Social News & Articles

 SDL (news, site) adds to their translation capabilities with the acquisition of Language Weaver, a provider of SaaS-based statistical machine translation. What does this acquisition mean for SDL's global information management platform?

Atlassian (news, site) bags a US$ 60 million investment to open up wider horizons for the Aussie rags-to-riches bug-busting and collaboration company.

With the doors barely open on their new application mashup shop, JackBe (news, site) spent a few days at the Microsoft Partner Conference bragging up their new enterprise mashup solution for SharePoint. 

In my last article “Evaluating SharePoint 2010 as an Enterprise 2.0 platform” I did a quick and dirty evaluation of SharePoint 2010 against Prof. McAfee’s SLATE framework. The average score for SP2010 was 7 out of 10 which I characterised as “pretty good”. But the article noted some obvious gaps in the lower scores in some areas. I was contacted by NewsGator (news, site) to discuss how their Social Sites product helps fill those gaps in the SharePoint 2010 “out of the box” Enterprise 2.0 experience.

Southern hospitality meets social media this Friday, September 25 as practitioners from all over the southeast converge in Atlanta, GA to extol the business value of social media.

With all the talk of new solutions, new technologies and new versions of technologies, it would be hard to imagine that a considerable number of companies are still having problems with the basics of digital asset management (DAM).

That would appear to be one of the primary conclusions of a new report released by the Aberdeen Group (news, site) for Widen, a provider of web-based digital asset management applications. The report says that only half of Best-in-Class organizations (53%) indicated they currently have searchable access to content.

CMS Watch has a pretty interesting content management vendor map (see link below), laid out in the format of a subway map, which makes for intriguing viewing. The diagram is overtly enterprise-oriented, and links vendors according to their scope of operations across various content management arenas like Enterprise CMS, email archiving, DAM, XML management, etc.

It’s interesting to note that there are five main ‘Hubs’ — extending the subway metaphor — of vendors who can provide pretty much everything. Microsoft, IBM, OpenText, EMC and Oracle.

PaperThin has announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0, the latest upgrade to the company’s flagship Web CMS.

The release introduces a new authoring interface that includes RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, XML publishing and rendering capabilities.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Microsoft has release service pack two (SP2) for Office Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). There’s no big excitement here save for sys admins who might be tired of SPS/WSS stability and performance issues.

RSS is everywhere, but nobody gives a damn. Or rather, according to Yahoo! and Ipsos outside of the geeky blogger/web content crowds the awareness of RSS by Internet users is low and those who consume RSS are likely to be doing so, quite unawares.

A recent and flattering white paper by Yahoo’s Joshua Grossnickle and some folks from Ipsos Insight, a marketing research group, reports on and summarizes what they’ve learned from Yahoo’s usage data and Ipsos’ surveys.