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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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<a href="http://www.ektron.com">Ektron</a>, a web content management vendor, has recently announced a 31% increase in software license growth worldwide during the 3rd quarter of 2011. This is due to a number of new customer acquisitions including: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MIT Sloan School of Management, PayPal, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre andToshiba.  Ektron also expanded its business with several established customers, including Kodak,PING, the State of Nevada and Thomson Reuters.
During the third quarter, Ektron announced the release of Ektron 8.5, a major upgrade to the company's flagship web content management platform.  Ektron 8.5 empowers a new level of developer productivity and enterprise scalability, wrapped in a new, sleek user interface.
Key features of Ektron 8.5 include:
<ul>
<li>A redesigned Workarea providing a modern, intuitive user experience.</li>
<li>An expanded developer API improving developer productivity through a highly consistent and discoverable set of functions and methods.</li>
<li>A three-tier architecture offering unmatched scalability and availability for enterprise WCM deployments.</li>
<li>.NET 4.0 support</li>
<li>Enhanced search, based on the Microsoft Search Server, offering new features including faceted navigation, dynamic search relevancy tuning, federated search and automated query suggestions.</li>
<li>eSync enhancements, including a diagnostic utility to generate a real-time map of an eSync network.</li>
<li>Growth in Strategic Alliances and Partnerships</li>
</ul>
Ektron established and grew strategic alliances with both digital agencies and technology partners during the third quarter, including PR Newswire, the global leader of innovative marketing and communications solutions; Australia-based Boomworks, specialists in online strategy, design and development; Engage Group, the United Kingdom's leading engagement specialist; Wunderman, delivering digital, data and creative solutions in over 60 countries; and Razorfish, creating engaging experiences in the digital world.
Ektron's strategic partnership with PR Newswire integrates press release publishing and social media monitoring into the Ektron platform. PR Newswire Sync, an add-on app to the Ektron solution, allows communications professionals to simultaneously publish their PR Newswire-distributed press releases on their Ektron-powered website. The PR Newswire Listening Dashboard, a social media monitoring application, integrates seamlessly with the Ektron platform and enables users to monitor conversations about their brand or company on online and social channels.
“Our partnership with Ektron will help PR Newswire become a more strategic player in the workflow and content management spaces,” said Karen Meyer, VP of global strategic channels at PR Newswire. “With content at the core of customer engagement, we want our technology to help customers engage with content and monitor and analyze it effectively.”
To help customers, partners and developers share web innovation, success stories and best practices, Ektron announced its Global Community Practice (GCP) in September 2011. Led by social community veteran Erick Mott, Ektron's community focus will help Ektron reach, engage and empower web content management and digital marketing practitioners. More information on the GCP can be found at <a href="http://www.ektron.com/erickmottblog/">http://www.ektron.com/erickmottblog/</a>

Ektron sees record growth in Q3 2011

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Webligo Developments, the makers of the popular social networking software, SocialEngine, have released their latest version. If you are unfamiliar with this product, you can learn more about it in our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/socialengine-review/">SocialEngine Review</a>.
SocialEngine 4.1.8 is now available and brings with it a number of new features such as:
<ul>
<li>New Pages in the Layout Editor – Over 35 pages now available for editing with the layout editor – enhancing the full content management system experience.</li>
<li>Google Analytics ID Integration – Track your traffic. Easily integrate Google Analytics tracking code by just inputing your ID.</li>
<li>Affiliate branding option – Earn back your SocialEngine product fees and more! Join our SocialEngine affiliate program and input your affiliate ID into a field.</li>
<li>MaxCDN pull or rsync-based implementation of a custom CDN – Speed up your site! We've added StaticBaseUrl configuration parameters to allow static resources to be served and hosted by MaxCDN's pull zone or other CDN/file-hosting services.</li>
<li>Viglink – Add an additional revenue source! To help increase our monetization offerings, we've partnered with Viglink – where if one of your users clicks through to a product or service and buys something, you earn a commission.</li>
</ul>
Here's a new video showcasing the layout editor:
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To learn more, visit their website: <a href="http://www.socialengine.net/">http://www.socialengine.net/</a>

