Enterprise 2.0 Conference: June 15-17
This year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference is being held on June 15-17 in Boston (USA). The conference highlights include: Defining an Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Social Business […]
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Data Warehouse Appliances: Do You Need One?
In this two part article from Baseline Consulting, Evan Levy considers the benefits of a Data Warehouse appliance to those considering replacing ageing in-house or custom built solutions developing using conventional SQL based RDBMS. He notes that the average lifespan of a data warehouse is typically just 3-4 years and …
Continue reading »Semantic Web: May Not Be As Effective As Visionaries Hope
This article by Pew Research analyses responses from 895 survey respondents as part of Pew’s “Future of the Internet” survey. The research revealed that almost half the respondents (47%) believe that by 2020, the Semantic Web will not be as effective as some visionaries such as Tim Berners-Lee …
Continue reading »CEPIC New Media Conference Dublin – 9th June
The CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies) New Media Conference is being held in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin (Ireland) this year. The event will cover a range of new media topics that are of relevance to stock photo libraries including stock video, microstock and metadata (the event is combined …
Continue reading »Warren Buffet Invests In Iron Mountain
As reported in the Wall Street Journal last week, legendary investor, Warren Buffet, CEO and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and the world’s 2nd richest man has recently acquired nearly 800,000 shares of Document Management group, Iron Mountain.
Buffet is renowned for his tendency to avoid tech stocks because …
Continue reading »North Plains Announces New Release of TeleScope Publishing Platform
North Plains have announced the release of its Telescope Publishing Platform (TPP) which is aimed at publishers who want to release eBooks using platforms such as ePub, PDF Amazon Kindle and eReader:
“TPP enables publishers to rapidly and cost-effectively streamline their eBook conversion, publishing, distribution and promotion operations, to …
Continue reading »Metadata And The Future Of News
Sarah Saunders of UK photo library training and consulting group, Electric Lane has written a report about IPTC Spring Conference in Paris held last month, in particular some of the trends and emerging standards like IPTC G2:
“G2, which provides an XML-based standard for the exchange of news …
Continue reading »Pure Play DAM Vendors Seek To Differentiate Via Specialisation
Some research released by Enterprise Information Watch released yesterday reveals that pure play DAM vendors are looking to differentiate themselves from ECM vendors offering ‘one size fits all’ approaches to DAM.
“As DAM applications have moved away from thick clients to web-based applications, and CMS vendors add basic image/video …
Continue reading »Phase 1 Acquires Microsoft’s Expression Media
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had sold its Digital Asset Management solution, Expression Media to Phase 1, a digital camera capture and image manipulation software vendor. Expression Media was formerly known as iView when acquired from iView-Multimedia in 2006. iView was popular with photographers and there had recently …
Continue reading »All Aboard The SharePoint 2010 Bandwagon
CMS Watch’s Shawn Shell takes a look at the compatibility rush following the launch of SharePoint 2010 earlier this month.
“Within a week of the official SharePoint 2010 launch announcement, the platform’s broad ecosystem was buzzing with parallel announcements about integrations, add-ons, and support options. Contrast this with SharePoint 2007, …
Continue reading »Google Highlights HTML5 Interactive Animation Features
Andrew Frank comments on the sophisticated interactive animation features of HTML5 as demonstrated by Google’s recent PacMan tribute.
“In case you missed this, Google wants you to know that, even though the official standard may be years away, HTML5 today is capable of some pretty sophisticated interactive animation today. Apple, …
Continue reading »Corbis To Close Down Sygma
As reported on the British Journal of Photography website, stock photo library provider Corbis (which is owned by Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft) are to close down their French subsidiary, Sygma, a prestigious press agency with a 37 year history. In part, the move is due to significant …
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