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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.

Plone’s intellectual property is owned by the non-profit Plone Foundation, whose mission it to protect and promote Plone.

The Foundation uses the Plone Conference as a wonderful opportunity to have an “All Member” meeting. Following are my notes…

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.

James Robertson of Aussie firm Step Two has published an article entitled Top 10 mistakes when selecting a CMS. His short take is that organizations make the selection process much harder than it needs to be. And we couldn’t agree more …that is, when they do actually take the time to think the details through.

Microsoft has release service pack two (SP2) for Office Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). There’s no big excitement here save for sys admins who might be tired of SPS/WSS stability and performance issues.