SocialEngine 4.1.8 now available

A new release of Jaws CMS has been made available. For those unfamiliar, we did a review a while back that highlights some of it's features at the time: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/jaws-cms-0810-released/">Jaws CMS Review</a>. This new release brings a pile of new changes to both the system itself and the requirements:
<ul>
<li>Added page grouping to StaticPage gadget</li>
<li>Added user's groups management</li>
<li>Added support Jalali calender in DatePicker</li>
<li>Added download hits to FileBrowser gadget</li>
<li>Added sort option to FileBrowser gadget</li>
<li>Added some new functions to Jaws_Mail</li>
<li>Added changing type of action capability at runtime</li>
<li>Added some new variables into layout template</li>
<li>Improved Sitemap(SimpleSite) gadget</li>
<li>Improved UrlMapper to support custom extension for each map</li>
<li>Improved Banner, Contact and Quotes gadgets by adding search</li>
<li>Improved format of search result</li>
<li>Improved feed parsing in FeedParser gadget</li>
<li>Fixed custom/default maps ordering in UrlMapper gadget</li>
<li>Fixed XmlRpc in Blog gadget</li>
<li>Fixed page navigation by date in Blog gadget</li>
<li>Fixed PhooInsert plugin</li>
<li>Fixed utf8 support in fast-urls</li>
<li>Fixed hidden albums in Photo Organizer gadget</li>
<li>Fixed some issues with PHP 5.3</li>
<li>Updated third party libraries</li>
<li>Added two new themes: estate, vibrant</li>
<li>and many more enhancement and minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
Requirements
<ul>
<li>PHP &gt;= 4.3.6</li>
<li>MySQL &gt;= 4.1</li>
<li>Postgresql &gt;= 7.4</li>
<li>Oracle &gt;= 8.0</li>
<li>MSSQL &gt;= 8.0</li>
<li>Firebird &gt;= 1.5</li>
<li>Interbase &gt;= 6.0</li>
<li>SQLite &gt;= 2.8</li>
<li>Apache 1.3, Apache 2, Cherokee &gt;&gt; 0.4.29 (under fcgi), IIS, LiteSpeed, LightTPD, …</li>
</ul>
To check out Jaws, visit their website: <a href="http://www.jaws-project.com/">http://www.jaws-project.com/</a>

New release of Jaws CMS available

Nuxeo has introduced their latest offering to the enterprise content management system space, Nuxeo Cloud. This new product offers a hosted application environment and managed services for the entire content management application lifecycle through the Nuxeo Platform, from prototype to production, including a full-service customization and configuration toolset. By design, the Nuxeo Platform is highly customizable and extensible, enabling the building of content management applications that correspond to many diverse use cases.
According to Eric Barroca, Nuxeo CEO:
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“Nuxeo is the first content management software vendor to provide a complete development-to-production environment that is fully customizable in the cloud. Nuxeo Cloud delivers a wide range of benefits to organizations, including faster time to deployment, reduced strain on in-house IT resources, and greater cost elasticity as projects evolve. The Nuxeo content management platform ecosystem is tailor made for deployment as a cloud service, bringing the best in development and production of content management applications via a simple interface. We listened closely to customer and community feedback to help initiate this pivotal closed-loop cloud offering”
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Key highlights of Nuxeo Cloud include:
<ul>
<li>Access to Nuxeo Studio, which provides a configuration and customization environment to speed development and seamless testing of content management projects, with automated deployment to the cloud application;</li>
<li>Allocation of runtime environments and resources in the cloud; multiple server environments can be supported, if needed;</li>
<li>Automated maintenance and upgrade of the customization, with managed upgrade to the Nuxeo Platform;</li>
<li>Applications that run smoothly with reduced in-house resources, and application monitoring by Nuxeo support teams.</li>
</ul>
The Nuxeo Cloud monthly subscription packages are designed to easily scale up or down for customers to closely manage resource needs and costs as requirements change over time. The offering is available immediately on the <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/products/nuxeo-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nuxeo Cloud page</a>.

