One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion Software have released version 0.9.7b of their flagship DAM system. Apart from wining the award for more obscure product version number of the week (and they’re not even open source!) the update contains a variety of new features:
Chris Heilmann, who is a “principle developer evangelist” at Mozilla (why aren’t there job titles like that in the software companies I do work for?) describes some myths about HTML5, with special reference to the lack of adoption of HTML5 for mobile applications:
On CMSwire,com, Henrik de Gyor has written an article Should I Auto-tag or Crowdsource my Metadata.
The summary of the post is that there are a combination of either automated methods and crowdsourcing techniques which can potentially be used for asset metadata cataloguing, but you need to test each …
Continue reading »Edward Smith writing for CMSWire.com discusses some trends he sees in prospect for the DAM industry. They are:
This CMO.com article was written by Nick Van Weerdenburg, Senior Product Marketing Manager from one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains. It is mercifully free of sales spin about how great NP are and explains how more demanding requirements from other industries have helped shape DAM solutions and …
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This guest post is written by David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director of DAM vendors, Picturepark.
The Inhumanity of DRM
We DAM professionals are increasingly fascinated about digital rights management (DRM). We want to protect our content, and we’re constantly on the hunt …
Continue reading »ReadWriteWeb.com covers ‘Boom Town’, an HTML5 game that has been simultaneously offered on Apple App Store, Android Google Play and Facebook. The game itself sounds pretty dull, but I’m not a massive gamer and the real point of covering this story here on DAM News is that demonstrates how the …
Continue reading »Yesterday we examined our DAM industry predictions for 2012. Today in the second part of the article, we analyse the technology predictions for the forthcoming year.
The novelty factor of having a networked system that can deliver all of an enterprise’s media from one source is …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, WAVE Corporation have written a blog post which definitely resonates with my own consulting experience when working with clients who are interested in implementing Digital Asset Management. They discuss how when they get enquiries, sales prospects can tend to expand the scope of …
Continue reading »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 »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 …
Continue reading »One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, North Plains have released recordings of a 3 part series of webinars about the foundation of DAM:
“The DAM Foundations Series is a 3-part series of DAM webinars and whitepapers designed for DAM evaluators, stakeholders and users to create shared …
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