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Mollom, the comment spam blocking venture by Dries Buytaert (founder of the Drupal Content Management System) has now blocked over 25 million spam attempts since it came to be 10 months ago.
Mollom is also now available for Drupal, WordPress, Radiant and Silverstripe using plugins and is  a very nice project. We've used it in the past and continue to do so now and find it quite capable. According to Dries Buytaerts' blog.. Mollom is now protecting approximately 5000 websites and has an efficiency rating of 99%.
Not bad for something that has only been around for under a year.

Mollom has now blocked over 25 million spam attempts

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During this survey, they identified three key trends that they feel will impact Web Content Management in 2009.
In the survey of 83 U.S. web content management customers, Sitecore found the number of organizations implementing Web 2.0 functionalities increased by over 250 percent.
Enterprises are finding that it is important that they make it easier and quicker for people to share news, have discussions and get information via social networking tools. The ability of Sitecore’s Web CMS to effortlessly add applications such as wikis, forums, blogs and surveys has helped its customers meet their social computing goals. Although Web 2.0 has been a recurring topic in the press, Sitecore’s survey now indicates integration with websites is rapidly growing and expects that it will see continued strong growth in 2009.
Another growing trend is the integration of portals with public websites. The predominant type of portal being integrated with Sitecore’s public websites was Microsoft’s SharePoint, with a 100 percent growth rate in portal to public website integrations noted. While content sharing is a stated goal of many web projects, to see such a high growth rate of actual implementations indicates the trend is now established.
The final key trend was the use of web content management to integrate e-commerce tools into websites. The percent of such integrations increased 39% year to year, with the two most frequent e-commerce solutions used being Microsoft Commerce Server and InSite Commerce.
Ecommerce is becoming increasingly popular as is the need for B2B as opposed to business to customer marketing. In fact, there has been a drastic increase in the profit margins of most ventures that focus on business to business transactions.

Three Key Trends That Will Impact Web Content Management in 2009

We are constantly exposed to content management systems day to day and have a huge number of them (and it's growing too!) in our CMS list.
We have noticed more and more that people are having a hard time deciding how to choose the right CMS for the job.
It's not an easy task for some people, and for that reason we've created this article with the hope that it can free some of you from feeling overwhelmed.
When you first realize you need/want a CMS, there is the fear that the CMS you select will:
<ol>
<li> Suck your time and money into a spinning vortex.</li>
<li>Suck your page rank down the tube due to poor optimization.</li>
<li>Just plain suck.</li>
</ol>
How do you avoid this?
Start by Following these DO and Do NOT tips:
The DO NOT List:
<ol>
<li>Do NOT pick your CMS based on the fact that you found a pretty theme for it. Themes can be created quickly and easily.. and quite frankly, choosing based on this factor alone is bound to give you a headache.</li>
<li>Do NOT just buy something without trying it first. You wouldn't do it with a car (we hope) so don't do it with your content management system either. We can pretty much guarantee that if you approach a vendor and tell them you are curious and interested but want to demo first, they will make it happen or risk losing your business.</li>
<li>Do NOT throw tons of money (cause we all have tons of money right?) at a developer and have them make something custom just for you. It's not worth the investment.. there are plenty of well supported systems out there and it's much better to have others who know the product as support options rather than just one person.</li>
<li>Do NOT assume that because the CMS costs money, it must be better than it's Open Source alternatives. While this MAY be the case in SOME instances.. it is most certainly not always the case. There are a large number of Open Source CMS products on the market that are much better than some of the commercial offerings.. and vice versa.</li>
<li>Do NOT go to the Drupal forums and ask them if WordPress or Drupal is the best.. you will get a biased answer. This is about as intelligent as walking into a Ford dealership and asking them if they think Ford is better than Chevrolet.</li>
</ol>
The DO List:
<ol>
<li>DO take your time and explore your options. There are TONS of resources out there (this is the internet for pete's sake!) that can help you in your search. We think This Site is the best. (like how we slid that in there?).  If you have a hard time finding help, then ask and we'll direct you.</li>
<li>DO try the product first. We don't recommend demos as they are already installed. It's best to download the package, find a cheap host somewhere and try to install it and see what happens. If you get lost somewhere and need help.. hit the forums for the applicable package. You can start your hunt for the perfect product by reviewing this cms list or reading some reviews.</li>
<li>DO ask other webmasters of sites that you like. Some may or may not be willing to tell you what (if any) CMS they are using but it never hurts to ask.  Frequest webmaster forums or un-jaded sites such as ours!</li>
<li>DO remember to fully research the product you are considering.. explore some themes, plugins and see how the community treats questions from new users. This will give you a good feel for the product.</li>
</ol>
So now you know what we think you should do and shouldn't do. Let's cover some additional tips.
<ol>
<li>Make sure that you check to ensure that whichever platform you are evaluating (PHP, .NET, JAVA) your hosting provider, if applicable, supports it.</li>
<li>Check the Showcase pages (if any) for the product you are considering. This is a great help in seeing what the potential of the product is.
Here are a few of the more popular CMS' showcase pages:
<a href="http://silverstripe.org/community-showcase/">Silverstripe Community Showcase</a> <a href="http://drupalsites.net">Drupal Sites Showcase</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/showcase/">WordPress Showcase</a></li>
</ol>
That should give you a fair start. We're sure there are plenty of other items that could be added to this list. By all means, please contribute!

