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

matt-garrepy

After 2+ years of research into content management systems and how they function with search engine optimization, Pixelsilk has launched their CMS platform that both addresses and complements these requirements.
<a href="http://pixelsilk.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pixelsilk</a> is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) provider and is confident that their new system is “not only SEO-friendly, but truly meets the standard of SEO Best Practices.”
From the announcement:
 
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Pixelsilk is a scalable, Web-based CMS that provides SEO, marketing and Web development teams with the features they need to maximize their online initiatives and gain a competitive edge in their organic search engine rankings. Cutting-edge tools that allow full control of the HTML code, the ability to interact with business and social media applications, open framework structure, real-time SEO feedback and true theme and navigation flexibility are among some of the features that set Pixelsilk apart from any other production-level CMS available today.
Pixelsilk is a web-based application. Users simply administer and access their Web sites from any internet connection and popular browser. The Pixelsilk CMS is a proprietary system designed for mid-sized businesses to succeed online. Pixelsilk's client and server APIs allow for the development of custom business objectives that extends the already flexible features of the Pixelsilk system. From social applications like Facebook and Twitter to back-end CRM and sales systems, integrating third party software is made easy through Pixelsilk's extensible framework.
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There's a good video that provides a tour of the new system, which you can <a href="http://www.pixelsilk.com/tour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">watch at Pixelsilk</a>.

Pixelsilk brings SEO to CMS

mike-johnston

The SkyBlueCanvas Development Team has announced the official stable release of version 1.1 of the SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight content management system (CMS).
The new version includes several updates including better performance, improved Search Engine Optimization tools and support for the TinyMCE and FCKeditor WYSIWYG text editors.
“Our goal is to make SkyBlueCanvas the most user-friendly web site tool on the market and the web site software of choice for small business owners”, says Scott Lewis, the project manager and lead developer.
“We spent a lot of time evaluating the Admin interface from the user's perspective and making improvements as necessary. We think this version is the most mature and easy-to-use version of the software to date”.
SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS is an open source, free content management system written in php and built specifically for small web sites. The software runs on the Apache web server and is compatible with PHP versions 4 thru 5. The system requires no configuration or special modules. You simply upload the software to your web server and start creating your content.
The system is licensed under the GNU/GPL v3.0 License. Service packages for business owners including site setup, customization and design are also available from the development team.
Demo: <a href="http://demo.skybluecanvas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://demo.skybluecanvas.com</a>
Download: <a href="http://www.skybluecanvas.com/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.skybluecanvas.com/download</a>

SkyBlueCanvas releases version 1.1

If you are keen on testing or playing with Alphas.. Kajona has a new alpha of what will be 3.2.0. You can check it out, break it and bend it to your will by grabbing your copy from their website.
New features/changes include an image editor which allows you to crop and rotate images right in Kajona, a comfortable multiple file upload with progress bar, rewritten session-management and the module “rating”.
<a href="http://www.kajona.de/changelog_32x.changes...en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.kajona.de/changelog_32x.changes…en.html</a>

Kajona 3.1.9 (3.2.0 Alpha) available

Kentico, a powerful and intuitive ASP .NET based CMS has come out with version 4.0. Version 4.0 adds a new social networking platform with blogs, forums, groups, friends, wiki, media libraries, message boards, one-click AJAX, URL aliasing, taxonomy, content rating and other great features.
This new version offers tons of exciting new features and improvements such as:
Membership improvements: 

<ul>
<li>Improved user interface (alphabetical sorter, advanced user filtering)</li>
<li>Double opt-in registration through an e-mail</li>
<li>Registration approval by administrator</li>
<li>Avatar gallery</li>
<li>Customizable registration form</li>
<li>Display on-line users</li>
<li>Mixed mode authentication – use both forms and Windows authentication on a singe site</li>
<li>Mass e-mail to users</li>
</ul>
Community features: 

<ul>
<li>Community Groups (similar to Facebook)</li>
<li>On-site management of blogs, forums, polls, etc. without accessing the CMS Desk</li>
<li>New Community Starter Site</li>
<li>Friends</li>
<li>Bad words</li>
<li>Badges</li>
<li>User profile – configuration of user information displayed on the web site</li>
<li>Report abuse</li>
<li>Content rating</li>
<li>Time zones</li>
</ul>
Blogs:
<ul>
<li>Categories, tags and tag cloud</li>
<li>New comments module with trackbacks</li>
<li>Ping</li>
<li>On-site editing</li>
</ul>
Message Boards: 

<ul>
<li>with moderation and subscriptions</li>
</ul>
Notification engine: 

