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[as of mid-2000]

Company Background

Consulting:

Teleshuttle provides broad-range e-business technology management consulting services.

Clients include HealthSCOUT/Rx Remedy (syndicated, personalized Web health-life services), AppliedTheory Communications (ISP), Hyperion Software, Dunkin' Donuts, News Corp./TVGuide, and Dow Jones. We draw on deep IT experience from Standard and Poor's/McGraw-Hill, Mobil Corp. and AT&T.

News:

Latest: Teleshuttle founder Richard Reisman recently served for two years as CTO and Managing Director, Operations and Technology for HealthSCOUT/RxRemedy, an innovative and fast-growing Web-based B2B2C health information service. At HealthSCOUT, he delivered Web services through syndicated co-brand affiliations with hundreds of Web sites, including CompuServe, Prodigy, Yahoo!, Earthlink, Dr. Koop, iVillage, Snap, iWon, USA Today, Knight-Ridder, Scripps, Phys (Conde-Nast), BeWell (HealthGate), Physicians Online, and corporate clients, including Harvard Pilgrim and the US Government. (details) (7/28/00)

Latest: "Patents for Dot-Coms: Fool's Gold or Mother Lode," a panel discussion with Kevin Rivette, author of "Rembradts in the Attic," Jeff Brandt of Walker Digital/Priceline, Mark Myers of Xerox, and Russ O'Haver of E&Y, was presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum. The session was organanized and moderated by Richard Reisman. (4/26/00)

"Connecting for Cures: Empowering Healthcare Consumers via the Net," a panel discussion with executives from Medscape, Physicians Online, CyberDialogue, InterAdNet, HealthSCOUT, and WorldCare was presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum. The session was organanized by Richard Reisman. (5/19/99)

Teleshuttle's patented Internet "push" distribution technology has been acquired by BTG International. See the announcement, and contact BTG for further information. (9/1/98)

Does the middleman have a role on the Web? A panel discussion with executives from IBM, Pinacor, American Express, Commercenet, and Gartner Group, Death of the Salesman? (Part 1) providing insight on this critical issue, as it is unfolding in the computer marketplace, was presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum. The session was organanized and moderated by Richard Reisman. (Transcript posted at Business Week Enterprise Online.) (Part 2.) (4/22/98)

Background:

Richard R. Reisman, president and founder of Teleshuttle Corporation, has been a hypermedia advocate since the late 1960's. He combines deep experience in e-business and interactive media as well as enterprise IT and operations and applies strong management consulting and project coordination skills gained in a variety of corporate and entrepreneurial roles. (Bio / Background details)

What's a Teleshuttle? Teleshuttle began as the first independent supplier of CD / online / offline solutions, using automated distribution technology now referred to as "push." Before the primacy of the Web, Teleshuttle developed and provided its own enabling software and online operations services for CD/online hybrids, which gained world recognition and were used in such highly rated products as the Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies & Videos. Teleshuttle's WebShuttle presaged the development of offline/disconnected Web access approaches, and the Resource Guide on Distributed Media: Local / CD-ROM / Online / Web has been the definitive resource in the field. Teleshuttle no longer markets software, but continues to offer consulting services related to strategic issues in applying this technology.

Patent: Teleshuttle's technology relating to "push" and "offline" delivery of information is relevant to many of today’s Internet push and disconnected applications, such as content channels, electronic software distribution, wireless access, and webcasting. Teleshuttle's US patent (5,694,546) has been acquired by BTG International with the intent of licensing it for applications covered by the patent. See the announcement (9/1/98). (For background on applications which had been marketed by Teleshuttle, see the preceding paragraph.) Contact BTG for further information.

Resources, Surveys, Bookstore:

The Media Foundry (tm) Resource Guide
A critical survey with links to selected resources on new (interactive) media. Emphasis is on hypermedia applied to electronic commerce, electronic society, and 21st century business processes.
The Media Foundry (tm) Library / Bookstore
Outstanding works of current interest as well as classics which deserve a place on the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in new media and electronic commerce. (In association with Amazon.com.)
Resource Guide on Distributed Media: Local / CD-ROM / Online / Web.
The most extensive, widely referenced survey of this rapidly developing, converging area. Hybrid combinations of CD and online approaches, offline access, and integration of local and network media.

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The philosophy lab - - Our own recent thinking
(Well, it used to be recent -- dot-com CTO's have time to think, but not to write)

Death of the Salesman? (Part 1): Does the Middleman have a role on the Web? A panel discussion with executives from IBM, Pinacor, American Express, Commercenet, and Gartner Group, presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum on 4/22/98 - transcript posted at Business Week Enterprise Online. (Organanized and moderated by Richard Reisman.) (Part 2.)
Extranets and Intergroupware: A framework for the next generation in electronic media-based activity. A simple perspective on the forms of electronic media and the kinds of interactions they support, including Internet, intranets, extranets, Webs and groupware.
Intranet / Extranet Benefits: A "complete" checklist of the benefits obtained with intranet/extranet-based communications. Reprinted in 1998 Guide to Intranets in Healthcare, Faulkner & Gray.
Extranets -- When you think outside the box, the box goes away. Perspective on a fundamentally empty, but temporarily useful terminology.
Supporting the Buy Decision: Separating Wheat from Chaff on the Web, some pragmatic opinions on making commercial Web sites effective.
"1-800-CONNECT: How About A Toll-Free Internet," a different slant on Internet economics (Inter@ctive Week, September 11, 1995, p. 20).
Web Marketers: Call-back to the Future with POTS! , a preview of the emerging coupling of the Web with Plain Old Telephone Service-based sales and customer service call centers.
"CD-ROM/Online Hybrids: The Missing Link?," an in-depth study (CD-ROM Professional, April 1995, pp. 66-73).
All power to the Web, CD-ROM is dead -- or is it?, a perspective on the greatly exaggerated reports of the death of CD-ROM (New York New Media Association News, August 1996, p. 1).
The Next Generation in CD Web Hybrids, a preview of a powerful new second-generation in CD/Web hybrids based on emerging mainstream off-the-shelf tools (Mass High Tech, September 2, 1996, p. 17).