Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (22-Nov-08)
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
* WordPress 2.7: From Blog Platform to Web CMS. Now on their third beta release, WordPress is promising big things with version 2.7.
* MySpace Tries Something New With Profile 2.0. The two most significant changes included in this optional upgrade are advanced privacy options and the near complete adherence to W3C HTML standards.
* Amazon Launches Cheap CDN for SMB Web Publishers. AmazonÂs CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.
* SharePoint Security Concerns Simply a Lack of Governance? New research shows that companies who are deploying SharePoint are doing so in a manner that might be putting crucial data at risk.
* Bamboo OEMs Its MOSS Project Management Offering. This integrated offering is beneficial for those Microsoft customers who use both SharePoint and MS Project 2007 for managing projects.
Most Popular Articles
And these are the articles you couldnÂt get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Microsoft 7, Google Mobile Apps, Day Software and CMIS.
* Microsoft Windows 7 Aims to Be What Vista Isn’t. Microsoft saw better days before the release of Vista — which many consider a disaster — but Microsoft is quickly trying to make amends with the development of Windows 7.
* Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
* Day Software’s New CQ5 Web CMS Has Arrived. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days.
* De-hyping CMIS. But itÂs been relatively quiet these days and we find that strange considering the importance of a standard like this to the industry.
* Look Out Google! Microsoft Office Web Enters the Cloud. Microsoft made a bold addition with the recent announcement of their new Office Web applications.
* Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More. Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.
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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (22-Nov-08)
It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we pondered the future of YouTube, analyzed mobile messaging trends, looked into a new search innovation from Google, and more. On the product side, we checked in - one year later - with 10 Semantic Apps we are tracking, celebrated the 1 billionth Mozilla addon, reported on a new Open-Source Media Center, and more. We also have highlights from the Enterprise Channel and 
Kids no longer learn about the world by reading text. Like the television generation, they are absorbing the world through their visual sense. But there is a big difference. Television was programmed and inflexible. YouTube is completely micro-chunked and on demand. Kids can search for what they need anytime. This is different, and powerful.
Mobile messaging is experiencing a period of record growth, according to some figures released from VeriSign earlier this week. Looking at the numbers more closely, some interesting trends emerge. Those include the use of messaging for social and political change, marketing, such as that done by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s mobile campaign, and the use of mobile messaging for charitable donations. Other sectors experiencing significant increases are the enterprise and financial institutions. In those two areas alone, mobile messaging has seen a 115% increase in only a year’s time, and much of that is thanks to the financial industry’s adoption of the medium for business to consumer communication.
Google put on a full court media push this week for a major change the company is making to its search experience - a new feature called Google Search Wiki will launch soon. The feature will allow logged-in users to change the order of search results and mark up search results pages with notes. Only their own results will be changed - unless they click a link to view all Search Wiki notes on a search’s page.
Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they’ve stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized. The college will offer forwarding services instead.
We like to report good news, not just because it makes us all feel good, but because when a company is doing something positive during a downturn, it indicates something pretty interesting about that company. That is why 
In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 
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