Latest Micro CMS News & Articles

Move over, Youtube; there’s a new online video sharing site in town.

Viddler, set to officially launch in September, is a video sharing service that goes deeper than other mainstream video sites like Google Video and its sister Youtube by offering users the ability to add tags and comments to particular points in a video.

With the fourth release candidate of Movable Type 4.0 available as of today, Six Apart evangelist Anil Dash unleashes a wild-eyed call to devs, designers, strategists, consultants and systems integrators.

This week a series of online events will assist techies, content builders and web aesthetes alike in best leveraging MT4, as well as helping make upgrades and transitions as smooth as possible.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Wordpress, Expression Engine and Movable Type may be out front in the Micro CMS space, but a little competition is always a good thing. That competition comes in the form of New Zealand based Silverstripe who have released an updated version of their open source CMS product.

One of the most challenging aspects of any content management initiative is getting a view into all your content. No wonder. If you could see it all clearly, you wouldn’t need content management, right?

After months of grueling work and legal battles, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has officially approved the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) originally submitted by Socialtext nine months ago. With CPAL on the OSI’s approved list of open source licenses, Socialtext can now carry the OSI-certified label and proudly call itself open source.

Despite a broad track record across the digital space, the notion of wikis in the workplace still makes enterprises twitch with fear. Whether because they don't fully understand what a wiki is, or because the word itself conjures up visions of Lord of the Flies (employees running amok, unmanageable access to all kinds of information), many fail to realize the benefits of this helpful collaboration tool.

Wikis can help employees share information, track workflow and allow users to edit and author information with ease, often saving time and money.

Everybody's gone widget and app-wild, but few are helping rein in the beast. With good eyes for a new niche, MindTouch has today released Deki Wiki “Hayes,” a free open source (licensed under GPL v2) and wiki-centric platform that pinches together all the APIs running awry.

Mark your calendar for Wikis in the Workplace, a webinar that takes place this July 26 and features Socialtext and MWW Group.

Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your website than how nice and elegant it looks.

In the design of physical products, the use of words is often seen as a sign of a flaw of the design. On the contrary, in web design, without words, there is no design.

Toward its working goal of releasing a set of standards for widget development, the W3C has just released an updated draft of “Widgets 1.0 Requirements.”

The nature of the Web is not neat and tidy. A website is not a project but rather a process of continuous improvement.

Make the trek out to San Francisco on July 21 and 22 for WordCamp, an indubitable hodgepodge of WordPress users, blogging purists and collabo-hungry enterprise elites, all raring to add new buzz to already unintelligible 2.0-ridden vernacular.

Just in case you have not gotten enough open source cms news in recent days, here is one more item for your plate.

The next version of the popular open source Web CMS platform, Drupal, has entered a code freeze as the development team works toward stabilization. As exciting as this announcement is for Drupal users, what is more interesting is that with this version 6.0 Drupal joins AOL, LiveJournal, Moveable Type v4.0 and Wordpress.com, among others, in supporting the new OpenID authentication standard.

Comments catalyze the ultimate publisher's love-hate relationship. Either the doe-eyed enterprise blogger has too few and is trying to generate them in a pool of apathy, or s/he's got a deluge that's slipped completely off-topic and turned into a burn war.

The benefits of incorporating the use of XML/XSL in your web content management strategy are clear and compelling. XML technologies may no longer be considered bleeding-edge, or even leading-edge; nevertheless, there is good news.

The XML train has not yet left the station. Used well it can provide tremendous value. And you still have time to get on board.

We do love an acronym-loaded title. In English this time: Socialtext, the leading enterprise wiki provider, just submitted a Common Public Attribution License to the Open Source Initiative.

Socialtext, which ships under a Mozilla Public License + Attribution License, is the first of its kind to seek Open Source Initiative (OSI) Certification on top of all that.

A new Wiki appliance by Socialtext is putting new spark in SaaS, taking the benefits of Software as a Service and combining them with the security of the Appliance model; in effect delivering SaaS behind the firewall.

SaaS analyst and blogger Phil Wainewright sees both the Appliance and the SaaS models to be part of the same trend of making software easier to install and use.

If you've got an hour or so tomorrow afternoon, learning more about RSS and its role in Enterprise 2.0 may be worth your while.