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

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Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, today announced the availability of a new version of its Case Management Framework. Nuxeo CMF is an enhanced distribution of Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP), adding functionality to support the flow and use of diverse but related content that needs to be handled and managed in a case or container metaphor.
The new version offers key enhancements to the content routing feature, UI and usability improvements, more distribution and email capture possibilities, as well as new features from the underlying ECM platform, Nuxeo EP.
For system integrators and content application architects who build tailored case management solutions, this new version offers a highly flexible and extensible toolkit. The content routing feature now accommodates a more complex workflow, with sequential or simultaneous steps, that can be saved for reuse within the same case or in other cases. The platform features for faceted navigation and content views offer broad configuration possibilities that facilitate the search, retrieval, and interaction with potentially complex casework.
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“A framework is the optimal solution for building case management solutions,” said Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca. “This type of solution is highly context-sensitive, and when extensive customizations of out-of-the-box applications are involved, often scale and upgrade become costly issues. Nuxeo CMF is a scalable, flexible platform providing about 80-90% of the solution, with an extension point system that makes customization clean and easy. ”
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Highlights of Nuxeo CMF 1.7 include:
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<li>Content Routing. Enables user-designed flows of content and selection of stages (human or automated) among a shared library of sequential or simultaneous steps. Content routes can now be templated and reused.</li>
<li>User Interface. Improvements based on user feedback include new tabs, more streamlined views of the content, and a mailbox-oriented look and feel, with a focus on ease of use.</li>
<li>Mailing List Distribution. Cases can now be sent to predefined user lists, as a request for action or a simple information push.</li>
<li>Email Capture. New parsers for Gmail and Thunderbird have been added to capture incoming communication and content, with recipient names.</li>
<li>Nuxeo Marketplace: Nuxeo CMF now has direct access to this solution catalog of plug-ins, templates and applications.</li>
<li>Nuxeo Admin Center: An administration dashboard, for tracking user and application data, with an update center for 1-click live integration of Marketplace packages, patches, and upgrades.</li>
<li>Content Views: A service to manage, configure, and sort content listings, including documents, search results, and log entries. Content listings and search results now include filtering options and export options (RSS, ATOM, CSV, Excel, PDF).</li>
<li>Faceted Navigation: An advanced navigation mechanism that enables repository browsing with dynamic filtering on multiple facets (metadata). Navigation facets are fully configurable, and can be defined independently for a given content type.</li>
<li>Performance Optimizations: Nuxeo EP, the technology behind Nuxeo CMF, continues to be the fastest ECM platform in the industry on commodity hardware; stress tests indicate that it scales almost linearly when clustered.</li>
<li>Installation Wizard and Java-based launcher with embedded shell.</li>
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Nuxeo CMF is available with no license charge by downloading it at http://www.nuxeo.com/en/downloads/download-cmf-form. The Nuxeo CMF offering is fully assured and supported with the Nuxeo Connect comprehensive subscription service to optimize development, deployment and ongoing operations.
About Nuxeo
Nuxeo delivers an open source document management application built with a complete, modular and extensible open source platform for enterprise content management. Other packaged applications built with the platform provide solutions for digital asset management and case management. Designed by developers for developers, the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform offers modern technologies, unmatched modularity, a powerful plug-in model and extensive packaging capabilities. Using a fully open source development model, Nuxeo provides a subscription program with software maintenance, technical support and customization tools. Nuxeo ECM is trusted by 1000+ organizations across 145 countries, including Cengage Learning, Pearson Education, AFP News Agency, EllisDon and Jeppesen, a Boeing Company. Nuxeo is dual-headquartered in North America (Boston) and Western Europe (Paris). More information is available at <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com">www.nuxeo.com</a>.

