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The Top 10 AI Tools for Small Business: From Automation to a Coordinated Team of AI Agents

matt-garrepy

Campsite 3.3.3 has been released and brings with it a number of new features for web publishers.
The main enhancements <a href="http://campware.org">Campsite</a> 3.3.3 brings are:
<ul>
<li>Online template editor (EditArea) now highlights Campsite template language properly</li>
<li>Topics attached to an article are displayed in a tooltip on mouseover in section view</li>
<li>Smarty template engine upgraded to the latest stable version</li>
<li>HTML anchors are now insertable via the TinyMCE rich text editor</li>
<li>Updated Russian, Belarusian, and Spanish localizations</li>
<li>Online Interview and Blog plugins are now fully localizable</li>
</ul>
Bugs fixed include:
<ul>
<li>Several upgrade process bugs (autopublish,.httaccess and plugin related)</li>
<li>A table is no added within paragraph when inserting images via the TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Image resize ratio field is no logner mandatory in System Preferences</li>
<li>Quality of automatically generated nails has been improved</li>
<li>TinyMCE text editor no longer filters the anchor tag</li>
<li>Topic objects are now cached properly</li>
<li>Long image captions no longer cause images to occupy wider space than necessary</li>
<li>Search indexer now properly filters out invalid words and does not leave out valid words</li>
<li>Image resizing ratio is no longer reset when editing an article</li>
<li>Topics with names that contain digits are now properly recognized in the template language</li>
<li>The Blog plugin now works well with APC cache</li>
<li>The code that sends Campsite system notifications has been fixed, so Campsite no longer floods admin mailboxes in case of noncritical problems</li>
<li>Several localization bug fixes (including the Author field label)</li>
<li>Order option for topics list and article switches now work as documented</li>
<li>The obsolete PHP function split() has been removed from Campsite code</li>
</ul>
For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please <a href="http://trac.campware.org/campsite/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=3.3.3">see this Trac report</a>.

Campsite 3.3.3 ushers in a number of new features

mike-johnston

The WordPress development team have released a security update to the 2.8 series of the popular blog platform. 
A number of the changes that are outlined below were back ported in order to provide enhanced security for the 2.8 series while the team works hard on 2.9.
The headline changes in this release are:
<ul>
<li>A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.</li>
<li>Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.</li>
<li>Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.</li>
<li>Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.</li>
</ul>
You can learn more <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/">here</a>.

