Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Google startet Suchmaschine zum selber Basteln (contentmanager.de)
Seit gestern ist die neue kundenspezifische Suchmaschinen-Plattform 'Custom Search Engine' von Google online...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Autonomy signals share buy-back (FT)
Autonomy, the search software company, is likely to spend surplus cash on a share buy-back for want of suitable takeover targets.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Microsoft IE7 Is a Strong Response to the Firefox Challenge (Gartner)
Microsoft is often at its best when facing a strong competitor. With Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft is a "fast follower" of competing browsers like Firefox, but it also offers several innovations.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Wikipedia founder plans rival (FT)
Wikipedia founder plans rival
By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: October 16 2006 22:08 Last updated: October 16 2006 22:08
One of the founders of Wikipedia is days away from launching a rival to the collaborative internet encyclopaedia, in an attempt to bring a more orderly approach to organising knowledge online.
Wikipedia – which is available to be written and edited by anyone on the internet – is one of the most visible successes of mass collaboration on the web, with many of its 1.4m articles appearing high in search results.
However, its openness has also drawn charges of unreliability and left it vulnerable to disputes between people with opposing views, particularly on politically sensitive topics.
The latest venture from Larry Sanger, who helped create Wikipedia in 2001, is intended to bring more order to this creative chaos by drawing on traditional measures of authority. Though still open to submissions from anyone, the power to authorise articles will be given to editors who can prove their expertise, as well as a group of volunteer “constables”, charged with keeping the peace between warring interests.
Accusing Wikipedia of failing to control its writers and editors, he said: “The latest articles don't represent a consensus view – they tend to become what the most persistent ‘posters’ say.”
Mr Sanger said he had financial backing from an unidentified foundation for his new venture, while a web hosting company was providing its services free. He said he became frustrated with Wikipedia's failure to build expertise into its editing process and left after its first year.
Since then, the encyclopedia's other founder, Jimmy Wales, has taken some steps to bring more order to the Wikipedia approach, although he has avoided using authority figures such as editors.
Asked in an e-mail exchange how such disagreements should be resolved, Mr Wales replied: “With strong support for individual rights, and respect for reason.” His e-mail went on: “It is the fundamental responsibility of every individual to- think-, to- judge-, to-decide-. We must never abdicate that responsibility, not to the collective, not to Britannica, not to Wikipedia, not to anyone.”
Mr Sanger said volunteers would be able to become editors of his encyclopedia, called Citizendium, if they can show “minimum levels of qualification, based on real-world measures.”
This would be an “imperfect but effective” test based on “degrees, professional society memberships, things like that”.
Citizendium will be open “within the next few days” to a limited number of invited editors and members of the public who apply, and will be made generally available by the end of the year, said Mr Sanger.
It is likely to take Citizendium some time to prove whether it can create a better online encyclopedia. It will begin by simply taking over all of the existing entries from Wikipedia, then start the laborious job of having them filtered by expert editors – a job Mr Sanger called “a clean-out of the Augean stables”.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006
By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: October 16 2006 22:08 Last updated: October 16 2006 22:08
One of the founders of Wikipedia is days away from launching a rival to the collaborative internet encyclopaedia, in an attempt to bring a more orderly approach to organising knowledge online.
Wikipedia – which is available to be written and edited by anyone on the internet – is one of the most visible successes of mass collaboration on the web, with many of its 1.4m articles appearing high in search results.
However, its openness has also drawn charges of unreliability and left it vulnerable to disputes between people with opposing views, particularly on politically sensitive topics.
The latest venture from Larry Sanger, who helped create Wikipedia in 2001, is intended to bring more order to this creative chaos by drawing on traditional measures of authority. Though still open to submissions from anyone, the power to authorise articles will be given to editors who can prove their expertise, as well as a group of volunteer “constables”, charged with keeping the peace between warring interests.
Accusing Wikipedia of failing to control its writers and editors, he said: “The latest articles don't represent a consensus view – they tend to become what the most persistent ‘posters’ say.”
Mr Sanger said he had financial backing from an unidentified foundation for his new venture, while a web hosting company was providing its services free. He said he became frustrated with Wikipedia's failure to build expertise into its editing process and left after its first year.
Since then, the encyclopedia's other founder, Jimmy Wales, has taken some steps to bring more order to the Wikipedia approach, although he has avoided using authority figures such as editors.
Asked in an e-mail exchange how such disagreements should be resolved, Mr Wales replied: “With strong support for individual rights, and respect for reason.” His e-mail went on: “It is the fundamental responsibility of every individual to- think-, to- judge-, to-decide-. We must never abdicate that responsibility, not to the collective, not to Britannica, not to Wikipedia, not to anyone.”