Nuxeo Announces New Version of Case Management Framework

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Joomla! VirtueMart 1.1 Theme and Template Design is a new book from Packt that will allow users to customize their Joomla! VirtueMart templates and themes with the help of necessary screenshots and explained code. Written by Joseph Kwan, this book is a comprehensive reference to all the templates in the VirtueMart default theme including usage of each template and all available fields.
VirtueMart is an open source, e-commerce solution designed as an extension of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS). It is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database environment for storage. Additionally, it is best suited for low to medium level traffic web-sites, and is perfect to sell goods online and drive businesses to new heights with its fully-featured eCommerce engine.
Joomla! VirtueMart 1.1 Theme and Template Design discusses the different components of a VirtueMart theme and will teach developers to build a theme from scratch. This book will also talk about individual page groups such as product list, product details, shopping cart, checkout, invoice e-mails, account management and order list. Furthermore, developers will learn advanced features like child products, advanced attributes, custom attributes and product types.
Using this book, readers will be able to understand the basic framework and the structure of the Joomla! VirtueMart template, identify files that need to be modified to achieve their requirements, build their own web store home page and customize its overall look, create custom language elements that can work in a multi-language web store, and extend VirtueMart features through integration with existing Joomla! plugins and JavaScript frameworks.
A step-by-step tutorial that includes all the essential screenshots and code with exhaustive explanations, this book is ideal for users, who have some experience with VirtueMart and wish to customize it to unleash its enormous potential. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/joomla-virtuemart-1-1-theme-and-template-design/book">https://www.packtpub.com/joomla-virtuemart-1-1-theme-and-template-design/book</a>

Give a unique look to your VirtueMart e-Commerce store using Packt's new book

Recently, we spoke with Byrne Reese, Chairman of the Open Melody Software Group. For those who are unaware, Melody is a publishing platform based off of Movable Type 4 code that has recently <a href="/melody-cms-sees-first-stable-release/">announced</a> their first official release.
CC: Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you came to be involved with Movable Type and finally, Melody? 

