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Thursday, Jul 29 2004

The latest version of Clickability's hosted content management product, cmPublish, is now available to customers. Highlighting Clickability's "one vendor, one solution" approach to content management, the product boasts an impressive group of new features and enhancements, making it the most fully featured hosted content management product in the market.

Wednesday, Jul 28 2004

If the art-like science of information architecture mystifies or beguiles you, its time to clear the air, learn the basics, and all from the man who wrote the book.

Come for a day-long seminar on Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.

Many large organizations' websites and intranets are really just a disjointed conglomeration of hundreds of smaller sites, all controlled by different departmental fiefdoms. Lou's workshop tackles the frustrating challenge of getting a large, politically-charged, multi-departmental web environment to behave like a single, unified, user-centric web site.

This all-day seminar includes a balance of lecture, discussion, exercises, handouts, and the O'Reilly "Polar Bear" book, and concludes with a lively happy hour.

Content managers, information architects, webmasters, and site managers, this event is for you.

Dates/Locations:

New York, NY (September 7)
Chicago, IL (October 28)
San Jose, CA (November 8)
London, UK (November 29)

Learn more.

Friday, Jul 23 2004

For the last while SixApart has been running a plug-in developer contest for the latest release of Movable Type. Today the grueling hours of kneading Perl into useful shapes have come to fuition.

The winners have been announced.

Friday, Jul 23 2004

Approximately 90 days after acquiring Trigo Technologies, IBM is introducing IBM WebSphere Product Center Version 5, middleware designed to help customers develop a central, accurate and comprehensive repository of product information that is synchronized with internal systems and shared across supply chains

"This past quarter we returned to profitability for the first time since 2001, added 82 new companies to our stellar customer list, and continued to develop and deliver innovative, award-winning ECM products," said Martin Brauns, chairman and CEO of Interwoven.

Wednesday, Jul 21 2004

Yesterday Macromedia announced their new Macromedia Web Publishing System, updated Contribute v3.0, and for the first time offered FlashPaper as a stand alone.

Contribute has been Macromedia's fastest ever growing product. Its been a money maker and has revealed a market that MACR wants to further develop.

Their Web Publishing System (WPS) is a big step forward, yet the Macromedia reps I interviewed claim they want to keep things simple and don't plan to tangle with the resident players in the Web CMS space.

Macromedia also claims there is no better choice out there for the price. Of that fact I am not at all convinced. To be sure Contribute 3 and the WPS are a step in the right direction. However, historically Macromedia has had a hard time developing beyond its own nose. If by some inconceivable happenstance, you are not developing your entire web site with Macromedia Studio, their solutions often break down, and rapidly.

Once under the covers we'll find out just how far WPS takes us and whether or not its crippled through dependency and intimacy with Studio MX.

MediaLive International, Inc. today announced the lineup of keynote speakers at Seybold(R) San Francisco 2004, which will feature print and publishing industry experts who will explore topics that are defining the industry. The keynote lineup at Seybold(R) San Francisco 2004 will include: Mary Lee Schneider, President of Premedia Technologies Solutions, R.R. Donnelley & Sons; James C. King, Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated; and Kim Graven-Nielsen, CEO, Esko-Graphics.

Tuesday, Jul 20 2004

Popular conference series expands to Boston and covers technologies and best practices for Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management, Document & Records Management, Enterprise Information Integration, and Digital Asset Management

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced the conference program for the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 - December 2, 2004. The interactive 3-day event will include everything a project team needs to know, as well as a look ahead at upcoming technologies, "new" best practices, and a broad look at technologies necessary to supplement core content management applications.

Blogs… social networks… RSS readers… syndication … the tools of social media are creating powerful new business opportunities, but to take advantage, technologists, professionals and investors need to understand this new, fast-emerging technology and the unique language it uses.

There are more than 3 million documented blog sites, up from 100,000 a year ago, and the number is increasing by over 10,000 new blogs a day. Social media – blog’s companion technology —is even bigger. Some say these two joined-at-the-hip technologies threaten to disrupt traditional publishing, even as they promise opportunities not yet fully realized.

Monday, Jul 19 2004

FileNet today announced general availability of the latest release of its FileNet P8 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) architecture, FileNet P8 3.0.

Version 3.0 includes two new suites of products, FileNet Records Manager and FileNet Team Collaboration Manager and adds an XML Web service-based API enabling platform independent functionality and broad interoperability.

FileNet P8 focuses on integrating content, processes, and connectivity.

Thursday, Jul 15 2004

Documentum is listed as a leader in META Group's recently released METAspectrum report. The METAspectrum report is an evaluation of web content management (WCM) solutions in the North American marketplace.

META Group recognized EMC's Web Content Management products for performance, market presence, and breadth of functionality.

Conviveon today announced Version 6.0 of their SiteConnect Server. SiteConnect Server simplifies the process of creating and maintaining multiple Web sites and portals with shared content.

This release includes workflow, publishing features, and an e-commerce engine which supports both traditional B2C and RFQ-driven transactions. Version 6.0 also includes a new XML based interface for providing dynamic content on existing web sites using virtually any existing technology, including Microsoft .Net, PHP, Cold Fusion, and Active Server Pages.