How to choose a CMS that doesn't suck.

Last week, Nicole Denil of <a href="http://www.sitemasher.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sitemasher</a> was kind enough to set aside some time to walk us through a complete demonstration of Sitemasher and its functionality. We were so impressed that we wanted to spread the word about this fine content management system.
For those of you that have never heard of Sitemasher, read<a href="http://www.sitemasher.com/the-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> The Sitemasher Story</a>.
Sitemasher is unique in that it allows you to create an entire website with minimal experience and no requirement to know coding or css. This is huge for those of you that struggle to understand the intricacies and/or simply do not have the time.
Want to add youtube videos? You can literally search and add directly from their interface without ever going to youtube.
Don't just take our word for it though.. you can quite literally demo the entire system on their website and we highly recommend you <a href="http://dashboard.sitemasher.com/register.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">try it</a>.
Not convinced yet? Then watch this video:

Thanks again to Nicole for opening our eyes to the power of Sitemasher. We hope you have a chance to try it out.

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The latest release candidate of the upcoming Umbraco 4 release has been unleashed for public consumption.
According to the <a href="http://umbraco.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Umbraco</a> website:
<blockquote>
The final release candidate of Umbraco 4 is out and <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/umbraco/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=22030" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">available for download at CodePlex</a>.
The focus the past week have been on stability and fixing any serious issues. The last Release Candidate added error when deleting files and macros via the context menu and we’ve made sure that all that is working again.
We’ve also polished the Membership Provider, so that it’s 100% compatible with the umbraco content and members for security trimming. Word is also 100% compatible with Umbraco Content Channels including uploading images and  charts and speaking of Content Channels, it also supports the umbraco tagging control now.
The internal search index have been upgraded to Lucene 2.0 and it’s better at auto correcting any errors and you can  now also activate internal search dialog by pressing SPACE in the search box. Apart from this we’ve made a good bunch of UI polishing and upgraded jQuery to 1.3.1.
</blockquote>
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We’re confident that we’ll have a release of Umbraco 4 on Friday – YAY!
</blockquote>
Be sure to help them test it out if you are a user so they can have their final release ready for the upcoming weekend!

Umbraco Content Management System 4 RC 3

This new venture offers commercial services from the core development team.
This is great news for those who currently run the platform or for those who are interested in starting a social network with this incredibly good software.
Having the expertise of the core development team on your side is a huge advantage for those looking to build or develop a new website in the future. Let's not forget that Elgg is one heck of a powerful system and with these guys backing you, you can't go wrong.
Some of the services they are now offering are:
Custom builds
<ul>
<li>They can build any type of social application branded and equipped exactly as you want it.</li>
</ul>
Plugin &amp; theme development
<ul>
<li>Great option is you need a specific module or a custom brand for your network.</li>
</ul>
Consultancy
<ul>
<li>On all aspects of Elgg.</li>
</ul>
Learn more @ <a href="http://www.elgg.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.elgg.com</a>

Elgg launches new site and offers Commercial Services

This young man is the brains and brawn behind the single most popular blogging platform on the planet: <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WordPress</a>. What's more impressive than accomplishing something this colossall? Well, how about being just <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/twenty-five/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">25 years old</a>!
Let's highlight some of Matt's accomplishments in his 25 years on the planet:
In 2003:
<ul>
<li> He formed WordPress by forking some code from b2/cafelog.</li>
<li>He co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.</li>
</ul>
In 2004:
<ul>
<li>He formed Ping-o-Matic with Dougal Campbell.</li>
<li>Was recruited by CNET to work on WordPress for them. He dropped out of College at this point.</li>
<li>He announced bbPress, a forum software similar to WordPress in simplicity.</li>
</ul>
In 2005:
<ul>
<li>Left Cnet and launched Akismet.</li>
<li>WordPress.com became open to the public.</li>
<li>AutoMattic was announced.</li>
</ul>
In 2006:
<ul>
<li> Raised about 1.1 million for AutoMattic in funding.</li>
<li>The first WordPress conference occurred.</li>
<li>named #16 of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World</li>
<li>Acquired Gravatar.</li>
</ul>
There's a ton more of course, such as WordPress.tv recently being launched and the acquisition of PollDaddy amongst others.
For someone who has just recently hit 25.. not a bad list of accomplishments.
We look forward to many more developments.
*date source: wikipedia

