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

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Kentico is one  of the most popular .NET Content Management Systems in the marketplace (<a href="/kentico-the-cms-for-the-net-generation/">review</a>) and we wanted to take some time to learn more about their product and their companies goals. Mr. Petr Palas, founder and CEO was gracious enough to spend some time with us and answer a few questions.
CC: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your relationship with Kentico. Are you a founding member? How did your interaction with Kentico come about and what did you do previously?
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PP: Before starting Kentico Software, I worked as a product manager in the .NET component industry. Back in 2004, there was no decent or true .NET CMS on the market and many companies were developing their own CMS. I saw an opportunity to create a content management system and offer it to web agencies. So I started Kentico Software. Our first client was Gibson Musical Instruments. Six years later, they're still using Kentico for their main corporate website.
We are a private, profit funded company without debts or external funding and we've been profitable since year one. We experience more than 100% growth of revenue annually since inception and currently have 65 employees, 2,500 clients, almost 5,000 active web sites and 1,200 active partners worldwide across 84 countries.
CC: What is the primary focus of your company? What type of corporations / organizations do you primarily focus your attentions on and why?
PP: Kentico CMS is a highly flexible and scalable solution designed to cover the small brochure sites to multi-site to multi-national projects of Fortune 500 companies. Our customer is anybody who needs a full-featured .NET CMS that is easy to use, flexible and backed by excellent support.
Still, there's one significant group of clients that we focus on – the web agencies who use Kentico CMS as a platform to create client websites. We've built a lot of our business helping web agencies deliver high quality websites on time and with fewer resources. Unlike many other CMS vendors, we’ve made a strategic business decision to not compete with our channel of solution partners and integrators by not offer our own professional services – instead, we direct these clients with integration requirements to our recommended solution partners.
CC: How does Kentico assist customers learn about, interact with, and best present their products to their customers?
PP: I would say the most important benefit of Kentico CMS is the ease of use. I’m sure every CMS vendor will tell you that their CMS is easy to use, but I say this based on the feedback we consistently hear from our clients.
For example, from web agencies that have  deep experience with several CMS products, Kentico is very intuitive for non-technical users, they do not need to spend a lot time training their clients and they receive fewer calls from end users in comparison to any other CMS product. This is really critical for the success of any CMS project – if your CMS is not user friendly, the content administrators won't use it and you will end up with outdated website that doesn't deliver expected results.
CC: Do you feel your product is unique in its offerings? If so, why?
PP: Of course our CMS offering is unique. One of several unique values of Kentico is the completeness of the solution. Other vendors often rely on third-party products in such areas as e-commerce or social networking. This often leads to a poor user experience, architecture full of compromises, a more costly implementation and often leaves clients with software that cannot be upgraded due to compatibility issues with third-party products and the latest version of the CMS. The fact that you receive all features directly from Kentico means you also benefit with lower initial and ongoing costs and dramatically lower project risks.
Kentico CMS is particularly strong in two feature areas: rapid website development and multi-site support. While many products offer various drag-and-drop interfaces, Kentico provides a complete environment for creating websites through your browser. It means that web developers without extensive .NET knowledge can work in a front-end portal interface and your more experienced developers can focus on complex .NET coding using the integration Kentico CMS offers with Visual Studio.
Kentico CMS is the only commercial .NET CMS vendor who built multi-site support into the core of the system. It means you don't have to make compromises with half-baked multi-site architecture. And we have clients who successfully deploy hundreds of websites centrally managed in a single installation.
CC: What do you say to those that scoff at the security and stability of the .NET framework when compared to other technologies?  What has .NET enabled you to do better?
PP: As a software vendor who has been using the .NET platform for 6+ years, we believe that .NET is the best platform for our clients. It's secure, stable and provides enterprise-level scalability. Unlike other platforms, .NET is backed by Microsoft who continues to invest resources in maintaining and extending their core platform. We have seen Microsoft very responsive to security issues and bugs.
As a Gold Partner we work closely with Microsoft to provide what we believe is industry leading integration of Kentico CMS with Visual Studio. The combination of the Microsoft platform and Kentico CMS allows our clients to develop websites with tools they are already know in a secure and robust environment.