Nuxeo introduces their Cloud Platform for ECM

<a href="http://jadu.net/">Jadu</a>, a global Web Content Management supplier, today announced major upgrades to its line of WCM, online forms and search tools which have been designed for Higher Education, Government and large commercial organizations. With the launch of ‘Jadu Universe’, Jadu now provides organizations with a ‘Web Experience Platform’ with multi-channel web publishing, retail and marketing tools. Jadu’s Universe platform brings together the Jadu CMS, Jadu XFP (Online Forms system), Rupa Portal (a solution that uses search as a basis for portal and collaboration functionality) and the new cloud based ‘Weejot’ mobile offering into a single, multi-channel product suite. The suite of products has been integrated and upgraded to provide a cohesive and single point of management for all online customer touch points. With in-built marketing automation and analytics, as well as powerful, non-technical content management tools, Jadu Universe provides a unified and pervasive platform that delivers the full web and mobile customer experience. The Jadu Universe platform has a new user interface that focuses on productivity. In addition, it has a re-invented template system that provides full support for responsive site design. This means that sites can render on multiple devices and be maintained by web designers without the need for template languages or proprietary code, taking full advantage of HTML5 and CSS3. Jadu has also recently announced the launch of a cloud based mobile web delivery service called ‘Weejot’, which integrates natively with the Jadu Universe Platform. The Weejot service enables non-technical marketers to create and deploy mobile web apps in minutes as well as providing a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers to build their own mobile web apps for the service.
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“We’ve focused our attention on enhancing and integrating our products into a platform with mobile in the middle,” says Suraj Kika, Jadu’s CEO. “What we have developed is a unique and magical suite of applications that makes managing the customer experience and publishing to all channels much easier.”
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In 2008, Jadu announced its ‘MyJadu API’ a RESTful API to enable open data and syndicated content from its Web Content Management System. In Universe, Jadu has extended and leveraged the MyJadu API in delivering integration with its Weejot mobile service. Jadu’s apps MarketPlace is now built into the Universe interface as the best place to discover new mobile apps, widgets, Rupa portal gadgets and Form components. MarketPlace is surfaced through the new ‘Universe Search’ system which provides content discovery across all areas of content from a single query. Universe Search results page makes it easier to discover and open documents and other content items. Items can be flagged and sorted much like an email client. Additional new features in Universe include:
<ul>
<li>An entirely new HTML template workflow that radically reduces website implementation time and supports HTML5 and CSS3 as well as responsive design</li>
<li>Completely revamped marketing analysis tools to provide powerful marketing automation and user experience reporting</li>
<li>Real-time dashboard reporting on site activity and marketing intelligence as well as CMS administrator activity</li>
<li>Deeper social media integration adding Twitter, Facebook and Google+ integration</li>
<li>Out of the box SharePoint connectivity</li>
<li>Real time mobile web publishing system based on Jadu’s ‘Weejot’ service</li>
<li>Content migration assistant to speed up the process of migrating content</li>
<li>Powerful developer tools with the upgraded MyJaduAPI REST interface</li>
</ul>
“Jadu is obsessed with making great products that our customers can use to deliver great experiences for their customers,” says Suraj. “Mobile driven web traffic has reached tipping point and Universe makes it outstandingly easy to publish in real-time to any device.” Jadu has long been the leader in the UK Government and Higher Education markets and has specialized in building high security and scalability into its products. The company incorporated in the USA in 2010 and has already sealed an international reseller deal with SunGard Higher Education as a web experience offering for its higher education customers. The company recently announced that its XFP forms product has been deployed for the UK Government’s website Directgov. Other recent customers include Messiah College, Coppin State University, City of Edinburgh Council, University of Leeds as well as a host of other higher education institutions, government agencies, charities and commercial businesses. Jadu will release the new Universe Platform in Q2 of 2012.

