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Industry NewsPublished August 19, 2010 at 9:52 am No Comments
Just a quick post today…Facebook seems to be all over the news right now. Not that they haven’t been relentlessly lately as is, but this morning seems even more inundated. While “browsing” (yes, some of us still browse the internet) I came across some interesting trends. I use a wonderful Firefox plugin called Morning Coffee
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Industry NewsPublished August 9, 2010 at 9:04 am No Comments
Another year has passed and it is time again for the Open Source awards from PacktPublishing. And with a new year come lots of changes to the awards. While the Open Source CMS Awards will still be the crux of the awards, new categories and awards have taken the Open Source CMS Awards and turned
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Industry NewsPublished June 23, 2010 at 9:57 am No Comments
WordPress.org announced the release of WordPress 3.0 on June 17th. A long awaited release that took over 6 months and 200+ people to bring together a culmination of bug fixes, enhanced functionality, and the long awaited multi-site capability. Aside from the aforementioned items, the WordPress admin interface received yet another makeover. With a cleaner, prettier
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Industry NewsPublished June 22, 2010 at 1:02 pm No Comments
After taking time to peruse some of the ins and outs of TextFlow I decided to take a minute and talk with Tomer Shalit, CEO of Nordic River (creators of TextFlow) about the future TextFlow. TextFlow was originally released in 2009 and was recently released as a Google App. TextFlow already offers the ability to
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Industry NewsPublished June 8, 2010 at 8:47 am 3 Comments
When Nordic River first released TextFlow it promised easy document collaboration by creating a workflow interface that did much of the work of collaboration and combination for you. They have now upped the bar once again by releasing TextFlow for Google Apps. According to Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise, “With TextFlow,
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Industry NewsPublished November 11, 2009 at 9:46 am No Comments
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.
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Industry NewsPublished November 9, 2009 at 3:44 pm 1 Comment
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 has
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Industry NewsPublished September 10, 2009 at 8:35 am 1 Comment
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
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Industry NewsPublished August 31, 2009 at 9:32 am No Comments
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
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Industry NewsPublished August 24, 2009 at 10:18 am No Comments
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
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