improving content flow--from storage to access.(case study)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Company: R.R. BOWKER R.R. Bowker is an ISBN (international standard book number) agency for the U.S. The company receives data feeds from publishers, wholesalers, and distributors. New Providence, N.J.-based Bowker, which has served the publishing industry for more than 130 ...
An open letter to Warner Music Group.(after thought)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Dear Warner Music Group Executives: The BBC reports that 20 million people wanted to purchase tickets to the historic Led Zeppelin show held at the O2 Arena on Dec. 10, 2007. Needless to say, with only 20,000 tickets available, there were many disappointed fans who couldn't be ...