Web Publishing News & Articles

This week, at its annual worldwide conference, Adobe Systems (new,site) revealed their new Digital Publishing Suite. The package aims to help publishers create, publish and sell digital content targeted at mobile devices. Even with Apple's Steve Jobs’ public disdain for Flash, Adobe seems determined to lead the mobile publishing market.

Web content accessibility got ya down? W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative recently published updates to two accompanying guides that may help you out. 

The video, drag-n-drop, canvas and other features promised by HTML5 have drawn much attention, but it's not yet appropriate to build websites against the emerging standard, W3C official cautions. Separately, privacy experts point to open concerns.

With a morning filled with keynotes and lightning talks, the Smart Content Conference reconvened after lunch to take on more semantic content-related initiatives. Content strategist extraordinaire, Rachel Lovinger of Razorfish asked us to Imagine a Nimble World: Challenging the Publishing Industry.

Here's an all-new level of geekery: Now you can purchase O'Reilly and Microsoft Press Books from the Apple iBookstore. Download the iBooks app to your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone, and you've got a massive searchable reference pool on the go. 

Day Ignite kicked off today in Chicago. The theme of Day Software’s (news, site) Innovation Summit is "get mobile and get social." Equipping every attendee with an iPad helps to reach those goals. The theme was also reflected in Day CTO David Nuescheler’s presentation: What's New with CQ5: Sneak Peek into CQ 5.4.

The last time we covered the Frankfurt Book Fair, 70 percent of active readers were ready to go digital. Two years later, they will get a first look at Impelsys’ new iPad module for its publishing platform, iPublishCentral.

In this guest article Seth Grimes looks through the eyes of four industry experts, examining the relationships between content analytics, smart content and business intelligence. Do you know what content intelligence means for your organization?

Recently we talked about WoodWing’s digital magazine tools for the iPad. Since then, magazine and newspaper publishers around the world have launched more than 50 apps and published more than 350 digital publications for the iPad using WoodWing’s tools. While publishers are busy making their magazines come to life on the iPad, WoodWing has been busy updating and releasing more new features. Let’s take a look!
 

Today MadCap Software (news, site) delivered Mimic 5.0, the latest version of the multi-channel content authoring company's simulation and tutorial software. 

When it comes to either expanding your current web content management system or investing in a brand new one, accurately identifying the time, resources and money required is critical to your success. Unfortunately, that's quite a bit easier said than done -- the typical Web CMS project has many dimensions:

• Defining requirements and engaging all groups
• Acquiring the hardware and software
• Hosting (on-premise vs. cloud vs. managed service)
• Migration of content from existing repositories
• Staffing for implementation and maintenance
• Integrating new and legacy systems

Chances are, you've got two big concerns when working on the project budget:

1. How to create a compelling business case
2. How to ensure you have a realistic ROI story justifying the investment

Aimed squarely at these items, Siteworx is holding a webinar this Wednesday October 6 at at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern Time. The title is How to Budget Intelligently and Determine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Your Web CMS Implementation.  Based on the many projects they've executed they intend to provide you with the perspectives and tools you need to intelligently budget your next project.

If the financial weight is on your shoulders, then this live event might be just what you need. Interested parties can register here.

It was October last year when Quark (news, site) and Microsoft announced their new partnership to bring dynamic publishing to Microsoft SharePoint  (news, site). Today, they take it a step further letting us that this integration will work for SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft played the schoolyard bully this week when an FAQ post indicated that the upcoming IE9 browser will not run without the not-yet-released Windows 7 Service Pack 1. 

In early September they told us it was going to happen, and now it has. eZ Systems (news, site) has just released eZ Publish 4.4 Enterprise. Let's have a look at what's new and improved.

Some seem to hope that it's an early April Fool's Joke, but the truth came out on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today: AOL is acquiring TechCrunch.