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WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS IN CONTENT AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
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Fountain Flowing:
Can Factiva Redefine Premium Content Value with IBM? |
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As Factiva
announces the deployment of
its vast content collection on IBM's new Web Fountain
platform, it is being heralded by these partners as the
dawn of a new world of content value. Complex, human-scaled
questions can now find answers in a flash from a sea of
premium, public and private content. But will this fountain
of knowledge flow as freely and steadily as they hope? The
very thing that makes Web Fountain formidable - its scale -
may in fact turn out in the long run to be as much an
impediment as a strength in helping companies to create
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Friday, September 19, 2003 |
eBook Revenues up 30 Percent over 2002, Units up 40
Percent
The Open eBook Forum reports in just-released research
that while eBook revenues may seem paltry at an
estimated USD $4.9 Million in the first half of 2003,
this represents a huge growth in sales compared with
the 5 percent growth experienced by the overall book
industry in the same period. As Shore analyst
Jean Bedord notes in her
upcoming report on the eBook marketplace, this may
be a relatively small market so far, but it's rapid
growth indicates a level of enthusiasm for eBooks that
outlets such as Barnes & Noble may have underestimated.
We believe that ALL premium content providers should
pay very special attention to the eBooks marketplace,
as it promises to lead the way to both business models
and technology that will help to power sales for many
forms of premium content. When looking for how to
produce
vContent - highly valued content - it pays to keep
your perspective very wide, as the changes that will
influence one sector are oftentimes already being well
proven in other sectors.
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Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
Factiva First to Dip Into IBM's Web Fountain
Premium content aggregation took a major step forward
today as
IBM and Factiva announced that they will be
applying the text search and analysis capabilities of
IBM's
Web Fountain platform to
Factiva's extensive collection of premium content
sources. Significantly Factiva's first target is
tracking corporate reputation via Web Fountain's
analysis of Factiva sources, Internet pages and
newsgroups. While Factiva still provides value via
simplifying the acquisition of premium sources, the
value of simply assembling content collections has been
diminishing very rapidly in the face of enterprise and
public search tools. Web Fountain's capabilities
provide Factiva with powerful leverage to define new
premium levels of content value using leading edge
technology, creating highly tailored content services
that can produce highly profitable results. Both IBM
and Factiva stand to win a great deal via Web Fountain,
but its ability to scale to enterprise-wide content and
expectations is still a work in progress.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
Too Late for DRM on DVD Content?
The Wall Street Journal reports that testimony
before the Senate Commerce Committee today by Edward
Felten, a Princeton University computer-science
professor, paints a grim picture for the movie industry
to regain control of electronic distribution via the
proposed "digital flag" to prevent piracy of DVDs and
broadcast digital content. His rationale: the millions
of DVD players already sold would be unable to digest
this new content, forcing consumers either to purchase
compatible units or resort to other acquisition
methods. DRM technology was not very mature when DVDs
and digital broadcasts first came to market, but at the
same time it's hard to imagine how anyone planning on
premium digital content today cannot think about this
as an integral part of product planning. Bottom line,
significant new user benefits and features will have to
accompany any DRM technology to make it worth the while
of any individual or institution to make an investment
that locks them in to new schemes.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
Justia Optimizes Search Engine Placements for Legal
Professionals
Search results are not just information that gets you
to content, it's content itself, content that can make
or break companies in highly competitive market
segments.
Justia
is taking an interesting approach to search engine
optimization, targeting specifically legal firms and
professionals seeking to improve their chances in being
recognized in Internet search engine results. Their
recently
announced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Center
provides a good range of general information about how
best to approach this process, but also gives good
examples of how to apply this practically to legal
content. Increasingly creating content is not just
about putting out words and graphics but as well
understanding what makes that information valuable to
specific audiences in specific venues; understanding
specific markets as a part of that process is
oftentimes a key factor in creating that value
successfully.
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Monday, September 15, 2003 |
Bloomberg Takes On theStreet.com Content via
Professional Platform
It's all about the content and the context. Upon-a-time
dot-com upstart
theStreet.com has
announced that it has begun to make its Street
Insight product available via the Bloomberg
Professional platform, making it available to
Bloomberg's clients worldwide. Traders and analysts are
coming under ever-increasing scrutiny for their use of
external sources and worldwide Internet access is
sometimes iffy in many places where private financial
information networks thrive, so to some degree the
reliability of private access is a driving factor here.
But the strong plus is integration with core Bloomberg
sources and the ease of single-interface access that
its users are long used to. If the context fits your
audience, wear it...
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RIAA Enforcement Efforts May Isolate Content Companies
The New York Times reports that as the
Recording
Industry Association of America's efforts to
prosecute unfold, they may be creating demand for a new
generation of file sharing software to drive people
further away from scrutiny - and from interaction with
people outside of their networks. One such derivative
system, dubbed
Blubster, already had an estimated 250 thousand
users before the Times article broke. As discussed in
this week's
news analysis, as individuals continue to gain
strength as publishers, premium content providers need
to engage them in the technology venues in which they
come to value their content, and provide enhanced
services that make a relationship with the provider
worth the while. Push people away now, and you lose the
common ground for engagement.