New WordPress release enhances security and prepares us for 2.9

<a href="http://www.nuxeo.com">Nuxeo</a> have released the latest rendition of their popular Document Management software. Version 5.3 heralds some interesting changes such as support for increasingly social business applications; streamlined information access and flow of content across diverse repositories and sites; and enhanced tagging services to enrich metadata used by information workers (suggest deleting used by information workers, repetitive).
According to CEO, Eric Barroca:
The latest release of Nuxeo DM demonstrates that we are continuing to execute on our strategy: be a disruptive force and instigate change to (eliminate inefficient practices in the mainstream software industry.) inefficient practices. Nuxeo's success is measured on the strength of our product and community: high customer satisfaction rates, strategic partnerships and collaborative approaches to content-centric applications. Our product roadmap is being driven by our commitment to standards, interoperability, better integration to the Microsoft suite and integration of of the social business infrastructure. We're building content applications for 21st century business needs.
Key aspects of Nuxeo DM 5.3 include:
Standards for Social Business: Support for OpenSocial allows the creation of gadgets to build web mashups within enterprise applications. Nuxeo DM 5.3 can serve as both publisher of gadgets as well as be an OpenSocial container, allowing the Nuxeo DM repository to host and participate in enterprise mashups.
Windows Sharepoint Services support: Access Nuxeo DM 5.3 via Microsoft Sharepoint for basic library services. Native integration with Windows Explorer ensures information workers can use familiar browsing habits to access Nuxeo DM content and perform common file operations. Microsoft Office integration allows files to be opened or saved directly to/from Nuxeo DM and lets users see information about their content directly from the Document Panel in Microsoft Office.
SaaS-ready with Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition: Nuxeo DM 5.3 is also available in a secure, on-demand cloud ECM offering. Organizations can get a deployment up and running in minutes with no need to invest in any costly IT infrastructure.
Federated publishing: Centrally control and publish content to remote Nuxeo applications, file systems, HTTP servers, web portals, and more thanks to a pluggable and unified Publishing Service. It is suited to deployments with a distributed information architecture, balancing ease of publication with requirements to for content control.
Tagging Services: Enhanced metadata capabilities ensures information workers can categorize their content in ways that make sense for average users. Tagging recommendations and tag cloud support enrich an organization's ability to describe and retrieve their information assets.
New Performance Record for Large Deployments: Faster search and retrieval benchmarks for Nuxeo DM repositories holding several million items for hundreds of concurrent users using inexpensive commodity hardware specifications.
Email Capture Enhancements for MS Exchange and Gmail: Improved support for email folders. Fetch email from Microsoft Exchange or Gmail to/from the Nuxeo DM 5.3 email archive folders to ensure contextual management of business communication.
CMIS Support: Ensure true interoperability across multiple ECM, ERP and search systems, Nuxeo DM 5.3 offers a CMIS Server via an add-on component, based on the CMIS draft 0.62.
Search/Indexing Improvements: Granular metadata search and indexing allows users to find and retrieve content based on one or more fields.
Nuxeo DM is a packaged application based on the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP), an extensible and highly-flexible open source software platform for enterprise content management . With a deep feature set and rich functionality, Nuxeo EP is increasingly being used to replace cumbersome, costly and proprietary ECM platforms. Nuxeo EP is the ECM foundation layer of the Nuxeo product suite. Organizations requiring custom content applications, software vendors wanting to embed ECM into their product offering, or development organizations building new content-enabled applications can adopt the platform, Nuxeo EP, and build upon it. The complete platform is available under popular, business-friendly LGPL open source license.
Pricing and Availability Nuxeo Document Management is also freely available under standard LGPL. Nuxeo provides expert developer and production support subscriptions for Nuxeo DM to simplify ongoing maintenance, increase IT productivity and reduce deployment risks. These support subscriptions are available through the Nuxeo Connect program. Customers subscribing to Nuxeo Connect are assured of service level agreements for problem resolution, access to certified patches, value-added monitoring and management tools, and full updates in accordance with our product release lifecycle policy.
For more information <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/dm/nuxeo-dm-5.3" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nuxeo DM 5.3</a>
Extensive options are available from MindTouch, such as <a href="http://www.mindtouch.com/products">product document management </a> and help desk solutions.

Nuxeo releases latest version of popular document management software

There is a new version of <a href="http://www.elxis.org">Elxis CMS</a> available for download from their website. Elxis has been a favourite of our for some time due to it's incredibly solid SEO performance.
This new version brings the following changes (<a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Elxis_2009.1_release_notes">see full release notes here</a>.):
<ul>
<li>A new <a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Search_system">component search</a> which re-orders the results returned by the bots giving the results a global ordering. It also provides pagination and better html mark-up.</li>
<li>Elxis e-blog component is now more powerful. Added daily posts support, linked post titles, included posts to site's search results, pagination for the archive pages and social bookmarking support.</li>
<li>plus many others.</li>
</ul>

Elxis CMS 2009.1 released

The ImpressCMS Project (<a rel="external noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.impresscms.org/" target="_blank">www.impresscms.org</a>) proudly announces a stable release of ImpressCMS 1.1.3. This release is a security update for the PHP OpenID and Smarty libraries included with the ImpressCMS core, no new features have been introduced.
Since its beginning, the developers of ImpressCMS have made security a  priority – continually auditing existing code and testing new code for stronger security measures.
Some of the security ‘best practices' that have made their way into ImpressCMS are:
<ul>
<li>Creating a trust_path outside the web root (when possible) during installation, making sensitive database credentials inaccessible to a web browser</li>
<li>Using a 2-part encryption key to protect passwords stored in the database</li>
<li>Using HTML Purifier to filter input and output and remove malicious and unauthorized code</li>
<li>Providing a version checker for the core, allowing you to keep your site up-to-date much easier</li>
<li>Providing multiple methods of password encryption to increases the difficulty of decrypting passwords</li>
</ul>
Source: http://www.impresscms.org