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Liferay, Inc., provider of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading enterprise open source portal, recently announced the availability of Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE). The new commercially licensed version of the award-winning open source product, which is offered by subscription with guaranteed long-term support and maintenance, provides organizations a low risk alternative for adopting and maintaining cutting-edge open source technology.
Liferay Portal EE is made available via Liferay’s Enterprise Subscription and Support, a combined support and maintenance subscription that also provides business-critical service level agreements up to one hour response times, 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. In addition, a longer support period provides stability and ongoing updates to organizations seeking to use a single version of the portal over several years. Each enterprise version will be supported with ongoing bug fixes and security and performance enhancements made for the life of a subscription. Liferay Portal EE’s inaugural release includes over 200 enhancements in the areas of security, performance and persistence.
“Enterprise Edition addresses a previously underserved market segment: enterprises seeking the optimal balance between long-term stability and cutting edge technology,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO, “Liferay Portal EE offers an adoption and maintenance strategy for customers unaccustomed to the open source software model, offering the benefits of cost reduction, innovation and flexibility but at a lower risk and with higher predictability.”
Liferay’s Enterprise Subscription and Support offering is rounded out with a customer service portal, web-based incident tracking, an enterprise knowledge base, and a web-based update repository where organizations have direct access to service packs for their version of Liferay Portal EE. Software indemnification and legal indemnification is also available. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.liferay.com/products/ee">www.liferay.com/products/ee</a>.
The open source distribution of the product, Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE), will continue to be offered freely to the public under the business-friendly MIT license. Those seeking to download and test-drive the very latest features of Liferay Portal can still do so at <a href="http://www.liferay.com/downloads">www.liferay.com/downloads</a>.

Liferay Portal Released in Enterprise Edition

Have you been waiting for an opportunity to transfer your blog from one format to another but have had to hold back because of time constraints or too much content? Well look no further than the new Google Blog Converters Project launched by the brilliant minds of the Google Data Liberation team.
From the website:
<blockquote>
This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger,  LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.
</blockquote>
Interested? You can download now from the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/downloads/list">Google Blog Converters website</a>

Got a blog? Need to move it? Google to the rescue!

Spoonlabs is proud to announce the arrival of 4.1 version of its flagship content management platform to its growing community of webmasters, developers, design studios, entrepreneurs and technology partners.
Vivvo CMS is an intuitive content management system atop a powerful programming framework, empowering numerous industry leading online newspapers, magazines, journals, and TV and radio stations. It benefits from a large client-base with several thousand websites developed in over 20 different languages, including right-to-left languages (RTL).
After almost a year in development, the new version of Vivvo delivers a secure, scalable and robust platform with a specially designed template engine (VTE) that enables rapid development of feature-rich, Search Engine-friendly websites. Vivvo 4.1 incorporates several important performance and scalability improvements as well as significant usability enhancements based on the feedback received from the active community of users. Special emphasis has been placed on Search Engine visibility and as a result the new version of Vivvo significantly increases page views and website traffic due to its built-in Search Engine-friendly layout and logic.
<a href="http://www.vivvo.net">Vivvo</a> v4.1 also introduces a fast caching system, document and asset management, advanced multilingual capabilities and URL management as well as easy access to over 100 downloadable assets such as widgets, plug-ins, templates and other goodies.

Spoonlabs releases Vivvo Content Management System 4.1

Microsoft has released an early version of Oxite, it's Open-source Content Management App geared towards developers who build large blogs or expansive websites.
A simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:
<ul>
<li>To provide a sample of ‘core blog functionality' in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well understood by many developers, but the set of basic functions that a blog needs to implement (trackbacks, rss, comments, etc.) are fairly complex. Hopefully this code helps.</li>
<li>To provide a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.</li>
</ul>
The framework offers many features common in blogs, including pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated comments with the option to moderate comments, RSS feeds for any page and a Web administration panel.
One of the key objectives appears to be the ability to add or create new pages with ease. While it could become a competitor down the road for blog engines such as MovableType and WordPress, that doesn't appear to be the focus at the moment.
More info available at the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/oxite">Microsoft Oxite</a> website.

