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Friday, Sep 5 2008

KIT digital, a provider of IPTV enablement technology and video-centric marketing solutions, recently announced that it has completed an agreement to acquire Morpheum, an Australian provider of LanternCMS software.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks’ SM news in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Google Chrome, (because yes, it IS a social media story).
• Twitter hits 99.x% Uptime
• The Scandalous Shock of Disgraceful Digg’s Bribery Scandal
• Socialmedian does Newsstreaming as Lifestreaming
• Shozu Social App hit iPhone
• Socialcast 3.0: Social Networking in the Enterprise

Google Chrome

Google launched a new browser this week. You may have heard something about it. It’s great, far as we can tell (here’s our take on Chrome), and is tailor-made for running rich web applications, because it runs RIAs in seperate tabs in their own environment, or something. Which FireFox and IE do not. Which is why FF 3 crashes like a mutha and why IE usually runs like a 3-legged dog.

Channels Network TV humbly called this day “the day when business advertising and marketing changes forever.”

Channels Network TV, a provider of e-commerce web development and web publishing, has officially launched the “first ever video-based business web portal group.”

Thursday, Sep 4 2008

According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study, Internet users are shifting their media consumption habits to downloading more podcasts.

Open Text Corporation, a well-known ECM player, announced its intention to acquire Captaris, Inc., a provider of document management and delivery solutions.

The price of this deal is approximately US$ 131 million.

Microsoft Gold that is. Yes Bitrix Systems, provider of the Web Content Management System Bitrix Site Manager, has been made Gold Certified Partner with competencies in ISV/Software Solutions. They have clearly demonstrated their capabilities in portal and content management technology by receiving Microsoft’s highest certification, but what will you get out of it?

Day Software is looking to increase its ECM market share in NEMEA - Northern Europe, Middle East and Asia. That’s an interesting combination of markets to manage, one that sounds like other ECM providers use, but we hadn’t heard of before. Guess Europe is a little too big for one person to handle.

Wednesday, Sep 3 2008

JupiterResearch, a research and analysis firm focusing on Internet trends and technologies, has been trying to get a grip on the present and future state of social networks and cell phones.

With the increasing popularity of mobile social networking, the cell phone industry is struggling to keep up. As more and more social networkers are using their cell phones to stay active, the majority of handheld devices aren’t yet ready to meet high demands. On the bright side, there’s a potential for social networks to become killer apps for cell phones.

Aaron Sorkin, the creator of “The West Wing,” broke the news on Facebook, when he opened an account and announced his desire to write a movie script about the founders of the popular social networking site.

The word on the street has it that Scott Rudin (“There Will be Blood,” “The Other Boleyn Girl”) will produce the film for Columbia Pictures.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available for download by the public. Microsoft certainly needs to push IE8 out soon — especially when considering the recent developments within the Web browsing market. The company is touting the premise that IE8 is the most secure, reliable and privacy-aware version of the product to date. Will it be enough to impress the users of other browsers while keeping up with the expectations from current users?

Tuesday, Sep 2 2008

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera, watch out — Google is entering the fray with its shiny new creation called Chrome. Google’s newest creation will be available for download today in more than 100 countries for people using Microsoft Windows, but is the amount of drama brewing from Google’s announcement just the beginning of a new browser war? Are we prepared for what Google will bring to the table and what personal information they make take from it as a result?

It’s back - yes it is. Jaiku has arisen from the depths of Google and is now offering unlimited invites to all. Google acquired the microblogging service back in the October of last year and we’ve heard very little about it since then. Perhaps now that school is back in, Google sees an opportunity to grab a market away from Twitter.