Mr Sanger said volunteers would be able to become editors of his encyclopedia, called Citizendium, if they can show “minimum levels of qualification, based on real-world measures.”
This would be an “imperfect but effective” test based on “degrees, professional society memberships, things like that”.
Citizendium will be open “within the next few days” to a limited number of invited editors and members of the public who apply, and will be made generally available by the end of the year, said Mr Sanger.
It is likely to take Citizendium some time to prove whether it can create a better online encyclopedia. It will begin by simply taking over all of the existing entries from Wikipedia, then start the laborious job of having them filtered by expert editors – a job Mr Sanger called “a clean-out of the Augean stables”.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
Axel Springer: Größter europäischer Zeitungsverlag entscheidet sich für Getronics (contentmanager.de)
Das Workspace ICT Services Unternehmen Getronics hat die Unterzeichnung eines Vertrages mit dem größten europäischen Zeitungsverlag, der Axel Springer AG (Zeitungsgruppe Welt/Berliner Morgenpost), bekannt gegeben. Inhalt des Vertrages ist die Entwicklung eines neuen Content Management Systems (Escenic Media System) für die Webseiten der Zeitungen "Die Welt" und "Welt am Sonntag".
Die Axel Springer AG verlegt unter anderem die Titel "Die Welt", "Berliner Morgenpost", "Bild" und "Autobild". Die Online-Ausgabe der "Welt" ist zudem eine der bekanntesten Nachrichtenseiten in Deutschland. Als Teil ihrer "Online First"-Strategie implementiert Axel Springer momentan ein Software-Programm, das für die Vielzahl der Online- und Print-Redaktionen der Zeitungsgruppe Berlin einen einzigen integrierten Newsroom schaffen soll. Diese Entwicklung, gemeinsam mit veränderten Benutzeranforderungen und den gewachsenen Möglichkeiten des Internets, gab den Ausschlag für die Entscheidung, ein modernes, state-of-the-art Content-Management-System zu implementieren.
Nach einem sorgfältigen Auswahlverfahren entschied sich die Axel Springer AG für Getronics und das CMS System von Escenic. Den Ausschlag gaben dabei vor allem das umfassende Know-how und die große Erfahrung, die beide Unternehmen im Mediensektor vorweisen können. Darüber hinaus offerierten Getronics und Escenic ein fertig entwickeltes CMS-System, das bereits erfolgreich bei anderen Kunden implementiert wurde. Als weitere Gründe kamen hinzu, dass man Getronics auf Basis der großen Erfahrung und der erfolgreich abgewickelten Projekte zutraut, ein solches Vorhaben problemlos innerhalb eines knapp bemessenen Zeitrahmens international auszurollen und gleichzeitig dem Management die notwendige Unterstützung bei der Einführung des CMS zu bieten.
Das Content-Management-System von Esenic hat seine Leistungsfähigkeit bereits in einer Vielzahl von Projekten im Medienbereich unter Beweis gestellt. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, dass das System nicht nur optimal für Unternehmen ist, die auf einer Vielzahl verschiedener Webseiten einem hohen Level an Interaktivität genügen müssen. Zusätzlich erfüllt die Esenic-Lösung flexibel die Anforderungen in einem sich ständig verändernden Markt.Getronics stärkt mit diesem neuen Projekt seine führende Position im Marktsegment "Medien" und wird damit zunehmend zu einem interessanten Partner für die wachsende Zahl von Medienunternehmen mit einer Internationalisierungsstrategie.
Die Axel Springer AG verlegt unter anderem die Titel "Die Welt", "Berliner Morgenpost", "Bild" und "Autobild". Die Online-Ausgabe der "Welt" ist zudem eine der bekanntesten Nachrichtenseiten in Deutschland. Als Teil ihrer "Online First"-Strategie implementiert Axel Springer momentan ein Software-Programm, das für die Vielzahl der Online- und Print-Redaktionen der Zeitungsgruppe Berlin einen einzigen integrierten Newsroom schaffen soll. Diese Entwicklung, gemeinsam mit veränderten Benutzeranforderungen und den gewachsenen Möglichkeiten des Internets, gab den Ausschlag für die Entscheidung, ein modernes, state-of-the-art Content-Management-System zu implementieren.
