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A new partnership between UK-based Oracle consultancy Mokum and document management software vendor Version One (news, site) means that Oracle Financials clients will be able to access Version One directly from their Oracle (news, site) system.

The SlideShare (news, site) service offers a cross between PowerPoint and YouTube. Now, it adds branded channels, giving companies, government and other agencies the chance to put their message across for the social Web to grab hold of.

The holiday season has not slowed down the web publishing world. In fact, they might be looking to pick up speed as the year comes to a close. From Google to Bing to YouTube, it seems that things are heating up, like a Thanksgiving turkey.

We’ve got more non YouTube related video content management news for ya. Kontiki, a provider of enterprise video solutions, just opened up the Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal. The portal allows companies to gather, schmooze, and ultimately align their organizations around one vision.  

Offering a white-label service to video content publishers, now any business can get on-board the online video train thanks to Reality Digital's (news, site) Spotlight.

This week in web publishing: revenue-generating schemes, be it Twitter or CNN.

Compliance, compliance, compliance. It's not that companies don't want to be compliant. They do. It's more that there are many things that complicate the process, like vendors with too much access to private information and virtual environments. Two recent surveys highlight these issues.

Admittedly, we haven’t thought much about the video distribution platform Brightcove (news, site) since sometime last year, so imagine our surprise when they burst from the woodwork this week with a ton of updates.

The new developments come directly from Brightcove Alliance, the company's global partner ecosystem, which has not only doubled in size, but added new partner categories and training and certification programs as well.

There's no rest for the weary when it comes to web publishing. From Twitter to mobile news to YouTube, the news industry has many issues to consider when evaluating their presence in news media.

Let's Begin with Twitter. 

Many newspapers already have Twitter feeds with hundreds of thousands of followers. But they're only now just figuring out what it all means. Editor & Publisher recently reported about the ways newspapers are using Twitter to get news out and how they are using others' to get news in.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• TechCrunch Is Full of What?
• Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans - comScore
• Zcapes Launches Microblogging/Activity Stream Service For Mobile Web
• Baby Boomers Using Social Media
• Yelp.com Outed For Mafia-Like Extortion

Thanks to its numerous digital media capabilities, Kyte’s platform has already charmed its innovative little way into the hearts of many—including celebrities looking to share their activities with fans on an as-it-happens basis. 50 Cent and John Legend are among the famous clientele and both are known for using the platform to share mobile videos of their backstage shenanigans.

By engaging audiences in real-time multimedia communications, Kyte users can build and maintain large fan bases. Now, along for the ride with the intent to enhance the process is Kyte Dashboard -- a comprehensive, enterprise-grade content management and analytics solution.

Nowadays, if you don't have a search function on your site, you're pretty much living in the dark ages. In fact, if you don't have search functionality, why do you even have a website, man? What are you thinking?

Anyway. Just like the story goes with all things standard, it was only a matter of time before they started tinkering around with the way we dig through sites. Introducing Wibe7.tv, a visual search engine specifically for YouTube videos.

Kaltura, the platform that brought open source to video and enabled groups to edit and collaborate with online video, has released a video module for the open source Drupal CMS.

Kaltura is a popular video platform used by blogging platforms like WordPress and now Drupal sites. The platform is similar to Viddler, which allows video users to annotate, remix and interact with online video media, all within a Flash-based editor.

The rules in the world of online video get more stringent, as Nexicon — an emerging provider of digital rights management (DRM) and business intelligence solutions — partners with YouTube.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nexicon will serve as a third-party intermediary between YouTube and its users to provide anti-piracy support and DRM monitoring services.

Zoho is out for SharePoint. They have announced a new service — a central repository — called Zoho Share that will enable personal and business users to share and publish their content from Zoho Show, Zoho Sheet and Zoho Writer to other users. They call it “SharePoint meets YouTube”.