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Source code hosting site GitHub began in 2008 as a side project to provide an easy hosting option for developers. The site has since grown to more than 1.6 million users and over 2.8 million source code repositories. The popular site has finally released a Windows version of its client that works with everything from Windows XP to pre-release versions of Windows 8.

Adobe Muse 1.0 Web design software finally rolls out of beta and is available as a standalone subscription or as part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud membership.

 Web CMS maker PaperThin has joined companies like WordPress and Sitecore in bringing the power of video hosting giant Brightcove into its platform. The ColdFusion-based CommonSpot WCM will be adding a new Brightcove Video Cloud widget to its existing video production capabilities.

Adobe's new offering, Creative Cloud, brings the company's expansive and expensive range of legendary publishing and art applications, Flash development software and other tools to all via an affordable software as a service solution.

The next version of Office and SharePoint seem likely to land on servers in the first quarter of next year, making it SharePoint 2013, with a beta due this summer.

Step aside CMIS for a few minutes, the new Web Experience Management Initiative (WEMI) needs a little attention. The first face-to-face meeting was recently held in Copenhagen and there were plenty of Web CMS vendors in attendance — a sign that many are ready to play nice.

We reported in January that open source webserver nginx was gaining adoption and had managed to surpass Microsoft IIS in the number of active sites. Netcraft has released its April web server survey and it seems nginx’s market share is continuing to rise.

While many might still believe that games are just for the kids, the ever-evolving web is now increasingly capable of running advanced games-class technologies within the browser, and they can be deployed for much more than Angry Bird clones.

Site design for those lacking in actual design skills is a problem that many seem to want to solve. Wix is a dab hand at creating Flash sites from a drag and drop system, now it offers the same for those needing a result in modern, sexy, smartphone-friendly HTML 5.

Luke Wroblewski gave the third and final DrupalCon keynote on Thursday morning in what he called the “hangover slot.” Conference attendees who slept in missed an inspiring, entertaining talk about putting mobile design first.

You could argue the ability to easily repurpose content has been fundamental to the success of the Internet. A small percentage of people create new content and then the masses quote, blog and mash it up. Content mobility is good, but the rampant re-sharing common online is not without its problems like how to reuse content fairly and “give props” to the original author. Will the new Curator’s Code system make a difference?

Only a few months after buying Gowalla, Facebook shuts down the young location-sharing service.

Acquia, a commercial provider of Drupal CMS services and support, released 2011 financials that show nearly 150% revenue growth.

The latest release of Telerik's Sitefinity Web CMS includes mobile features that adapt web content for the variety of available screen sizes.

It’s that time of year again when techies, and lots of marketers and journalists, descend on Austin, Texas, for one of the largest annual technical conferences, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi). SXSWi will be taking place Friday, March 9 through Tuesday, March 13. The conference is massive in every way — total number of attendees, parties, sessions, technology and, of course, buzz. In addition to behemoths such as Microsoft, IBM and Google, masses of fledgling companies and individual entrepreneurs arrive hoping to be “Southby’s” next Twitter or Foursquare. Here are a few things to watch for in the SXSWi 2012 whirlwind.

Having a tablet-friendly website is rapidly rising up the tick list of must-haves for anyone selling online. Mobify takes the hard work out of desktop browser to mobile or tablet browser conversion, fine-tuning and optimizing your site along the way.

I can honestly say I know how the people hunting down Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, and more recently the wooly mammoth, feel. For the better part of the last dozen years, I’ve been searching for the mythical beast called the “Web Developer” but is also known by several other names: User Interface Engineer, Front End Developer, Site Developer and I’m sure there are other names I have not heard before. Whatever you call them, I’m pretty sure that we can all agree on one thing call them: scarce.

Apple and Google’s use of non-standard CSS features in its mobile browsers is causing quite a bit of outrage around the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At this week’s meeting of the CSS Working Group, the implications of Google and Apple’s mobile browsers were compared with those of Internet Explorer 6. Gasp. Are things really bad enough to hurl the techie explicative? Unfortunately, yes they are.

Google has launched a Google+ developers’ page, perhaps signaling that full-featured API access is in the near future for the rapidly growing social network.

Silverlight was Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash, an application framework with which to build rich internet applications. It was launched in April 2007 to much fanfare, albeit mainly from Microsoft. Version 5 brought GPU accelerated video decoding and 64-bit support in December of last year. It also brought the conclusion of the Silverlight story, as this version is set to be the final release. Silverlight is no more. Or so people have been speculating, as there has yet to be any official word from Microsoft. Its lifespan might be prolonged as a Windows Phone platform, but it seems likely it will cease to exist as a browser plugin.

However this article is not about SIlverlight per se, but rather its somewhat fractured relationship with SharePoint. If we have really seen the final installment of Silverlight, what does that mean for its use with SharePoint in the future? Let’s start by seeing how it is used today.