ImpressCMS 1.1.3 has been released

<a href="http://www.ptools.com/">pTools</a> today announced that it has further developed its content management software (CMS) as an embedded application for Microsoft SharePoint.
Organizations can now use the enhanced web content management (WCM) capability of pTools directly within the SharePoint interface and framework.
The latest release will be launched at Microsoft's worldwide SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this October 19th to 22nd, where pTools will also link up with partners and customers from the North American market.
Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, commenting on pTools participation at the conference, says: “pTools has very successfully developed their web content management software on the SharePoint platform. Through participating in the SharePoint event the company will gain access and exposure to a vast number of customers and partners interested in connecting, sharing and collaborating on some of Microsoft's fastest growing product lines – including SharePoint Server, SQL Server and Office 2007.”
The development is part of the ongoing extension of pTools suite of CMS products and alignment to Microsoft's .NET applications framework.
Key enhancements delivered by pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint include:
<ul>
<li>Enterprise level out-of-the box WCM functionality</li>
<li>Seamless SharePoint-to-web replication and publishing</li>
<li>Guaranteed accessibility web content compliance</li>
<li>Multi-language web content management</li>
<li>Multi-channel web content personalisation</li>
<li>Rich media web content applications</li>
<li>Improved SEO web optimisation</li>
<li>Linked-up social networking and web content syndication.</li>
</ul>
Commenting on the development Tom Skinner, Managing Director of pTools says: “Continual product development based on customer and partner expectations is a key strategy for pTools and this extension puts our software at the leading edge with Microsoft SharePoint and web content management. Not only is our software now better integrated with SharePoint, but the out-of-the-box capabilities of pTools web content management are now greatly improved. This development of an embedded application gives an over-the-horizon view of what's coming in web and enterprise content management for pTools and pTools customers on the SharePoint platform.”
pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint gives the flexibility, rapid deployment and enhancements necessary for rich web content management initiatives within the overall SharePoint application architecture. Organisations can extend content management functionality to enhance SharePoint web content management deployment and integrate content management tasks easily within a single application user interface.
Furthermore it allows seamless interoperability between pTools, SharePoint and other Microsoft server and desk-top applications. pTools content element architecture allows presentation of content across multiple delivery channels from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules demanded of enterprise level initiatives.
Content compliance within pTools uses sophisticated audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. pTools deploys to Microsoft SQL database and enables content management professionals to use the pTools application programming interface and development tools to deliver solutions for Intranets, Extranets and Internet applications.
Key features include: advanced workflow and content compliance; rapid deployment and in-built Web 2.0 features; Microsoft SharePoint integration; clean code accessibility standard; pTools ‘content element model'; content security marking; SEO optimisation; and multi-site content syndication.

