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Today marks the beta release for Movable Type 4. Excited? No joke.

This news merits uncharacteristic pomp and circumstance because Movable Type is the blog platform of choice for a number of enterprises, and because v4.0 also marks said platform's departure from the exclusive world of blogging.

So if you thought you knew every trick a blog could possibly pull, prepare to be dazzled, or at least sufficiently interested to download the free beta. Movable Type has decidedly 180'd on us.

Think of it this way: if Google Maps and Flickr “knew” each other in the Biblical sense (as far as apps can, anyway), this is what their baby would be like.

Perhaps because everybody's jumping into the Web 2.0 CMS game, longtime arena contender Six Apart separates itself from (or some say joins) the throng with the Movable Type Community Pack (CP). The Pack takes mere blogs and turns them into community participation supernovas.

Loath to ever be left out of a sandbox Yahoo! and Google have already begun to play in, last Friday Microsoft brought mash-up tool Popfly to the light of day.

Like its predecessors Yahoo! Pipes and Google's RSS API, Popfly promises to be the Web mash-up builder “for the rest of us.”

While PHP and Java have been increasingly labeled the tech platforms of choice for Web CMS solutions, .NET remains a favorite for many ISV's. And even if the pairing of .NET and content management typically inspires thoughts to wander towards MOSS, a plethora of other options certainly exists for those looking.

One such candidate is Telerik's Sitefinity Web CMS.

In one of their stellar new reports analyst firm CMS Watch recently reviewed Google Analytics, a free offering that shares the Google characteristics of a simple, effective UI and quick adoption by earnest early adopters.

What's the verdict? While pretty, it's insufficient to meet enterprise analytics needs.

There have been many conferences to date that focused on website design, search engine optimization strategies, ecommerce, email marketing, and other pieces of the Internet puzzle. None, however, have catered to this assortment under the umbrella of Web content.

TheContentWrangler.com and DUO Consulting will be hosting one of the biggest conferences for people involved in Web content. Web Content 2007 and it will be held in Chicago from June 18-19.

WordPressers, “Getz” over to wordpress.com and prepare to update your favorite blogging engine.

The latest is a big release. On top of many improvements — most notably the inclusion of widgets — version 2.2 counts over 240 bug fixes.

It's one thing to like a blog, but is it possible to be attracted to a blogging platform?

Friction-free Squarespace, a subscription based solution for managing websites and blogs all at once, just released v4.0 of its blogging software into a progressively more crowded arena. And, well, it's kind of gorgeous.

Joining Zimbra, Zoho and a web based office suite from a little ole Google; ShareMethods is the latest player in the effort to move the office suite from the desktop to the web.

SF-based Weebly, a fruit from the YCombinator tree, just joined the hosted blogging world, pitting itself against TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type.

Analysts estimate that over 80,000 podcasts and 60 million blogs proliferate the Internet. As these figures grow and collaborative media-supporting business applications expand, we figured it was only a matter of time before a publisher recognized the growing need for a unifying industry voice.

Enter Blogger and Podcaster Magazine, just that voice for what parent company Larstan labels the “new media titans.”

It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.

Regardless of whether you like or are revolted by the term Web 2.0, most people can at least agree that the Web is a continually evolving place and that significant changes in both the underlying technologies and in the human interaction patterns have taken place over the past few years.

In the first article in this series we discussed in practical terms our take on meaning of Web 2.0 as it relates to content technologies. In this article, we describe the three key constituencies of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems and the functionalities needed to serve them well.

The interactivity Wünderkinds at Clickability just released Social Media, a veritable treasure trove of Web 2.0 fantasy that houses every social media offering a mash-up-happy enterprise could want — er, need. Built on the cmPublish content management platform, Social Media hopes to help enterprises explore innovations, test products and campaigns, and build loyalty by plugging integrated user communities directly into their websites.

Six Apart have announced an important security update recommended to all of its Movable Type (MT) users. Additionally, the new MT 3.35 — or MT 1.53 Enterprise — features an easier download and install process including the use of a wizard for first timers.

Following through on an alliance announced in October, EMC has released two new products to facilitate integration of EMC Documentum with Microsoft SharePoint.

Google is working on a new AJAX API that will enable the good user — that's you — to post feeds to your web properties with just a wee bit of simple JavaScript.

Those who've tried weathering the storm of server-side feed grabbing and caching issues and the labyrinthine depths of parsing XML know what a welcome pairing this is.

A simple website charges you less time. A complex website charges you more time. Time is your most precious resource.

Conversation is making a comeback in a big way. While this doesn't mean more people are getting cozy over coffee, it does mean the tech-savvy are demanding faster and faster ways to get their thoughts out to both relevant audiences and those less so.

With Blog Flux's new Commentful, one-liners and whole discourses left on comments pages can be brought to an owner's attention in real-time, increasing rates of response so it's almost like having a real discussion — almost.