Nach einem sorgfältigen Auswahlverfahren entschied sich die Axel Springer AG für Getronics und das CMS System von Escenic. Den Ausschlag gaben dabei vor allem das umfassende Know-how und die große Erfahrung, die beide Unternehmen im Mediensektor vorweisen können. Darüber hinaus offerierten Getronics und Escenic ein fertig entwickeltes CMS-System, das bereits erfolgreich bei anderen Kunden implementiert wurde. Als weitere Gründe kamen hinzu, dass man Getronics auf Basis der großen Erfahrung und der erfolgreich abgewickelten Projekte zutraut, ein solches Vorhaben problemlos innerhalb eines knapp bemessenen Zeitrahmens international auszurollen und gleichzeitig dem Management die notwendige Unterstützung bei der Einführung des CMS zu bieten.
Das Content-Management-System von Esenic hat seine Leistungsfähigkeit bereits in einer Vielzahl von Projekten im Medienbereich unter Beweis gestellt. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, dass das System nicht nur optimal für Unternehmen ist, die auf einer Vielzahl verschiedener Webseiten einem hohen Level an Interaktivität genügen müssen. Zusätzlich erfüllt die Esenic-Lösung flexibel die Anforderungen in einem sich ständig verändernden Markt.Getronics stärkt mit diesem neuen Projekt seine führende Position im Marktsegment "Medien" und wird damit zunehmend zu einem interessanten Partner für die wachsende Zahl von Medienunternehmen mit einer Internationalisierungsstrategie.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Google Will Face Challenges in Wake of YouTube Acquisition (Gartner)
The purchase of YouTube presents Google with an opportunity to tap into the lucrative video brand advertising market. But copyright hurdles must be cleared before that can happen.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2006
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2006
No new Leaders emerged in this year's iteration of the Magic Quadrant for information access technology. Acquisitions and vision improvements
have nevertheless forced significant changes in positioning throughout.
This Magic Quadrant includes vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a collection of technologies, including: search; content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop (or personal knowledge) search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and invoke documents, data, e-mail and intelligence.
We consider all enterprise search vendors to be information access technology vendors; however, those that only offer search capabilities (frequently called "keyword search") are inherently not Visionaries or candidates for the Leaders quadrant. Finding information, and acting on it intelligently, demands increasingly sophisticated and innovative strategies.
We now recommend that Global 2000 enterprises at least select a platform vendor for the majority of future projects. Platform vendors offer modular architectures, wide varieties of relevance modeling, multiple vertical applications and significant customizability. Enterprises should also typically have a tactical vendor to increase the agility for short-term and quick-start projects. Such tactical vendors may lack architectural sophistication and customizability, but they are quicker to deploy and easier to understand. Enterprises must also recognize the need to explore more specialized products for important and specific projects, such as customer interaction hubs, e-commerce search or research science support.
No new Leaders emerged in this year's iteration of the Magic Quadrant for information access technology. Acquisitions and vision improvements
have nevertheless forced significant changes in positioning throughout.
This Magic Quadrant includes vendors with capabilities that go beyond enterprise search to encompass a collection of technologies, including: search; content classification, categorization and clustering; fact and entity extraction; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation (for example, visualization) to support analysis and understanding; and desktop (or personal knowledge) search to address user-controlled repositories to locate and invoke documents, data, e-mail and intelligence.
We consider all enterprise search vendors to be information access technology vendors; however, those that only offer search capabilities (frequently called "keyword search") are inherently not Visionaries or candidates for the Leaders quadrant. Finding information, and acting on it intelligently, demands increasingly sophisticated and innovative strategies.
We now recommend that Global 2000 enterprises at least select a platform vendor for the majority of future projects. Platform vendors offer modular architectures, wide varieties of relevance modeling, multiple vertical applications and significant customizability. Enterprises should also typically have a tactical vendor to increase the agility for short-term and quick-start projects. Such tactical vendors may lack architectural sophistication and customizability, but they are quicker to deploy and easier to understand. Enterprises must also recognize the need to explore more specialized products for important and specific projects, such as customer interaction hubs, e-commerce search or research science support.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Nach Hummingbird-Übernahme: Open Text gibt Eckpunkte der künftigen Unternehmensstrategie bekannt (contentmanager.de)
Wie Open Text (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC) mitteilte, stärkt der am 2. Oktober bekannt gegebene Abschluss der Übernahme von Hummingbird die Position des Unternehmens als des weltweit größten unabhängigen Anbieters von Enterprise Content Management (ECM)-Software. Unter dem Namen Open Text vereinigt das Unternehmen die ECM-Expertise, Lösungen und Partner, mit denen Kunden die Probleme im Zusammenhang mit dem Management von Informationen in großen Organisationen lösen können.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Web 2.0-Anwendungen lösen Ursprungsversprechen des Internets ein (contentmanager.de)
BVDW-Experten aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen sehen mit zunehmender Reichweite der verschiedenen Web2.0-Anwendungen lange existierende Hoffungen und Versprechen der Internetwirtschaft eingelöst. Weblogs, Videoblogs, RSS-Feeds & Co. - von vielen momentan noch als Phänomen unter Insidern und "Heavyusern" abgetan, wird nach Meinung von BVDW-Gesamtvorstand Andrea Schulz und Jörg Rensmann, stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Fachgruppe Services & Innovationen im BVDW nach und nach Einzug in die Kommunikationsstrategien der Unternehmen halten. Dabei lassen sich die verschiedenen Anwendungen als Instrumente in der Vermarktung als auch in der internen Kommunikation einsetzen. Entscheidende Bausteine für den erfolgreichen Einsatz der Technologien sind, so die Experten beim Kongress "Chance Web 2.0", Glaubwürdigkeit, Kritikfähigkeit, Authentizität, Relevanz sowie die Ermöglichung echter Partizipation.