CC: What is your vision for the next couple of years in this market? How has Kentico  positioned itself to be the “ go to” player?
PP: As we have seen the overall WCM market will continue to mature. Customers will expect even more features and value for their investment. This is an area where Kentico has always been strong – delivering solutions for real-world scenarios, easy to implement, easy to use, and has low ongoing technology costs.
This philosophy had a significant impact as we looked at our own product roadmap. We saw that online marketers are a huge under-served area. Right now, we're working on Kentico CMS 6.0 that will dramatically improve the way that marketers can generate new business for their companies. The new on-line marketing functionality will empower every marketer to optimize their website for higher conversion rates using A/B and multivariate testing, provide visitors with personalized content and deliver qualified leads to their sales team. Unlike other solutions that are too complex for non-technical users and require full-time staff to keep them running, Kentico will bring these features to marketers who need an immediate ROI without growing their budget.
CC: Online marketers have definitely been getting noticed more and solutions (whether integrated or separate packages altogether) are starting to get more functions within CMS like Sitecore for example. What will Kentico do that will make it the more appealing option?
PP: We have been watching the online marketing space closely. Like any new technology we see that it’s expensive, requires extensive integration and increased deployment and maintenance costs that are out of line with customer expectations. As we talked to customers we saw the technology had matured but neither the acquisition, integration, or maintenance costs have. Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution that will be introduced with version 6.0 next year will deliver an easy to use, cost efficient solution that is fully integrated with other CMS functionality. Our customers are very excited about this new functionality – we would love to show you more as we finalize our development.
CC: What was the biggest Kentico success story of this year for your company / clientele?
PP: We see more clients deploying Kentico for major sites with extreme traffic. Newsmax, Conduit, Motors.co.uk, Gibson or Blackboard are just a few examples of such sites.  As an example, the Newsmax site serves 20 million page views per month, with over a million pieces of content, while running on a single, stand-alone production server. We also see more web agencies standardize on Kentico as their core platform and offering Kentico as an alternative to Ektron or Sitecore, because they don't have to spend the majority of the project budget on licenses and can spend more time on delivering a successful website to their clients.
CC: You’ve recently celebrated 6 years of fantastic growth coupled with a continually expanding staff, what do you attribute this success to?
PP: First of all, we were fortunate to enter the .NET CMS market at the right time. Growth and success are easy, if you follow the core principle that is part of the Kentico Software culture – keep delivering what your clients asked for. We're not just implementing fancy new features, but we continue to improve existing functionality based on client feedback. Of course, we wouldn't be so successful, without our loyal partners who successfully adopted Kentico CMS as their core platform for creating websites.
CC: What do you feel has been the greatest advancement in WCM/CMS market over the past year or so?
PP: I would say the major advancement was the fact that WCM is no longer considered to be just about managing content. People expect that a CMS should do everything they require to support their web strategy and succeed with their on-line presence. They want a solution that will allow them to sell products on-line, engage with clients in social networks and integrate with their existing systems, such as ERP or CRM.
Also, site owners want to see measurable results and an optimized visitor experience, so they get the most from their investments. This is what we understand under the term WEM. I think this is so important version 6 of Kentico CMS will have a heavy focus on this.
CC: How do you define the term ‘CMS’?
PP: In Kentico, we believe that a Web Content Management System should provide marketers and developers with everything they need to achieve their goals on-line. Whether they need to publish search engine-optimized content, sell products on-line, integrate social networks or improve their marketing results, they should obtain it in a single, fully integrated solution. They shouldn't merely receive a framework and be forced to develop costly integrations of multiple specialized products, which often happens with many other CMS vendors.
Additionally, they shouldn't be forced to buy numerous add-on modules, requiring complex or even impossible upgrade paths from multiple vendors, which is quite often the case with open-source CMS systems. Kentico CMS delivers all functional components out of the box, and concurrently, offers extensive flexibility in how you use them or extend them.
CC: Thank you for your time Mr. Palas.
Want to learn more about Kentico? Read our <a href="/kentico-the-cms-for-the-net-generation/">review</a> or visit them on the web at <a href="http://www.kentico.com">http://www.kentico.com</a>