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1084612_300.jpg" alt="Byrne Reese" />
BR: My first exposure to Movable Type came way back when Movable Type was still in its infancy eight or nine years ago. Up until then, I maintained my own personal web site by hand – which was a fun for a time, but as I created more and more content, it started to become unwieldy. And when that happened, what was once fun, was starting to become a burden. To be honest, I am not sure what breadcrumb trail I followed that led me to Movable Type, all I remember is the “ah-ha” moment I had once I had found it.
And sure enough it changed how I conceptualized and how I went about building web sites overnight. But more than that, Movable Type was an application I enjoyed using. Its design really drew me in. I felt like I was using something really modern, really forward thinking, and yes, even ground breaking. I was apart of something that was big, and getting bigger. It was exciting.
Long story short, my love for the product, and my admiration and respect of TypePad, ultimately took me on a journey where I became a Product Manager at Six Apart in charge of TypePad and ultimately Movable Type. Being the Product Manager of Movable Type was a dream come true in many respects because it afforded me an opportunity to help lead the product in directions I had always wished it had taken. I helped architect and launch Movable Type Open Source, a devoted a great deal of time to fostering its community, and helped launch one of Six Apart’s most successful products ever: MT4.
When it finally was time for me to leave Six Apart, I did what I had counseled many aspiring bloggers and entrepenuers to do: build a business around what you love. And for me, that never stopped being helping people to build great products; and as you might guess my tool of choice was Movable Type.
However what I found, having thrust myself into the Movable Type Professional Community, was one challenge after another in trying to interface as professional with my former employer. Six Apart was in the midst of redefining itself, it was reorganizing itself, in the midst of all that, it simply didn’t have the resources to devote to the community to ensure that the patches and contributions being made by the outside world made their way into the product.
What I found was that the feelings of disappointment, turned frustration, were not unique to me, and in fact, many members of the community had felt the same way. So we started talking, and eventually the idea for Melody was hatched.
CC: What is your ultimate hope for Melody as a CMS?
BR: My sincerest hope is that we build a great product that people enjoy using. That’s it. Nothing grand, nor anything as ambitious as building a product that dominates an industry. We just know that there are lots of people out in the world who see a value in the publishing model that Movable Type and Melody excel at, and for those people we want to provide them with a product that elicits the same kind of thrill that I had when I saw Movable Type for the first time 8 years ago. We want to build a product that honors Movable Type’s legacy and reputation as being one of the most secure and scalable publishing systems around. And if in the process, more and more people come to the platform and select it to power their web site, then great.
CC: How well received has the project been since its first release of version 1.0 not too long ago?
BR: I think the product has been very well received, but I also think a lot of people still don’t know about it. We made a very conscious decision to break with Movable Type, and its name, because we wanted to free ourselves of certain legacies of its brand. That has helped the product a great deal, because it allows our users’ impressions of the product to be shaped more prominently by their direct experience with it, rather than by the FUD perpetuated by it predecessor’s competitors.
CC: Do you have any major customers running it as of yet that you’d like to share?
BR: The most recent site to have launched on top of Melody is The Morton Report, a site that was launched in concert with the Royal Wedding – by acclaimed biographer Andrew Morton.
What is interesting however in my opinion is not exclusively who has built a site on top of Melody itself, but how many Movable Type users have built websites and products that rely on Melody technology. When we started Melody, it was always our desire not just to create a CMS, but to infuse the Movable Type community as large with tools, resources, plugins, and themes of all kinds.
And because Melody’s design centers around a more modular approach to feature development, many of Melody’s primary underpinnings, like Config Assistant, Theme Manager, and more, power many Movable Type blogs and web sites today as well, and are considered indispensable in every Movable Type professional’s tool belt.
And in that way, Melody has been a huge success.
CC: What is your position with regards to static publishing (Melody) versus dynamic publishing (WordPress)?
BR: It is hard to argue that there is a technology that scales more effortlessly and cost effectively than static publishing. And if you are operating a high traffic web site, no matter what platform you use, be it WordPress, Drupal or anything else, the technology involved in making it scale is exactly what Melody has been designed from the ground up to do: cache site content in order to minimize its load on the database and deliver content quickly and efficiently. So in the Melody community, we don’t think of it as “static publishing,” we think of it as pre-emptive caching. It’s a subtle but important rhetorical difference that we think more accurately portrays static publishing’s value.
That being said, we understand the importance of dynamic publishing, especially as it relates to the process of designing and building a web site. When you are in the throws of pulling a site together, nothing is more annoying than editing your site’s templates, and then having to republish a page prior to being able to see your change in a browser. Ideally, one should simply: edit template, refresh browser, repeat. That is why we are working hard at rebuilding Melody’s legacy dynamic publishing backend and optimizing it around the designer’s and developer’s workflows. Then when a site is ready for production, to provide a seamless transition to the site owner for a more scalable model of publishing and pre-emptive caching.
CC: What was it about Movable Type 4 that made your team decide to branch out from it to form Melody? Were there significant changes in MT5 that you didn’t/don’t agree with?
BR: Early in Melody’s history the community was faced with this decision. We had already begun development of Melody based upon MT4, when Six Apart announced that MT5 was being developed. They did not however tell us when MT5 was going to be released, nor were they open to sharing their source code with us at the time. So our decision was simple: wait for Six Apart to make MT5 available in a form so that we could collaborate or work with what we had. We chose to work with what we had so that we could keep the momentum we were building, rather than reset the clock on Melody’s development.
Movable Type 5 is a great product, no doubt, but I feel that it is a product to meet the needs of a market more unique to the Japanese market, where its current company is headquartered. In the Japanese market, the largest user of Movable Type are hosting companies who host tens, if not hundreds of different sites for their customers. This led Six Apart to develop the notion of “web sites” or a more hierarchical approach to web site and blog design and architecture.
