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Friday, May 9 2008

On a whole, the art of Web design has begun to be better understood as a necessity in the world of ecommerce and content management. After all, content is only as good as its design and vice versa. Once viewed as something that made your site look pretty but had little significance to the bottom line, web design is now considered an integral part of a site’s success.

Thursday, May 8 2008

West coast CMSers, it’s time to get yo’ summit on. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars have announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17, in conjunction with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The summit will offer attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business and technical side of managing and delivering dynamic content.

Wednesday, May 7 2008

Virtualization has been taking the IT field by storm, but where is it headed? The theme of November’s 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo is “The Next Generation of Virtualization”. They are welcoming submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not just on how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is altering the way businesses run IT in a fundamental way.

Wednesday, Apr 30 2008

It’s a rare organization that does not track at least a minimum set of web analytics for their customer facing websites. The problem is rarely that there’s no data. Rather it’s what to do with that information once you have it in your hands. More often than not, it’s under utilized and probably finds it’s home in that virtual pile on your desktop.

It doesn’t have to be that way. There’s an upcoming Webinar co-hosted by Bridgeline Software and the Gilbane Group that will show you how to better use your analytics data to make decisions and improve the customer experience, and in the end improve your bottom line.

Monday, Apr 28 2008

For those attending the upcoming Gilbane conference who are more on the geeky side of the spectrum, get stoked: Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will start off the annual San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google’s search quality and continued innovation.

While Google’s success is generally thought of as being a result of their use of link activity and PageRank to supplement keyword search, this is in fact just one of many signals that help provide users with most relevant results. Udi Manber will share valuable info on improving search that should be relevant to everyone in the tech industry.

“Udi Manber is the engineering vice president in charge of this ongoing, and necessarily secret effort (on improving searches). What Udi is able to share about improving search will be interesting to all, but especially valuable to knowledge workers whose need for quality search is critical,” said Gilbane Group CEO Frank Gilbane.

The Gilbane Conference, now in its fourth year, has gained a reputation as a forum for bringing together vendor-neutral industry pros that share and debate the latest information technology experiences, research, trends and insights. Topics to be covered in depth will include enterprise search, text analytics and content globalization and location.

Details on the Google keynote session as well as other keynotes and conference breakout sessions can be found here.

Friday, Apr 25 2008

Zoho, well-known creator of a comprehensive suite of affordable, online collaborative productivity applications recently announced that its popular suite is the proud recipient of the 2008 Webware 100 award for productivity. The award was given out by Webware, a CNET site.

Thursday, Apr 24 2008

Not only does Dries Buytaert get selected as one the top young tech entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek, but one of his newest ventures — Acquia, has been chosen to launch their company at the Launch Pad - Venture Capital Edition during the web2.0 expo today in San Francisco.

Wednesday, Apr 23 2008

Spend forty-five minutes with Steve Souders and you too can have Even Faster Web Sites. That’s the plan anyway.

O’Reilly Media presents a free webcast with the author of High Performance Web Sites and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, Steve Souders.

The book High Performance Web Sites is based around the 14 most important rules that Souder discovered during his research and work on site optimization. If these rules are followed, he claims they can chip 25 to 50 percent off the response time when users request a page. Souder’s techniques have improved the functionality of such sites as Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Front Page.

Now at Google, Souders has been busy working on a new set of best practices to make web sites zoom, zoom fast. Benefiting from his extensive background in web performance, participants will learn about the Performance Golden Rule, review his performance best practices and watch how YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug, analyzes the top web sites in the world.

Joined by Andy Oram, author, blogger, and senior editor for O’Reilly Media, the webcast is sure to lend a hand in helping attendees harnessing the efficiency of their web sites.

The webcast is scheduled for Thursday, April 24 at 10 a.m. PST. Register today!

Friday, Apr 18 2008

NewsTools2008 takes place April 30-May 3 at the yahoo! Conference Center in Sunnyvale, California If you’re a Drupal programmer, user-experience expert, social-network innovator, or web 2.0 entrepreneur, you’re invited! The topic of the event is “Technology and the New Ecology of News: How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?” It’s billed as an event in which journalism’s ideals will meet Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup. Groovy.

Do you know where you should be on May 29? Why in San Diego of course. Attending the Enterprise 3 conference and learning lots of stuff about portals, collaboration and Web 2.0. Come on now, embrace the enterprise and take a walk along the yellow brick road.

The circus is coming to town! Join mediabistro.com, the largest online destination for media people today for jobs, classes, community and news, at their two-day summit on digital platforms and trends that are changing media.

Thursday, Apr 17 2008

It’s that time again. Clickability time. For the third year in a row, Clickability is holding it’s User Conference May 5-7, 2008 in San Francisco. Share strategies, interact with Clickability, it’s partners and other customers. Oh and don’t forget to have a margarita or two for us!