Interview with Petr Palas, Founder and CEO of Kentico

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The very first beta of the popular open source content management framework, Drupal 7 has been released. Drupal 7 brings about a ton of changes such as:
<ul>
<li>revamped user interface</li>
<li>a new admin and default core theme</li>
<li>image handling in core, fields (CCK!) in core</li>
<li>module and theme upgrades from within the browser</li>
<li>an automated testing framework with over 24,000 tests</li>
<li>improved security and scalability</li>
<li>revamped database</li>
<li>AJAX and file systems</li>
<li>jQuery 1.4, jQuery UI 1.8, RDFa</li>
<li>many more</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2010-10-07-at-5_32_26-am-580x258.png" alt="Drupal 7 Admin Interface" />
Please see <a href="http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/drupal/CHANGELOG.txt?revision=1.373&amp;view=markup">CHANGELOG.txt</a> for a comprehensive list of all improvements in Drupal 7 or <a href="http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0-beta1">download</a> your copy today..

The first beta of Drupal 7 is now available for testing

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware: Celebrating eight years of continuous development
This month marks the 8-year anniversary of the release of (what is now called) Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Since the initial release in October 2002, Tiki has grown from a wiki solution into a full-featured, web-based, content management solution.
To date, more than 200 people have contributed to the Tiki code-base, with hundreds more to other parts of the project (documentation, support, etc) making Tiki one of the largest open source projects in the world(http://www.ohloh.net/p/tikiwiki/factoids/). With new code commits averaging every two hours, Tiki is in a continuous development cycle and its “wiki way” development process means that the community is very dynamic and agile.
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Gatherings of Tiki Community members take place across the globe. These “TikiFests” are a chance for community members to plan, discuss, and code Tiki features (and socialize!). More than 50 events have occurred, with many more planned in the upcoming months.
Recent partnerships with Kaltura and BigBlueButton for collaborative videos and web conferencing, respectively, ensure that Tiki continues to move forward. The upcoming Tiki 6 release introduces a host of new features and enhancements.
Happy Birthday Tiki!
About Tiki
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware: Celebrating eight years of continuous development

The newest upgrade to Sourcefabric’s Campsite, a multilingual content management system for news websites, allows multiple template upload and improves multilingual template set for websites.
“One of our main goals is to offer Campsite to as many local developers as we can. With this issue of Campsite we are opening up to Poland – a country with great developers and we hope to welcome many of them very soon to our community” – says Sava Tatić, Sourcefabric’s managing director.
Campsite 3.4.3 introduces two new features, 10 bug fixes, and 4 improvements. Login problems that have been reported by IE and Opera users have been solved.
Full list of changes:
New Features:
<ul>
<li> Added Polish localization</li>
<li> Multiple template upload</li>
</ul>
Improvements:
<ul>
<li> Sample site template set is now multilingual and includes support for user comments</li>
<li> The upgrade process has been redesigned to disallow the automatic start upgrade script after files copy</li>
<li> Demo data has been updated on the campsite-design site</li>
</ul>
Bugs Fixed:
<ul>
<li> Article types in the sample package should have proper display name</li>
<li> Small fixes to custom sorting in the Universal List</li>
<li> On upgrade error the displayed message is wrong</li>
<li> Opera &amp; IE browsers doesn't support the login into admin interface</li>
<li> Site title, Meta keywords and Meta description doesn't support UTF-8 chars</li>
<li> On upgrade the system_preferences.php should be deleted</li>
<li> Very slow article edit page openning for non english version</li>
<li> Periodically PEAR::DB reports “Mysql connection error” on any hosting</li>
<li> Fixed administration session timelife</li>
<li> The installer should check if exec was enabled</li>
</ul>
Campsite 3.4.3 is available for free download here: <a href="http://links.sourcefabric.org/Campsite343">http://links.sourcefabric.org/Campsite343</a>