Personally, I think this is a very cool feature, but I also feel that its implementation lacked polish, and made for many users Movable Type far more complicated than it needed to be. One day I hope to fold in the web site feature of MT5 into Melody, as we have done for many of MT5’s features; but when we do, I hope to do it in a way that allows simple systems to remain simple, without introducing undo complexity.
CC: Where do you see Melody fitting in best in the CMS landscape? News publications, schools, universities, etc?
BR: To be honest, I don’t think about Melody in this way. I used to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about Movable Type in this back when I was its Product Manager. Now, I just focus on making Melody a great product, one that embodies the values of its community more closely, and one that continues to build upon those aspects that made Movable Type so great: scalability, reliability and security. I trust, that if we just focus on that, then those who share our values, values we feel transcend markets and industries, will find a welcome home in Melody.
CC: Any plans to offer commercial support or a commercial edition of the product as adoption increases?
BR: As far as developing fee-based commercial software packaged distributed through the Melody web site? Then no, we are not planning on that. Doing so would violate our community’s core principals around open source and providing a software solution free of a commercial interest.
Now, if anyone in our professional community wants to pursue a commercial software or service offering, then we would welcome it, and in fact encourage it. We see commercial software as having an indispensable role to play in virtually every successful open source project. WordPress for example succeeded in part because of a vibrant economy that was built by designers selling proprietary themes. That economy directly and indirectly fueled WordPress’ growth because every designer building and selling themes became a salesman for the platform itself. These designers were in part motivated by the love they had for WordPress, for sure, but they were also motivated by their need to sustain a living.
Speaking for myself, I love open source, and I believe Melody’s success will ultimately stem from the values embodied by the open source software movement. But for me, the GPL is just a license. It is not a religion. And while I am a staunch supporter of the GPL, and of open source licenses in general, I do not see myself as its standard bearer. I am just a guy who likes to build cool products, and who likes to help others do the same.
CC: Where do you see Melody in the next 3-5 years?
BR: I believe Melody will continue to grow, and continue to prove itself a worthy successor to Movable Type. As it does so, I believe its community will continue to grow, and with it the number of contributions received by the community. And as more and more people contribute, I see greater and greater potential for Melody to once again be the kind of indisputable leader that Movable Type once was.
CC: Are there ways in which users or would be developers can assist the Melody project?
BR: Always! Contributing though is not limited to developers, in fact, the most valuable forms of contribution rarely come in the form of code. So how does one get started on the path of becoming a contributor? The first step is easy: use the product. Then begin to imagine ways you could make your experience with the product better. Perhaps there was a piece of documentation you searched for that would have helped you in some way, but you couldn’t find it – if so, endeavor to write it. Or perhaps you appreciated the help someone gave you in the forums – if so, aim to repay the favor by becoming a contributor to the forums yourself. Or perhaps you have the opportunity to influence someone’s choice of CMS – if so, encourage them to give Melody a shot. There are literally countless ways one can contribute to any open source project, but behind every contribution is a love for the project that compels them to participate in more active and hands-on way. And every time you share your passion for the project with another, in whatever form that may take, you are contributing.
CC: Are you financially backed by any specific sources or purely self funded?
BR: Right now Melody receives absolutely no funding from any source. All work on the project is done on a volunteer basis. That being said, a number of professionals, including my own company Endevver, have begun offering services on top of the platform, and have begun channelling their clients toward building and supporting the development of software that is compatible with both Movable Type and Melody. So in that way, Melody is funded indirectly by those individuals and companies who have selected to use Melody as their CMS and who have in turn paid a professional to augment the platform to address their unique needs and requirements.
CC: Do you still contribute to or assist with Movable Type development or is your time fully devoted to Melody as of yet?
BR: Strictly speaking, all of my time is devoted to Melody. But then again, I don’t fully disambiguate between the two, given that much of the software we develop for Melody, also works with Movable Type. One day in Melody’s future, it may diverge so stridently from Movable Type that the two become distinct from one another, but for the time being  I see Melody community and all that it creates as playing an important role in not only in Melody’s development, but also Movable Type. In fact, nothing is more representative of that fact than MT 5.1 recently release notes in which is acknowledges a number of community contributors, many of whom are also contributors to Melody.
CC: Are there any major upcoming enhancements or features that you are working on for the next release that you’d like to share with us?
BR: Melody 1.1 development is already in full swing. With every release we focus on improving both the core architecture of the product as well as building new features that users would find both exciting and valuable.
On the backend we are working to create a cleaner separation between our templates and the javascript that powers much of the user interface. This paves the way for us to shed the highly proprietary javascript that powered Movable Type, and in turn embrace a more robust and well supported framework like jQuery.
We are also looking to completely retool Melody’s dynamic publishing engine so that designers can more easily take advantage of it when building and designing web sites.
We are also working to backport more of MT5’s more popular features, like its new listing framework that provides a much richer, and more flexible way of managing content within the admin UI. It also makes it much easier for plugin developers to build their own custom listing screens and further reduces the amount of Perl one has to know in order to build a plugin.
And lastly, my company, Endevver, has spear headed a project to incubate a new design for the Melody user interface. Our desire is to release the new UI as a stand alone and optional plugin alongside Melody 1.1. This will give the new UI time to mature and stabilize, and give the community time to get used to the new design… and if they like it, hopefully fold it into the core distribution at a later date.
CC: What do you see as the future for Movable Type as a publishing platform?
BR: Personally I think that never before has Movable Type and Melody been a better platform for site development, especially as products like js-Kit, Disqus and Facebook prove that they are far more effective at delivering richer, more valuable experiences around commenting and social networking then the CMS itself. The role of the CMS therefore is being refocused around its intended core competency: the management and publication of content.
CC: Thank you Byrne.
 
