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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

With the Democratic National Convention well underway, bloggers have been busy covering every aspect of the political event.

Hundreds of bloggers descended upon Denver on Monday and will do so into St. Paul next week for the Republican National Convention. As with the changing face of politics, both parties understand the need to allow bloggers, who are often self-supported, into the fray, as they embrace the new social medium that is fast replacing television and other traditional media that has long been the primary resource of reaching out to voters.

Adlib Software, a provider of document management solutions, has revealed a new Value Added Reseller (VAR) channel program that will allow companies to better handle the software, training and support needed by clients. The new channel program -- which has been greatly expanded in North America -- will also provide companies opportunities to earn more revenue. It appears to be a win-win situation for all those involved.

CMS Watch has come out with its Enterprise Portals Report 2009 and it appears like Microsoft SharePoint may be splitting the vendors into camps -- those that have been able to rise above and those that have risen to challenge MOSS. It's interesting to see who shows up where.

Feels like we talk a lot about compliance concerns for organizations these days. And the fact is that we do because it has become such a huge regulatory concern that can cost millions of dollars if not carefully managed. DocsCorp has released an upgrade to its document comparison software pdfDocs compareDocs that they believe goes even further in supporting their clients in their compliance needs.

Another one bites the dust -- er -- makes the list. KMWorld's List of Trend Setters for 2008 also includes Ektron and their CMS400.Net content management solution.

Now you all know who Ektron is, they are the little guy that beat out the likes of Vignette, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, SDL Tridion, Sitecore, EMC and others for top spot in Gartner's MarketScope for Web Content Management 2008. The only one they didn't "beat" was Interwoven.

According to Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief, "Ektron has proven that they are committed to providing both quality and excellence in their solutions that benefit the customer experience."

Other than winning all these awards, Ektron's been pretty busy this year. They opened offices in Canada, brought social networking into the office as part of their solution offering, integrated CMS400.net with Silverlight, launched a new partner portal and more. Whew...busy little beavers aren't they.

Now on version 7.5 of the web content management solution CMS400.Net, we expect to see even more from these guys over the next little while.

While we don't argue with these vendors making the list -- in fact, in most cases it's easy to see why they do -- it would be nice if KMWorld was a little more specific on what "trend setting" really means and how it applies to each vendor. Maybe we'll see more detail in the Septemeber issue of the magazine when the list is released in full.

Obviously not one to rest on their laurels after recognizing record profits and getting top honors in Gartner’s MarketScope for Web Content Management 2008, enterprise content management provider Interwoven has come out with some upgrades to its RecordsManager solution designed to "significantly expand upon Interwoven's strategy of delivering an integrated governance solution for electronic documents and physical records"

Houston developer Arche Solutions has launched a new modular Web CMS framework for developing and maintaining highly customized web solutions. Arche's new offering is aimed at the small/medium size market and the modular approach will, they assure us, help keep deployment costs and development time to a minimum, while enabling a higher level of customization than rivals currently offer.

When you think of the rebellious and loose nature by which blogging is often described, it might be that Las Vegas is the perfect location for the Second Annual BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Scheduled for September 20, adding to what is already a busy weekend for bloggers, the expo will feature advice, insight and experiences as shared by senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and industry thought leaders, all of whom attendees can learn a thing or two about how to implement social media.