<ul>
<li>E-mail or other notification when content is changed or some other event occurs in the system</li>
</ul>
Improved link management:
<ul>
<li>Internal document links without GUIDs (for better SEO)</li>
<li>Unlimited number of custom URLs for the given document</li>
<li>Configurable extensions for the files (e.g. .pdf instead of .aspx)</li>
</ul>
Forums:
<ul>
<li>Attachments for posts</li>
<li>Support for inserting images</li>
<li>Advanced moderation options</li>
<li>Improved search with advanced options</li>
<li>Quoting</li>
<li>Lock or hide forum/topic</li>
<li>Private messaging integration</li>
<li>Mark as answer</li>
<li>On-site administration</li>
</ul>
Media Libaries:
<ul>
<li>Build media libraries with pictures, music and video</li>
</ul>
One-click AJAX Support
<ul>
<li>Web parts can now be configured to use AJAX just by one click</li>
</ul>
URL aliasing 
<ul>
<li>Support for creating unlimited number of URLs for a single document</li>
<li>Customizable extensions of URLs</li>
<li>SEO-friendly document links with history for keeping old links valid</li>
<li>Support for dynamic SEO-friendly URLs with macros</li>
</ul>
Taxonomy 

<ul>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Tags and tag cloud</li>
</ul>
Content rating
<ul>
<li>Allow visitors to rate content</li>
</ul>
Image Editor 

<ul>
<li>New on-line image editor for basic operations (resize, rotate, convert, grayscale)</li>
</ul>
… and others. You can find the complete list in the <a href="http://www.kentico.com/getdoc/e6b7c83a-c06c-4bc1-b818-3e96b7ce9a1f/Version_history.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">version history</a>.

Kentico CMS 4.0 Brings Social Networking Features

<a href="http://silverstripe.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SilverStripe</a> have released their latest RC3 for 2.3.0. This new release candidate incorporates a <a href="http://open.silverstripe.com/wiki/ChangeLog/2.3.0-rc3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">huge number of changes</a>.
Some of the new changes include:
<ul>
<li>ModelAdmin: a mechanism for easily creating administration UIs for any data set that you can dream up.</li>
<li>Out of the box RESTful and SOAP APIs for your site's content and data.</li>
<li>An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.2 to provide much improved content editing.  For example, the editor now has a built-in spell-checker.</li>
<li>Hundreds of automated tests to help keep the product stable as we work on it.</li>
<li>Better security settings for deciding who can view and edit pages on your site.</li>
<li>Improvements to internationalisation of the CMS.</li>
</ul>
We look forward to the stable release.

SilverStripe v2.3.0 release candidate 3 is now available

The latest release candidate of ImpressCMS 1.1.2 is out. This release incorporates the following changes:
Fixed
<ul>
<li> User was logged out if they double-clicked on the Administration Menu link</li>
<li> CAPTCHA was being bypassed on the registration form</li>
<li> Activation key was not in the activation emails being sent to the administrator group</li>
<li> WYSIWYG editor was being used for several text areas where it was inappropriate</li>
</ul>
Improved
<ul>
<li> SMARTY was updated to the latest version – 2.6.22</li>
<li> Password encryption method can only be changed if the site is open and allows you to access the reset password page</li>
<li> Database factory improvement by GiJoe, providing more protection against SQL injections when Protector 3.30+ is installed</li>
</ul>
Added
<ul>
<li> SimplePie RSS generator</li>
</ul>
For a complete list of changes, read the <a href="http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=Change_Log#Impresscms_1.1.2">changelog</a>.

New release candidate for ImpressCMS 1.1.2

Vignette has announced that earnings were down 11.6% from the previous year and reportedly have decreased 30% since 2007.
“Despite a challenging economic environment in 2008, Vignette delivered operating profit and positive cash flow for the full year,” said Mike Aviles, president and CEO of Vignette. “In 2009, Vignette is looking to build on its position as the leading independent provider of content management solutions. We are committed to keeping our balance sheet strong while we continue to enhance our product portfolio to position the company for the long-term.”
This is a trend we expect to continue as ECM vendors struggle to maintain both market share and overall appeal for their customers. Open Source initiatives such as Alfresco and other pay as you go based companies are seeing a growth while flat fee based products are seeing a decline. Will SaaS (Software as a Service) begin to see a rise? It's too early to tell but expect some difficult times ahead for those in the industry.
More details on the Vignette reporting at <a href="http://www.vignette.com/portal/site/us/menuitem.62215d74e262b2ba32189210180141a0/?vgnextoid=be76b12f0b93f110VgnVCM1000005610140aRCRD&amp;vgnext-selected-menuitem=191626ff2f7512e8fb3d8010180141a0&amp;gbl-vcmprguid=be76b12f0b93f110VgnVCM1000005610140aRCRD" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vignette's website</a>.