You can learn more about Melody on their website: <a href="http://openmelody.org/">Melody CMS</a>

Interview with Byrne Reese, Chairman of the Open Melody Software Group

InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSP) today announced the unveiling of its Content Experience Platform, which upgrades its current portal into a more versatile and adaptable service to meet the needs of various devices. The start page portal and content management system will be demonstrated by representatives to attendees at the 2011 NCTA Cable Show in Chicago.
The new portal offers businesses a cost-effective solution with a complete user experience. It includes customizable search and content solutions compatible with several user devices, including mobile phones, tablets, laptops and PCs. The customizable formats offer numerous layout and design options, creating a more personalized experience for its users.
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“InfoSpace's new Content Experience Platform offers Internet users a richer user experience while addressing the challenges caused by differing content formats across multiple devices,” said Nathan Rohm, senior product manager at InfoSpace. “The platform helps satisfy end users’ expectations and enables new monetization opportunities for our partners.”
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The new Content Experience Platform offers customers a hub of adaptable, localized content including news, weather, sports, and entertainment. Currently available to business customers in beta, the robust start page portal is delivered through a flexible user interface that adapts seamlessly to different devices.
InfoSpace representatives will give demonstrations, answer any questions, listen to feedback and sign up new business customers for the beta at the 2011 NCTA Cable Show in Chicago held June 14-16, 2011.
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“This new platform will provide a user experience that demonstrates the future of content delivery,”said Rohm. “As we roll out our beta version, we will continue to work very closely with our business customers to ensure that we’re building the portal experience they want to provide for their end users.”
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If you are interested in applying for the private beta program now or if you’d like to participate in testing or analyzing new content and technology solutions which could help shape our product roadmap, please contact contentexp@infospace.com. For additional information, please visit www.infospaceinc.com/business/hp_privatelabelportal.aspx.

InfoSpace Unveils Demonstration of New Content Experience Platform Portal

Contegro has launched an innovative online Discovery Room that lets people experience the power of Contegro first hand.  Visitors to the site are able to interact with the Web CMS, watch online training videos and participate in live chat discussions. To celebrate the launch, all CMS Critic Readers are invited to trial Contegro by simply visiting <a href="http://www.contegro.com/discover">http://www.contegro.com/discover</a> and entering this special access code: cmscritic
The founder of Contegro Vaughan Reed developed the Discovery Room to showcase Contegro and its benefits.
<blockquote>“We’ve continually stated how Contegro is both easy-to-use and hassle-free. Now customers and potential Partners can experience this via our website without the need to contact us first – it makes things so simple.”</blockquote>
Reed explains that visitors to the Discovery Room are lead to a demonstration site where they can delve into the heart of Contegro.
<blockquote>“This presents users with an opportunity to play and experience Contegro’s innovative Window’s style desktop and vast functionality.”</blockquote>
Reed believes that the Discovery Room will be of interest to web designers in particular.
<blockquote>“We hope web designers will instantly discover just how hassle-free Website Content Management can be for them and their clients. What’s more, there’s no need to compromise on functionality, says Reed. “Anyone who wants to see a smart and easy-to-use web CMS in action should check it out.”</blockquote>
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Interested in checking out Contegro? Visit <a href="http://www.contegro.com/discover">http://www.contegro.com/discover</a> and enter this special access code: cmscritic

