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Monday, Apr 30 2007

Jadu just announced the release of Jadu CMS 1.7, which is prettier to look at, chock-full of handy new tools and friendly for non-technical and technical developers alike. And just as importantly as all these characteristics, it’s also better-integrated with Microsoft Office.

Multi-platform and intra-competitor collaboration is getting a lot more common these days, and for less than amiable reasons.

After purchasing Stellent and recently playing the tease about what they’d do with it, Oracle finally releases its first ECM offering since the acquisition.

Jumping channel from FR to UK open source Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo has opened its latest foreign office in London.

The company aims to capitalize on the oh so rosy UK ECM market and the large number of energy and financial services companies in the UK, as well as gain some international footing as it pushes further.

Monday, Apr 30 2007

What’s the worst that could happen when your records go unmanaged? Ask Microsoft, which spends an average of US$ 20 million for e-discovery per litigation, according to one company exec.

The web brand is useful, clear, simple, interactive, and most importantly, customer-centric.

Friday, Apr 27 2007

All the twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

This week’s highlights include:

• CMSWire Reports Live from the Ruby Conference! Last weekend CMSWire hit San Jose for the SD Forum Ruby Conference. Get a brief peek at our discoveries.
• W3C Makes Progress with AJAX Standards. In an ongoing collaborative effort to rein in the unruly AJAX, the W3C makes headway with the publication of its first working draft.
• eTouch, Open for Enterprise 2.0 Business with Mashups. You can’t be Enterprise 2.0 without mash-ups, so the popular enterprise wiki solution makes it easier to incorporate 3rd party services into your online framework.
• Next Gen Web Dev on Mac, Its Coda From Panic. Seth says Coda = paradigm shift. Hey, we all need our lives changed every once in awhile.
• Ruby Conference: Mongrel and Rubinius Take Love to Town. Wrap up the week with the parting words of last weekend’s Ruby Conference. It gets almost existential. Almost.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). Looks like Web 2.0’s on the mind. Then again, isn’t it always?

• What is Web 2.0 CM (Part 2)
• Feisty Fawn Leaps Into Virtualized Reality
• MS Builds Media Management Offering on SharePoint
• Open Text Swaggers After ECM User Response
• RSS, JavaScript Wed Over AJAX

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Adido Solutions, Alpha Card, Asbru, BrowserMedia, CMS Watch, Digital Original, Ektron, eTouch SamePage, Hot Banana, NetReach cmScribe, Quantum Art, Toshiba, WebCart, Web Content 2007, and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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Friday, Apr 27 2007

How does one organization manage the business development, content-building and IT challenges associated with managing multiple Web properties without falling flat on its face in a pool of lawsuits and unnecessary expenses?

There isn’t really an easy answer, but it helps to get guidance from eagle-eye analysts and organizations who’ve been there and succeeded. The Gilbane Group and Oracle join forces to bring forth Multiple Web Sites: Driving You Crazy, or Driving Your Business?, a webcast for addressing business challenges in deploying and managing multiple websites.

The Ruby Conference concluded Sunday with Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s talk on Mongrel — entitled Building Custom Mongrel Handlers for Speed and Concurrency — and a discussion on Rubinius by Evan Phoenix.

To highlight the merits of their offerings they note a few philosophical issues with Ruby and Rails, respectively.

Everybody was keyed-up, waiting for Blaine Cook of Twitter to talk, and he finally did. It wasn’t quite what we expected (well, what were we expecting?), but it was nonetheless educational and really sort of surprising.

Cook took advantage of a long list of Twitter’s mistakes and weaknesses to introduce us to Starling, his response to platforms based on Erlang and other technologies — which he asserts would have been a general nightmare.

Hoping to capitalize on the trend of moving enterprise applications to web-based, hosted solutions, Instancy has expanded their Enterprise 2.0 presence with the release of the Knowledge and Learning 2.0 Community Platform and the On-Demand Global Portal.

Thursday, Apr 26 2007

Web CMS and email marketing. What could be a more intuitive pairing? The question begs asking because until now, few have entertained the idea of consolidating the two.

Then again, few have been better poised than JL Halsey, which cleverly acquired Web CMS provider Hot Banana and EmailLabs, a marketing email solution, last year.