Content Management Matters ™

CrownPeak, a Gold sponsor of the Gilbane Conference that starts tomorrow in San Francisco, has announced some major new features for its web content management system that should make both developers and end-users as excited as a school boy in a comic shop.

This new set of features includes support for Microsoft developers, better file management and improved web analytics with the flavor of Web 2.0.

Gartner's Emerging Trends and Technologies Roadshow is happening right now and they are espousing their views on the 10 most disruptive technologies they believe will shape the IT landscape over the next five years. No surprise that social computing and mashups make the list. But did they forget something?

Kapow Technologies is helping organizations harness the true power of the web – the power of information. They have announced Kapow OnDemand, an enterprise mashup and web harvesting service. Their solution helps organizations pull data from the web in into databases for mashups and web applications or for Microsoft Excel in real-time.

Enterprise mashups are hardly commonplace in most businesses. But they are growing in use at an alarming rate. And until recently small start-ups controlled the world of the mashup. But that is changing -- and IBM is leading the pack.

IBM has created a new technology to secure "mashups" -- Web applications that can be constructed and utilized by everyday business folk, that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases, or emails. These sources unite to form a single unified view that provides functionality greater than the sum of its parts.

It used to be that you had to be a living legend or a deceased author before an anthology of your work could be assembled. In addition, it used to be that a first edition copy was a rare and coveted find. Well, thanks to Web 2.0, the rules of publishing are being rewritten.

LibreDigital, a Division of NewsStand, Inc., which provides an integrated, dynamic digital publishing solutions to book publishers worldwide, recently announced the launch of eCompile Service, a technology enhancement that allows publishers to provide consumers with book "mashups" - customized books made from content compiled from different book titles in publisher portfolios.