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While Web 2.0 sweeps the internet buzz machine, businesses are a bit slower to pick up the new paradigm. Shiv Singh shows how taking the leap and embracing the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 can provide great rewards.
News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.
"The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded," said Anurag Acharya, Google distinguished engineer, who played a major role in shepherding the new product.
Google has partnered with news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post, and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, to index the full-text of content going back 200 years.
ESPN.com said it is ending its deal with Yahoo to show text ads on its Web pages, choosing instead to sell the placements itself.
ESPN plans to roll out its own Google-like auction system for placing text-link ads on its site, letting advertisers target placements based on keyword or section. The ad system, which uses New York firm Quigo's AdSonar platform, will be up and running this fall, the company said.
Our SEO buddies at Wordtracker recently launched their own blog:
Paper is a lot easier to manage, states a study conducted by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), an international authority on enterprise content management.
Here's an older article from eWeek but still very relevant to the world of content management and media assets. With more than 53 years of multimedia content under its belt, Playboy Enterprises takes content management and rights management very seriously.
