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Monday, Jun 27 2005

Simian Systems today announced the release of Sitellite 4.2, the latest version of their content management solution. Sitellite 4.2 is a leap forward in terms of ease-of-use and flexibility in a small-to-mid-range content management system, offering features usually found only in the very high-end systems.

Alfresco, a provider of open source enterprise content management software, today announced the immediate availability of a technology preview of the Alfresco open source content repository and portal integrations.

Alfresco includes an enterprise-scale content repository, JSR-168 portlets for managing and using content, and a Common Internet File System (CIFS) interface that provides Microsoft Windows file system compatibility.

Alfresco developed the system using the latest Java technologies, including JBoss Application Server 4.0, JBoss Portal 2.0, Spring 1.2, Hibernate 3.0, MyFaces 1.0, Lucene 1.4 and Java 1.5.

Wednesday, Jun 22 2005

Hummingbird Ltd., a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, has announced the acquisition of RedDot Solutions AG, a privately held provider of Content Management (CMS) software, headquartered in Oldenburg Germany and New York.

With over 1,300 clients globally, RedDot Solutions is recognized as a leading CMS solutions vendor for mid-size enterprises.

Wednesday, Jun 22 2005

Writing for how people search and writing quality links are the two fundamental skills of web writing. Think carefully about search behavior and make sure your links are always clear and logical.

Wednesday, Jun 15 2005

We are in an era of knowledge abundance. Traditional management theory focuses on knowledge scarcity. We need new management strategies to deal with so much communication and so much knowledge.

Asynchronous JavaScript+XML (AJAX) is cool. Ok, yes I'm a dork, but this whole light client web interface thing has deprived us of rich interfaces for many years. Naturally then, asynchronous interactions with web pages, well, are liable to generate a bit of excitement.

If you're of the same mindset and don't dig Flash, then tune into CPAINT.

Web CMS vendors, web developers, and web UI component developers will likely be getting some exciting new extensions with the proposed changes in HTML 5. Think <datagrid>, <canvas>, and a richer set of native HTML form widgets.

XHMLT 2.0 should lead to greater device independence, simpler and more generic XML, less presentation, more structure, more semantics.

The Ajaxian blog has some interesting coverage, links to current proposals, and links to recent talks and presentations.

Wednesday, Jun 15 2005

blo.gs is one of the most popular blog update pinging services, having been a default service in Movable Type and TypePad for years.

Yesterday blo.gs creator Jim Winstead announced that blo.gs was sold to Yahoo. Jim states that the service will continue to be "completely open" and that the existing privacy policy will remain in place for the foreseeable future.

Mozilla Foundation has announced that the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser took the top spot on PC World's ranking of 100 best products for 2005. PC World named Firefox its "Best Product of 2005".

Mozilla's email client, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0, also ranked high on PC World's list of top 100 product citing Thunderbird's email sorting functions, top notch spam filters and speedy performance.

Wednesday, Jun 8 2005

Quantum Art’s 7.1 release of its QP7.Framework features support of Mozilla Firefox browser and enhanced compatibility with Microsoft .NET platform.

Prior to this release, the QP7 administrative interfaces were only accessible via Internet Explorer on a Windows platform. With the release of QP7.1, both Firefox and Explorer users are able to access the interface with the same feature set. Full support of the Firefox browser similarly opens the admin and editing tools for Mac users.

Here's a good one. OpenACS and Alternative Linux Architecture Labs have collaborated (and for some time) to provide free HTTP uptime monitoring.

Set up is a breeze. First, you upload a text file to your server with the word "success" in it, and nothing else. Then you create your monitoring account, specifying a contact email address and one or more public URLs to monitor.

The service can either notify you periodically or upon server failure and server recovery. The reported check interval is about once every 15 minutes.

This is probably sufficient for non-mission critical sites. For those who require finer check granularity or more sophisticated reporting, there are plenty of other services to be found.

[Thanks to LifeHacker]

Tuesday, Jun 7 2005

Intellogy Software, creator of tools and applications for the Web design industry, announces the launch of its gee! Web Tools hosted Web Content Management software suite.

gee! Web Tools is an integrated Web content management and Internet marketing solution that is geared towards Web site designers.