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Saturday, Aug 30 2008

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

Highlights of the Week

• Zoho Shares, SharePoint Looking Worried? “SharePoint meets YouTube”.
• Portal Vendors Putting Up a Fight Against MOSS Splitting the vendors into camps — those that have been able to rise above and those that have risen to challenge MOSS.
• Mozilla Labs Releases Ubquity Mashup Solution. Allowing users to create on-the-fly mashups.
• Let Google Suggest Your Next Search. Soon everything we think will be organized, categorized and analyzed by Google.
• Arche Launches Custom, Modular CMS for Small Business. Helping to keep deployment costs and development time to a minimum.

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? The web publishing business, hacking and security, Web 2.0 CMS and a whole mess of MOSS!

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Is Ning The Next Facebook or MySpace? Ning vs. MySpace. Oh what fun we’re having.
• Survey: Most Popular Open Source CMS. With Alfresco out, other CMS advance to the head of the class.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
• Web Design: Top 5 Wireframing Tools. Five creative and practical solutions for your wireframing needs.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

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Featured Jobs:

• Community Development Manager at Freshbooks
• Tridion BA/Functional Designers and Developers at Moving Interactive
• Sr. VP & GM, NPR Digital Media at NPR
• Website and Content Manager at Cornell University

Friday, Aug 29 2008

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

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Acquia, the commercialization entity that resulted from the Drupal project, has finally released a private beta of Carbon — its commercial Drupal distribution. They’ve only been talking about the project since the end of April.

Friday, Aug 29 2008

Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, recently announced the company’s financial results for the first half of 2008. Overall, things are going well for the company, but there is still room for improvement.

Alterian, a leader in providing marketing services and system integrations, is possibly making progress with its recent acquisition of Mediasurface. Recently, the company made strides with the integration of Dynamic Messenger with Immediacy and Morello.

Mozilla, the same entity that is responsible for providing us with the Firefox Web browser, is expanding Firefox’s wide appeal by offering users the ability to interact and control the browser with a linguistic user interface project called Ubiquity. The point of this project is to allow users to create on-the-fly mashups.

A new research report has come out that says mobile content management spending is expected to top US$ 8 billion by the end of 2008. The study takes a close look at the technology and market forces that are required to bring music, video and other content to the mobile device. Now there’s a market to start looking at getting into.

Friday, Aug 29 2008

Technorati, the blog search engine that showcases content from online newspapers and many other places announced that it has acquired Blogcritics.org.

With Technorati’s ability to track the links between blogs, rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitor live communities and the conversations they foster, the acquisition of Blogcritics not only allows its bloggers access to a wider audience, but gives Technorati an opportunity to gain advertising revenue.

The issue of user-generated content has been subject to scrutiny and debate among online news media, many of whom have questioned its place in online journalism.

We reported that A Moderated Approach to User Generated Content seemed to produce more accurate and censored content than opponents would lead you to believe. Then, we reported on the status of online comments as used by online newspapers and as to whether or not comments enhance the quality of online journalism.

Now, we bring the next phase in the saga of online comments: the difficulty in maintenance and moderation.

Open Text is expanding its ECM portfolio by announcing a new solution for e-mail management targeted at law firms.

The solution — Open Text E-mail Lifecycle Management for Law Firms — combines such features as e-mail filing and archiving and aims to help firms to define, secure and control the e-mail management and retention processes according to compliance mandates and internal policies.

Thursday, Aug 28 2008

Was Mashable having website troubles? They have partnered with EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network, to speed up the delivery of their social media news and information so you can get your fill of what’s happening in the blogosphere that much quicker. Can you tell the difference?

The semantic web grows ever nearer. Soon everything we think will be organized, categorized and analyzed by Google.

Speaking of which, Google will begin to officially release Google Suggest in the next week. Google Suggest is exactly what it sounds like — a tool that works to better understand you, as a user and what you search for. Often, due to misspellings and other limitations of our human brains, our searches can bring up results that don’t exactly match what we want. Google Suggest aims to help users better formulate queries, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes.