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Giving control of a website to a communicator can be like giving a pub to an alcoholic.

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While Vignette is struggling with its financial performance, Interwoven’s Q2 2008 results soar. Interwoven reported total revenues of US$ 63.2 million for the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 16% from the same time period last year. License revenue is up 11% totaling US$ 23.4 million versus Q2 2007. Support and professional services revenue increased 18%. Net profit soared 78% from Q2 2007 to Q2 2008.

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Interwoven Hits Its Biggest Revenue Mark in History

Vignette is not having a good year. The company released its Q2 2008 financial results, and they’re not pretty. The revenue is down (again), GAAP net loss is substantial, non-GAAP net income is 73.5% down compared to the same period last year. The company says that sales and marketing efforts need improvement. But is it really so?

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Vignette’s Year on Year Income Falls 73.5%

MindTouch has released the latest version of its open source collaboration platform, known as Kilen Woods. This new version bridges a number of technologies required for collaboration and collective intelligence including usability improvements, workflow and enterprise integration adapters. It’s a solution that has definitely come a long way from the days when we called it Deki Wiki — and that wasn’t so long ago.

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MindTouch Mashes Enterprise Data Silos, Workflow, Wikis

At OSCON yesterday Dave Recordon, of Movable Type, announced a new nonprofit organization. The Open Web Foundation has been created to support the development and protection of non-proprietary specifications for Web technologies.

According to their website, “the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification.”

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The Open Web Foundation - Community-Driven Specifications