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Web media is changing and video and interactivity are growing at such a rapid rate many cutting edge companies are following the trend with new product development. Adobe Systems Incorporated has released a sneak peek of three applications in beta stages still. Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, and Adobe Soundbooth are now available for free download in a sneak peek beta version.

Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, “Note in Reader”, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already. Can Google compete?

Remember when WordPress fans held fast to 2.0.x after the release of 2.1.x? Was it just an reluctance to change? Well, hopefully this is not the case with the newest version of the prolific publishing platform. WordPress v2.5 offers better functionality and continues the ease of use tradition -- all in a more aesthetically pleasing packaging that works better for you…at least that’s the idea. Read on for the details.

Webware has announced its top 100 list. Some of the results were shocking…some surprise winners, some surprise non-winners and some that we all knew would make the list -- can you say WordPress?

It looks like a busy April for Jive Software. Not only did they announce the release of Clearspace 2.0, their social productivity software, they also announced their acquisition of Jotlet, a web 2.0 social calendar solution, to be integrated into Clearspace in the future.

Originally released last year as a people-oriented alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint, this new version of Clearspace was inspired by a customer demand for "Facebook for the Enterprise".

Traffic is high and the living is easy, unless you're a local online paper.

A report from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government called "Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet" looked at the traffic of 160 news-based websites over a yearlong period.

What they found indicates that "websites of national 'brand-name' newspapers are growing," while those of many local papers are not.

The few things that have eluded the online word -- as opposed to the infamous written word of yesteryear -- are metrics of validity and accuracy, and the grail of a referenceable reputation.

With so many sites and so many people wanting to consume and interact, we never really can be sure whose version of what is most accurate. Somehow, it was all so much easier to believe when it was published in print.

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Parallels 3.0 Gets Graphics-Savvy for Erudite Gamers. For Mac owners given to fun and games, Parallels makes it possible for you to bring the fantasy gaming experience to your platform of choice.
• Impediments to seeing information as a task. The Web has significantly changed the dynamics -- and the consequences -- of information creation. Here's how, and how best to manage it.
• Movable Type 4 Leaps Beyond Blogging Horizons. Apparently, it's not (just) a blogging platform.
• Sun's New Blade Looks to Carve Up the Enterprise. Ooh, the Blade. It's like ... the iPhone of servers.
• Microsoft, LG Join Hands in Turbulent Waters. Patents are tough enough without getting the water muddy with Microsoft. Read on to find out what we mean.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of (if unique visits are anything to go by, anyway). OSS is the "Marsha Marsha Marsha!" in IT-ville right now.

• AJAX for ASP.NET
• CMS Review: OpenCms 6.0
• Wi-fi Makes Appearance in Avis Rentals
• Umbraco Means dot NET Open Source CMS
• Alfresco Rings Bell for Red Hat Exchange While Rumors Swirl