One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Razuna, have released version 1.4.7 of their DAM system. The main addition seems to be a labelling feature:
“The concept of Labels in Razuna is very similar to, say to the way how Labels work in Gmail. Labels are …
Continue reading »Kashyap Kompella from consultants, Real Story Group has written up a summary of the Creatasphere DAM Europe conference which was held in the Hague (Netherlands) recently. Kashyap has done a great job of distilling the material from the conference into this piece and covers 10 key areas:
Research group, Forester have published a report on DAM Best Practices. The report contends that only three elements are needed for a best practice strategy:
“To better help C&C …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, released their iPad interface in their attempts to corner the mobile DAM market:
“Built to fully embrace the strengths of TeleScope as well as the strengths of the iPad, this interface brings all of the intuitive touch gestures of …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have released an update to their .NET open source DAM system, FocusOPEN. The stand out features for me were:
As described in both this article and this one by CMSWire.com, the days of proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight look numbered. From the first article about Flash:
“Shunned by Apple’s iOS and Windows Phones, and offering a spotty experience on Android, Flash on mobile platforms has had …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released a blog post: “A shared folder is no substitute for DAM software“. They pose several reasons why:
“The …
Continue reading »Peter Krogh, author of the “The DAM Book” writes on the The DAM Show blog about a steep increase in the cost of hard drives due to the flooding taking place at present in Thailand:
“Due to flooding in Thailand, we’re seeing hard drive prices rise steeply …
Continue reading »Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB has written an article entitled: “Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management“. Johannes discusses the reasons why non-text based search strategies are now more important than ever with the exponential rise in image or video digital content. He …
Continue reading »The Taxonomy Blog covers a report of the Taxonomy Bootcamp which was apparently compiled from tweets rather than attending the event. In “What next, taxonomy?” the authors discuss 5 key themes and questions that were discussed at length during the conference:
Until recently, the method most DAM systems used for delivering audio assets was a SWF player that played a transcoded MP3 proxy file. That’s probably going to be the case for at least the next year (or more) but SoundCloud are aiming to hasten the demise of Flash’s role as …
Continue reading »Adobe, owner of both Day Software and Scene 7 DAM/ECM vendors announced yesterday that they had bought up Auditude, developers of a video advertising platform:
“Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash …
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