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Friday, Jul 18 2008

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Have a look at the big stories over the past week (…and a bit), in scan-friendly format.

Thursday, Jul 10 2008

With the recent boom in mobile Web users, British and European markets are eager to capitalize on these mobile trends by employing the means to measure their impact effectively and dynamically, approaches which haven’t been possible.

Until now…

European company Xtract, innovator of social advertising intelligence announced that it has closed its series B round of funding from “leading early-stage technology investors” Creandum, Eqvitec Partners and InnovationsKapital.

Such funding is evident of the eager interest Venture Capitalists have shown towards excavating social web data in an effort to jump on the mobile band wagon.

It also gives Xtract a financial boost towards expanding its market outside Europe.

Friday, Jun 6 2008

At a recent meeting of the World Association of Newspapers, one of the topics of conversation included the results of the second annual World Digital Media Trends report, which revealed that digital platforms of newspapers are growing at a double-digit rate worldwide, as the world increasingly goes on line.

Monday, Jun 2 2008

Polopoly wants to take their user-generated content capabilities mobile. They’ve determined that the best way to do this is via the integration of a mobile offering called AIMO from Arena Interactive.

Friday, May 30 2008

Oh those young persons! How they love their social networks.

New research results indicate that millenials (those born between 1981 and 2000) are also eager to embrace mobile Web 2.0 technologies, which include cell phone-based blogging, multimedia sharing, location-based socialization services, gaming and chat.

Friday, May 16 2008

It’s said that Las Vegas is the place where dreams come true. And such was the case for sixteen lucky projects who were awarded a total of $5.5 million dollars from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The second annual Knight News Challenge is a contest that funds ideas to transform community news through digital technology It selects recipients whose ideas reflect a focus on mobile technology.

Friday, Feb 15 2008

Back when cell phones were only phones and not mobile devices, many of us noticed that too many interfaces were poorly supported or not supported at all. Now with the advent of the iPhone and other savvy mobile devices, users are able to enjoy mobile-friendly interfaces and applications.

This concept is not lost on FatWire Software, a leading web content management provider. They recently announced that they will resell, service and support netomat, Inc.’s Mobility Server to complement FatWire’s web content management and Web 2.0 collaboration solutions.

Monday, Feb 11 2008

For those of you on the go, DoxNow LLC, a company specializing in the development and distribution of various document management software applications, announces the launch of the DoxNow smart drive product.

Basically, it’s a USB smart drive equipped with customized indexing and searching software; the nifty result of research that indicated storing data was only part of the smart drive convenience factor for consumers.

Friday, Jan 4 2008

It’s like Christmas all over again for Apple fans as Norwegian Open Source CMS champion eZ Systems has at long last enabled support for their flagship eZ Publish CMS to run on the Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard. Perhaps this pleasant change can be attributed to the recent additions to their board of directors. Or maybe these guys are just on a roll with their recent launch of eZ Publish 4.0 and their newly updated eZ Components Suite.

Thursday, Dec 13 2007

Forrester has released a list of 10 reasons why Apple’s iPhone is no friend to IT.

You can probably think of a few already: the prohibitive cost, the first-gen factor, and fidelity to AT&T.

Wednesday, Dec 12 2007

Gotta love conference season. Catch Content Convergence and Integration 2008 this March 12-14 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The three-day event covers mobile, digital asset management, forward-looking XML, and plen’y of social media stuff. Days are segmented as follows: Day one for content, day two for technology, and day three for user relationships.

Tuesday, Nov 20 2007

Zoho has just released Creator Mobile, which enables users to access private or shared Zoho Creator files from their handhelds.

Creator Mobile currently supports IE, Opera, Safari, and WAP browsers. And while it may be fairly browser-agnostic, it’s pretty partial to the iPhone, aesthetics-wise.

Try the bad-boy out at the Zoho Creator Mobile subsite.