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Friday, Aug 31 2007

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Mochila and Clickability Partner to Sustain Online Publishing. Engagement issues? New media’s on the auction block.
• SeeqPod Makes Musical Moments Marvelously Searchable. Trouble finding a tune? Search here, then watch and listen - all from a browser.
• Boing Boing Takes Leap Onto Movable Type 4. And it’s hot. Real hot.
• Alfresco Goes Light with Web Scripts Pattern. A truly RESTful experience.
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6. Before you commit to an enterprise blogging platform, learn how the two most current contenders stack up against one another.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). Knowledge-builders were big this week.

• SharePoint 2007 Review - Six Pillars of MOSS
• Web Publishing: The Dark Side of SEO
• What is Web 2.0 CM (Part 2)
• SUSE Linux: The Choice of a New IBM?
• ASP.NET: Reusing Web User Controls and Forms

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

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Zoho Start is a relatively new start page/integrated console that marries all Zoho apps in a single view. It currently works with Zoho Show, Writer and Sheet, with other apps to come.

Download Squad wryly writes, “Thanks Zoho, for making it extra difficult to choose between Zoho’s suite of applications, and Google’s Docs/Apps.” This isn’t the first time in recent months it’s done so. Less than a fortnight ago Zoho used Google Gears to bring its suite offline, something Google itself hasn’t opted to do.

That was neat. But unless you’re already a Zoho user, it’s hard to see how Zoho Start will draw Google Apps users into the Zoho camp.

Perhaps perceiving this, Center Networks thinks Zoho should go the extra mile and create a full start page, with the ability to include syndicated content.

Friday, Aug 31 2007

If for some odd reason you’re burning for an excuse to visit Denmark this fall, drop in for cmf2007, which falls on November 6-8.

This is the third annual cmf international Web conference. It will focus primarily on enterprise portals, intranets, content management and enterprise search.

The W3C has released an updated draft of the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL). This document will provide a uniform markup language for filtering and presenting Web content across various delivery contexts.

DIAL is based on standard W3C CSS modules and XML vocabularies, which lend a logical architecture for webpage structure, form interaction and presentation. DIAL is also part of the Authoring for Device Independence work category of the DIWG.

Get to know the draft better at the W3C website.

Some rivalries run deep: Army vs. Navy, Mac vs. PC, and dogs vs. frisbees. With the release of Moveable Type 4 and the near-simultaneous release of ExpressionEngine v1.6, it's time to to examine this perhaps less well-known rivalry.

Thursday, Aug 30 2007

When Facebook opened its back-end to outside applications in early spring, it gave users the power to act on preferences for how they’d like to interact with others.

Suddenly, you didn’t have to wait until Facebook felt like offering you a functionality; you could just code one up yourself and disseminate it.

Thursday, Aug 30 2007

For super-techies, Drupalcon is fast approaching. And now there’s a miniature event for the casual coder: Drupalshow, which takes place at the same time.

You can hit either or both Drupalcon and Drupalshow at the Citilab in Cornellà, Barcelona.

Here’s one more for our techie bookworm readership: Packt Press has published a new book aimed at helping users harness the power and benefits of Oracle Database and PHP.

PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax, is written by Yuli Vasiliev and covers the most popular and up-to-date topics on using PHP in conjunction with Oracle.

No longer can blogging be considered “underground journalism,” subject only to the rules of the streets (like James Dean in Rebel without a Cause). As blogs incorporate into the landscape of professional media, so too will the policy of full disclosure be expected of bloggers.

Bloggers: your time has come!

Socialtext has just released a plugin that supports Movable Type 4. It enables users to post on both MT4 and the Socialtext wiki simultaneously — tags included.

The plugin only requires server name, workspace name and username and password to unite with your MT4 account. To start your blog-and-wiki dual post extravaganza, download the Socialtext plugin here.

The concept of the paperless office, long on vision but short on actuality, may be one step closer to reality with the release of SMARTi Enterprise version 3.1.7.