Content Management Matters ™

Home > Archives > October 2006

Tuesday, Oct 31 2006

Following close on the heels of recent Google applications developments. The company has acquired JotSpot, a “pioneering” publishing and collaboration company started in 2004 by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer.

The JotSpot apps includes a group directory, file cabinet, blog, forum, group calendar, photo gallery, poll and to-do list.

According to a statement released by JotSpot, JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Apps for Your Domain and Google Groups.

New registrations are temporarily disabled and the service will soon be free for existing users. There will of course be a migration period while the applications are integrated into Google’s infrastructure, but stay tuned as new versions of Google online apps suite takes shape, blending the JotSpot capabilities with GOOG’s latest releases.

The University of Washington’s Information School is offering a PhD in Information Science and 2007 application deadlines are on the very near horizon.

The degree is intended to prepare information scientists to develop theories, teach, research, advocate, lead, write, and make original and meaningful contributions to the information field.

Apple is now selling its highly touted new Intel-based Xserve servers for shipment in mid-November. Beyond the obvious move from IBM G5 Processors to Intel Core 2 Xeon’s, Apple has slew of new features and redesigns will help everyone from small workgroups to large data center managers.

Tuesday, Oct 31 2006

In a move that hints at challenges for mid-market ECM providers, European-based Nuxeo, a provider of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, has released Nuxeo Core 1.0. This is the first release of their embeddable content services core software and the foundation of the upcoming Nuxeo 5 Enterprise CMS platform.

Monday, Oct 30 2006

A quick Drupal news flash. The popular open source web CMS now has a dandy new UI option. The Garland theme will be the new default for the coming version 5.0.

Its easily customizable and the integration of a built-in color picker allows administrators to change the theme’s color scheme without having to touch a single line of HTML/CSS. A demo is viewable here.

Small business IT staff and Microsoft beware, Google’s latest offering intends to take a large share of the messaging platform business away from the competition as well as the operating costs away from the enterprise. Google Apps for your Domain, as it is currently called, puts the familiar GMail interface into the hands of novice users and on their own business domains.

The administration interface is so easy to use that once set up, it can be maintained by the office manager or receptionist.

The credits just keep rolling in. Joomla, a leading Open Source CMS, has won its second consecutive award for Best Linux/Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London last week. And recently, it was announced that Joomla is in the final five for the Best Open Source CMS Award 2006, along with Drupal, e107, Plone, and Xoops.

Monday, Oct 30 2006

One of the new micro publishing platforms that’s garnered a bit of attention recently is the open-source Mephisto project. Mephisto is built on Ruby on Rails, the hot new web application programming language used by a lot of the Web 2.0 kids. Its feature list is growing quickly and its been billed as one of the most intuitive blogging platforms in the space.

What customers want from a Caribbean tourism website is a great package deal. Alternatively, they want to get a hotel at a good price, and get a ‘best of’ for the destination.

Saturday, Oct 28 2006

Tune-in — here’s all the twists, turns, ‘n tips you should not have missed this week.

• FireFox 2.0 Is Out, Kinda
• Microsoft — AJAX for ASP.NET (Updated)
• Feeling Blue, IBM Courting Drupal
• Six Apart Launches Vox Blogging Service
• The Inside Story — Google’s Goals
• CMS Review: OpenCms 6.0
• Mondosoft Leading Enterprise Info Access
• MySQL for the Enterprise
• Altien Simplifies ECM for IBM
• CYA Does Smart Recovery for EMC
• What Your Website can Learn from Starbucks
• Web CMS: Getting Chatty with Hot Banana
• Vamosa Content Migrator Lauded by Analysts
• ASIS&T Charges Info Architecture Summit
• Alfresco Does ECM Java En Plein Air
• Stellent Guards the Records Management Vault
• System Design: Don’t be So Abstract
• Open Source Portals Gaining Ground
• Building Forms & Reports with XOOPS CMS
• Seminar: Le Web Mobile (Paris)
• AmDoc Birdies with Near Duplicate Discovery
• Quark Serves Up An ECM Move

Friday, Oct 27 2006

Arriving one step at a time, and perhaps only as the buzz is cooling a touch, Microsoft announces the next (beta) version of their take on an AJAX framework. And though they have in the past released proprietary scripting solutions (JScript, for example), Microsoft has released a version of the framework — Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (previously called Atlas) — which talks about multi-browser and multi-platform support. However, there’s little surprise that Firefox is not widely discussed.

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Ektron, EMC/Documentum, The Gilbane Group, Hot Banana, Information Today (Content Management 2006), Sitellite, Quantum Art, WebCart, and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. Many thanks to you!

Learn more about advertising with CMSWire.