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Friday, Feb 29 2008

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

Highlights of the Week

• Google Bets Complexity will be the Death of MOSS Google has finally re-launched JotSpot — it’s answer to the SharePoint (MOSS) way of enterprise collaboration.
• CrownPeak’s End-to-End Content Management Website. Venturing into the delivery side of the content management equation Crownpeak will now challenge other SaaS solution vendors such as Clickability.
• Harvard Hack Betrays Joomla! Vulnerabilties?. A variety of simple Joomla! hacks expose weaknesses in 3rd party modules.
• Colligo Networks Takes SharePoint Offline. Offline synchronization made easy.
• Vignette Resurrects the P-Word (Personalization). Personalization is not dead, it’s just been hiding for a while.
• A Moderated Approach to User-Generated Content Is user-generated content all that it is cracked up to be?

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, and a whole mess of Sharepoint!

• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

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Featured Jobs:

• Communications Director at Common Sense Foundation
• Web Project Manager at GreatSchools.net
• Web Content Writer at CreateSpace
• Pre-Sales Engineer - Web Content Management at PaperThin, Inc.
• Web 2.0 Developer at TechSmith Corporation
• Senior User Experience Designer at Flickr / Yahoo!

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Ademero, Alpha Card, Asbru, Bitrix Soft, CMS Watch, Digital Original, Ektron, Ephox, eTouch SamePage, The Gilbane Group, Hot Banana, Quantum Art, Squiz, Telerik Sitefinity, Toshiba, Xythos and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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Increasingly a force to be reckoned with in the applications space, Google has finally re-launched JotSpot — it’s answer to the SharePoint (MOSS) way of enterprise collaboration — to be forever called Google Sites.

Aside from the fact that they lack imagination when naming their services (I think the most creative was ‘gmail’), what’s all the hoopla about Google Sites and why do so many think it’s the beginning of the end for SharePoint?

Friday, Feb 29 2008

AvePoint, an enterprise-strength data protection and management provider for Microsoft SharePoint, has released the Documentum eRoom migration software, DocAve 4.5, as part of its DocAve Software Platform for SharePoint. DocAve 4.5 eRoom Migrator eases the process of content and metadata migration from Documentum eRoom into MOSS 2007 ensuring a quick and cost-effective platform adoption.

Ladies and gentlemen, the results are in for the first annual Alfresco Content Excellence Awards, where Alfresco’s top partners and contributors are recognized in the categories of Partner of the Year, Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year, and Web Content Management Implementation of the Year in Europe and North America.

So without further ado, here are the results:

Thursday, Feb 28 2008

Bridgeline Software is a provider of web content management software. They are moving in the SaaS arena offering a suite of products referred to as iAPPS. The iAPPS Framework and Product Suite is a combination of Content Management, Analytics, eCommerce and eMarketing.

Their newest release is iAPPS Analytics – the second release of products under the iAPPS Framework. Bridgeline says that this new product “enables a new intelligent form of “analytics-driven” content through the seamless integration of web analytics and content management”.

They also say this integration between analytics and content management is unique to the market. Well we say – uh, no…see Clickability for starters.

But we were still interested, so we went a little deeper.

In case you failed to notice, Mochila, the first global online media marketplace for text, video and photo content, is taking over the world.

Its chronology of partnerships is getting too long to list, but trust me, it’s distinguished enough to include big names like Reuters, Clickability and Citizen Image, among others.

Add an English accent to the mix and you’ve got their latest affiliation. BBC Motion Gallery, the footage licensing division of the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has announced that it will distribute its content globally to the over 3,500 members of the Mochila marketplace.

Thursday, Feb 28 2008

Movable Type, on it’s trek towards full fledged CMS’ness, just got a little closer. Today saw Mark Carey’s announcement of MT Forum — a MT add-on module which delivers fully functional forums that are loosely based on the behavior of the popular phpBB system.

Does this addition bump the MT Community Solution — the other way to build forums with MT — off the table? Let’s have a look.

Is user-generated content all that it is cracked up to be?

Sure, some organizations have been very quick to exploit its appeal in an effort to adapt to the newest and hippest Web technology trends. While others (newspapers, for instance) linger, hesitant and skeptical of the benefit and subsequent outcome that adding wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 prospects, will bring.

For some time now, the jury has been vague is determining the impact — good or bad — that user-generated content (UGC) has had on social media and even more importantly, if it’s lived up to the hype of being the great equalizer, democracy-laden technology of the Web.

Wednesday, Feb 27 2008

.NET developer Kentico has announced details of the new version of it’s Web CMS product which hits the shelves in mid-March. Dedicated as ever to the Microsoft stack, the Czech company’s new offering assures support for Windows Server 2008 and the soon to be released SQL Server 2008.

In addition, Kentico 3.1 will also support Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7.0. Compatibility with Server 2000/2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005 is preserved in the new release.

For those of you overwhelmed by the notion of dipping your feet in the CMS waters, the folks at joomlaforbeginners.com are here to make your learning experience as easy as possible — and free.

It looks like there might be a battle brewing in the SaaS Web Content Management world. CrownPeak has decided to go full force in hosted web content management and is now offering a website and product suite on ContentManagement.com for small to medium-sized companies.

Crownpeak has been around for awhile offering content management services, but this is their first foray into the delivery side of the content management equation. Does this solution put them on equal footing with competitor Clickability?