Contegro offers Free Trials through new Discovery Room

Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, today announced a technology alliance with Hippo, a leading vendor of commercial Java Open Source Web Content Management.
The two companies have built an ECM / WCM connector based on the OASIS CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) standard. A webinar with a demonstration of the connector will take place on July 20th.
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Both Nuxeo and Hippo are open source, Java-based, CMIS-compliant platforms, so the partnership between the two is a natural extension – bringing high value functionality to developers, content architects and end users of both systems. The Nuxeo / Hippo connector benefits from a high degree of flexibility and ensures that content coming from other sources within the organization can be easily integrated into both platforms.
“The Hippo CMS and Hippo Portal help empower our customers' audiences, by driving multi-channel, multi-lingual, multi-site solutions,” said Hippo CEO Jeroen Verberg. “The CMIS connector to Nuxeo applications adds yet another possibility for the online communication of content. And, of course a connector between these two open source, Java-based platforms is quite empowering for organizations that need a scalable system that can grow and integrate with other tools.”
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Based on the CMIS standard, the connector allows for content from a Nuxeo-based ECM application to be accessible on a Hippo-based website. Content from Nuxeo ECM applications, such as Nuxeo Document Management and Nuxeo Digital Asset Management, is typically managed by business processes internal to an organization. With this new connector, internal business content can be communicated via a website or portal without taking it out of its managed lifecycle. This eliminates the need to duplicate the information, and maintains the content history, validation workflow, versioning, and associated metadata.
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“The content management acronyms ECM and WCM can be misunderstood, but they are clearly in separate, but complementary domains,” said Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca. “Nuxeo’s Enterprise Content Management solutions address content-centric business processes that are internal to an organization. Web Content Management communicates information online, to both internal and external audiences. Hippo is a fast-growing company with a top-notch WCM solution, and we are pleased to partner with them.”
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The <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/about/events/webinar-nuxeo-hippo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">July 20 webinar</a>, featuring a live demo of the Nuxeo / Hippo connector and Q&amp;A session, will be led by Mathijs Brand, Technical Sales Director for Hippo, and Roland Benedetti, VP of Products and Marketing for Nuxeo.
The connector is currently available as a service offering. Contact <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/about/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nuxeo</a> or <a href="http://www.onehippo.com/en/company/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hippo</a> for more details.

Nuxeo and Hippo Team Up to Provide Seamless ECM / WCM Solution

Movable Type 5.11, 5.051, 4.361 were released as mandatory security updates. These updates resolve multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type 5.x and Movable Type 4.x.
Please see the release notes for new features and fixed issues in Movable Type 5.11, 5.051, and 4.361.
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<li><a href="http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/511.html">Movable Type 5.11 / 5.051 / 4.361 release notes</a></li>
<li>A new configuration directive DeniedAssetFileExtensions was implemented in Movable Type 5.11, 5.051, and 4.361.</li>
<li>A configuration directive AssetFileExtensions was implemented in Movable Type 4.361 ( Movable Type 5.01 and later versions already have this feature ).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/511.html#other">Other changes</a></li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2011/06/movable-type-511-and-5051-4361-security-updates.html">MovableType.com</a>

Movable Type 5.11 and 5.051, 4.361 Security Updates

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OpenText, today announced the release of a new version of OpenText Integration Center featuring an enhanced, native connector to OpenText ECM Suite 2010. Customers can help better leverage their structured and unstructured content to reduce costs and improve efficiency. OpenText Integration Center unifies access to multiple sources of disparate information from OpenText ECM Suite for applications such as business systems integration, legacy decommissioning, in-place content management and content migration.
Most integration technologies focus on either structured data in databases or content in document repositories, but not both. Now with OpenText Integration Center, which inherently understands both structured data and unstructured content, customers can give business decision makers easy access to corporate information assets through ECM Suite 2010. This allows them to take advantage of powerful analytics, semantic search and rich interactive user interfaces to boost productivity and improve decision making.
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“The current economic conditions are forcing organizations to reduce the number of information sources by bringing structured and unstructured content together under the roof of a single business process and repository,” said Eugene Cherny, General Manager for OpenText's Connectivity Solutions. “By combining these worlds in the OpenText ECM Suite, we give customers a powerful solution that helps them reduce costs during a tough economy, while enabling them to do more with their information.”
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The latest release of OpenText Integration Center, together with OpenText ECM Suite 2010, provides enhanced, integrated ECM support making it easier to design, integrate, and implement content integration projects. Typical applications include:
Content Migration — OpenText Integration Center offers complete migration features to move content from one or many repositories to any new destination with all its metadata and context. It helps to automate the movement of content while delivering content integrity and operational efficiency.
Legacy System Decommissioning – Finally turning the off switch on old systems can lead to substantial cost reduction. Customers can archive data from any application and automatically apply lifecycle management rules, such as records management classifications, retention rules, and schedules through ECM Suite 2010.
Data Archiving — With a global policy to integrate retention of structured and unstructured content into one archiving system, customers can be assured of speedy and accurate collection of historical information with a full audit history.
Systems Integration — OpenText Integration Center represents a new generation of integration solutions that transforms, cleanses, enriches and directs information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and corporate applications, for integrations that include data warehouses, data marts, mainframe systems, ERP systems, CRM systems, and content management platforms.
Less Seeking, More Finding Leading industry analysts such as Susan Feldman, IDC's Research Vice President for Search and Discovery Technologies, have identified unified information platforms as a new and fast-growing segment in enterprise software. Facilities like OpenText Integration Center will support enterprise strategies to implement such platforms.
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“Businesses of all sizes are wallowing in too much information, without being able to make sense of it. Our survey of IT buyers demonstrates that they are eager to fix the information quandary by investing in software that gives them a single access point to all their information silos. We expect this demand to fuel a new wave of growth in information access software,” writes Feldman in a report published in April 2011 titled “<a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=227780" target="_blank">Unified Access to Information: Less Seeking, More Finding</a>.”
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About OpenText OpenText, a global ECM leader, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content.  OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries.  Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.  For more information, visit <a href="http://www.opentext.com/" target="_blank">www.opentext.com</a>

