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Wednesday, Jan 31 2007

Word is out that CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc., has chosen RSuite CMS to replace its existing directory CMS. RSuite, specializing in XML-based content management systems for publishers, is providing the expertise necessary to guide CQ Press past the precarious point of growth with their directory content.

IBM has announced Lotus Connections, and makes claim that its the industry’s first platform for business social computing.

By providing a portal for users to gather and exchange information, Lotus Connections has a dashboard-like eye on current projects and aims to bring together users from the same communities, eliminating the need for multiple social software and collaboration applications.

Tuesday, Jan 30 2007

Exciting news for all of the WordPressers out there, version 2.1 hit the streets recently and so far, the crowds seem generally pleased. Version 2.1 is a significant upgrade from current stable 2.07. Teaming well, the WordPress community have added a slew of new features bound to improve your blogging experience, and AJAX has been a popular theme. Who knew!

Tuesday, Jan 30 2007

Last week we discussed some of the on-site factors that affect search engine rankings within a CMS implementation. This week, we’ll revisit these factors and present guidance for addressing and automating these strategies during your CMS implementation.

This Enterprise wiki business is continuing its impressive momentum, and to little surprise. wikiCalc is just one demonstration of how much the wiki world has begun to offer businesses in terms of turning Web 2.0 tools and processes into tangible and manageable value.

Positive feedback is always a good thing. And thanks to feedback received and extensive implementation work, W3C has announced that they have published eight new standards in their XML Family. The new standards will play a large role in connecting databases with the Web and they “will support the ability to query, transform, and access XML data and documents.”

The three main standards are XML Query, XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 1.0. What are they all about? In a nutshell, XQuery lets you mine data from memos to messages, and everything in between, and XSLT 2.0 brings increased functionality to the already deployed XSLT 1.0, which lets you transform and apply visual style to XML data documents.

Monday, Jan 29 2007

If there’s one thing that we hold in common as a human race it’s that, when we’re on the Web, we’re cheap. (Even the Swiss are cheap.)

Friday, Jan 26 2007

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Adaptive Path, Adido Solutions, Alpha Card, CMS Watch, Comp USA, Ektron, Hot Banana, Sitellite, Toshiba, Quantum Art, WebCart, and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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In their recent 2007 Scripting Languages — Developers Choice Report, involving more than 400 developers, California-based Evans Data Corporation found that contrary to some popular opinion, Adobe and Microsoft’s environments were considered by developers to be more secure than client/server AJAX scripting solutions such as Ruby, PHP, and Python.

Jan 16 saw the release of Movable Type 3.34, a semi-distant point release which promises to fix some concerning XSS vulnerabilities and more notably delivers accessible scalability derived from the leveraging of FastCGI.

FastCGI, while meaningless to most of you and perhaps a little reminiscent of the late 90’s for the other 2%, handily increases Movable Type (MT) performance by something on the order of 15x. Woot MT geeks! And more to that, the new version is a free update for all legit MT users.

Thursday, Jan 25 2007

In a report on open source software released recently on behalf of the European Union, the European Commission lends considerable support to open source programs, at the expense of Microsoft. The long-standing animosity between Microsoft and the European Community over the software giant’s proprietary software has been the subject of numerous news stories over the past decade.

According to InfoWorld, “CIOs and their IT departments will find themselves on the firing line in most major business litigation.” Feeling unprepared for the expectations raised by eDiscovery? According to enterprise lawyers and a recent AIIM survey, most businesses are.