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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?

Squarespace (news, site) offers a slick, well-drilled Web publishing and blogging experience. What can it achieve with a bundle of investment in the bank?

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In the hyper-competitive market of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web content management, vendors are desperate to stand out. Squarespace (news, site) differentiates its offering through in-line editing capabilities, an extensive embeddable widgets library, strong iPhone support and dynamic scalability behind the scenes. Sound like your cup of tea? Read on.

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.

Whether you are a blogger writing for food or more established at the art of drawing ire from the Associated Press or the FTC, chances are you’re dedicated to whatever it is you blog about. As the world slowly succumbs to wireless fidelity, subway systems and municipalities at the same time, blogging is no longer limited to those on laptops at the local coffee shop or at their home office. No, blogging via mobile device is now more accessible and viable than ever.

CMSWire steps beyond the traditional boundaries of non-traditional media platforms and offers a few tools for mobile blogging. From iPhones to Blackberry to Androids and Storms, these mobile platforms can help you chronicle your adventures while on the go or from where ever you please.

It’s only been out for a couple of weeks now, but Squarespace version 5.0 is generating a buzz that looks to threaten the blogging platforms we have all come to know and love. What’s so special about this latest version?

Bitnami, OSS installation stack champion of the Universe, has just released a stack for the Alfresco Enterprise CMS platform.

Linux and Windows versions of the new stack are available immediately, and an OS/X version is in the pipeline.

Programming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right?

Rubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do.

What the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That’d take the wind out of your sails. And while you’re at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn’t kill you to look respectable once in a while.

Life is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it’s just gotten even easier.

The release of Alfresco 2.9 is imminent, and word on the street is that the new upgrade will feature integration capabilities with several of your favorite web applications. The news comes less than a fortnight after Alfresco announced integration capability for Facebook, news which doubtless prompted innumerable Enterprise CMS developers to choke on their morning cereal with anguish because they hadn’t thought of it first.

Looking to add mobility to your sleepy content site? Have a little Flux, peppered with some Social Project magic.

Flux is a social media distribution platform that enables media companies and bloggers to “virally” distribute content without losing the reins on their brands.

To precipitate the dissemination of the Flux social media platform across publishers, Social Project has built some handy little tools, alongside brands like Capital Records, TheDailyShow.com, and indy firms like The Plugg, 3hive and X17online.

Ogrant, a name that sooner brings the weedy horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale to mind than collaboration-oriented student loans, has chosen the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network to improve its media applications process.

Toronto-based Ogrant is a collective of grant-providing entities that enables students to apply for grants and scholarships by letting them turn in videos and images in lieu of transcripts, letters of rec and essays. Ogrant members then vote for applicants that deserve a grant, based on their media submission.

Nirvanix’s service is used to store and deliver the interactive entries developed by applicants.

Every time I hear someone say that “every website is different” I want to rush outside, grab an ancient oak, rip it up by its roots, swing it wildly and lop the top off the nearest mountain.

It’s one thing to like a blog, but is it possible to be attracted to a blogging platform?

Friction-free Squarespace, a subscription based solution for managing websites and blogs all at once, just released v4.0 of its blogging software into a progressively more crowded arena. And, well, it’s kind of gorgeous.