New Release of OpenText Integration Center Lets Customers Unify Information Across the Enterprise

This video introduces you to the web analytics that have been integrated into Sitefinity CMS 4.0. Using Google Analytics as the backbone, you are given access to full blow statistics.
Check out our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/sitefinity-review/">Sitefinity 4 review</a> for more info or visit their website at <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/">Sitefinity.com</a>

A Look at Web Analytics in Sitefinity 4

A new release of Geeklog is now available for download. With Geeklog 1.8.0 the minimum system requirement for PHP is now 5.2.0 or greater.
There are a number of new features with this version:
<ul>
<li>Improved Configuration, which was the Google Summer of Code project of Akeda Bagus from 2010. Improvements include the ability to search for configuration attributes, tabs, input validation as well as an updated look.</li>
<li>OAuth Support, allowing users to log into a Geeklog site with their Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account, developed by Hiroshi Sakuramoto of Geeklog Japan.</li>
<li>Includes jQuery 1.5.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.11</li>
<li>Updated Professional theme with new icons and tooltips.</li>
<li>Reworked Plugin Admin interface that now checks for dependencies when a plugin is installed.</li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://www.geeklog.net">http://www.geeklog.net</a>

Geeklog 1.8.0 is now available for download

Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, now offers a Digital Signature add-on for its flagship Open Source Document Management software, Nuxeo DM. Based on the X.509 standard, the new component provides a secure electronic method for signing PDF files in Nuxeo DM and verifying the signatures with a digital certificate in a PDF reader.
When used with Nuxeo Document Management, the Digital Signature option helps to ensure compliance and audit trails, and replaces paper-intensive signing with more efficient electronic processes. Content and information architects and developers who require a digital signing mechanism that provides user authentication and document integrity verification will benefit from this new option, that helps organizations move towards the goal of a paperless office. The Digital Signature component provides a standards-compliant mechanism for adding user-specific digital signatures to PDF documents, so that any print-and-sign paper processes can be replaced with electronic signing, storage and retrieval document management processes. The add-on:
<ul>
<li>creates password-protected, reusable digital certificates for Nuxeo DM users,</li>
<li>enables multiple Nuxeo DM users to digitally sign a PDF document,</li>
<li>attaches digital certificates to documents, for subsequent verification of the signature by an external PDF reader.</li>
</ul>
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“We’ve seen an increasing number of requests for digital signature capabilities,” noted Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca. “Customers prefer to handle documents electronically end-to-end, rather than going through the time-consuming steps of printing, signing, scanning, faxing, and filing. In the long run, using Nuxeo DM digital signing will increase productivity and make information sharing easier.”
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The Digital Signature component is available as a Nuxeo Marketplace package, to be installed in a Nuxeo Document Management application. Nuxeo Connect subscribers can download and install it directly via the in-product Update Center. Non-Connect subscribers can sign up for a free trial, offering access to Nuxeo Marketplace, with a full range of plugins and packages, and to Nuxeo Studio, the customization and configuration environment for Nuxeo platform-based applications.
Nuxeo DM is available with no license charge by downloading it at <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/en/downloads">http://www.nuxeo.com/en/downloads</a>.
About Nuxeo Nuxeo delivers an open source document management application built with a complete, modular and extensible open source platform for enterprise content management. Other packaged applications built with the platform provide solutions for digital asset management and case management. Designed by developers for developers, the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform offers modern technologies, unmatched modularity, a powerful plug-in model and extensive packaging capabilities. Using a fully open source development model, Nuxeo provides a subscription program with software maintenance, technical support and customization tools. Nuxeo ECM is trusted by 1000+ organizations across 145 countries, including Cengage Learning, Pearson Education, AFP News Agency, EllisDon and Jeppesen, a Boeing Company. Nuxeo is dual-headquartered in North America (Boston) and Western Europe (Paris). More information is available at www.nuxeo.com.