Web 2.0-Anwendungen lösen Ursprungsversprechen des Internets ein (contentmanager.de)
BVDW-Experten aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen sehen mit zunehmender Reichweite der verschiedenen Web2.0-Anwendungen lange existierende Hoffungen und Versprechen der Internetwirtschaft eingelöst. Weblogs, Videoblogs, RSS-Feeds & Co. - von vielen momentan noch als Phänomen unter Insidern und "Heavyusern" abgetan, wird nach Meinung von BVDW-Gesamtvorstand Andrea Schulz und Jörg Rensmann, stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Fachgruppe Services & Innovationen im BVDW nach und nach Einzug in die Kommunikationsstrategien der Unternehmen halten. Dabei lassen sich die verschiedenen Anwendungen als Instrumente in der Vermarktung als auch in der internen Kommunikation einsetzen. Entscheidende Bausteine für den erfolgreichen Einsatz der Technologien sind, so die Experten beim Kongress "Chance Web 2.0", Glaubwürdigkeit, Kritikfähigkeit, Authentizität, Relevanz sowie die Ermöglichung echter Partizipation.
Content Integration - Teil 2 (contentmanager.de)
Bis auf die Systeme von SAP und ADP (Paisy) gibt es auf dem Markt für betriebswirtschaftliche Systeme kein Produktangebot mit einer veröffentlichten, zertifizierbaren "Standard"-Schnittstelle zu einem Enterprise Content Management System. Auch "Standard"-Integrationen von ECM-Herstellern in marktgängige Fachanwendungen sind mit Schwächen verbunden. Projektarbeit tut Not - doch welchen technologischen Ansatz, welche Gesamtarchitektur sollte man wählen und wie kann ein ECM-System auf seine Integrationsmöglichkeit bewertet werden? Im zweiten Teil des Artikels "Content Integration" werden diese Fragen beantwortet...
Content Integration - Teil 1 (contentmanager.de)
Obwohl seit fast 20 Jahren Archiv- bzw. Dokumenten Management Lösungen in Unternehmen eingerichtet werden, stellt auch heute noch die Verbindung von Fachanwendung und Enterprise Content Management System (ECM-System) in fast jedem Projekt eine Herausforderung dar und ist häufig eine der Gründe für unkalkuliert hohe Projektkosten.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Why Portals Exist (Line56)
Don't let meta-functions obscure the main point of the portal interface; thinking about Netflix and Starbucks
In Search Of The Collaborative Structure (Optimize Mag)
If you want to get your arms around collaborative technology, you'd better have an amazing wingspan. Forrester noted in a recent report that it logged some 400 client inquiries on collaboration in 2005 and the first half of 2006, encompassing everything from messaging and Web conferencing to document management and blogs. IT staffs are stuck trying to gain control of all these deployments in the name of collaboration and productivity. Fortunately, vendors are working to address the question of integrating the vast pool of content, portal, office-productivity, and other technologies.
Monday, October 02, 2006
WebEx Extends Its Offerings to Provide a Web Platform (Gartner)
With WebEx Connect, WebEx Communications seeks to move beyond conferencing and become a general platform for enterprise Web 2.0 applications. This platform will add more legitimacy to the "software as a service" model.
Line56: A New Direction (Line56)
A heads-up on our changing approach to the e-business marketplace, and what it means for the Line56 community
Going forward, in addition to coverage of events of general importance in e-business, Line56 will be focusing coverage in three areas:
1. Portals (enterprise portals in particular, but we will also be focusing on the human interface aspects of enterprise applications like ERP, SCM, KM, procurement, e-learning, and so forth).
