In This Issue |
| Vigil Tech |
| WF Workshops |
XML Schemas
Grow |
| AltaVista IPO |
Rowe Acquires
NewsEdge |
| Liaison Tech |
| Karnak |
| XML Conference |
| Freedom to Link |
Web Stats from
Alexa |
R. Hackathorn
editor
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AltaVista
Files for IPO |
| After eight
years of bouncing from Digital to Compaq, a pioneer of global
search engines - AltaVista - is finally going public. Aid
by the recent acquisition by CMGI, AltaVista will go public
sometime in the near future as ALTA. For the gory details of the
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Liaison
Attracts Funding |
|
Liaison
Technology in Austin attracts a second round for $10M. They
also announced their Price Tracker product based upon Dexter, an
intelligent pattern recognition engine. By monitoring pricing
information from multiple sites, product managers can make
informed decisions.
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XML
Conference |
| A
conference on XML Strategies for e-Business: The Universal
Language will be held on February 23-24 in San Francisco. It
is chaired by Clive
Finkelstein.
|
Freedom
to Link |
| A
federal judge has barred Sandra and Jerald Tanner of the Utah Lighthouse Ministry from posting URL links
to pirated copies of a copyrighted book owned by the Mormon
Church. As reported in the NYTimes,
this decision could discourage people from linking to websites out
of concern for copyright liability. |
|
Vigil |
 Vigil
Technology offers a new service called e-Sense, which
"monitors their business landscapes from open Internet
sources," says Gidi Cohen, president and CEO. The firm also
raised $5.5M from SoftBank and others to boost their growth. Fees
for the e-Sense service range
from $75 to $500 per month. |
XML
Schemas Grow |
| Registered XML vocabularies are growing rapidly. The
XML.org catalog listed 68 schemas in on October 4, 86 on December
9, and 110 on January 3. This is a 62% increase over three months.
Some new entries are: advertising exchange by adXML.org, cataloging standards by
MartSoft and Requisite Technology,
Predictive Model Markup Language by the Data Mining Group, four news standards for publishing,
exchange standard for the retail industry, and natural language
translation.
|
RoweCom
buys NewsEdge |
| RoweCom acquires
NewsEdge for $227 in stock. Along with its subsidiary
Individual.com, NewsEdge has a global news network of 1,450
sources servicing 1.5 million people. Combined with their
archives of magazines, journals, and books, RoweCom well positions
itself to support enterprise BI systems. |
Karnak |
Karnak is a
new fee-based service by VedaSource in Atlanta. Using
the library-bookshelf analogy, web-based information about a
research topic is maintained. 
On a weekly basis, an email is sent
summarizing any new, changed, or deleted material. The fees range
from $10 to $50 per month depending on the number of research
topics.
|
Web
Stats from Alexa |
|
Alexa, a subsidiary
of Amazon.com, has 
been monitoring web statistics from years.
As reported in the Alexa Inside Report, their latest crawl found 320 million
unique pages on the Web. Also, the number of websites grew by about 8% between July and October of this
year -
from 3.08 to 3.35
million.
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