ZapMediaNotes

Key Ideas

General

• What is the "news" in this, the trial run?
• Gannett and USA Today involvement
• Amount of dollars put in by USA Today
• URL to Gannett press release
• 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

• Digital Creations our business by combining a market-defining Open Source platform with dedicated, brilliant resources on the services side.
• Chosen over Vignette for ZapMedia?.com Portal, the server side with the business logic
• Extremely pleased with the responsiveness of Digital Creations, couldn't have done it without them

Paul Everitt's quote

• ZapMedia?.com is a powerful player in the market for bringing digital content into the home.
• Zope is a high-performance content management and portal architecture with fast development time.
• Zope has unique facilities for integrating content from multiple sources.
• 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.