Nuxeo Document Management Now Offers Digital Signature Option

In my previous post, <a rel="bookmark" href="../joomla-showing-heavy-growth-in-2011/">Joomla showing heavy growth in 2011,</a> I noted that Joomla has been growing like a crazy with huge adoption number since the release of 1.6.  Since then, it has reached 23.5 million downloads which is a crazy amount for a CMS and speaks volumes to it's popularity. This isn't the only milestone, however.
Joomla 1.6, for example has been downloaded over 1.7 million times since it's release and has seen an incredible adoption rate.Currently there are over 2000 government sites worldwide that use Joomla  including NASA, the US Air Force and US Army.
The Joomla development team have also been working hard and have moved to a 6 month release cycle which means we can expect 1.7 to hit the shelves in around July of this year.
So far, 2011 is looking like a pretty darn good year for <a href="http://joomla.org">Joomla</a> and we're only halfway through.

Joomla's growth continues unabated with record numbers

Jahia, provider of next generation Open Source CMS solutions, today announced the commercial release of Jahia 6.5, the first open source, zero-coding, next-generation CMS, featuring a broad range of Enterprise capabilities. The new release bridges web, portal, social, search, mobile user experience, and content management, with a single composite platform.
Jahia 6.5 offers the best of both worlds by combining the modular ease of PHP on top of the latest powerful Java frameworks. It makes it easy to build user-centric, content rich applications combining of any type of enterprise and web content. Features include:
●	Jahia Studio for fine-grained template customization, and drag-and-drop website assembly using ready-made components. ●	JahiaApps Forge – a community-based marketplace of ready-made templates and application modules. ●	Choice of a wide variety of scripting languages, including PHP and jsp. ●	HTML5 delivery of multimedia and graphical content, without the need for proprietary plugins and APIs. ●	Drag-and-drop creation of blogs, wikis, forums, and data-driven charts and graphs. ●	myConnections interaction from Jahia’s Interface. ●	Cloud ready. ●	Sustainable Open Source Business Model: the first guaranteed Enterprise contribution program in Professional Open Source. ●	A unique software for both the Enterprise and the Community, with targeted license and services for paying customers.
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“As a matter of full disclosure, my personal bias in choosing my Top 5 exciting features in Jahia 6.5 is geared toward those features I think can best help our development team deliver high value features for our clients and deliver solutions as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible,” said Glenn Korban, Beta Partner and Director of Technology at Oshyn Inc.
“This is a stellar version! Jahia 6.5 is a very impressive product. Please let your guys know that I’m really impressed with the job that they've done,” added Brian Jimerson, Technical Architect at Beta Partner Avantia, Inc.
“Jahia 6.5 makes module creation easier than ever before – more like a PHP solution such as Drupal – which is unheard of among Java platforms,” said Emmanuel Garcin, Vice President of Jahia Solutions Group. “Our new release supports the smooth delivery of data from any source, and our new Jahia Studio enables users to compose composite content applications with zero coding. Jahia 6.5 is the first iteration of a great journey ahead, together with our community, customers, and partners, to build ‘content smart’ business solutions.”
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Jahia 6.5 available for immediate download
●	The new Jahia 6.5 available for immediate download at <a href="http://www.jahia.com">http://www.jahia.com</a> ●	To see a webinar of Jahia 6.5 in action, please visit <a href="http://www.jahia.com/webinar">http://www.jahia.com/webinar </a>
About Jahia Jahia’s next-generation, open source CMS stems from a widely acknowledged vision of enterprise application convergence – web, search, document, social and portal – unified by the simplicity of web content management. Structured around Jahia Extended Content Management (xCM), the Jahia Studio IDE, Jahiapps social and collaboration capabilities and based on a powerful Composite Content Management platform, Jahia brings a unique modularity to the Java development arena. It is the tool of choice for building innovative user experiences for virtually any type of web application at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Founded in 2002 in Switzerland, Jahia has its North American headquarters in Washington, DC, and offices in Canada and throughout Europe. Jahia has over 350 customers in more than 20 countries across the globe. For more information, please visit www.jahia.com.

Jahia Launches Jahia 6.5 the Next-Generation Enterprise CMS

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