Opensocial News & Articles

Nuxeo has announced a new release of its open source enterprise CMS platform. The most recent version, 5.5, is a significant enhancement to the platform. Nuxeo continues to show its commitment to abandoning the traditional application-oriented approach to enterprise CMS in favor of providing a feature-rich platform for building content-centric applications. Version 5.5 adds social features, mobile enhancements and a number of technical enhancements that improve developer productivity.

OpenSocial is to Google as OpenGraph is to Facebook. Some might say that’s all you need to know about OpenSocial 2.0. But as leading technologists and innovators takes sides for and against it, there is much more to the story.

The inherent tension between structured and unstructured, formal and informal, product and platform is at an interesting phase as content management collides with social software. Whether we call it Enterprise 2.0, enterprise collaboration or social content management, this intersection presents a challenge for both IT and content managers.

Business Intelligence (BI) has gone social with the collaboration of respected open source companies JasperSoft (news, site) and eXo (news, site). The companies are providing the ability for JasperSoft’s BI applications to interact with eXo Platform 3.0 social features and gadget-based development.

Things have changed a lot for eXo (news, site) since we first covered the open source enterprise CMS vendor back in March of 2009.  With a steady stream of updates and a new partnership with JBoss, it was only a matter of time before the company added some social features to their list of capabilities.

FatWire (news, site) beefs up its Web Experience Management Suite with the introduction of two new modules Community Server and Gadget Server.

Welcome to the April installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Remember when Facebook released its applications platform? It was unquestionably the smartest move in social networking history and the company has been a dominant force in social networking ever since then. But watch out Facebook — LinkedIn is joining the party with its OpenSocial-based application platform called Intelligent Applications.

These are not your typical applications.

Good for Google = good for the universe. What would a social network be without applications, you ask? Nowadays, probably obsolete; which is why the ambitious, sort-of-new social network Ning made a good move by announcing their support of Google’s OpenSocial v0.7 standard.

This will allow developers to easily build applications that can also be shared across a variety of other supporting social platforms.

The open social party is apparently the place to be. Even old Microsoft just announced LiveMesh). Now Yahoo, who’s Flickr photo sharing site is the second most popular used API on the web, has rolled out a limited preview to the developer platform they announced in February called SearchMonkey.