From 2000-2003, Forrester listed seven reports that discuss Kinecta.  Below are links to two of those reports:

Managing Content Hypergrowth, January 2001, by John P Dalton, Harley Manning, Katharine M Gardiner
"For syndication...create direct syndication relationships using technology provided by firms like Kinecta."

Content Hypersyndication, May 2000, by Daniel P O'Brien, Chris Charron, Jason Sorley, Amy Dash
"The Net makes everyone a content distributor.  Any company or organization, "media" or not, is now a potential distributor of others' content and services...A typical media firm will have 69 deals in 2003.  Media firms should set their content free.  Pervasiveness wins mindshare and market share.  Providers who loosen the reins on their content - and instead focus on positioning it wherever potential readers, viewers, or listeners go - gain more in exposure and user utility than they lose in control.  Reuters - with a liberal licensing policy and no content destination site of its own - became the leading news service on the Net."

Content Management Systems, April 2001
This report highlights the strategic acquisition of Kinecta by Stellent Inc, to fill out their content management system suite.

Managing Content Assets, November 16, 2000, by Marci Glazer
"Content distribution relationships grow in importance. Media and entertainment sites report that business development groups strike partnership deals faster than most firms can implement them...All of these groups should evaluate new platforms from vendors such as Kinecta...that focus specifically on these mundane, but still very difficult series of technical challenges."

Segment Consolidation Leads to More Complete Content Management Products, April 8, 2002, by Robert Perry
This report highlights the benefits of Stellent's acquisition of Kinecta for its content syndication technology.

Digital Asset Management in the Enterprise: Making Content Actionable, March 2001, by Emily Meehan
"...Syndicators are now creating the tools and infrastructure for businesses to manage, acquire, or deliver dynamic content....Kinecta is a facilitator for organizations where large distinguished content providers do not want to give up their core space to a syndicator and lose control of their content. This solution is particularly attractive to financial firms that deal with highly proprietary information, like Fidelity.  Kinecta developed a solution to safely and efficiently distribute proprietary data and information without forcing Fidelity to relinquish control over content. Today, Fidelity syndicates 401k and mutual fund data to corporations like Sun America and GE Capital, and has direct control over their distribution chain."

The Latest Word, March 2000, The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, by Mark Walter
"Kinecta started by proving its product and is now seeking a wider audience.  An interesting future development we anticipate from Kinecta will be its expansion into syndication services...Kinecta's toolset will be only one facet of what makes this company worth watching."

The Seybold Report, twenty-nine issues covered Kinecta from 1998 to 2003

Kinecta.Net as an Internet Service, September 7, 2000, Customers.com, by Geoffrey E. Bock
"Kinecta is an early example of a new genre of cyber-savvy firms: business service providers.  These firms will have the deep domain expertise to deliver operational-level business services over the web and hence facilitate the e-process revolution."

Patricia Seybold Group, various reports from 2000-2003

"In summary, Kinecta makes it possible for organizations to provide each member of their business ecosystems with the right content at the right time. Content networks enabled by Kinecta help lower costs; increase productivity, reach and revenues; and support network members in responding to changing markets and business models.  Kinecta-powered content networks provide an important distribution dimension to the management of the information the fuels the digital economy."

The 2002 Web Content Management Magic Quadrant, August 6, 2002, by Mark Gilbert and Lou Latham

Stellent Content Management System, June 19, 2002, by Karen Shegda

Web Development: Software Comparison Columns, April 16, 2002, by Scott Beall and Robert Hodges

This report includes Kinecta in Table 4: Worldwide eCommerce Content Applications License Revenue by Vendor, 1997-1999 (p.12), and Table A1: eCommerce Content Applications Vendors and Products (p.28)
 

IT Trends: Web Content Management, April 8, 2002, by Robert Markham
"Drivers for Web content management include concerns about vendor viability and a shift from department to enterprise focus. Some of the trends focus on continued market consolidation and workflow becoming increasingly important."

ICE Warms Up Syndication Market, But Will Web Services Freeze its Growth?, September 8, 2000, Uttam Narsu
"Giga believes that Web Services will have no impact on ICE adoption in the next two years, and that a convergence is likely between the evolution of the ICE protocol and nascent Web Services efforts in 2002."

"Kinecta’s management team 'gets' content. The company’s founders include Reuters veteran David Mathison, browser design pioneer Arthur Do..."

"Companies that are 'content creators', may have a direct interest in Kinecta. It provides syndication software that enables the exchange of content between web sites. However, other companies not involved in the content market should have an interest in the trend that Kinecta illustrates - the 'selling of processes' over the web - sophisticated capabilities being sold directly as a process and charged in many instances as a transactional cost..."

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