Vignette reports 30% decrease in revenue since 2007

No we don't want you to fly south, this is for those of you who need to migrate from Postnuke to Zikula.  Zikula CMS 1.1.1 is the first bugfix release for the 1.1 series, and fixes 65 bugs found in 1.1.0.
According to the release notice:
“This will be the only published migration distribution for 1.1.1, so we strongly encourage you to use this release to migrate your PostNuke site. The 1.1 series is now very stable and few bugs have been postponed to 1.1.2. Meanwhile development on 1.2.0 and 2.0.0 continues, for those not aware 1.2.0 will be the first release including gettext and 2.0.0 will bring the latest architectural evolvements as we move towards a leaner codebase with more added features for developers and users alike.”
Read more and <a href="http://community.zikula.org/index.php?module=News&amp;func=display&amp;sid=2971&amp;title=Zikula-111-and-PostNuke-Migration-Distribution-Released" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">download </a>

Zikula 1.1.1 CMS Migration Release

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Pligg, the open source Digg clone has been released in release candidate status for version 1. Pligg is incredibly popular and used on a large number of sites to date.
This new release offers the following new features:
New Features.
<ul>
<li>New Template</li>
<li>New Admin Panel</li>
<li>More Spam Prevention Tools</li>
<li>Advanced Search</li>
<li>Category Authors</li>
<li>Admin Help Documents</li>
<li>Story Comment RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Fully Anonymous Mode Module</li>
<li>Votes by IP</li>
</ul>
One of the major issues that was plaguing Pligg based sites was the amount of spam they had to deal with. This new version claims to have address these issues somewhat:
“The first feature is a simple user email activation system. When users sign up to your site you can now require that they verify their email address. This is a rather basic form of spam control, but it does work to stop some spam. Most forum CMS software use this method in combination of CAPTCHA as their primary spam defense. Now Pligg does too.  If a user has an issue activating his account it’s a simple one-click activation from the admin panel to validate their account for them.
The second spam-stopping feature is the Submit Antispam Addon (http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-modules/13972-submit-antispam-addon-v-0-1-a.html) by AnAlienHolakres3. Alien has designed what is probably the most advanced Pligg module ever to be made, and it is a very interesting method for dealing with spam and users who don’t publish quality stories. The module works by limiting the number of submissions an author can add to a site within a given time frame. The more votes the story author receives in a time frame, the more stories he will be allowed to submit. This is probably one of the harsher methods for dealing with spam, but it doubles as a method for promoting only quality stories to your website.”
You can download or read more at <a href="http://www.pligg.com/blog/316/what-to-expect-from-pligg-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pligg's website</a>.

Pligg 1.0.0 RC1 Release

The team over at Umbraco have released version 4 of their content management system.  If you fancy trying out a .NET system, then check it out. We're going to be reviewing it within the coming days.
From their site:
“The ultra solid release of Umbraco is raising the bar in the Web CMS industry. The stability, the clean and user friendly UI, the beautiful and simple Canvas editing, the inclusion of community work, the integration to the .NET framework and the absolutely control over markup is second to none.”
Download at <a href="http://www.umbraco.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Umbraco</a>.

Umbraco have released version 4 of their CMS

Geeklog 1.5.2 is another maintenance release for the 1.5.x series. The first release candidate is now <a href="http://www.geeklog.net/filemgmt/index.php?id=934">available for download</a>.
This release fixes issues with the story preview and duplicate story ids, the trackback editor, clickable links in text postings, issues with feed updates, and some other minor problems. We've also thrown in some small improvements, e.g. the image quality when using gdlib to rescale images should now be much better than before. See the <a href="http://www.geeklog.net/docs/changes.html">list of changes</a> and the included changelog for details.
Bugfixes
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug in the story preview where the story content was lost when previewing a story with a duplicate story ID.</li>
<li>The Trackback editor didn't work since the security token was missing from the editor template.</li>
<li>Fixed issues with clickable links in plain text postings.</li>
<li>Fixed various problems with updating feeds, e.g. when changing topic permissions.</li>
</ul>
Fixes in the bundled Plugins
<ul>
<li>Calendar: You couldn't add a new event to your personal calendar.</li>
<li>Links: Changing a link's ID to one that was already in use overwrote the other link.</li>
<li>Polls: Changing a poll's ID created a new poll. Also fixed an SQL error when the poll question contained single quotes.</li>
<li>Static Pages: Saving a static page changed the owner to the user who saved it.</li>
</ul>
Other Changes
<ul>
<li>Improved image quality when using gdlib to rescale uploaded images.</li>
<li>Theme changes are documented in the <a href="http://www.geeklog.net/docs/theme.html#changes">theme documentation</a>, as usual. There are 4 bugfixes (one of which is in the templates for the Polls plugin) that should be applied to all themes for the 1.5.x series.</li>
</ul>

Geeklog 1.5.2 Bugfix and Maintenance Release

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

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

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