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Should Newspapers Eliminate User Comments?
User comments seem to be a hot topic as of late. Much of it related to why newspapers should either eliminate or enhance them.
In a recent article on Gawker.com, it was strongly suggested that comments should be rid of altogether, citing that "newspapers have more important things to do than worry about comments" and that blogs are "not equipped to regularly break the news."
They don't think that the comments a published story garners adds anything to the content, nor do they help to engage a discussion among readers. Though they do find value in the blogs hosted by reporters, they argue that the comments posted by users do nothing more than expose the ignorance of readers and had they been submitted as letters to the editor, they would never been published in the first place.
An interesting point of view for a media site dedicated to commenting on the behaviors of others. And a perspective with which Editor & Publisher differs.
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Reach Out and BlogHer!
If you were unable to attend BlogHer's conference in San Francisco last week, never fear. BlogHer, the community for women who blog, have announced that they are taking the show on the road in a spectacle called the Reach Out Tour 2008.
They will be condensing their annual event into six one-day extravaganzas in Boston, DC, Nashville, Greensboro, Atlanta and New Orleans. BlogHer will focus on topics that seem to resonate strongest in each city and look for your local bloggers to lead the discussions. The one-day conference will also feature a broad range of topics and speakers, cocktail parties for networking and socializing, and a little bit of local flavor.
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Web Design: Top 5 Wireframing Tools
The need for wireframes is ever present in our dear business of web design. Being able to effectively diagram a site's information and navigation proves helpful in the beginning concept stages, especially when presenting to people outside the domain of UI, IA and design. But selecting the wireframe tool that's right for you can be challenging.
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eTouch Joins Etelos Marketplace - A New Trend Arising?
There are numerous ways to market your product or service these days. One way that appears to be happening more and more is the application marketplace. Similar to Salesforce.com's AppExchange, these marketplaces allow you to build up a suite of services and manage them all from a single interface.
Etelos Marketplace is an example of this type of marketplace and eTouch's SamePage enterprise wiki is one the latest services to be available in their marketplace.
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UX Week 2008 is Subject to Change
We recently told you about the upcoming goings on at UX Week 2008 in San Francisco in August. But there's more to UX Week 2008 than just the user experience. The Subject to Change book fiesta, for example.
On Wednesday, August 13 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM (PST), the authors of Subject to Change (O'Reilly Media) offer registrants an opportunity to learn more about this innovative book, as well as to "dig deeper into the emerging field of experience strategy and design and meet some of the best in the industry".
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Forrester: Beware of MOSS Madness?
So MOSS has been attacked for its web content management, lack of social networking features, its blogging and wiki functionality, its use for an internet...hmmm not much else they can go after is there?
Oh yeah...be careful using it as an application development platform -- it could wreak havoc in your organization.
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Introducing Expert System: Semantic Web Search and Services
Expert System is an Italian company that is beginning to lay down a footprint in the 'States. The company has released two semantic Web products in the U.S., COGITO Monitor and COGITO Focus, so we thought we'd spread the word.
COGITO Monitor is a semantic-based analyzer of consumer opinions and sentiment from online forums and blogs. It crawls the Web , measuring and graphing 'customers feedback about your companies products and services from millions of web pages and blogs'. And then reports back and tells you exactly what people are saying about your service. Semantic technology is pretty much essential for this kind of reporting, as it can get into the forum-esque nooks and crannies which Google-type crawlers cannot.
COGITO Focus meanwhile is a semantic indexing, search and analysis tool that manages strategic internal (intranet etc.) and external information.
'More than 80% of the information useful for business is trapped in texts of various types (e.g. web sites, blogs, news feeds, emails, databases, etc.) ', and they're spread throughout both internal and external repositories. Focus aims to grab all that material and get it to the decision makers in an effective, automated manner.
Gil Jenkins, who looks after Expert System's PR, also pointed us to a cool content categorization utility that the company builds, but we're not sure if it's on the market just yet (in the U.S. at least). Content Categorizer automatically classifies documents and is provided with linguistic intelligence ... take a closer look for yourself.
Visit the Expert System homepage for more.
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Fatwire Bucks Recession Trend With Stellar Earnings
Recession, what recession? Fatwire Software has announced record-breaking financial results for the first half of 2008, mostly on the back of increased sales for its licensed products.
As we reported last month, Fatwire scored a tremendous coup in securing the Military.com contract, and other strong sales growth saw licensing revenue jump 75% from the first half of 2007, with total revenue up 66%.
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Fatwire Bucks Recession Trend With Stellar Earnings
Recession, what recession? Fatwire Software has announced record-breaking financial results for the first half of 2008, mostly on the back of increased sales for its licensed products.
As we reported last month, Fatwire scored a tremendous coup in securing the Military.com contract, and other strong sales growth saw licensing revenue jump 75% from the first half of 2007, with total revenue up 66%.
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Introducing The Glam Apps Platform: Monetized Apps, OSS Platform
Glam Media has announced the Glam Apps Platform, a new, open-source application-maker that is cross-platform and can be monetized with embedded advertising.
This extremely cunning model enables the building of apps that can be priced or monetized with advertising from multiple sources. The Platform is designed (presumably) for mashing content from the Glam Network, but as it's open source, this is great news for everyone. In any case, the Glam Network is huge. Still in private Beta, you can apply for an invite to the developers resource at the link below.