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When Books Break the Bank |
The New
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Talks begin on Internet regulation |
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eBooks sales expected to top $10
million in 2003, Unit Sales Grow 40% Over 2002 |
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E-books 'not dead yet' |
Reuters via
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E-Books Check Out at Libraries |
BookTech
Magazine |
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Micropayments and the gift economy |
openp2p.com |
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Google - the only archive we'll ever need? |
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Register |
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Experts Debate Future Of Digital-Rights Management |
InformationWeek |
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Small Publishers Make Up Big Group |
Publishers Weekly |
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Moreover announces 'first' in weblog search |
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No Standard for Standards |
Line56.com |
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Nearing a Tax-Free Internet |
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Crackdown May Send Music Traders Into Software Underground |
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Copyright Protection May Cost Consumers, Professor
Testifies |
WSJ.com* |
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Study: Students unfazed by piracy |
CNET News |
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Net censorship hits 'all time high' |
The
Register |
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Information society faces a critical time |
The Nation
Multimedia |
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Music File Sharers Keep Sharing: Times
Survey |
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Text ads bring in the cash |
Pandia |
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Firm bans e-mail to boost production |
ZDNet |
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SIMILE: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and
Information in unLike Environments |
D-Lib Forum |
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Microsoft Outlines Live Meeting-IM Integration |
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Planet.com |
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ClearForest, Ness Partner to Deliver Comprehensive
Business Intelligence Solutions for Life Sciences |
PR
Newswire via SV BizInk |
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Top Knowledge Creator, Oxford
Analytica, and Knowledge Provider, Alacra, Inc. Link Up |
BusinessWire |
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Justia Launches Search Engine
Optimization Center and Other
Offerings for Lawyers and Law Firms |
BusinessWire |
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TheStreet.com and Bloomberg
Form Alliance to Distribute Content to Financial
Professionals |
BusinessWire |
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Wall Street Access launches research service
covering distressed industries |
Reuters
News |
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IBM and Factiva Join Forces
to Transform Global Content Business |
BusinessWire |
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IBM unveils new advanced search engine |
Channel
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Interwoven Delivers Self-Service CM Solution; Resells
iPhrase One Step |
EContent
Magazine |
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Reuters Ads Push News
Business |
WSJ
Online* |
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Microsoft Goes Live With Microsoft Office Live Meeting |
PR Newswire
via SV BizInk |
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AOL Time Warner to Drop 'AOL' From Corporate Name |
WSJ
Online* |
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Verity Wins Transform
Magazine Readers' Choice Award |
PR
Newswire via SV BizInk |
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Paymentech Partners With Yaga to Offer Digital Content
Commerce Services |
PR Newswire
via SV BizInk |
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LexisNexis Adopts XyEnterprise
XML Content Management and Publishing Software for Global
CMS |
BusinessWire |
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Cleary Gottlieb Selects Recommind for Firm-Wide Universal
Search |
MarketWire |
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Skyscape, Inc. Gives
Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows
PDA Access to Vital Clinical Information |
BusinessWire |
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LAS, ClearForest Announce Strategic Partnership for
Enhanced International Content Analysis |
PR Newswire
via SV BizInk |
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Optika and Nth Orbit Announce
Comprehensive Sarbanes Oxley Solution with ECM
and Records Mgt. |
BusinessWire |
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iPhrase and Interwoven Extend
Marketing and Sales Agreement; One Step Offered Worldwide |
BusinessWire |
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Duane Morris Deploys iManage WorkSite Server with Caching |
PR Newswire
via SV BizInk |
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NextPage Launches NXT Software
to Securely Deliver Content Online and Offline |
BusinessWire |
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Xythos Software Supports Oracle
Application Server 10g to
Simplify Content Management for Enterprises |
BusinessWire |
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SEPTEMBER 2003 |
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Managing
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information on the key legal, operational, and
technical issues associated with the management of
electronic records - through the consistent quality of
its programs, select problem-solving exhibitors and
many "networking" opportunities. Conference will
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OCTOBBER 2003 |
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KM
World and Intranets Conference
Santa Clara, USA |
InformationToday |
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theme, Business Critical Knowledge Management,
emphasizes that KM is not a stand-alone initiative, but
totally integrated into an organization's business and
work processes. This year there is a particular
emphasis on knowledge based collaborative organizations
as well as the infrastructure necessary to support such
organizations. Intranets 2003 addresses the management,
implementation and business implications of the next
generation of collaborative intranet and portal
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6th World Financial Information Conference
Washington, DC USA |
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market data industry. Held every other year, the WFIC
brings together senior management from every segment of
the industry - exchanges, market centers, market data
vendors, news organizations, specialist data providers,
enabling technology companies, investment managers,
broker/dealers, custodian banks -- to focus on the core
strategic, technical and commercial issues associated
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