Micro Cms News & Articles

Just when you thought that a microblogging service was simple enough, things like CheckThis come along. Offering fuss-free publishing of micro-sites, CheckThis promises quick posting of micro websites without even the need to go through complicated account signups.

Twitter has just received a fresh infusion of funds from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world's top private investors. With the microblogging service gearing up for a new advertising-based business model, and forecast to earn upwards of US$ 130 million per year, does the company really need this "strategic stake" from the Saudi Prince?

While there isn't much doubt that Twitter is playing ball in the big leagues, the microblogging service's management has confirmed they are currently counting just over 100 million active users. The company has likewise raised two rounds of financing worth US$ 400 million each.

How do you differentiate yourself in the small yet competitive "built for web designers to build a business on top of" niche of the hosted web cms market?

In the course of a day, you will probably save a few dozen links distributed over different web services, applications and devices. Keeping tabs on your online bookmarks can be cumbersome given the various sources and applications that you use, though. Social bookmarking service Trunk.ly can help you make better sense out of your bookmarks.

WordPress is truly going mobile. They have launched apps for Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Now the application for Windows Phone 7 is also available.

Ever heard a sales pitch that this or the other CMS doesn't require any development? Percussion (news, site) just added one of those developer-free products to their Web CMS portfolio. Meet Percussion CM1.

I have given up trying to figure out if there is a limit to the number of products that can co-exist in the hosted web cms landscape. Just when you think the category is saturated, along comes an offering like Osmek looking to differentiate itself from the myriad of competitors.

Among the 7 Ways to Blog Using Your Mobile Phone, which we wrote back in 2009, a few of them included emailing your posts directly to your blog. But what if everything you wrote, posted and created came only from your email? Well, then you’d have Posterous.

For those who want to go their own way in the blogosphere and ignore the big guns of WordPress, Blogger.com, Movable Type or any number of other options, we take a look at BlogEngine.Net. This fella is an open source, server-based software package that aims to simplify the increasingly sophisticated world of online scribbling.

Products in the simple CMS arena should be light, focussed, but still leave the user with a positive feel. How does now out-of-beta Viviti stack up?

concrete5 CMS (news, site) recently announced GA of their first eCommerce add-on -- coreCommerce.

With SMBs in mind, concrete5 is putting this low-priced offer on the market and giving folks yet another option of selling their goodies online.

Fuzzle CMS is an attempt by a group of Russian developers to bring Flash-based sites with CMS functionality to the masses.

In the latest 2.6 release, the Fuzzle CMS group has localized the Web CMS for English-speaking markets, translated documentation and launched an English version of the developer blog.

For its 3.0 release, Krabi & Mask -- the folks behind Zimplit CMS (news, site), have refined the fully rebrandable, commercial version of their CMS to target web hosting resellers looking to add a simple web site creation tool.

Zimplit 3.0 install includes demos, documentation and a selection of templates -- all rebrandable. Zimplit's site-edit toolbar can be customized as well to suit the color scheme and editing needs of the reseller and their target market.

Only a month after Injader released v2.3.2 of its web content management system, it has upgraded by almost a full point with release v2.4. This latest release comes with a couple of major improvements and assorted changes to the earlier version.

Originally created in 2005, under the name Majestic, to upgrade websites that were being coded by hand, the self professed goal of Injader is to create a system that enables everyone to build their own website.

Currently available for download at SourceForge, it dispenses with what its creator Ben Barden describes as ‘flashy’ technologies and offers sites that are not only easy to use for the owner, but for their public as well.