The new Campsite 3.4.3 comes with improved multilingual templates

Until recently, Danish developer Composite have been distributing the company’s professional content management system – Composite C1 – on commercial terms. But now Composite has decided to go open source and allow anyone to download and use the complete product for free.
Composite C1 allow website builders to get a user friendly CMS up and running fast and allow for customizations via free and commercial packages as well as tools targeting both frontend and backend developers. .NET developers can use technologies like .NET 4, LINQ, ASP.NET Controls and MVC while frontend developers are capable of completing many more tasks than they usually can in a CMS.
– The whole mindset behind Composite C1 as a .NET-based product was originally to make it successful on the commercial marketplace – which it is on a regional basis. This background bring a much more intuitive and user-friendly experience to market than other Open Source based CMS-alternatives. Actually, I think we’re one of the very first companies worldwide to convert a fully-featured, commercial .NET-based CMS into an Open Source project, says partner Oskar Lauritzen, Composite.
– Our Open Source initiative aims at making Composite C1 accessible worldwide to a significantly larger population of companies and organizations. At the same time, it gives us a tremendous opportunity to widen the base of developers working to strengthen the product as well as to develop C1 add-ons of their own, he continues.
With a history spanning the last decade, Composite is already regarded as a proven and experienced commercially focused developing house, “so it’s perfectly understandable if our venture into Open Source will raise a few eyebrows out there,” says Oskar Lauritzen.
But not so amongst the company’s existing paying customers, who backs the initiative unanimously. Even Microsoft, who has lent significant developing support to the C1-project during the last three years, feels that the initiative is a pretty good idea.
– Composite’s Open Source initiative is really remarkable and exciting. First and foremost because it makes good sense to open up the code of a .NET-based product, as there’s simply so many gifted developers out there who’s already familiar with the platform, says Ole Kjeldsen, Enterprise &amp; Platforms Director, Microsoft Denmark.
– Actually, I think that Composite is one of the really interesting developing houses to follow right now, concludes Ole Kjeldsen.
In the near future, Composite will establish a marketplace where professional developers can cooperate on Composite C1 add-ons and make them commercially or freely available, depending on which model makes the best sense from the developer’s perspective.
<a href="http://www.composite.net/">http://www.composite.net/</a>

Established Danish CMS-vendor Composite goes Open Source with CMS based on Microsoft .NET 4.0.

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 11. Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 10 release on September 20, they have fixed approximately 21 issues in the tracker and have closed an additional 33 tracker issues. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad.
Grab your copy from <a href="http://www.joomla.org">http://www.joomla.org</a>

Joomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available

Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced the immediate availability ofAlfresco Community 3.4 for download. Alfresco 3.4 broadens the reach of the company’s open source and open standards-based content management platform with new tools and services for Spring developers, Web Quick Start for easy web site deployment and content integration with enterprise portals. This builds on Alfresco’s strategy of offering the industry’s only content platform that delivers the flexibility and affordability required across the enterprise.
“The demand for collaboration and social sharing around enterprise content is rising – and content that was once meant just for the intranet is now being repurposed for the public web, external portals or even to destination sites across the web,” said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. “Through our implementation of CMIS as a core standard and new features in Alfresco 3.4, our content services platform can now manage and deliver enterprise content to any internal or external application in a way that traditional, monolithic ECM products can’t enable without significant time and expense.”
Key product capabilities for the Alfresco Community 3.4 release include:
<ul>
<li>Collaborative Web Authoring – Alfresco Web Quick Start is a set of out-of-the-box templates for building content-rich websites on top of Alfresco Share. Quick Start combines the power of Alfresco Share for web team collaboration, with powerful content authoring and publishing services like in-context web editing.</li>
<li>Office-to-Web Framework* – Using Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Protocol and CIFS (shared file drive), along with a new API integration with Google Docs, users can now author documents in their native office suite, collaborate in Alfresco or Google Docs, transform and re-purpose if required, and then publish straight to the web – even with sophisticated approval workflows.</li>
<li>Web Content Services for Spring – Built using the popular Spring and Spring Surf frameworks, Alfresco now offers key content management services that can be accessed via OpenCMIS and integrated into any web application. A combination of standard development tools and lightweight scripting gives Spring and Surf developers many options for building content-rich apps.</li>
<li>Integration with Enterprise Portals and Social Software – The new DocLib portlets allow seamless integration with enterprise portals like Liferay, Quickr and Confluence. Using Single Sign On (SSO), the portlets provide access to both content and project repositories from within any JSR168 compliant portal.</li>
<li>Distributed Content Replication – Native support for content replication allows organizations to run federated content repositories. Key documents can now be replicated to remote offices, enabling greater sharing of information, quicker access, reduced wide area network traffic and removes the dependency on a single system.</li>
</ul>
“The increasingly networked nature of business has amplified existing requirements for individuals to collaboratively author, review, and publish content, as well as to quickly build websites using that content,” said Larry Hawes, Lead Analyst, Collaboration &amp; Enterprise Social Software, Gilbane Group. “Alfresco's 3.4 release exposes more content management features within Share and third-party collaboration environments, empowering business people to quickly work together to create and publish content to websites, portals, and social software.”
Website: <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">http://www.alfresco.com</a>

Alfresco 3.4 Powers Collaborative Web Development and New Tools for Spring Developers

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Template Builder launches WordPress support for the most popular online Theme &amp; Template creator.
With the easy to use WYSIWYG interface, it is now possible to to create WordPress themes. Features for WordPress also include online managing, storing and editing of your themes as well as sharing your themes with friends and visitors.
Template Builder let's you export your created templates &amp; themes to both WordPress and Joomla!
All templates created are trademark free and can be distributed for free or sold. The Template Builder community can vote on the next features to be added into Template Builder.
Template Builder requires no installation and runs completely in the browser, allowing support for all operating systems such as Windows, Mac &amp; Linux.
Website: <a href="http://www.template-builder.com">www.template-builder.com</a>

Template-builder.com releases WordPress Support for it's online theme editor

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), the world’s largest online marketplace, today announced an agreement to use Joomla, the most popular open source content management system (CMS), to launch a community portal as part of eBay's internal analytics platform. eBay is leveraging open source for employees and supports an ongoing commitment to driving innovation across the business.
Known as “community analytics,” the initiative will be accessible by eBay’s 16,400 employees, and will incorporate social aspects of active collaboration, including content creation, sharing and open discussion. Joomla CMS supports eBay’s expansion of community-oriented knowledge sharing and information discovery.
“eBay has always made it a key priority to encourage employees to collaborate and drive business innovation,” said Bob Page, eBay vice president, analytics platform, “We are working with the open source community to elevate insightful ideas and innovations across our company, from our greatest resources, our employees.”
With the largest commercial data warehouse in the world, more than 100 times larger than the Library of Congress, eBay requires immense computing capabilities to mine and decipher actionable data. The new community analytics initiative enables employees to source and analyze massive amounts of data to power ideas and learning across the company. eBay will also contribute back to the open-source community.
“eBay is a welcomed addition to the Joomla open source community,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and financial support to the Joomla project. “With such a large data demand, eBay is pioneering open-source employee-based projects for the enterprise.”
The announcement coincides with Joomla Day USA West 2010 being held on the eBay/PayPal North campus in San Jose, Calif. today through Sunday, Oct. 3. The event is showcasing the latest developments and best practices within the Joomla open source community, including a speech from Oliver Ratzesberger, senior director of analytics platform at eBay. About eBay Inc. Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, and PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive online payments. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and eBay classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. For more information about the company and our global portfolio of online brands, visit <a href="http://www.ebayinc.com/" target="_blank">www.ebayinc.com</a>.
About Joomla! Joomla is the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.5 percent of the web running on Joomla, the CMS is used by individuals, small and medium-sized business, and large organizations worldwide to easily create and build a variety of websites and web-enabled applications. Due to its power and elegance, it can be used by the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated, and its software has been downloaded more than 16 million times. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">www.joomla.org</a>.