pTools Launches Embedded WCM for Microsoft SharePoint

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<a href="http://www.knowledgetree.com">KnowledgeTree</a>, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider focusing on affordable document management software that is easily installed and used by business professionals, today announced the launch of a green IT promotion benefiting Food &amp; Trees for Africa to promote environmental sustainability.
As part of this initiative, for every new sale over $4,500, KnowledgeTree will plant a tree in Africa on the customer’s behalf.
Established in 1990, Food &amp; Trees for Africa (FTFA) embraces best practices in sustainable environmental activities that empower poor communities while also playing an important role in reducing the carbon emissions that are threatening the planet.
FTFA brings trees to impoverished areas through its National Tree Distribution Program, which relies on help from corporate sponsors like KnowledgeTree.
“Although KnowledgeTree helps customers reduce paper waste through electronic document management, we want to do more,” said Daniel Chalef, CEO, KnowledgeTree. “By supporting FTFA and donating trees to disadvantaged communities, KnowledgeTree is furthering its commitment to help offset carbon emissions and build a greener, more sustainable planet.”
KnowledgeTree solutions help organizations manage the document lifecycle, promote collaboration, ensure compliance and reduce paper with electronic document storage and retrieval. KnowledgeTree’s commercial offerings are available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution or an on-premise product.
KnowledgeTree provides an easy-to-use, secure platform that enables access to documents anytime, anywhere – reducing both paper dependency and carbon footprint. Each planted tree will be documented with a certificate issued to customers outlining the details of their contribution.
To date, over 3.5 million trees have been distributed through the National Tree Distribution Program to schools, clinics, retirement homes, hospices, police stations and parks. “Sustainable development is about people, participation and common purpose,” said Jeunesse Park, Founder of Food &amp; Trees for Africa.
“FTFA is pleased KnowledgeTree is demonstrating a commitment to environmental sustainability and social welfare by participating in the program.”

KnowledgeTree Launches Green IT Promotion to Benefit Food & Trees for Africa

The situation with Drupal themes has increasingly caused me frustration, it's pretty well known that in comparison to the majority of other content management systems, Drupal is really hurting in the theming category.
Sure there's the occassional OK looking theme but there aren't very many that may a person say “Wow, I really want to run Drupal and use that theme!”
So what is it that is creating this situation? Is it because it's difficult to theme Drupal or is it easy and people just aren't inspired enough?
Why do themes for Joomla! and WordPress and other platforms look so good in comparison yet, even though the community sizes are fairly similar, Drupal themes tend to be quite archaic or ugly (most, not all).
Yes, I know there are some that are decent looking but they are few and far between.
Perhaps it's due to the fact that Drupal tends to draw more of a coder crowd and less of a designer audience, so what can they do to turn this around?
What are your thoughts on the situation?
I don't want to turn this post into a “This theme is great, check out this link” but more of a discussion about what can be done to improve the selection because, whether you agree with me or not, it's lacking.

Drupal Themes - Why are there no attractive ones that are free?

As some of  you may or may not know, we recently switched from the acclaimed WordPress to a lesser known blog software called <a href="http://s9y.org">Serendipity</a> to run this site. There are many options when it comes to blog software and it bears the questions, which reigns supreme?
Sure, WordPress seems to hold the crown but for all intents and purposes we found it became bloated quickly with the number of plugins we had to install for the functionality we needed. We also found that the plugins were updating so frequently that we spent half our time running updates and less time writing posts. What are your thoughts?
What blog software do you prefer and why?
There are tons of them available. Everything from MovableType to ExpressionEngine (not technically blog software we know, but used frequently for one) is used for blogging. Not to mention the myriad of online services such as Blogger and TypePad.
We found Serendipity to be a nice blend between functionality and usability for our purposes and intend to use it on all of our sites, but as the saying goes, to each his own.
Please share with us your thoughts and choices on which is your preferred package, and why.

What blog software reigns supreme?

After nine long months of development, ocProducts is very pleased to announce the release of ocPortal 4.2: combining countless usability improvements and new features (inc. a shopping cart).
v4.2 is a big step forward for this open-source CMS, because of the many improvements that have been made, including:
<ul>
<li>Online store/shopping cart</li>
<li>Export/import via XML files for site backups and transfers</li>
<li>True multi-lingual sites (translatable content)</li>
<li>Flash and Java-based uploaders</li>
<li>Cutting-edge semantics (“Web 3.0”)</li>
<li>Search-engine-friendly URLs (keywords in URLs)</li>
<li>An intelligent summary generator</li>
<li>Google site map generation</li>
<li>New social networking features</li>
<li>Reviews for content</li>
<li>New support-desk/enterprise features</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>
More information and download links are available on their <a href="http://ocportal.com/forum/topicview/misc/staff_chat__news/announcing_ocportal_42.htm">website</a>.

