Latest Web Publishing News & Articles

VMWare (news, site) makes another buy to broaden its SaaS appeal, picking up enterprise microblogger service Socialcast for an undisclosed amount.

In a major move among the app fraternity, Conduit (news, site) has picked up web and app publisher Wibiya to bolster the numbers and widen its offering. Conduit has also adopted Cotendo's services to speed up its offerings.

UK-based SDL (news, site) announced the release of SDL LiveContent 2011, a multi-channel, context-aware product information platform that uses structured XML to produce different outputs on demand. That’s quite a mouthful. In simple terms, if your business is fast-moving, with frequent changes to product information and you’ve embraced consumerization by supporting multiple devices, SDL Live Content is something you should explore.

Amazon (news, site) has trumpeted the fact that, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, its customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books — hardcover and paperback — combined. However, it's important not to take this announcement at face value.

What do users do with news content? And how do they get their news? These are questions that a recent in-depth study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism sought to answer. The study examined the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, and what they found may help us restructure the way we publish news.

If it were not for Facebook and Twitter, would non-startup web content management vendors even put out new versions of their platforms?

Blogger.com (news, site) was supposed to be down for an hour of planned maintenance on Wednesday, but the outage lasted far into Thursday, heralding a major update.

Adobe (news, site) aims to bring some glossy magazine style to the Web with a prototype CSS extension that can add new features to your web pages.

After a far too brief holiday, the DAM Lowdown returns with: SDL's acquisition of Calamares, FocusOPEN launches a developer network, Createasphere hosts an open source DAM seminar, NorthPlains extends TeleScope via partnership and Quick Hits.

The Drupal (news, site) open source web content management system is developed by thousands and used by millions of people around the world, powering a diverse range of websites. In this interview, I visit with Drupal's creator, Dries Buytaert, who explains how Drupal evolved over the past ten years, out of a simple message board written in a college dormitory in Belgium. He discusses how his company, Acquia (news, site), has impacted his ability to focus on Drupal, weighs in on some of the new features in Drupal 7 and looks toward the next decade of progress.

Because Woodwing Software (news, site) is known for "innovative cross-media publishing solutions," it only makes sense that it also creates innovative cross-platform solutions. But in this instance, going cross-platform requires a little help from a friend.

Axaio (news, site) has beefed up its MadeToCompare PDF creation, change and version management tools to play happily alongside Adobe's Creative Suite 5 and Woodwing's cross-media publishing systems.

Adobe's (news, site) latest monster design, creation and publishing package packs in plenty for the mobile and digital publishing set.

Today the news dropped that San Francisco-based SaaS Web content management vendor, Clickability, which had previous raised more than US$ 15 million in backing, was purchased by Limelight Networks for US$ 10 million. Ouch. 

Now that the iPad has become a respected media channel through which publishers design and publish online magazines, there’s more pressure for content systems to keep up with emerging technologies that influence how users interact and engage. WoodWing Software, known for its multi-platform tablet publishing platform, has announced a number of major new features for its reader apps for iOS and Android, as well as for its Content Delivery Service.

After almost a year in private beta, BO.LT, a new page-sharing service, launches today. What’s a page-sharing service? Isn’t that what a hyperlink is for? Can’t we already share everything with those handy sharing buttons that are on almost every website? Calm down. We have answers.

If tablet devices are overtaking desktop computers, there’s no shortage of tablet publishing tools to help media teams deliver their content to the masses. From Woodwing to QuarkXpress, mobile device-specific publishing has expanded since the words iPad were uttered. Now Atex, which offers software solutions for media-rich industries, has released its tablet publishing solution.

Nokia (news, site) and its Symbian smartphone operating system might be losing market share in the US, but Symbian still holds some considerable market share in Europe and Asia. Nokia has made it easier for content publishers to turn their websites into content-based applications with the Ovi App Wizard.

Vasont ST (news, site) launches this week with new mobile-focused features for the XML-based content management system.

Productivity apps for the iPad are pouring in, and here comes one from iBuildApp that offers a direct route to self-publishing.