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Monday, Dec 24 2007

Hey, its the end of the year. We made it! And not only that, it’s been our best year ever. Thanks to you, dear readers, we’ve seen an especially fruitful 2007. We won’t bore you with the details but will share that CMSWire.com readership has grown by over 300% in 2007. And for that, we are very thankful.

Now, its time to rest the hands that type, and eat and sleep merrily. We’ll see you in January.

Friday, Dec 21 2007

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

This week’s highlights include:

• IBM Launches Free Smart Email Search for Outlook, Notes. Enjoy an early Christmas gift, courtesy of Big Blue.
• Movable Type 4.1 Goes Beyond Blogging. MT gets commercial, open source and personal.
• Firefox 3.0 Pokes Head Out from Covers. New UI offerings for Version 3.0.
• SharePoint Alert Capabilities Just Got Better. Manage alerts for all users at the farm, web and site collection levels.
• CMSWatch’s 12 - no - 11 Predictions for 2008. Plan for 2008 with help from CMS analysts.
• Puretext Pacifies Grumpy Online Journalists. Copying and pasting doesn’t get better than this.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? Many of you plan to ring in the new year with content managed by SharePoint or open source tools.

• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Movable Type Goes Open Source; Released Today
• Easy Web User Controls for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
• Do You Believe in a Flat-File Driven Content Management System?

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Friday, Dec 21 2007

Let’s conclude 2007 with a pleasant tale: Nirvanix gleans investment capital from Intel! Hurrah!

With the monies from its new Tier 1 investor, Nirvanix plans to further the conquests of its storage delivery network, which recently took on the chimerical challenges of college funding and rich media (talk about pressure!).

But onto the new. Fresh financing “enables us to build-out the world-wide network to meet growing demand,” said CEO Patrick Harr.

(Let’s hope some of that funding is used to help pump up the benefits for existing clients, too.)

Nirvanix currently purveys hosted storage services, focusing specifically on the storage issues incurred by digital media and user-generated content.

Its storage delivery network is powered by the Internet Media File System (patent pending).

Enterprise info management firm Datawatch has announced that Monarch|RMS, its hosted report mining and analytics offering, is now integrated in IBM’s DB2 Content Manager OnDemand.

Monarch|RMS enables clients to view statistics relevant to their sites from remote locations so they can make more expedient decisions about what’s working and what isn’t. It does this by converting existing reports in a given CMOD system into hosted, filterable and more pliant data.

Clients can filter data most relevant to themselves and even perform multidimensional cube (OLAP-style) analysis. And at will, they can convert reports into tables, charts, graphs or spreadsheets.

Data can also be exported to templates, spreadsheets and even presentations in XML form.

You — the tech guy! — could look like the coolest kid in the boardroom.

Discover the magic at the Datawatch website.

Thursday, Dec 20 2007

MessageLabs has released a white paper called Online Social Networking: The Employer’s Dilemma.

Its purpose is to distill the rift between social networking’s popularity, and UK employers’ attempts to yank it out of the workplace.

In 1990, Rock the Vote was born. Soon after, Choose or Lose was created.

These MTV campaigns worked to “build the political clout and engagement of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country.”

More than a decade later, Street Team ‘08 takes the stage.

Whereas previous campaigns relied heavily on celebrity rock and pop stars to carry their message, today MTV is capitalizing on the popularity of citizen journalism to help them cover the 2008 elections.

Thursday, Dec 20 2007

IBM has launched IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search, a free email search plugin for Outlook and Lotus Notes. The product is a graduate of Big Blue’s Research Labs experimental playground, and showcases a number of clever next-gen semantic search capabilities.

Free OSS forum platform phpBB 3.0 has just gone live. It offers a range of new features designed to make your forums better and brighter than ever before and to bring them to the small screen.

Key highlights of the release include security augmentations, more collaboration features, built-in SEO and delegated administration features. The whole thing has been optimized for the challenges of the mobile web.

Leave it to the Parisians to build and market a CMS tool for designers. The Paris-based company Global Moxie and its Chief Scientist, Josh Clark (okay, so he’s an American in Paris…) announced the release of Big Medium 2, a web content management system aimed squarely at web designers.

Why? Because designers are awesome, that’s why!

It used to be that you weren’t a designer if you didn’t use QuarkXPress - the product that revolutionized the field of desktop publishing. That was before In Design and other Adobe products came to dominate the field and rallied the next generation of designers.

But Quark has been gaining ground during the past year. They launched QuarkXPress7 with incorporated XML capabilities and released Quark Publishing System 7 which helped to streamline the editorial and creative workflow processes while improving production.

Now, they’re partnering with Alfresco Software, Inc. to “develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers.”

Wednesday, Dec 19 2007

Enterprise CMS purveyor SpringCM has announced the unveiling of corporate headquarters in the middle of San Mateo, CA.

There isn’t much happening in San Mateo. Thankfully, it sits at the heart of places where things are happening. The location enables SpringCM to beef up its employee base with the minds — and investment coffers — of San Francisco, San Jose and the greater Silicon Valley.