Jadu launches ‘Universe’ Web Experience Platform and puts ‘mobile in the middle’ of multi-channel marketing

SpringCM® today announced a free content management service for salesforce.com customers. In 30 minutes and without having to pay extra monthly fees, the free VIP Edition makes it easier to add, find, share and manage content right from salesforce.com objects such as Opportunities, Accounts, Cases and Campaigns.
Initial customers using the free VIP Edition have commented how easy and fast it is to get, organize and share their customer and prospect documents. “We get tremendous value out of using salesforce.com, and now with the SpringCM VIP Edition we’re finally able to have one place to see client-related proposals and project documents with all of the other salesforce.com information about our relationships,” said Richard Gustafson, Principal, Kearney &amp; Company. “It was just so easy: Thirty minutes to install, no training needed for the team, and right away we were adding and collaborating on content.”
SpringCM free VIP Edition eliminates the barriers that result in documents related to Opportunities, Accounts and Cases being trapped in email, shared drives and individual devices—which today can run as high as 90% according to research conducted by SpringCM. Available through Salesforce.com's AppExchange or the SpringCM website, the free VIP Edition gives customers more than 15 ways to include secure file sharing, document management and collaboration services.
Specific features:
<ul>
<li>Managing documents within standard or custom salesforce.com objects</li>
<li>iPad access and sharing</li>
<li>One click to begin editing in Microsoft Office</li>
<li>Full check-in/check-out</li>
<li>Uploading multiple documents at a time</li>
<li>Emailing documents into a folder</li>
<li>Powerful search capabilities</li>
<li>Expiration notifications</li>
</ul>
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“With basic document sharing becoming so commonly available, we see this as a tremendous way to help salesforce.com customers solve some of the really basic challenges they have to store and collaborate on content,” said Christopher Junker, CEO SpringCM. “Since SpringCM can do so much more to put content to work with capabilities like approval workflows, sales contracts and proposals, we know many customers will eventually want to take advantage of our paid editions.”
</blockquote>
Sign up for the free VIP Edition, or learn more at the “<a href="http://pages.springcm.com/Rock-Content-Management-SFDC.html">15 Ways to Rock Your Content</a>” Webinar.

SpringCM Announces Free Content Management for Salesforce.com Customers

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Meet the world's first Agentic CMS

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Since 2003, KMWorld has been highlighting products in the document management, business process management, content management and smart enterprise suite fields that have stood out from the competition and broke new ground in the industry. <a href="http://www.idatix.com/">iDatix</a> is pleased to announce that their integrated content management software, iSynergy, has been named a Trend-Setting Product for 2011, the fourth year this honor has been bestowed upon the company.
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Editor in chief Hugh McKeller states, “For this year’s list, the judging panel of colleagues, analysts, system integrators and users evaluated more than 800 products. Although the products on the list cover a host of technology areas, they share one thing in common: Each has helped create, define, enhance or sustain a market.”
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iSynergy was developed to solve transactional and paper-based problems in accounting, human resources, customer service and operations. It is an easy-to-use and scalable document management and workflow solution for any size organizations. iSynergy is able to organize your unstructured data in a highly secure and accessible data repository while creating effective communication channels between all of your other software solutions and legacy systems. By becoming a total information management solution it has been regarded as a trend setting product in the industry.
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Steve Allen, CEO of iDatix stated, “It is an honor to have iSynergy recognized as a leading product in the field. This award is a testament to our commitment to providing innovative business solutions that can meet the needs of any size organization in any industry.”
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McKeller also points out that it’s the needs of the market that identify a trend. Ultimately, it is the many businesses and clients that iDatix has to thank for the award. With the release of iSynergy 4.0 fast approaching, the team at iDatix is confident they will be able to achieve the recognition against next year.

