Content Management Matters ™

We recently covered the announcement of Velocix Accelerator, the world's first free content delivery network aimed towards new digital media businesses. Just a few weeks later, another low-cost CDN aimed at the start up market has surfaced. This time, the company entering the CDN ring is Softlayer, a datacenter out of Dallas, Texas.

Coming off the heels of recently announced low cost and free hosted web application services such as Amazon's S3 and Google Apps, UK based digital asset delivery network Velocix have announced that they are releasing the world's first free content delivery network called Velocix Accelerator, currently in private Beta.

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.

We’re most all familiar with the notion of Web 2.0 (if you aren’t, check out this helpful article).

But with all this talk about user participation and interaction, what are the actual figures? How many Web 2.0 users create content and how many simply access it? Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service has released an intriguing study that addresses these questions.

Vamosa, again earning their classification as a Cool Vendor (we would prefer Nifty Vendor ourselves) in content management, has announced the release of free content analysis and migration software for Microsoft SharePoint.

In case up front clarification is needed, this tool is for, er, migrating content into, not out of a SharePoint system.