Microsoft enters the Open-Source Content Management scene with Oxite

Watch for a review of this CMS very soon. For those of you who have never heard of or used Elxis, it's based on Joomla/Mambo and is amazingly search engine friendly and far more secure. Their previous release was very intriguing and this one promises a ton of new changes, we've been anxiously awaiting this one to try it out.
Some of the key features of Elxis are: automated tasks, AJAX technology, multi-lingual interface.
For Security you get: Elxis Defender, FloodBlocker, Logins Recorder, extended access control and administration login page cloak.
Integrated mechanism for creating search engine friendly URLS called SEO PRO making it optimized for search engines, is XHTML/CSS valid and table-less.
AND fully adjustable members list and complete users profiles. You can set the users access to any section of the CMS.
We were pretty pumped to try this out and see if the wait was worth it. You should check it out too and can do so here: <a href="http://elxis.org">Check out Elxis</a>
Elxis 2008.1 (Nemesis) changelog
<ol>
<li>You can set new users to be approved manually before they are able to login for the first time. After an administrator approve a new user registration, a notification e-mail, written in the user's preferable language, is sent to him to notify him that his registration was approved.</li>
<li>Integration of component eBlog. eBlog (Elxis Blog) is a full featured Blog component for Elxis CMS. You can create unlimited user blogs and assign an owner to each one.</li>
<li>Users can post comments on eBlog posts. Commentary support for third party components. On the next release user commentary will be supported for the normal content items too.</li>
<li>Updated TinyMCE to the latest version for better XHTML compatibility.</li>
<li>Updated ADOdb database library to the latest version.</li>
<li>Oracle database support (experimental)</li>
<li>SEO PRO upgrade. A totally new language handling system developed for SEO PRO enabled web sites. The language information is now stored temporary in the url. For each language Elxis generates sub-folder like URLs (except from the default site language). Htaccess file was also updated.</li>
<li>Elxis became PHP 5.x only compatible (recommended PHP 5.2 or greater).</li>
<li>Multi-lingual module titles for standard modules.</li>
<li>Multi-lingual menu items titles for standard menu items.</li>
<li>Option to generate RSS feeds for any content item regardless if it is published on front-page or not.</li>
<li>RTL improvements (thanks to Farhad Sakhaei).</li>
<li>Updated language files.</li>
<li>Updated automatic translation feature.</li>
<li>Updated web site screen shot feature for component Weblinks.</li>
<li>Updated Elxis installer.</li>
<li>Option to change the default username (currently was admin) during Elxis installation.</li>
<li>Some improvements to the default template (okto).</li>
<li>FTP improvements to work with open_basedir restriction enabled.</li>
<li>New error management function. Error messages are now more informational.</li>
<li>Support of XML schemas version 0.3</li>
<li>Updated security images (captcha) feature.</li>
<li>Option to auto-publish submitted content items from front-end based on access manager permissions.</li>
<li>Added database table #__comments</li>
<li>On database table #__banners the column “date” renamed to “dateadded”</li>
<li>Implementation of user uploaded files on their own directory (currently used on eBlog)</li>
<li>Fixed menu link creation in component typed content</li>
<li>Many other small fixes, improvements and additions.</li>
</ol>

The Elxis team releases Elxis CMS 2008.1

Packtpub has announced the Finalists for the 2008 Open Source CMS Awards:
“As usual, judging comes from a panel of experienced and respected figures from the Content Management and Open Source industry. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security.”
“The final judge is made up of votes from customers and visitors to <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/award/cmst" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.PacktPub.com</a>. You have the chance to support your favourite Open Source CMS by submitting a vote when the final five are announced.”
Here are the finalists.
Overall Open Source CMS Award
<ul>
<li>DotNetNuke CMS</li>
<li>Drupal CMS</li>
<li>Joomla! CMS</li>
<li>Plone CMS</li>
<li>TYPOlight CMS</li>
</ul>
Most Promising Open Source CMS
<ul>
<li>CMS Made Simple</li>
<li>Impress CMS</li>
<li>Mia CMS</li>
<li>MemHT CMS</li>
<li>SilverStripe CMS</li>
</ul>
Best PHP Open Source CMS
<ul>
<li>CMS Made Simple</li>
<li>Drupal CMS</li>
<li>eZ Publish CMS</li>
<li>Joomla! CMS</li>
<li>XOOPS CMS</li>
</ul>
Best Other Open Source CMS
<ul>
<li>dotCMS</li>
<li>DotNetNuke CMS</li>
<li>mojoPortal CMS</li>
<li>Plone CMS</li>
<li>Umbraco CMS</li>
</ul>
You can vote here: <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/award/cmst" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Source CMS</a> Awards

2008 Open Source CMS Award Finalists Announced

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