iDatix iSynergy is named a 2011 Trend-Setting Product

Kentico Software (<a href="http://www.kentico.com">http://www.kentico.com</a>), the Web content management system vendor, announced at the Kentico Connection Conference in Prague the general availability of Kentico CMS 6 and Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution (EMS), extending the core CMS system to include Customer Experience Management.
<blockquote>“Kentico CMS 6 is not only the biggest release in Kentico history, but it's also a big step for Kentico and our clients. With Kentico CMS 6, you will be able to deliver great on-line customer experiences and achieve instant marketing results with features like campaign management, A/B and multivariate testing, personalization, lead scoring and e-mail marketing,” said Petr Palas, CEO and founder of Kentico Software. “With Kentico EMS, you will be able to get more out of the investments you make into your website and marketing campaigns. And you will be able to do that more efficiently than with any other solution on the market.”
“I am very excited about the release of Kentico CMS 6. I can confidently say our customers at BizStream will benefit from using the massive amount of new features included in the release,” said Brian McKeiver, Partner and Senior Developer at BizStream. “Our customer base includes a few large size businesses that have a keen interest in using the upgraded marketing features such as multivariate testing, A/B testing and the enhanced conversion tracking capabilities. They feel that these new abilities will give them the tools to do their job more efficiently, and as a result provide a whole new level of insight into their web audience.”
“We really like the new improvements that version 6 brings. To name a few – side by side editing makes translating a page a lot easier, multi-file uploading through the new Silverlight interface is really cool and the new shipping cost calculator exactly fulfills the needs of a lot of our customers, ” said Bas Fockens, Owner and CMO of Datacon BV. “Version 6 is a giant leap which strengthens the position of Kentico in the premier league of Content Management Systems.”</blockquote>
A new product line Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution is an integrated Customer Experience Management (CXM) solution focused on mid-sized and enterprise clients. It helps them deliver great on-line customer experiences and achieve instant marketing results. Unlike other products, Kentico EMS provides a complete and fully integrated set of tools for marketers who need to quickly deliver their campaigns, get useful and actionable data and increase their ROI.
Kentico CMS is used in over 80 countries by companies like Gibson, Microsoft, Sony, Mazda or Vodafone. Kentico CMS 6 comes with major improvements in the areas of E-commerce, Windows Azure Support, Integration Bus for easier integration with CRM, ERP and other systems, E-mail Marketing with e-mail tracking and some additional enterprise features.
Trial version of Kentico CMS 6 and Kentico EMS is available for download at: http://www.kentico.com/Download-Demo
More information about Kentico CMS 6: http://www.kentico.com/Kentico6

Kentico Software Announces General Availability of Kentico CMS 6 and Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution

With over 1,000 CMSs on the market today, it’s more important than ever for top-tier and upstart CMSs alike to break out from the crowd, reach new prospects, and get their message heard. The 2012 CMS Expo is the ideal venue to stand out from the rest, and be recognized as an industry leader.
The 2012 CMS Expo Call For CMSs is now officially open.
Is your CMS on the list yet? If not, contact the CMS Expo team today <a href="mailto:john@cmsexpo.net?subject=Featured%20CMS%20Inquiry">via email</a>, or by calling (815) 455-2900 to get pricing information and how to become a Featured orSpotlight CMS at the 2012 CMS Expo Learning &amp; Business Conference.
Affordably priced for a CMS of any size, Spotlight CMSs get excellent exposure with a long list of benefits, including an 8′ x 10′ exhibit booth on our Expo floor, a one-hour “test-drive” session for users, inclusion in one of CMS Expo's head-to-head interactive Comparison Panels, plus recognition and full participation in the prestigious annual CMSA Spotlight Awards competition and awards ceremony.
Taking it up a notch, Featured CMSs enjoy all the benefits mentioned for Spotlight, plus the opportunity to offer a full day (6-12 sessions) of CMS-specific training to an international audience of business users. In addition to a full day-track, Featured CMSs also receive top billing on the CMS Expo program and schedule, a full-page color ad, accommodations for speakers, and the option to participate in up to four head-to-head CMS Comparison Panels, moderated by our outstanding line-up of CMS Analysts Scott Liewehr, Tony White and Seth Gottlieb. Attendees have a unique opportunity to spend more quality time learning about a Featured CMS to drill down and get to know how the CMS will work for their specific application.
Exposure for participating CMSs and sponsors is nearly year-round, beginning five months before, and lasting four months after the actual 3-day conference, slated for May 8th, 9th &amp; 10th, 2012 in Chicago. CMS Expo features three days of learning sessions and comparison panels, six learning tracks, exhibit booths, keynotes by industry thought leaders, business networking, socials and more, all in a 4-star setting.
CMS Expo is an ideal venue for CMSs for new product launches, demos, interviews with industry media and analysts, as well as formal and informal meetings to support the CMS industry and its development, and help dictate its direction.
For information on how to become a Featured CMS or Spotlight CMS at the 2012 CMS Expo, contact Linda or John Coonen, conference Co-founders <a href="mailto:john@cmsexpo.net?subject=CMS%20Expo%20Featured%20CMS%20Inquiry">via email</a> or phone (815) 455-2900.

