Category: Content technology news (Page 359 of 638)

Applied Semantics, Inc. launched AdSense, which dynamically generates advertisements comprised of conceptually relevant search terms and pay-for-performance search results targeted to real-time web content viewed by an online user. AdSense is powered by Applied Semantics’ CIRCA technology, a semantic engine that understands and extracts the key concepts on any web page. The foundation of CIRCA rests on the use of an ontology of millions of concepts and relationships between concepts, enabling it to ‘read’ any web page and build a profile of the key meanings on the page. CIRCA makes it possible to match the key concepts on any web page with the most relevant advertiser in real-time. AdSense crawls web pages, determines key meanings represented on the pages and selects the most effective pay-for-performance search terms. AdSense integrates into any online advertising media type and size, replacing existing advertising displays without the need to redesign or reformat web pages. www.appliedsemantics.com

Banta Integrated Media announced new functional enhancements to its B•media enterprise Digital Content Management software platform specifically designed for catalogers, publishers and marketers. Bmedia 3.1 allows users to publish entire data directories or single assets by selecting a publishing target to send Bmedia content to. New administrative tools simplify the management and maintenance of complex corporate security, permissions and access models. An administrative interface makes it easy to set up complex publishing routines. Thumbnails and previews are automatically created upon check-in of QuarkXPress documents, providing users with visual validation of spreads and layouts. Whiteboarding has been enhanced to enable users to “pour” whiteboards into open QuarkXPress documents to automate page composition and preserve and reuse static elements. User-defined tag names can be applied to text in metadata fields to pass style information QuarkXPress and Web documents. Complex, multilevel keywords have become much easier to manage and use and keywords can be supported in multiple languages. In addition to standard reporting capabilities, users can capture attribute information about any selected asset(s), creating a reusable file for viewing, printing, and Web display. www.banta-im.com

Blue Hammock Inc. announced added service offerings with Data and Content Management. The company terms these offerings, “Information Assets,” defined as leveraging and improving an organizations’ data and content so that it will deliver critical business information. The company has formed alliances with Trillium Software and Interwoven, Inc. in an effort to support these new service lines. www.trilliumsoftware.com, www.interwoven.com, www.bluehammock.com

WebWare Corporation announced that Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 will be fully supported in WebWare MAMBO, Version 4.0, the new edition of WebWare’s enterprise-level digital asset management software. A unique feature available in the combined solution is the ability to manage, preview and transform individual layers in an Adobe-format compound file. Users at a remote location may call up a graphic stored in a WebWare content repository and view it on a standard Web browser. If the document is comprised of different layers, users will view all separate layers as an animated GIF thumbnail, essentially allowing them to “see” into a file without opening it. They may then re-order or make other layers invisible, and see how the newly reconstituted file will look. Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 will be bundled with WebWare MAMBO Version 4.0. Pricing has not been announced. The J2EE-compliant WebWare upgrade will be available early in Q1, 2003. www.webware.com

Isogen International announced it has formed a new business alliance with empolis content management GmbH. Under the agreement, Isogen GEN International will provide integration and implementation services for the sigmalink content management system and other XML products from empolis. The companies are also looking to jointly sponsor XML courses this fall from the Isogen curriculum at empolis locations in Europe and the United States. www.empolis.com, www.isogen.com

Stellent, Inc. announced that Palm Inc. has embedded its Outside In Wireless Export technology in the new Tungsten Mobile Information Management (MIM) Solution. The Tungsten MIM Solution offers enterprises a complete and secure wireless email and groupware access system using the Palm i705 handheld and the Palm m500 series handhelds with the Xircom 802.11 module. The Stellent Wireless Export technology will enable Tungsten MIM users to view email attachments on their Palm handhelds without having to perform a HotSync operation with their desktop environments via a cradle or transfer the native file to the Palm handheld prior to viewing. Palm’s Tungsten MIM Solution is scheduled to begin shipping on Oct. 28, 2002. www.stellent.com, www.palm.com

Canto announced “Web Publisher Pro”, a new Option that allows users to publish Cumulus catalogs and to market digital assets on dynamic web pages in the Internet. The new Option is based on the Cumulus Java Classes and is designed for users who do not merely publish their assets but also intend to market them, as is the case in marketing departments, ad agencies, publishing houses, PR departments, and also in museums, mail-order-houses and other user groups. The integrated ordering system enables users to choose a preferred method of asset delivery-download, email, or physical fulfillment. Separate management of users and groups has now been implemented, based on the Cumulus database so that no additional installation and licensing efforts are required. Customizations and integration with existing databases of other suppliers (e.g. mySQL) can be easily realized. Web Publisher Pro will be available in the second half of November 2002 with English, German and French user interface on Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms. A batch cataloging license of Web Publisher Pro will be available for $1495. Upgrades for existing Web Publisher installations will be
also offered. www.canto.com