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Loopfuse and Acquia Bring Marketing Automation to Drupal
Loopfuse and Acquia have announced the availability of the Loopfuse Integration module for Drupal. The module links Drupal installations to the commercial Loopfuse OneView automated marketing product. The module, funded by Acquia and Loopfuse, was developed to connect the Acquia website to OneView, and has been donated to the Drupal community and is available to download at Drupal.org (link below.)
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EMC Documentum Releases v6.5 Full of Web 2.0
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A "balance between business agility and IT control". That's what EMC is calling the latest release of EMC Documentum v6.5. This latest version is packed with Web 2.0 functionality and a number of other enhancements we told you were coming when we covered the EMC Roadmap for Content Management that came out of the EMC World conference in Vegas.
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Report: The Changing Face of News in a Digital Era
While the death of print news was predicted awhile ago, the reality is that it's suffering a long, slow, painful and tedious spiral into oblivion. However, within that spiral there is a lot of analysis. And it's a lot more than just rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic. It's about insight into the changing face of news in a digital era.
In its State of the News Media 2008: An Annual Report on American Journalism released by the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism, more than 250 newspapers participated in the examination of the changing nature of the resources in American newspaper newsrooms at a critical and pivotal time.
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Oracle Hosts Its Blogs on Movable Type?
Now here's an interesting note that crossed our path today. According to CMS Watch, Oracle is hosting all their blogs including the Oracle ECM Fusion blog on the Movable Type platform.
CMS Watch points out clearly that Oracle sells its own blogging capabilities through several of it's products including Stellent, Oracle and it's latest acquisition BEA AquaLogic. So what exactly is going on?
In their Enterprise Social Software Report 2008, CMS Watch did caution about Oracle's "lack of decent blogging functionality", so maybe this is Oracle's way of acknowledging they have work to do in this area.
It does make you pause and wonder if a company like Oracle with a hugely successful ECM suite really has their stuff together. May be all these acquisitions are causing more problems then they bargained for -- and the Web 2.0 technology is suffering as a result. Or maybe they just like Movable Type better.
Curious to know what you think of this turn of events. Does it make you think twice about Oracle?
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NewsGator and Gigya Partner to Provide Content Syndication
Two well-known social computing companies have joined forces to help you get your content out to the widest audience possible. What does that mean? Increased revenue -- something everyone wants.
The partnership integrates Gigya's distribution and tracking technology with NewsGator's syndication network providing a streamlined content syndication process, a network of over 50 platforms and detailed tracking information.
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IBM: Enterprise Portal Market to Break US$ 1.4 Bil in 2008
Did you know that the Enterprise Portal Market is expected to break over US$ 1.4 billion this year? That's what the experts are saying and IBM intends to continue its leadership role in this market. They have just released the latest version of the IBM WebSphere Portal -- v6.1 -- and it looks packed with some really nice enhancements including some Web 2.0 capabilities every portal needs today.
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Social Networking in the Office - Are We Really Ready?
When we wrote about the Trampoline research on social networking we were a little bit skeptical about the results that were being given. With 88% of respondents saying they were ready to implement social networking in their organization, the number seemed a bit high. And of course we questioned a survey that comes directly from a social networking company.
Recently we had an opportunity to discuss the findings a little more with Rebecca Kemp of Trampoline Systems.
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in.telligent 2008 - Social Computing Conference
Microsoft did it for SharePoint, Clickability did it for their CMPublish platform. Now it's Telligent's turn. Time to plan for a new conference. It's called in.telligent 2008 and it's happening in Dallas, Texas October 20-22, 2008. An opportunity to put your social media learning to use.
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Quick Take Review: SDL Tridion R5 Web Content Management System
What is Tridion? Or is it Trillian, Trideon or Tridian? What can we say, its tough being a Euro web content management vendor in the U.S. market.
After conquering most of Europe, SDL Tridion started its Web CMS quest in the U.S. in 2006 with their flagship CMS product -- Tridion R5 -- an offering that has received accolades from such critics as analyst firm, Gartner. R5 comes with a myriad of standard Web CMS features, like inline editing using SiteEdit and some unique functionality such as the Translation Manager.
This Quick Take Review is an overview of SDL Tridion R5.2 with a detailed summary, full of "meat," at the tail end of this article.
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The Semantic Web is Here? XML, Calais and SearchMonkey
When we talk about the Semantic Web we mean more meta-information hidden in the page code, but derived from the content itself, with the aim of letting Web services and search engines know exactly what's there without having to guess from keywords and tags. XML is one format which can structure content to contain more classification material. RDF is the preferred data model used, which splits content into entities and relationships, and the RDF model most usually utilizes XML to structure content.
Paul Wlodarczyk of JustSystems thinks its closer than we think. He's written a great post about the Semantic Web, focusing particularly on how XML can take ambiguity out of search and enable other semantic advantages. He likens the 'old' Web to one where the wisdom of crowds prevails (more backlinks equals better content), and the RDF-structured Web as one where the 'wisdom of authors' wins; '...who can let the crowds know in no uncertain terms what their content means.' So a post on a New York sports team involved in a trade with a L.A. sports team (using Paul's example) is unambiguously about the Knicks and the Lakers, or whatever.
More importantly, using RDF/XML relationships between those entities can be formally identified. So a player-trade between those two teams can be tagged as such, and this relationship-enabling for Web content enables a whole new world of potential Web usage, not just in search but in content mashups, Web monitoring and intelligence, social marketing, targetted advertising etc.
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