The 2012 CMS Expo Call For CMSs is now officially open

ExpressionEngine 2.3 has been released and includes a number of changes to the popular content management system.
Some key requested features that have been added include:
the ability to easily customize Pagination Links in both Channel Entries and Comments.
Member Search Tokens in the Control Panel’s Member Filter so that you can easily find Members in a large database.
You can see a preview of these changes here:
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In addition, a number of security concerns were addressed and the user guide refreshed with a new interface.
You can read the full announcement here: <a href="http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/expressionengine_2.3_and_improved_user_guide_released">http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/expressionengine_2.3_and_improved_user_guide_released</a>

ExpressionEngine 2.3 released

HP has acquired full control of <a href="http://www.autonomy.com/content/News/Releases/2011/1003.en.html">Autonomy Corporation</a>, one of the largest and most successful enterprise information management companies in the industry. Autonomy's software offerings power more than 25,000 customer accounts worldwide and, as part of HP, will provide high-value business solutions to help customers manage the explosion of unstructured and structured information.
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“This is a historic day for Autonomy, our employees and the customers we serve, as we combine HP's phenomenal assets and Autonomy's specialized skills to produce systems that handle all the information in the enterprise, regardless of the format it is in,”said Lynch. “We are at the dawn of a new era when it is the ‘I' in IT that is changing, not just the ‘T.'”
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Autonomy will operate as a separate business unit. Dr. Mike Lynch, the founder and chief executive officer of Autonomy, will continue to lead the Autonomy business and will report to Whitman.
This acquisition by HP positions them well in the marketplace and lends credence to the sustainable success of the ever expanding content management market in the midst of poor economic conditions worldwide. More and more enterprise companies are looking to this market for growth opportunities and this is just another example of how well this market has been doing of late.

HP acquires control of Autonomy Corporation

A new version of <a href="http://www.geeklog.net">Geeklog</a> has been made available. Version 1.8.1 ships with jQuery 1.6.3, which fixes a possible XSS in that JavaScript library, which shouldn't have affected Geeklog itself, but may potentially exist in add-ons that make extensive use of jQuery. Geeklog 1.8.1 also fixes two cases of information leakage, where the OAuth consumer key and secret were exposed when enabling the “rootdebug” option (which is off by default). Also, the MS SQL driver was displaying full details of SQL errors by default.
Other changes in this release:
<ul>
<li>Fixed a regression in Geeklog 1.8.0 that made the [code] and [raw] tags not escape content properly.</li>
<li>Fixed problems with adding or removing items to/from arrays in the Configuration.</li>
<li>The admin's User Editor no longer loses changes when an error occured.</li>
<li>Fixed images not being displayed in the story preview (when editing an existing story).</li>
<li>Plugins can now set $_SCRIPTS in the plugin_getFooter() function.</li>
<li>Fixed some warnings raised by PHP 5.4 (currently in beta).</li>
</ul>
There were no changes in the database, the themes or the language files in Geeklog 1.8.1 (over 1.8.0), so upgrades should be relatively straighforward.

