WAVE’s partner CMI: Canada will be speaking at the upcoming Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York.

The presentation is titled “Beyond Images: Leveraging Content Management for Improved Efficiencies and New Revenue Streams”.

Here is a short blurb describing the presentation:

Digital asset and content management solutions have often been viewed solely as a means of managing content. Providers of these solutions frequently have difficulty charging incremental fees for content services, bundling them in with design, printing or other aspects of their businesses. But in today’s fast-paced digital world of publishing, content management solutions can play a new and unique role as the hub of a production operation, linking image repositories, textual content, pricing and other metadata into an integrated workflow between content owners and production houses. During this session, you will hear how an enterprising Canadian service provider has taken content management services to a new level in support of its retail customer base, resulting in amazing workflow efficiencies and significant incremental revenue streams–a win/win proposition for the company and its customers.

For more information, please see the full conference program.

Also, don’t forget to stop by and visit us at the WAVE booth!

I just wanted to remind everyone that WAVE is a sponsor of the Henry Stewart DAM symposium events, and we will be showcasing our products and services at the upcoming event in New York.

Henry Stewart New York and will be held on May 12-13, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis, New York. With an inspiring line up of industry experts, you will be informed, updated and motivated with leading end user case studies, best practice roadmaps and the latest in technology solutions. You will leave with actionable advice, not to mention invaluable business networking opportunities.

This event is essential for anyone who wants to better manage their digital assets or discover new ways to get more efficiency and effectiveness out of their marketing operations.

• Learn from over 100 leading speakers on our 11 conference tracks over two days
• See live demos of DAM & Marketing Operations deployments
• Visit over 50 Solution Providers in our exhibition hall – giving you the latest and best advice in DAM & Marketing Operations
• Evaluate your current systems and determine your future requirements
• Consult with experts and Network with over 1000 of your peers
  Build on your knowledge at our post event tutorials

You can REGISTER for Henry Stewart here.

Or for more information visit www.damusers.com

MediaBank 3.5 Significant Feature List includes….

LDAP Support
MediaBank will now be able to authenticate Users and Groups via LDAP/Active Directory. User Accounts password and enabled status will also be adhered to. MediaBank can also be configured to allow a “fall-through” to its own internal authentication for external positioned users (i.e. Web access).

Multi-Media Support
MediaBank will now support multi-media file types (AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, etc…) and generate multi-page thumbnails and normalized flash preview of the assets. Streaming will be available via all 3 MediaBank client interfaces - Native Client, Java Web and MB Web.

Projects
MediaBank will now support unlimited Projects - both static and dynamic. Projects will be permission based and can be managed remotely by Project administrators. Projects can also be configured to be “role” based (i.e. dynamic/query based - Enterprise Only) and are relative with respect to User, Group, Time, Date and Database.

MB Web
MediaBank Perl/cgi Web interface will have a new updated, progressive Web 2.x look and feel. Its core structure is completely redesigned to allow easy User Interface editing and configuration by abstracting away the User Interface from the core code. Thus, upgrading and bug fixes will be easier to implement along with configuration, brandings and customizations.

License Manager
MediaBank will now support its own License Manager. This will enable fail-over models and provide a more robust and accurate licensing scheme for Test Servers and Fail-Over Servers.

Web Services for MB SDK
MediaBank’s entire Java SDK will now be available via Web Services also.
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WAVE is featured in the February 2008 Henry Stewart newsletter. Along with the WAVE feature, the newsletter Michael Moon also discusses the new generation of DAM, Gary Katz reveals a Marketing Operations benchmark study, and there are also summaries from the latest Journal of Digital Asset Management.

There is a ton of information packed in this newsletter, and it is definitley worth checking out.

Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 Billion is cash and stocks. It looks to me like Microsoft want to overthrow Google, and once again become the reigning “King of Silicon Valley”.

As of the announcement, Yahoo! stock has risen %60 in pre-market trading.

Link to Reuters

Link to CNN Money

UPDATE 02/11/08:  Yahoo! has rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion bid. In a formal announcement, Yahoo! said Microsoft “substantially undervalues” them.

But Yahoo! also said, they might be willing to reconsider if Microsoft offered a high ammount.

Link to story 

B.media version 5.5 was released the night of Friday December 7th. This is the latest major release of the revolutionary enterprise content management solution.

Along with support for Quark 7 and InDesign CS3, B.media 5.5 also include many new robust features.

From the in Official B.media Press Release:

TableBuilder ‐ The concept of table building functionality has existed for quite some time, but the execution of the features has been lackluster. The new B.media TableBuilder offers users a powerful tool to establish table templates that will automatically create product tables according to the individual SKUs within the product offer. These format neutral tables can easily be used in the desired output channels, such as web and print. The content within these tables is dynamic, as is all B.media content, so that changes to the tables or products within them are automatically reflected in the output channel’s publication(s).

SynchroBlock ‐ A collection of new B.media features that puts another new and innovative twist on an established concept. B.media users now have the ability to automatically apply formal layout to individual offers and an entire publication at the click of a button. Unlike most implementations of a batch page creator, B.media places all of the desired offers on a digital whiteboard rather than a final live page or hi‐res document. This allows product managers, merchandisers, and creative staff to preview and modify the pages of a publication within an intuitive interface before final layout. These digital whiteboards are used to automatically generate pages which contain active B.media links so they can be automatically updated as changes occur.

Go to the WAVE Corporation press page or contact sales for more info about B.media 5.5

Looks like within the next couple of years, the industry will have access to 4 terabyte hard drives. The article below suggests that this could be possible by 2011.

Hitachi Ltd. says its researchers have successfully shrunken a key component in hard drives to a nanoscale that will pave the way for quadrupling today’s storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011….
The feat, which Hitachi plans to present Monday at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo, revisits a technology known as giant magnetoresistance, or GMR, that was the basis of the work of two European scientists who won the Nobel Prize in physics last week….
“We changed the direction of the current and adjusted the materials to get good properties,” said John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi’s data-storage unit.
By doing so, Hitachi said it has created the world’s smallest disk drive heads in the 30-nanometer to 50-nanometer range, or about 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair.
Other hard drive companies are working on similar technology as well, Rydning said. He predicted the entire disk drive industry will begin migrating to this new type of GMR-based technology in 2009.

Read the rest of the article over at MSNBC.com

Within the foreseeable future, users workstation will be able to house terabytes of data. How will company’s adapt? Will there users even need all this space considering most corporate data resides on remote storage servers? Organizing, searching, finding, rights management, availability, how will workflows be affected with all this data sitting out there? The next few years should be interesting with the storage needs and disk space availability increasing at such a rapid pace. Filtering through all this data will become increasingly dependant on how its organized and managed.

WAVE has become a sponsor of the Henry Stewart Conference. We will be exhibiting in and participating in the Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and and New York conferences.

To learn more details about WAVE’s involvement in Henry Stewart please see our Henry Stewart Press Release. And to learn more about the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium please visit www.DAMusers.com.

WAVE has just refreshed its corporate website in our ongoing efforts to communicate with the publishing industry.

The much anticipated online community is sure to become a particularly valuable source of shared knowledge and experiences. Also, the available online demonstrations are a convenient way to introduce others to the concepts of asset and content management.

We sincerely value our partnered relationship, thank you for your continued support, and look forward to your online posts. Come join us at www.wavecorp.com!