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Highlights of the Week

• Oracle Unveils WebCenter Suite, a Social Computing Business Solution. Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g is described by the company as a modern enterprise portal platform, and aims to bring together people in organizations with the business processes and information they require.
• Alfresco Lays Groundwork for DoD 5015.2 Certification with Alfresco Community 3.2. Alfresco has been talking about their ability to support to the complete CMIS specification in the next version of their ECM for a little while now, but that’s not all that has arrived with Alfresco 3.2.
• How to KISS When Your Web Copy Isn’t Short and Simple. Most of us are aware of the golden rule for plain writing on the Web: Keep It Short and Simple (KISS). But there’s no getting around it—at some point you are likely to have a long piece of complex material that you have to put up on your website.
• Meet Yahoo! Search Pad, Your New Note Taker. Tired of using archaic Notepad? Google Squared too complicated or time consuming? Try Yahoo! Search Pad.
• Latest Eclipse Release Makes Open Source CMS Life Easier. Every year in the last week of June, the overall Eclipse IDE community coordinates itself for a mass release. This year, the annual release is dubbed Eclipse Galileo.
• CMS Made Simple Goes Through a Major Rework in 1.6. Only one week behind schedule, but with a slew of changes, CMS Made Simple v1.6 has recently seen the light of day.

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And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? SDL

Well, well, there went another week and I will say that aside from the ongoing “WCM gen 1.0 is dead” shuffle, things have been feeling a little sleepy in content management land.

As for our part, the warm summer air has settled about us and soon we’ll shuffle out the door. But just prior to this we’ve got a big thanks for our current sponsors. It’s you who have kept the content management gears in our heads turning and the life giving air conditioners merrily purring. We are thankful.

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Like we mentioned earlier today, Six Apart (news, site) is dipping its feet into the Alpha and Beta testing pool. The most recent example is Movable Type 4.3 Beta 1, which was released just this week. But why stop there? Six Apart is already talking publicly about the 5.0 release as well. The requirements process and early development work on MT5 has already begun, and there is a reported particular focus on better content management and ease of use.

As for these low-level iterations, we think they are good for two things: alarming the general MT fan base with the different kinds of bugs that slip through the cracks and, ultimately, fixing them. For example, we saw a particularly nasty issue involving article filtering in 4.25 and 4.26, but the Movable Type team was quick to resolve it thanks to the QA process and v4.261 was released shortly afterward.

With that example set, Six Apart urges all you users out there to get involved as their gear up towards their first Movable Type Pro 5.0 Beta release. Says Matt Jacobs, product manager for Movable Type, “The best way is to use MT forums, send us feedback directly, or get active on our ProNet email list and tell us what you’d like to see.”

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Six Apart Looks Ahead with Movable Type Previews

TenDigits Software, provider of mobility solutions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, recently had a lot to say. In addition to the announcement of a cool new mobile alerts capability called Smart Actionable Alerts, the company also released version 4.5 of their flagship product, MobileAccess.

Smart Actionable Alerts is a different approach to automating notifications and facilitating productive responses, while MobileAccess 4.5 includes new features like the ability to upload images, GPS coordinates, or any file from your BlackBerry to Dynamics CRM.

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TenDigits Takes Action, Releases MobileAccess 4.5