A new version of Geeklog is now available

<a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a>, the open platform for social content management, today announced the release of Alfresco Community 4, the most significant release of the platform to date. Alfresco 4 features a wealth of new user features and UI enhancements that enable faster user adoption, along with improved tools to allow developers to create social and cloud-scale, content-rich applications.
“Alfresco 4 is the result of a collaboration with our 2,200+ enterprise customers and 250+ global SI partners to create the most robust and extensible platform for a new generation of cloud-scale content apps,” said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. “We have made dramatic improvements in Alfresco’s ability to scale and perform, while making it easier for developers to customize and extend the platform.”
Alfresco Community 4 can be downloaded now for development and testing here.
The announcement is being made in conjunction with Alfresco’s exhibit at JavaOne, the annual Java developer conference in San Francisco on October 2nd through 6th.
<h3>Cloud-Scale Performance</h3>
Alfresco Community 4 significantly increases overall system performance. New features that enable cloud-scale deployments include:
<ul>
<li>High-performance Indexing – New Alfresco Index Server, based on Apache Solr, dramatically improves performance by separating indexing from content processes</li>
<li>Integrated workflow – Automate content-focused business processes with Activiti, the leading open source Java-based BPMN 2.0 business process server</li>
<li>Enhanced clustering – Alfresco clustering has been enhanced to increase reliability and scalability, including added support for clustered CIFS</li>
</ul>
<h3>First Open Platform For Social Channel Publishing</h3>
Alfresco 4 includes a new, extensible service to publish content and status updates to social sites, including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and SlideShare. Integrated social processing enables:
<ul>
<li>Simpler Process – Social content publishing is now part of an enterprise content workflow, vastly simplifying the problem of multi-channel publishing. Control publishing with existing review-and-approve workflows and built-in content security.</li>
<li>Fewer Tools &amp; Fewer Errors – By embedding social publishing into a company’s core content and collaboration tool, it reduces the need for social-specific tools and error-prone “copy-and-paste” to external tools.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Consumer-Like User Experience Drives Greater Adoption</h3>
Alfresco 4 offers a streamlined, simpler consumer-like experience for end users, leading to higher adoption. New features aimed at making users more productive include:
<ul>
<li>Drag and Drop Simplicity – Simply drag and drop files or move files around on HTML5 enabled browsers</li>
<li>Enhanced support for video, audio, Adobe Creative Suite &amp; Apple iWork documents – Inline preview and metadata extraction now available for more file types</li>
<li>Social Features – ‘Follow’ influential content creators or ‘like’ your favourite content</li>
<li>Cloud Collaboration – Use Google Docs integration to collaborate in real time</li>
<li>Mobile Support – New, free iOS apps available now from iTunes, along with continued support for WebDAV and CMIS standards for new mobile use cases</li>
<li>Extensibility – For developers and partners, Alfresco’s web interface is now much easier to extend and customize</li>
</ul>
For developers eager to learn more about the power of Alfresco 4, Alfresco is hosting its 2nd annual Alfresco DevCon 2011 event in San Diego, CA, on October 25th through 27th, and in London on November 8th through 10th.
About Alfresco Alfresco is the open platform for social content management. With over 2,220 customers in 55 countries, Alfresco is the world’s most trusted open platform for highly scalable, enterprise-class content management. Boasting over 250 partners, a vibrant open source community, and customers including Home Depot, Michelin and the New York Philharmonic, the Alfresco ecosystem is driving innovation across the globe.

Alfresco 4 Delivers Cloud-Scale Performance, Social Publishing & Consumer-Like UI

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Give your audience the best video experience

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