2. On Demand CRM
3. Middleware (including application infrastructure, databases, and radio frequency identification technology).
Our approach to the portals category is different than the current market understanding. A portal is, of course, a standalone technology: the enterprise portal. But, as we understand it, a portal is also any online interface (relying on components like dashboards, portlets, and open standards) that gives human users access to enterprise information. Line56 is increasingly interested in the human interface to enterprise technology, wherever it resides on the technology continuum, and this is what we will be featuring going forward.
We have also decided to break out on demand customer relationship management (CRM) into a category of its own. Despite the fact that many CRM deployments remain traditional, we respect the potential of the on demand model and would like to give it expanded coverage here.
Finally, no e-business technology or process is viable without the glue that is middleware.
What does this mean for readers? The easiest explanation is that it is the depth, rather than the breadth, of our coverage that will be changing. We will be going more deeply into the portal as human interface, on demand CRM, and middleware; our coverage will provide more specific details about products, deployments, strategies, and market conditions as we move from being a general news source to a targeted provider of information to the technology buyer, particularly in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) arena.
What does this mean for vendors and PR agencies? Line56 will be more interested in product demonstrations and interviews with customers. We want to see products in action, and talk to customers who are using them.
In trying to get on our calendar, please be aware of the Line56 Yahoo Group:http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/line56/This is where you can directly schedule briefings with our Managing Editor, Demir Barlas, and check out his schedule several weeks in advance.
If you have not already done so, you can e-mail Demir at delikurt AT yahoo DOT com in order to receive an invitation to this group.
It is worth repeating that we will still cover news of general importance, and news that does not fit into the categories above. We will be more alert, however, to the focus areas above.
Thanks for your readership!
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About From The Editor: This is part of a series of high-level discussions of e-business issues that, while grounded as far as possible in data and fact, also incorporates a modicum of speculative thinking. -- Editor
"From The Editor" is an Op-ed series intended to foster critical thinking and discussion of current issues. Opinions stated do not necessarily reflect the views of Line56 Media as a whole.
Going forward, in addition to coverage of events of general importance in e-business, Line56 will be focusing coverage in three areas:
1. Portals (enterprise portals in particular, but we will also be focusing on the human interface aspects of enterprise applications like ERP, SCM, KM, procurement, e-learning, and so forth).
2. On Demand CRM
3. Middleware (including application infrastructure, databases, and radio frequency identification technology).
Our approach to the portals category is different than the current market understanding. A portal is, of course, a standalone technology: the enterprise portal. But, as we understand it, a portal is also any online interface (relying on components like dashboards, portlets, and open standards) that gives human users access to enterprise information. Line56 is increasingly interested in the human interface to enterprise technology, wherever it resides on the technology continuum, and this is what we will be featuring going forward.
We have also decided to break out on demand customer relationship management (CRM) into a category of its own. Despite the fact that many CRM deployments remain traditional, we respect the potential of the on demand model and would like to give it expanded coverage here.
Finally, no e-business technology or process is viable without the glue that is middleware.
What does this mean for readers? The easiest explanation is that it is the depth, rather than the breadth, of our coverage that will be changing. We will be going more deeply into the portal as human interface, on demand CRM, and middleware; our coverage will provide more specific details about products, deployments, strategies, and market conditions as we move from being a general news source to a targeted provider of information to the technology buyer, particularly in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) arena.
What does this mean for vendors and PR agencies? Line56 will be more interested in product demonstrations and interviews with customers. We want to see products in action, and talk to customers who are using them.
In trying to get on our calendar, please be aware of the Line56 Yahoo Group:http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/line56/This is where you can directly schedule briefings with our Managing Editor, Demir Barlas, and check out his schedule several weeks in advance.
If you have not already done so, you can e-mail Demir at delikurt AT yahoo DOT com in order to receive an invitation to this group.
It is worth repeating that we will still cover news of general importance, and news that does not fit into the categories above. We will be more alert, however, to the focus areas above.
Thanks for your readership!
Sign up for Line56 Newsletters to receive the latest e-business news, blogs, viewpoints, and analysis via e-mail.
About From The Editor: This is part of a series of high-level discussions of e-business issues that, while grounded as far as possible in data and fact, also incorporates a modicum of speculative thinking. -- Editor
"From The Editor" is an Op-ed series intended to foster critical thinking and discussion of current issues. Opinions stated do not necessarily reflect the views of Line56 Media as a whole.
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