ocPortal 4.2 release includes cutting edge semantics

TYPOlight version 2.7.4 is available. The maintenance release fixes a few issues with the calendar extension, undoes the change to the breadcrumb menu and adds a safer and more reliable way to determine the HTTP host.
Upgrading is recommended. A full change log can be found in the <a href="http://www.typolight.org/changelog.html">usual places</a>.
Source: <a href="http://www.typolight.org">Typolight Website</a>

New version of Typolight Open source CMS available

Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, announced today the launch of a new marketplace for add-ons for its Sitefinity ASP.NET content management system (CMS).
The marketplace will allow the rapidly growing Sitefinity community to share and sell controls, modules, themes and templates for Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS.   In addition, the marketplace will offer a number of free tools and resources contributed by Sitefinity MVPs and community members that are available for immediate download including ‘Site Map’ control, ‘Tab Links,’ ‘What’s New’ control and many others.
Telerik also announced a community wide call for submissions to the marketplace. Developers submitting an add-on by the end of October will be eligible to win prizes including a free Sitefinity license. Submissions can be made at: <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/marketplace/submit-module.aspx">http://www.sitefinity.com/marketplace/submit-module.aspx</a>
“We are really excited that Telerik is providing this opportunity for its partners and community in general,” said Steve Miller, CEO of Mallsoft, a web design and development firm located in San Diego, California. “We have a number of add-ons developed especially for Sitefinity CMS that we hope will generate some interest. We are also looking forward to being able to explore the work of other developers. With Sitefinity being such an open, robust platform and so easily extendable, we are sure there are some really amazing add-ons out there.”
“We think this will be a great opportunity for members of the Sitefinity community to not only showcase their work but also benefit from the work of others,” said Martin Kirov, Sitefinity Partner Manager. “Sitefinity CMS is well liked by developers for its flexibility and extensibility, so we are confident that the number of items available in the marketplace will grow rapidly.”

