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Born in the Cloud, Crownpeak Is Poised for the Digital Future
Los Angeles-based Crownpeak embraced the cloud before it was cool. From the very beginning it provided cloud-native solutions, which have now developed into what it describes as a cloud-first Digital Experience Management (DXM) platform with native Digital Quality Management (DQM).
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Hippo CEO Jeroen Verberg Talks Vision, Growth Plans and Gartner’s WCM MQ
It’s been a big year for Amsterdam-based Hippo, which two weeks ago confirmed it has been acquired by Mountain View, Calif.-based BloomReach. That announcement came on the heels of news just a few weeks earlier that Hippo had moved from niche player to visionary in Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM), joining
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Gartner MQ Visionary Automattic: Why WordPress Is the World's Most Popular CMS
Everyone who has ever tangentially tinkered with a website knows about WordPress. Automattic doesn't have quite the same name recognition, but it should. Founded in 2005, Automattic is the web development corporation behind WordPress.com, the most popular open source content management system (CMS) on the planet, as well as WooCommerce
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Stop Being Stupid: Many WordPress Users Are Security-Less
WordPress users have a common enemy when it comes to security. Themselves. At least that's the contention of a new survey by CodeGuard, which shows WordPress users own lack of security knowledge may be putting their sites at risk.
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WordPress, Squarespace Offer Content Management To Google
When Google rebranded its Enterprise Business as Google for Work, it signaled a return to the small business space. Now WordPress and Squarespace have announced they have joined the Google for Work Partner Program — a logical step in this refocus.
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In a 'Troubled' WCM Sector, Analysts See 3 Innovators
Fireworks may explode in the night sky as the US celebrates the Fourth of July weekend, but things are much quieter in the web content management market.
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WordPress 3.8: A Spiffy New Look and More
WordPress 3.8 is out, a minor update with lots of visual tweaks to both the front- and back-end interfaces. It features a modern new design — “most beautiful update yet," the company claims — and a default theme that is responsive on mobile devices.
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WordPress Gets File Sharing, Collaboration Features with Cloudup Acquisition
This week, WordPress.com parent Automattic furthered its goal of world domination -- that is, powering most of the planet’s websites -- with the purchase of file-sharing startup Cloudup. Cloudup, whose beta had only come out in June, is designed to make file sharing as simple as humans can imagine.
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Automattic Releases WordPress.com Enterprise with Social, Marketing Functionality
WordPress has finally released a product that straddles the middle ground between WordPress.com’s services and the heavyweight functionality provided by the high-end and expensive VIP services. WordPress.com, VIP According to Automattic, the company behind WordPress.
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Automattic Releases Open Source WordPress.com App for Windows 8
With support from Microsoft, Automattic built and released a free, open source WordPress.com app for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Open Source, Free and Windows? Automattic, Inc. develops some of the most popular WordPress applications and plugins, including the spam-fighting Akismet plugin, Polldaddy and Gravatar.
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Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in October 2010
Welcome to the October 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 [email protected] with a pointer to who we should contact at
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WordPress Offers Content Encouragement with Plinky
In an effort to relieve writer's block woes, Automattic (news, site), the company behind WordPress, has acquired a content encouragement service called Plinky. Inspirational Questions Essentially, Pinky provides writers with prompts aimed at inspiring content, like this: The solution was kicked out last year by Thing Labs
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WordPress 3.0 On the Horizon - What's Notable?
WordPress 3.0 (news, site ) is just around the corner and, as per usual for the popular blogging and content management system, a very rough beta version was kicked out earlier this month.
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Automattic Open Sources SaaS Editorial, Publishing Tools
One of the simplest methods of ensuring that your published words don't end up looking functionally illiterate is to use a spell checker. But what if you're in need of a bit more help ? You could pay an editor or make an agreement with a friend to edit each
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