eBay Selects Joomla! Open Source to Foster Innovation From the Inside Out

Today’s fast paced world results in code aging faster and faster. That in turn results in security holes in everything from our handheld mobile devices all the way to our webservers.
These security holes are not overlooked by hackers and their large cadre of tools used to look for weak websites.
As a small or medium business owner, you are surely concerned about your website traffic, ease of use and your customer’s experience.
However keeping up with all the security vulnerabilities that could hit your website is a full time job.
SalvusAlerting.com answers that problem with its revolutionary new service designed to send you near real time alerts for software vulnerabilities that could affect you.
The subscription service, starting at only $15.97 per month, is built on a powerful engine that ingests vulnerability updates and reports from hundreds of known sources.
The engine reviews each and automatically categorizes them by type; the information is formatted and then sent on to the subscriber as an ‘alert’:
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Each alert is categorized by Severity, Critical, High, Low and Informational, giving the subscriber an immediate visual clue as to the response priority.
The alert has three sections, Executive Summary, Technical Details and Recommendations for remedy.
Alerts are sent directly to your eMail account and starting in November 2010, SalvusAlerting.com will offer Direct Twitter messages and Text messages.
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SalvusAlerting.com tracks several hundred software and hardware platforms in the following categories:
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Web Site Cyber Attacks on the rise - Many attacks are the result of Outdated software

