Apps News & Articles

iBook. iPod. iPhone. iPad. Apple’s evolution is astounding. It’s like you can actually see the ape man begin to walk upright.

Glam Media has announced the Glam Apps Platform, a new, open-source application-maker that is cross-platform and can be monetized with embedded advertizing.

This extremely cunning model enables the building of apps that can be priced or monetized with advertising from multiple sources. The Platform is designed (presumably) for mashing content from the Glam Network, but as it’s open source, this is great news for everyone. In any case, the Glam Network is huge. Still in private Beta, you can apply for an invite to the developers resource at the link below.

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• Drupal 6 Officially Released: No-Gamble Blogger Fury. The major new release of the Mothership of community-building Open Source Web CMS is ahead of schedule.
• SharePoint Web Content Management Licensing was Botched. The SMB Web CMS market, we assert, has been left high and dry by Microsoft.
• (Interview) Feed.us Skins Web Publishing Cat with SaaSy Cache and XML Gadgets. Come along for the ride as we spent some time in the mind of web publishing geek and Feed.us co-founder, Rick Stratton.
• Quick Take: Clickability’s SaaS Web Content Management Platform. More SaaS for you. Clickability cmPublish has been rebranded as the Clickability Platform. We’ve poked under the covers. Here’s what we found.
• Convio Introduces Social Media To Nonprofits. Embracing social media and Web 2.0 technologies can be a challenge for non-profits. Convio can help.
• Microsoft Embraces Interop, Apocalypse Imminent? In one of the more abrupt u-turns in recent corporate history, Microsoft announces changes to both development and business practices intended to “increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.” Holy $#@$, we never saw that coming.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, SharePoint Proliferation and Managing Content better.

• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• IBM’s Fight to Stop the SharePoint Proliferation
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)

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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.

With the introduction of its Premiere Apps suite into the marketplace, we posited Google was getting its ducks in order to turn Apps into a major enterprise-ready contender.

But the search giant has pulled a surprise move, having released their “educational” edition of Apps, dubbed the Google Apps Education Edition, to registered non-profits in the US at no cost.

Along with announcing its Google Apps for your Domain pricing scheme, many in the Googlesphere believe that a Powerpoint competitor dubbed “Presently” is in the works for the near horizon.