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Not too long ago, Google (news, site) trumpted its real-time search as adding value to current events. Then it vanished after arguments with Twitter, but could return thanks to the rise of Google+.

Now on their third beta release, the WordPress team is promising big things with version 2.7. After completing the first round of bug fixes from the beta 1 and beta 2 releases, the WordPress team is making sure that the full public release is a quality release with minimal issues.

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

Highlights of the Week

• Open Text Announces New ERP Product Plans, New Hires. What does the Enterprise CMS giant plan to do with this Washington-based provider of document management and delivery solutions?
• Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More. Day’s recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about a recent open source award and (much) more — including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.
• Sitecore Boasts Over 100% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth. While this kind of revenue percentage distribution may seem kind of funky to some, knowing Sitecore’s focus on software development and exclusive outsourcing of PS and related implementation activities to its third-party integrators and partners — we are not surprised.
• Make Content Management Easier with Pixie CMS. As many know, content can be maddening to organize and not all content management systems make it easy to organize and compile that content, let alone manage a web site. Pixie is hoping the change that.
• De-hyping CMIS. As most already know, many ECM vendors have already developed working prototypes for CMIS.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Hacking and security, Google Apps and maps, choices, results and strategies.

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
• Google Maps Get Better Eyesight With GeoEye-1. There is a new eye in the sky.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Five Reasons to Choose Vignette (or Not…). The company has been kicked around a little bit lately in the press. We give them an opportunity to press back.
• Gartner: 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies. These technologies impact the organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

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Featured Jobs:

• ActionScript Engineer (ActionScript Assassin) at Meebo
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• Senior Web Developer at Trapeze
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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?

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.

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