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| Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Google Goes Government, Facebook Goes Salesforce, Apple Goes to the Dogs This week we saw a lot of big names venture into new territories. Google went Government with a new version of Apps, and Facebook took a turn toward better customer satisfaction (after being labeled worse than airline services) with Salesforce.com. Meanwhile, everyone’s mad at Apple, but the iPhone4 is sold out anyway. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 8:45 PM ImpressPages Web CMS: Say Goodbye to the Cut and Paste Nightmare AIIM Offers SharePoint 2010 Certification To Support Governance Remember that AIIM study that looked at SharePoint usage from an enterprise management perspective? The one that told us that SharePoint implementations still suffer from lack of planning and governance? Well, AIIM (news, site) thinks they can help with a new certification program. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 7:41 PM SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Online Search Spend Up 159%, Sage Identifies Cloud Concerns This week with many companies looking back over the past six months to see what they might do in the coming six months there has been a lot of research into the cloud and SMB adoption. Dell has also been busy and continues its moves into the SMB space with new security offerings. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 7:15 PM Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 7:00 PM Customizing Typography with Google Font Previewer Want to know how a typeface will look before adding it to your site? Google’s new Font Previewer gives you a visual as you tinker with the look and feel of a font, then sits out a block of code for some easy copy and paste action: Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 6:30 PM SAP Figures Show Small Increase, Great Things Expected of Sybase The Top 25 Most Influential Bloggers in Technical Communications In March MindTouch (news, site) announced their list for the most powerful voices in open source. Today, they bring us a new list: the most influential bloggers in technical communications. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 5:30 PM Why patent consortia are a good thing When the subject of patents and cross-patent consortia comes up everyone
is a troll. They have to be because courts do not recognize the legal
requirements of open source.
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Smarsh Offers Resources for Social Media Compliance As more and more financial advisers wade into social media, the seas are still uncharted. There are still risks associated with combining the financial and social media industries. Though many businesses are still resistant to engage via social media platforms, research has shown that if done correctly, the results can be beneficial. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 4:39 PM Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in August 2010 Welcome to the August 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 pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 4:30 PM Nuxeo Adds Video Management Capabilities to DAM Product Furthering the initial release of Nuxeo DAM, the open source Enterprise CMS company Nuxeo (news, site) is adding new functionalities to its Digital Asset Management product in version 1.1. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 3:55 PM Imminent Piwik 1.0 release may pose challenge to Google Web Analytics A Frenchman living in New Zealand may give Google its latest greatest
challenge with the release of Piwik1.0 in two weeks.Piwik is an open
source web analytics platform that requires PHP-MySQL. Â The
software has been available for more than two years and boasts use on
more than 50,000 web sites, its developers say. Â As noted [...]
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Ask Facebook a Question, Get Lots of Wrong Answers openmamba 20100728 It runs on computers based on the 32-bit Intel x86 architecture, or on 64-bit AMD processors in 32-bit mode. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 2:51 PM Firefox 4 beta 2 arrives as open source browser use grows Firefox 4 beta 2 release on Tuesday — Â a fulfillment
of its developers’ plans to offer up more frequent releases during
the development process — demonstrates the project’s
 intent to compete hard against Google and Microsoft.Beta 2,
after all, comes only three weeks after Firefox 4 beta 1 made its debut
— and only five [...]
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Bridgeway Software Launches Legal Hold 3.0 Six months ago Bridgeway Software released an update to their legal hold solution. Inspired by their conversations with customers, new features were added. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/29/10 2:26 PM Why is our electrical system resisting open source? Open source, and open processes, deliver open standards that make
solutions more affordable. Yet utility companies resist, and so far they
are getting away with that resistance.
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Even SAP is using more open source By Source Seeker on Wed, 07/28/10 - 5:55pm. Yesterday SAP took another step into the open source world by signing on to use the Black Duck Suite . www.topix.net | 7/29/10 10:41 AM Why WikiLeaks Is The Pirate Bay of Political Intelligence WikiLeaks is currently in the news because its Afghan War logs comprise one of the largest and most controversial intelligence leaks to date. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 8:36 AM Convirture goes open core with 2.0 virt tools Convirture has unveiled a management tool for open source hypervisors. It's been clear from the beginning of the server virtualization wave that eventually the hypervisor would become commoditized and that the real action, in terms of functionality as well as in money, would come with the management tools that wrap around the hypervisor and make it ... www.topix.net | 7/29/10 4:27 AM Open source installer offered for Plug Computer Marvell announced the availability of an open source installer, simplifying software deployment on its Linux-based Plug Computer reference design. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 3:02 AM proxy servers May 4, 2009 ... As an alternative to downloading the files, the HCPM/HAI Synthesis Cost Proxy Model may be obtained from the FCC's duplicating contractor, ... http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/apd/hcpm/ Patent Database Notices and Status The database servers are now capable of processing approximately 300 simultaneous searches. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 12:17 AM Open source installer offered for Plug Computer Marvell announced the availability of an open source installer, simplifying software deployment on its Linux-based Plug Computer reference design. www.topix.net | 7/29/10 12:17 AM Perspectives: What the Adobe + Day Software Deal Means, Part 1 Any acquisition (and there have been quite a few of them lately) in the content management industry usually makes a splash. Today, it was Day’s day to stir up the media, analysts, bloggers, twitterati and industry watchers; provoking pontifications around the announced US$ 240 mil. acquisition by Adobe. Here’s the first look at what the industry was buzzing about and what some of the possible implications of the deal might be — for Day, for Adobe, for the market. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 9:40 PM Facebook Moves Closer to Offering Location-Based Services Google patches Chrome, sidesteps Windows kernel bug July 28, 2010, 09:59 AM - Computerworld - Google on Monday patched five vulnerabilities in Chrome by issuing a new "stable" build of the browser. www.topix.net | 7/28/10 8:12 PM Google Challenges Yelp with Places, Check-ins to Follow? Last year Yelp turned down a US$ 550 million dollar offer from Google, and today remains one of the few companies to have walked away from the famous, primary-colored clutches. Not to be outdone, it looks like Google’s answer to the local and location craze is a mobile solution called Google Places. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 8:00 PM 37signals Buys Campfire iPhone App Rather Than Make Their Own GRC Roll-up: Google v Microsoft Enters Public Sector, Cyber Attacks Cost US$ 3.8m Each Google and Microsoft continue to chase each other’s tails. Public sector email was in focus yesterday, today its Google Apps which has just received a government security certification. Meanwhile IGC has joined the XML project for Electronic Discovery. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 7:45 PM Challenge the Status Quo: New Enterprise CMS Deployment Models The fact is that content more often than not crosses departmental boundaries and many business processes tend to have the same basic anatomy. However, research says that many organizations deploy Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems primarily for search and retrieval, and often at the department level. Sure, this approach works for some cases. But by deploying Enterprise CMS software in this manner you aren’t realizing its full potential. A more optimal approach — according to ECM provider Laserfiche — is to deploy ECM as a Shared Service, integrating its capabilities with business processes, and supporting the needs of multiple divisions and/or departments at the same time. The company is digging into this very topic during an up-coming webinar. The goal is to cover:
Of course, deploying your Enterprise Content Management system as a shared services will also have its challenges, and you need to understand these as well. For additional details, you can register now and tune-in on Thursday August 5th at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern time. The event will cover the ECM+BMP shared services model and lead you through 3 practical examples. www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 7:29 PM Google Adds Automatic Translation to Google Docs With most things it’s really the small things that count. With Google Docs it’s just one small thing after another. The most recent is the announcement this week that Google Docs users will be able to translate their documents into 52 other languages thanks to native integration of Google Translate into Docs. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 7:00 PM iPhone Sales Stay Strong Thanks to Our Emotions, But Will it Last? Why do we all want the iPhone despite its obvious problems? It’s an emotion driven purchase. But that may only get Apple so far. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 6:30 PM Social Media Minute: Twitter Not Worth Paying For, Amazon "Likes" Facebook Social media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here are the week’s top stories in scan-friendly format:
Facebook & Amazon Connect in the Name of Social Shopping Enterprise Search and Pursuit of the Google Experience Pt2 Why can’t we just get Google? That’s a common question often heard from all levels within an organization that is trying to improve the search experience on their intranet. In part one, we examined the desire to duplicate the Google search experience in the enterprise (you can read part 1 here). In part 2, we will examine shifting the perspective to the user experience and end with 6 essential activities to the construction of a solid foundation for any enterprise search initiative. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 7/28/10 5:17 PM SDL Does Predictive Text With Global Content Authoring Tools Why Android won The OS wars in the mobile space appear to be over and there are two left standing, the iPhone and Android, a Linux distro. www.topix.net | 7/28/10 4:13 PM Why Android won The OS wars in the mobile space appear to be over and there are two left
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Web CMS: Adobe Buys Day Software for US$ 240 Million Why Ubuntu Linux Is a Good Business Choice Chances are good that if someone walked into your office right now and peeked over your shoulder, they would see a Windows operating system on your computer. www.topix.net | 7/28/10 12:03 PM Military Open-Source Software Could Increase Flexibility, Lower Cost Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are helping the U.S. military analyze and develop the advantages of open-source software -- programs that make their source code open to others so it can be changed and improved. www.topix.net | 7/28/10 7:59 AM Prettier Fonts Coming Your Way There was a time when Linux was notorious for having what was called "fugly" fonts. www.topix.net | 7/28/10 3:49 AM U.S. military adopts more open source: is that secure enough for you? By Source Seeker on Tue, 07/27/10 - 12:51pm. The U.S. military and researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are putting their heads together to help the military adopt more open source software . www.topix.net | 7/27/10 11:39 PM Down Netstat prints information about the Linux networking subsystem. The type of information printed is controlled by the first argument. www.topix.net | 7/27/10 9:34 PM Deleting Facebook For Good (Kinda) Building the first Open Source When people ask "what's next" for Open Source Hardware, I think projects like this will be the direction some of the makers will head - Check out Sacha De'Angeli's project, the first open source STM - Building the first Open Source Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope - With just enough electronics knowledge to be dangerous and a lot of helpful ... www.topix.net | 7/27/10 4:04 PM Periodic Table of the Open Source Graphics and Design Apps Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community? www.linux.com | 7/27/10 3:00 PM The military-industrial open source complex Have the people sworn to protect us from fanatics in caves suddenly
gained open source religion?
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Open source Web CMS, ImpressPages (
While there have been a number of financial results releases over the
past couple of weeks, one of the more interesting is from SAP (
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an audience of,
let’s say, 500 million people, at your disposal? With Facebook
Questions, now you do. The king of social networking starting rolling
out the new feature, which lets users pose questions to the entire
Facebook community, yesterday afternoon. 
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