Industry News

Drupal and ImpressCMS Make PacktPub’s Winner’s List

This year’s Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub are well underway now.  With three category winners announced already and more to come this year’s awards have some familiar faces and some new comers to the winner’s list.
Drupal once again tops the Best Open Source PHP CMS category which they won in 2008 as well.  Filling [...]



Plone Wins Best Other CMS at PacktPub

PacktPub.com has begun announcing the winners from the Open Source CMS Awards 2009. The first category to be announced is the Best Other Open Source CMS. This category is for non-PHP based content management systems.
Plone once again has taken the first place prize as PacktPub’s 2009 Best Other Open Source CMS. The Plone [...]



PacktPub Open Source CMS Awards Nominations End Tomorrow

Nominations for PacktPub.com’s Open Source CMS Awards 2009 end tomorrow. I will keep this short and just remind you to get in there and nominate your favorite open source CMS for each category.  You can click the links below to get to the nominations page for each category.
PacktPub Open Source CMS Awards 2009 Categories

Best Overall [...]



Facebook and FriendFeed Make Nice Couple

With all the hype recently about Twitter it seems the lesser talked about service FriendFeed was almost forgotten about.  That is until recently.  On August 10th, 2009 Facebook aquired the start-up known as FriendFeed…and things started moving fast for the social site.
FriendFeed is not much different than Twitter.  Short posts, following people and gathering followers, [...]



Open Source CMS Awards Nominations Closing Soon

The 2009 Open Source CMS Awards brought to you by PacktPublishing are well into their nominations.  They began the nominations on the 3rd of August, but time is running out. Scheduled to end September 11th, 2009, nominations have been rolling in.  Obvious names such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and others are sure to be among [...]



WordPress 2.8 Due Out Today…Maybe

WordPress 2.8 release client 1 is out for use and testing. According to the WordPress.org blog, if no major problems are experienced the full release will be out today.
New Features of WordPress 2.8

New theme installer
Up to 4 columns for widgets on the Dashboard
Improved widget user interface
Per page options for plugins
Autosave quick keys for posts [...]



SixApart and WordPress are BFFs

SixApart, creators of TypePad and Moveable Type have recently announced that they are opening up some of their technologies for use directly with WordPress.  Whether an attempt at making nice or concedeing to the more widely used blogging platform may yet to be seen.
The news came during this years WordCamp Mid-Atlantic and was a bit [...]



Blackberry Curve Surpasses iPhone

Verizon’s 2 for 1 sale and the 3 other largest cellular carriers in the U.S. have helped push the Blackberry Curve ahead of the iPhone as the most popular smart phone.
Considering the impact of the iPhone initially and the legal  problems Blackberry had a couple years ago this is a big deal for Blackberry.  Lower [...]



ABC Comes to Hulu

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ABC’s parent company Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that they are entering a contract with the free online television source Hulu.  Hulu has a long list of highly rated shows under its belt which include Chuck, Heroes, Fringe, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.
ABC and their sister networks SoapNet and ABC Family will begin [...]