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Wednesday, Oct 31 2007

Open source firm Editopia has just announced the release of NCode.

This is a server-side video encoding offering. Web developers can add video, in any format, to Flash. Under the General Public License, it costs zip zero.

NCode is cross-platform friendly and supports multiple codecs, including H.264, and PHP and Java programming environments.

Editopia may soon release an enterprise edition with support, as well as indemnification and rights for fee-based codecs.

Our friends at CMS Watch stir up the proverbial hornet’s nest by suggesting that while other enterprise cms vendors are actively updating and maintaining their respective Web CMS offerings, IBM’s Workplace Web Content Management (WWCM) product is languishing behind the times.

The rumors are true: comment box-modding is now an industry.

JS-Kit has just released a new Comments widget that boasts lots of important features but is disturbingly easy to implement and use. (Seriously. Try it here.)

At no cost and with no advertising, users of JS-Kit Comments can:

• Monitor threads
• Create RSS data feeds to track comments. This also empowers search engines to index them
• Sort comments based on name, date and “karma” (based on user votes)

The feature doesn’t cause laggage and comments materialize instantly, even without the whole-page twitch that typically happens when a site is over-AJAXed.

After trying out Comments we started checking out JS-Kit’s other widgets. They include, Ratings, Top Rated and Polls — all sound CRM tools with a professional veneer. Just pop the HTML into your site.

It’s amateur-easy.

Wednesday, Oct 31 2007

As Packt Press continues to rattle off the awards this week, its Joomla’s turn in the spotlight. Today’s prize is for “Best PHP Open Source Content Management System”.

Quoting the Packt site, “Joomla! is possibly one of the biggest success stories in open source of late. Its first release came in only September 2005 and since then has grown to be one of the most downloaded Content Management Systems on the web.”

The runners up in this category were Drupal and e107 respectively. Previous winners this week were WordPress for Best Open Source Social Networking CMS and mojoPortal for Best Other Open Source Content Management System.

And the fun’s not over yet. No sir. Rolling right along you avid CMS’ers have both the Most Promising Open Source CMS award and the Overall Winner award to look forward to.

Tuesday, Oct 30 2007

No one’s safe from the M&A bug. UK firm Autonomy has just agreed to purchase Belfast-based Meridio for US$ 40.8 million.

Meridio is a global provider of enterprise document and records management software. Earlier this month, it updated its proprietary offering for easier integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and MS Exchange.

Not a bad relationship for its new parent company to inherit.

Vital Path has just released a new version of its PathBuilder offering, in which vestiges of virtualization are used for the greater good: “in-place” records management (that’s VP’s specialty).

Hannon Hill has just released Cascade Server 5.0, the newest update of its browser-based web CMS product.

Reliability, flexibility and speed: That’s what HH reckons Cascade Server 5.0 all about. The company boast users will find v5.0 faster and more reliable than previous iterations, regardless of how many people are using the system at a given time.

Tuesday, Oct 30 2007

Understanding that a vendor has to do more than just label its WCM solution industry-leading, FatWire goes the acquisition route and adds the extensive Web 2.0 capabilities of the relativelly obscure Infostoria.

With the open source cms market being dominated by PHP/MySQL based solutions, our friends at Packt Publishing are recognizing content management systems written in other languages

Thus with no further adieu, we congratulate mojoPortal for being named Best Other Open Source CMS for 2007.

mojoPortal is written in C# and runs under ASP.Net on Windows or under Mono on Linux and MacOS.

mojoPortal sports an impressive list features including:

• XHTML Compliant Content Management
• MyPage Personalization with WebParts
• Blogs
• Forums
• Event Calendar
• Image Gallery
• File Manager
• Authentication against the database, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Open ID, or Windows Live ID
• An Interchangeable data access layer with support for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FirebirdSql
• Skinnable Design
• RSS Feed Aggregator
• Search
• Localization
• Ability to host multiple sites on 1 installation and 1 database
• Easily Customizable User Profile

If that list doesn’t impress you, maybe the fact that mojoPortal beat out both Plone and Silva to win first place will.

The official announcement from Packt Publishing can be found here, and more information about mojoPortal can be found on the official website.

In a move that appears to counter rather than complement the availability of Salesforce Content, Salesforce.com announces the immediate availability of Hot Banana’s Web CMS offering via App Exchange.

Just about four weeks ago Web content management vendor NetReach released their packaged, hosted Web CMS solution for marketers. With integrated blogs, RSS, email to a friend, a form builder and more, the company’s new PressRoom Solution aimed to empower the community builders on your team.

PressRoom is a SaaS Web CMS offering built upon NetReach’s cmScribe platform. The idea — and we can see this being a blast of fresh air for some of you — is that for US$ 99 your marketing and communcations team can be up ‘n’ running, and quickly, with a set of modern online marketing tools. Additionally, with the right template massaging, this SaaS virtual bolt-on can achieve a seamless look-and-feel integration with the rest of your site.

Intrigued? Check out the following 4 minute screencast which walks through some basic operations.

The combination of a balanced portfolio of business lines and the performance of virtualization trailblazer VMWare results in EMC’s strongest financial quarter ever.

If you are numbers person, try these on for size:

• US $3.3 Billion - total consolidated revenue for the third quarter of 2007
• US $718 Million - operating cash flow
• US $189 Million - revenue for EMC’s Content Management and Archiving business representing double-digit growth

Do these numbers surprise you? They shouldn’t as this makes seventeen consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth.

Congratulations to EMC on yet another remarkable quarter financially.

While it remains to be seen if EMC will be able to maintain this rate of growth during the looming economic downturn, there is no denying their self-proclaimed title of “world leader in information infrastructure solutions”.

For more information about all of EMC’s products, please visit the website.