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Channel: Web Publishing
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Dash Analytics From Parse.ly Helps Web Pubs Get Smart
Analytics provider Parse.ly announced its flagship product Dash, moving the technology from beta status to general availability, in a supported content publishing system. The company calls Dash a predictive content optimization platform that targets publishers with a purpose-built system offering deep web content analysis "...
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WordPress 3.1: "More of a CMS than ever before"
After various setbacks and a postponed release date, the WordPress (news, site ) team finally bestowed version 3.1 (a.k.a. “Reinhardt”) on Wednesday this week. Named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhard, the update focuses on content management, workflow and admin features.
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Google Funds IPI's Innovation in Digital Journalism Contest
Google showed love for digital journalism back in October by announcing plans to invest US$ 5 million in grants to related non-profit organizations. Today US$ 2.7 million of it went towards sponsoring the International Press Institute's (IPI) News Innovation Contest.
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Infocom Takes Over Movable Type and Six Apart Brand
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Movable Type's future lies in Japan. Today it was announced that Six Apart KK (SAKK), a subsidiary of SAY Media, has been acquired by a Japanese IT company called Infocom.
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W3C Gets a US$1 million Donation From the Internet Society
It takes money to keep the web open and accessible. This week the Internet Society, a nonprofit group dedicated to the open Internet ecosystem, announced that it was donating US$ 1 million to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global organization responsible for Web standards and accessibility.
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Google News Tests Two New Tags for Original Content
Google (news, site ) loves original content and it lends a hand to these publishers, who publish original content. However, sometimes it is not easy to see who the original source of content is.
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Gilbane Examines the Digital Blueprint for Book Publishers
Thanks to the iPad and other tablet devices, the publishing industry has been able to survive, even thrive. Of course in doing so, they’ve had to transform themselves away from print and toward electronic models. A recent study from Outsell’s Gilbane Group examined the ways in which the book publishing
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Woodwing Expands Digital Magazine Tools with Subscriptions, New APIs
One of the challenges of designing for new devices, like the iPad, is that some of the functionality that’s commonplace on other familiar devices isn’t yet fully developed. The release of version 1.6 of Woodwing’s Digital Magazine Tools aims to change that.
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Adobe Reveals Digital Publishing Suite for iPad Delivery
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.
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O'Reilly and MSFT Press Books for Sale at Apple iBookstore
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.
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Impelsys Showcases iPad Content Delivery Module For iPublish Central
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. A Content Delivery Module The new iPad module lets publishers access
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WoodWing Supports Multi-Device Tablet Publishing
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.
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MadCap Mimic 5.0 Sports Full-Motion Video
Today MadCap Software (news, site ) delivered Mimic 5.0, the latest version of the multi-channel content authoring company's simulation and tutorial software. Built with authors in mind, Mimic 5.0 supports full-motion video (FMV), integrated playback controls, and packs usability improvements to the recording and compiling process.
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Want IE9? You'll Need an Unreleased Service Pack with That
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. Yeah, you read that right. You need an un released service pack to run IE9.
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