History for ZapMediaNotes
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Key Ideas
General
o What is the "news" in this, the trial run?
o Gannett and USA Today involvement
o Amount of dollars put in by USA Today
o URL to Gannett press release
o An Open Source platform (Zope and Linux). Too bad the decision
to use Mozilla hasn't landed, it would be a powerful extra punch.
Ken Lipscomb's quote
o Digital Creations our business by combining a market-defining
Open Source platform with dedicated, brilliant resources on the
services side.
o Chosen over Vignette for ZapMedia.com Portal, the server side
with the business logic
o Extremely pleased with the responsiveness of Digital Creations,
couldn't have done it without them
Paul Everitt's quote
o ZapMedia.com is a powerful player in the market for bringing
digital content into the home.
o Zope is a high-performance content management and portal architecture with
fast development time.
o Zope has unique facilities for integrating content from multiple
sources.
o Complete teamwork with ZapMedia.com, working together in a
Zope-based joint development environment
Q and A
1) What did DC do for ZapMedia? Digital Creations is an integral part
of the ZapMedia.com development team. We are responsible for designing
and delivering the portal half, the server-side business logic that
communicates with the ZapStation hardware device to deliver
entertainment assets.
2) How did DC do it? By getting involved very early in the formation
of the company, DC has played an important role in requirements
discovery, architecture design, and now implementation. Not only is
Zope the architecture for the portal, but Zope provides the
collaborative environment for designing the portal.
3) When did it happen? The work under the contract began in late
January.
4) Who was involved? Digital Creations and ZapMedia.com.
5) Where can the general public see evidence of this work? According
to the ZapMedia.com site, customers can start reserving units today.
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