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Saturday, Sep 29 2007

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

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This week’s highlights include:

• Google to Slide Broadband Cable Under Pacific Ocean. We’ve never witnessed a company more bent on gunning for the middleman.
• 10 Reasons to Go Movable Type 4.0 vs. WordPress 2.3. Aside from that MT4 is the hot new thing.
• SQL Server 2008 Is Coming. Finally. Maybe.
• Is Adobe Missing the Mark on Enterprise Integration? On the creative side, there’s plenty that Adobe does right. Here’s food for thought from an ECM standpoint.
• How-To: Migrating Content to Vignette Version 7 (Part 3). This is the last piece on our migrating content series. It also includes links to the previous installments.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). Worried over wiki? Waste not those wesources — er, resources.

• Typepad Available for iPhone and iPod Touch
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6
• ASP.NET: Reusing Web User Controls and Forms
• Don’t Fear the Wiki
• Umbraco Means dot NET Open Source CMS

Friday, Sep 28 2007

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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So what if installing third party software on your iPhone may void your warranty. A blogger’s got to do what a blogger’s got to do, and what could be more enticing than the ability to blog from one’s iPhone?

Friday, Sep 28 2007

Hoping to reinforce Ireland’s new reputation as a technology superpower, TERMINALFOUR releases an updated version of their ECM product with the goal of meeting the multilingual interface needs of ever-expanding global enterprises.

Knowing is half the battle. Never have those words been so true as in today’s enterprise content management realm. By now, most sizable organizations know that they need an enterprise CMS solution and many have already implemented one. However, as the saying implies, there’s another half of the battle to be won.

Thursday, Sep 27 2007

Going beyond the martini glass Olive Software is delivering micro-content extraction and transformations, and e-magazine management and delivery. Some Web publishers are sure to be salivating.

Building relationships both with your media contacts and with your customers is a many faceted project, and the tools you use to do so can either help or hinder, sometimes in significant ways. With this in mind, Philadelphia-based NetReach recently brought to market their latest Web CMS offering. With Blogs, RSS, a Form Builder and more, the company’s new Press Room Solution aims to empower the community builders in your midst — and the bargain basement pricing will satisfy the rest.

Wednesday, Sep 26 2007

Happy news for Microsoft aficionados: Fast Extract (FACT) for Oracle now operates on the Windows platform.

FACT helps unburden large Oracle tables onto to portable flat files in fixed- or variable-length formats with supported combinations of native SQL SELECT features.

Operating SQL*Loader and SortCL alongside FACT helps with high-volume reorg, replications, migration and reporting.

Parent company Innovative Routines International, Inc. also purveys CoSort, a data manipulation package.

While the term Web 2.0 may be getting a little long in the tooth, the associated concepts and functionality that users have become accustomed to are here to stay. However, the idea of installing, configuring and maintaining a separate piece of software to enable Web 2.0 capabilities is a nightmare for organizations of any size.

This is the third and final article in our series on migrating content from a previous version of Vignette to Vignette V7. The first article in the series painted the broad overview and in the last article we talked in detail about the Content Analysis part of the process. Now, we continue by digging into the final planning phase: Defining the Migration Approach.

I dig analyzing online media; the pressure on the industry combined with the multitude of studies conducted of late make it so darn interesting.

Consider the latest report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), for example, which compared a week’s worth of news from three user-driven sites — Reddit, Digg and Del.icio.us — and Yahoo News to 48 traditional news outlets. What the MSM are feeding versus what the foragers are gathering just ain’t the same thing.

Adobe just announced the availability of their Technical Communication Suite. While the offering is broad and appears to be tightly integrated, it’s still just shy of where it needs to be in terms of addressing critical requirements for true enterprise deployment.