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MySpace announced their data portability initiative way back in May, but haven't had much to say about it since, spending more time on user experience enhancements such as Profile 2.0. Well now they've finally come out of the closet and made some announcements regarding their latest service MySpaceID and connecting to Google's Friend Connect. Should Facebook be looking worried?

We may want to slow down and start to enjoy the holiday season, but that may not necessarily be our reality. The webinars included here include a range of topics designed to help you do business better. From managing your paper documents and records, to implementing social media practices, to getting people to sign up for your newsletter — there's a little something for all.

There's a new player at the OASIS CMIS Technology Committee table. Vamosa is a provider of Information Logistics — which basically means they help you with your content in any way possible. From moving, to monitoring, to maintaining and manipulating, Vamosa knows how to make your content work.

Makes sense they would want to be a part of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (just felt like saying that whole thing…). CMIS will provide structure for how organizations need to make their content available for cross-repository chatter.

• Facebook Connect General Launch
• Digg 'Not for Sale'
• FileRide: a Social Network for … Files(?)
• Six Apart Buys Pownce, Shuts it Down
• Disastrous Timewaster of the Week: FireNES 

SpringCM, like many other content management providers, makes a lot of promises about how their software will help businesses become more efficient. KMWorld is acknowledging that SpingCM is making good on one of those promises. Privia, SpringCM's bid and proposal lifecycle management software, is a finalist in the KMWorld Promise Awards.

DotNetNuke is on the move. Not only have they picked up some serious cash through some Series A Funding — the amount of which they don't seem to want to disclose — but they have also brought in a new CEO, Navin Nagiah, to run the show.

With over 10 years experience in the role of CEO or General Manager of various software/technology companies and the expectation is that he will help drive the market expansion of DotNetNuke.

Sitecore has been around for awhile now. And during that time they have established themselves as a quality option for web CMS and intranet portal software. Now they have made the news in a way that even further solidifies their place in the industry.

It must be interesting working over at Six Apart these days. They reported a 16 employee layoff and a management pay cut a few weeks ago. But things can't be all that bad. They just announced the purchase of the micro-blogging platform Pownce — keeping several key people and the technology.

With the holiday officially upon us now — did someone say Advent Calendar? — you may be saving all your money to buy an Xbox or a WII. But if you aren't, or you are one of the fortunate few to have tons of money to spend, we have a few conferences that might be tempting.

Kentico, the ASP.Net-based Web CMS out of Europe is expanding. Providing a strong CMS that offers structured content management, Kentico is thriving in this global economic situation plaguing much more than just the U.S. and Europe.

Here's an interesting conference happening on December 11, 2008 in Mountain View, California. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are joining forces to bring you a conference all about creating Add-ons for the browser.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Yahoo Glue Comes to the US
• Using Tarpipe to Unclog the Social Media Pipe
• Google's Getting a SearchWiki
• Get Yer Free Blog on TypePad

Six Apart knows there's nothing worse than an out of work journalist. That's why the company who makes the major commercial blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type is offering pro-level blog memberships for free to out-of-work media types.

These days many in the publishing are just trying to stay afloat from one week to the next. This week is no exception.

Just over a week after Alfresco Surf 3.0 Code Camp in NYC, they have announced that Boston is now next on the list. Coming next month and hot on the heels of the success of the NYC camp, Boston will be a Code Camp you don’t want to miss.

On November 3, 2008, the W3C published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines include a number of recommendations that developers can use to make content more accessible to people with disabilities and to everyone in general.

Many of today's corporate environments are embracing enterprise CMS solutions as a way to disseminate and share information amongst workers and workgroups. Microsoft SharePoint is a popular choice because it aligns well with an existing Microsoft-powered network and project groups’ workflow. However, according to new research from Courion, companies who are deploying SharePoint are doing so in a manner that might be putting crucial data at risk.

Remember Bluenog ICE, the Integrated Collaborative Environment created by a group of ex-BEAers? The Enterprise CMS solution, based on an open source technology stack was announced mid-September and is just one of the latest open source solutions to hit the market.

Today they announce that to help ensure they continue to grow to their solution, they have added a couple of well known open source leaders to their Board of Directors.

Joining current board members Scott Barnett, Suresh Kuppasamy and Sastry Taravai (the three co-founders), and Mike DiPiano and Michael Poise are:

• Andy Astor — As co-founder and EVP of Business Development for EnterpriseDB, Astor is known for his strong support of independent open source communities such as PostgreSQL. He has been a champion of hybrid open source business models since 2004.
• Anthony Gold — Gold founded Unisys' global open source practice and currently resides there as VP and General Manager of open source business.

According to Suresh Kuppusamy, chief executive officer, Bluenog: “Their [Astor and Gold] experiences working with both open source and proprietary technology will be invaluable. We continue to innovate in areas that allow our customers integration options they didn’t have previously.”

With individuals like this on the Board of Directors, Bluenog will have no excuses when it comes to creating and enhancing a true open source solution.

Learn more about the entire team at the Bluenog website.

If you have ever seen “content migration” go from being a single line in a project plan to being a never-ending saga of tedious database scripting and failed migration attempts, then take heed: there is a tool available.

Adobe Max 2008 is happening right now. And they have announced the finalists for this year. The Adobe Max Awards are a great opportunity to gain valuable exposure by focusing on those that put Adobe’s products to the best use.