2007 Open Source CMS Award Launched with $20,000 Prize Fund

Following on from the success of the inaugural Open Source Content Management System Award, UK publisher Packt is pleased to announce details of its follow up. With new categories and an increase in prize money, the 2007 Open Source CMS Award will launch on July 16 and is expected to appeal to a broader range of projects. Continue reading

sNews – smallest CMS

sNewssNews is a completely free PHP and MySQL driven tool for publishing and maintaining news articles on a website. Integrating sNews into your existing design is simple, but you could also use sNews on it’s own, as a simple Content Management System. Consisting of only one file, sNews is extremely lightweight, very easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.

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activeCollab

project-overview-thumb.png activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!
Highlights

  • Easy to install and easy to use
  • Web-based. After installation only thing you’ll need to use it is web browser
  • 100% open source, 100% free
  • No limitations on number of projects, clients, team members…
  • Per project permissions

homepage: www.activecollab.com
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Symphony 1.6 – Orchestrate Your Website

symphony.gif Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you’ll need, while keeping out of your way. The Symphony developers have spent an inordinate amount of time making sure that tedious tasks are quick and simple, and that your workflow is intuitive and streamlined.

Symphony has a bucket-load of features, but rather than tell you about them all, it’s better to let you discover them for yourself. Check out the live demo or download the Symphony installer and try it for yourself. Below is an overview of Symphony’s main features. Continue reading

Forecasting Keywords via Microsoft Prototype Application

Although it may come to a shock to some of you, Microsoft has actually put together a cool web application called Keyword Forecast. Using it you can compare up to four keywords and it will spit out some pretty graphs forecasting the impression count vs. time, keyword age distribution, and keyword gender distribution. This is similar to Google Trends but Google’s tool just gave a historical view of keywords and didn’t get into age and gender distributions although it did break it down geographically. Can someone say mashup opportunity here?Very cool for anyone out there like myself who is always looking for new ways to identify not only good keywords but an innovative concept that you’re not sure will still be viable in a few months.

On a whim, I decided to try the tool out with the keywords: ajax, javascript, rails, and php and here’s the output: (as you can see Ajax is expected to sky rocket in the coming months)

Here’s the time vs. impression count graph:

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SnipShot: Ajax editing fights back

Snipshot is an intuitive picture editor produced with Mochikit and Twisted.

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Probably one of the best features I like about this app is that you don’t have to upload or download anything. You can open an image from your computer or you can specify a URL of an image and you’re off and running. Once you’re done editing the image you can save it to your Flickr or WebShots account. Very cool!

Another great feature is that they provide an API so you can use the technology in your own website! The API uses simple form posts and callbacks with the request parameters in JSON format. Nothing language specific there which is great.

Snipshot is one of the best implementations of an Ajax application I’ve seen in quite a while. Great job guys! Continue reading

SilverStripe CMS

The admin piece is built using Prototype, Scriptaculous and the TinyMCE rich text editor. It uses Object Oriented PHP5 and talks to MySQL backend.

There is a nice feel to using the explorer interface to manage files (e.g. hit rearrange and you can drag and drop), and then seeing your site in preview mode. A really nice touch is being able to see your site in draft, and compare it to the published version

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