Gone are the days when you needed to create paper prototypes of a page and test them in front of focus groups or run them through usability testing. Technology has evolved this process. The Google Website Optimizer now helps one

Bitnami provides complete free packages for OSS products like Joomla! and MediaWiki including everything you need to deploy such products on the server, typically Apache, MySQL and PHP and whatever else is required. Bitnami packages include all such necessary components,

The 4th Annual Social Networking Conference started today in beautiful San Francisco and naturally, this blog's Bay Area correspondent was there to take in some panels on my favorite topic -- social networking for the enterprise. The show was also

In an effort to entice consumers to visit its customers' sites and make Flash software more attractive to Web site developers, Adobe has taken steps to make pages with Flash-created images more recognizable to search engines like Google.

Enterprise CMS provider Open Text Corporation has acquired hosted business applications provider eMotion LLC from Corbis Corporation, intending to augment Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group's offerings. This is the second move by the company in the last couple of

At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston this week, Microsoft was the only one announcing new products and services. Korea based Fasoo.com announced a new Digital Rights Management solution for MOSS called the DRM ONE for SharePoint.

We're pleased that CMS Watch now covers ten different technologies, but I suspect that many of you take an interest in only one or two families of tools. If that's you, here's a list of technology-specific RSS feeds that will

Gartner's recent "MarketScope for Web Content Management" has predictably garnered a lot of attention from vendors happy with their position in the ratings chart. I have a mixed reaction.Specifically, I'll take issue with Interwoven's "Strong Positive" rating. I've been following

On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, the next sign along the company's acquisition trail was posted yesterday with the acquisition of media asset management vendor eMotion.eMotion's prior caretaker was Corbis, famous for

I follow several Software as a Service (SaaS) web content management vendors for the The Web CMS Report. This includes SaaS vendors Clickability, CrownPeak, OmniUpdate and Marqui, a small SaaS-based content management and campaign management vendor headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Ektron Inc., the New Hampshire-based Web Content Management powerhouse, and VML, a major digital marketing agency, have announced that they have integrated Ektron's CMS400.NET CMS and Microsoft's Silverlight media web browser plug-in.