Telerik launches Sitefinity CMS marketplace

<a href="http://www.ez.no">eZ Systems</a> is pleased to announce the immediate release of eZ Publish 4.2, the exciting new version of its market-leading Open Source Content Management System.
The new release brings important improvements to the heart of eZ solutions, the eZ Publish engine, as well as major advances and new features for eZ Flow and eZ Find. A new extension, eZSI, makes its debut in the 4.2 package providing full support for the Edge Side Include standard to eZ Publish.
<h3>Usability for editors and end users</h3>
eZ Publish 4.2 includes a new release of eZ Flow, an eZ Publish extension enabling the building and management of rich and vibrant Media portal pages through implementation of a constant content flow to visitors. The new release offers an unprescedented choice of pre-made blocs for eZ Flow.
The options, which include Media Carrousel, Google Map geolocation, Online users, Last Commented content or Search blocs, immediately provide eZ Flow users with a wide range of templates and functionalities for their sites, no development required.
eZ Publish 4.2 offers editors a better integration between eZ Flow and the standard eZ Publish administration interface. Editors are now able to control content flow in eZ Flow portal pages from the administration content management interface. The built-in content rating feature improves Usability by enabling visitors to actively contribute and rate. Improvements to the eZ Toolbar front-end editing ease the management of Web sites, further contributing to the overall Usability of the solution.
<h3>Scalability and Performance for high traffic portals</h3>
eZ Publish 4.2 offers an extremely scalable and highly competitive platform to meet the needs of the most demanding and visited online portals. This is the result of a continuous effort to increase the speed and reliability of eZ Publish. As the Web continues to grow at a tremendous rate, eZ is committed to improving its solutions and pushing the limits of what a CMS can provide. Facilitating easier and faster setup for high traffic web sites will be a continued priority for future eZ releases.
Apart from various general enhancements and optimizations in the eZ Publish kernel and cache systems, eZ Publish 4.2 brings two very innovative new features in this area, the new DFS Cluster system and Edge Side Include (ESI) support. The new NFS Cluster system provides a smooth native deployment of eZ Publish on several servers using a shared file system. This improves performance and reliability, but also simplifies the setup and deployment of the solution, avoiding the very sophisticated and complex system-level settings which were required in previous versions.
Martin Kautz, from Madsack Online, says “The new Cluster Handler has enabled us to better deal with the needs of the online version of our daily newspapers. eZ provided good service in this respect, proving that the solution they offered was the right choice for our business“. Madsack is a German News company that use eZ Publish for 9 daily newspapers. They were an early adopter of the new cluster system.
The eZSI extension integrates ESI calls in eZ Publish pages. ESI is a simple markup language used for dynamic Web page assembly and delivery, making it possible to assemble pages from blocs requiring different refresh rates and update frequencies. The direct result is faster development and increased performance–typically for Digital Media portals and their home pages. The eZSI extension is intended for developers who need to leverage the ESI standard, combining eZ Publish with compatibles delivery technlogy such as Varnish http caching system or Akamai Content Delivery Network.
<h3>Improved integration of new generation Search</h3>
Search has become a cornerstone of Content Management infrastructures. eZ Publish 4.2 simplifies the setup and use of eZ Find with new or existing eZ Publish projects. eZ Find is an enterprise-grade search solution developed by eZ Systems, and based on the award-winning Apache SolR project. Full text search, external data source search, faceted search, automatic content relations, these and other features have made eZ Find a must-have for clients who need to maximise visitors' paths, and optimize their search capabilities.
The 4.2 release offers a number of powerful possibilities for integrating eZ Find with eZ Publish:
Predefined templates for eZ Publish and eZ Flow are now available, implementing faceted search. These interfaces can be used as is, and are also delivered as examples that illustrate faceted search technique. Developers will be able to customise and extend the examples to build faceted searches structured specifically to their project and metadata. Thanks to the new elevate support feature, editors will be able to push “sponsored results” to the top of results provided by eZ Find. The business editors' creativity is the only limitation to the possibilities that this feature provides. Orient traffic to your most impressive content, or even implement a sponsoring model with business partners whose content recieves increased traffic through the elevate support feature. Elevate support is provided in addition to the already existing relevancy tuning solutions.
Finally, eZ Find includes a new level of granularity in the indexing and search processes, providing improved search relevancy, and enabling efficient search on localised and translated content.
<h3>Systemwide : Microsoft support, improved ajax framework, CMIS Interoperability and a large set of refinements and enhancements</h3>
In addition to the principle new features introduced above, eZ Publish 4.2 offers significant improvements at the system level. In reaction to the lastest releases of Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, eZ Publish 4.2 has capitalized on the significant progress made by the Microsoft Platform in managing and running PHP based applications. For the first time, the Microsoft platform is a serious alternative to LAMP for PHP applications. Should your organization decide to implement a Microsoft platform, eZ Publish is positioned to provide support for your project.
The much-awaited eZ Core library, which provides for efficient organization and layering of Ajax developments onto eZ Publish, is featured in the 4.2 release. eZ Publish is also unveiling a <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="http://projects.ez.no/nxc_cmis_client" target="_blank">beta version of their CMIS library</a>, thanks to a contribution from the NXC eZ Partner. The CMIS standard aims to define interoperability between content repositories. As the standard has not yet been finalized by the OASIS consortium, a final version of this very promising connector will be delivered in a future release. However, the library does currently have the capability to connect to any software on the market that currently implements the standard.
And finally, at a system level, the 4.2 release includes hundreds of software refinements that improve the overall quality of eZ Publish.
Source: <a href="http://ez.no/company news/new_ez_publish_release_usability_scalability_and_enterprise_search_with_ez_publish_4_2">News Release</a>

Usability, Scalability and Enterprise Search with eZ Publish 4.2

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