ScribbleLive today launched the latest version of its live content management system (CMS) to help journalists spread news in real time. Social media services deliver information at a rapid pace. ScribbleLive enables media companies to harness the immediacy of these technologies while maintaining the control required in the newsroom to cover developing news events in a new style that meets the needs of its audience – fast, engaging and collaborative.
ScribbleLive is a comprehensive live CMS platform that enables media companies and large organizations such as Reuters and Hearst Television, to report on developing news stories like natural disasters, sporting events and election results in an entirely new way online. Journalists can now report story elements from e-mail, SMS, Twitter, voice call or the ScribbleLive web interface – whether in the newsroom or out in the field. The result is dynamic content that provides real-time updates, including multimedia, to readers as the event unfolds.
The event pages reside on ScribbleLive’s servers, but otherwise maintain a seamless appearance with the organization’s existing website – to both visitors and search engines. After the event, the searchable webpages remain, so readers can look back on the way the story unfolded – a unique opportunity to see a “rough draft” of history as it was first written.
“People want news delivered quickly – They are turning to social media sites such as Twitter to access breaking information, rather than waiting for news outlets to push stories through editorial review,” said Michael De Monte, co-founder and chief executive officer, ScribbleLive. “ScribbleLive changes the traditional linear flow of the newsroom to a more dynamic, collaborative process that empowers real-time reporting and audience engagement while ensuring editorial control and journalistic integrity. With our tool, journalists are able to tell stories in a completely new way.”
This latest version of ScribbleLive offers powerful new features that:
•	Let journalists leverage mobile devices to create stories in the field via enhanced publishing capabilities through SMS and voicemail, as well as mobile apps for iPhone and BlackBerry •	Better harness information from Twitter with advanced filters •	Employ SSL to improve data protection •	Allow syndication of posts to multiple web properties •	Lay the groundwork for a revolutionary new way of telling stories and engaging with readers online
A number of media outlets already rely on ScribbleLive. Global News, the online news arm of Canwest’s Global Television Network, used ScribbleLive to cover the G20 Summit that was recently held in Toronto. Highlights of the summit coverage included:
•	Reader-submitted protestor photos •	A dramatic audio report on rioting in the streets •	Videos of police creating barricades •	Text updates from around the summit
“Globalnews.ca’s live coverage of the G20 broke historic new ground for storytelling in broadcast and online journalism,” said David Skok, managing editor for Globalnews.ca. “ScribbleLive gave us the opportunity to showcase the depth of our talented reporting teams in real-time using multimedia via one-touch reporting. We have realized our vision of unifying the digital and traditional broadcast newsrooms, thanks to ScribbleLive.”
The Score, the broadcaster that delivers interactive sports reporting online and via the popular ScoreMobile iPhone app, uses the ScribbleLive platform to report real-time scores for the more than 300 sports teams it covers while empowering superfans to become the play-by-play commentators.
“ScribbleLive has truly helped us enhance our product. For our mobile sports app, live blogs have been a crucial differentiator. Sports fans love the immediacy of the blogger’s game description and appreciate being able to submit their comments. ScribbleLive’s system is fast and reliable, and they’ve made it remarkably easy to fully embed in our offering,” said Dale Fallon, director of mobile, Score Media.
ScribbleLive works in concert with existing CMS platforms. It is offered as software-as-a-service. The new version is available now. Pricing depends on the desired plan. Contact info@scribblelive.com for sales information.
About ScribbleLive
ScribbleLive is a groundbreaking content delivery platform that gives the new web generation what they want – news now. Without flaws and without delays, ScribbleLive enables real-time journalism and audience engagement. Users always have full editorial power and reader retention within their branded websites. Think of it as “live-to-air” for the web. With the immediacy of Twitter and the professional control of a CMS, users can maximize the impact of their brand and/or their advertisers with ScribbleLive.
ScribbleLive has been tried and tested by benchmark organizations like Reuters and Hearst Television and has been the lightning rod for such events as the iPad launch and the Red Bull Air Races. National media companies like Rogers and Canwest have used ScribbleLive to successfully engage their audiences in real-time.
More info: <a href="http://www.scribblelive.com/">http://www.scribblelive.com/</a>

ScribbleLive Moves Journalism into the Social Media Era

A new release of WordPress for iPhone/iPad has been made available. This new version offers the following features/improvements:
<ul>
<li>Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos within the app. Yay for being able to catch your friends’ and co-workers’ most embarrassing shenanigans creative moments with iPhone video and publish them immediately for all the world to see on your WordPress site.</li>
<li>A total rewrite of the way local drafts are handled, to prevent the unintentional loss of your pending posts.</li>
<li>Autosave/post revisions. Bam! One of the “oh, thank goodness” features of the web app makes it into the iOS version.</li>
<li>Easier setup. Faster and easier process for adding your sites to the app.</li>
<li>Media Library. We’re gradually getting closer to the media management you’re used to in the web app.</li>
</ul>
There are also numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements in this release, so if you haven’t been using the app lately, you should consider giving it another try.
Get your copy from the iTunes app store today.

WordPress for iPhone/iPad v2.6 Released

The Tiki community has released two security patches: 5.3 and 3.8 LTS. These releases address security issues (including one critical item) that were discovered by John Leitch (http://www.johnleitch.net). There is no new functionality. The Tiki Community highly recommends that all Tiki admins immediately upgrade their sites to the current release.
To download the new release or patch, please see http://tiki.org/download.
About Tiki
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association.
For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Releases 5.3 and 3.8 LTS Security Patches

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