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• How Component-Based Authoring Works: Second in a 3-Part Series
In the first article of this 3-part series, Flatiron Solutions CTO Eric Severson introduced component-based authoring and described its significant business benefits over document-based authoring. In this second article, Severson explains how component-based authoring actually works, why DITA is the state-of-the-art XML standard of choice and why a CMS is needed to keep track of all the components.
- Component-based authoring involves breaking up information into smaller, reusable components which can then be flexibly recombined into a variety of output types and delivery channels. (For more on component-based authoring, click here to read Part 1 of this series). By avoiding the need to redund...
• Apture Links the Web with One Click
Apture offers a paradigm shift for Web content publishers, bloggers and news outlets, bringing Web 2.0 to real life.
- For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of Web 2.0.
Forgive the shameless play on Michelle Obama's words that sparked a controversy amongst GOP supporters, but I have to say that what I saw from a company named Apture, which has created a new way of communicating on Web pages, has def...
• Keynote: Flying KITE in the Cloud
Keynote Systems launches a new version of its Keynote Internet Testing Environment to test Web application performance from the desktop and the Internet cloud.
- As application developers move from building applications to run on their organization's own servers to writing applications for the cloud, there is more need for the services of a company like Keynote Systems and a tool like the Keynote Internet Testing Environment, or KITE.
Keynote officials s...
• How and Why to Use Component-Based Authoring: First in a 3-Part Series
Why change the same information in a lot of places if it's possible to make a change once and have it appear in every place it's needed? Flatiron Solutions CTO Eric Severson explains how to do this and why it's a good idea.
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Do you remember what the world was like before word processing? In that dark recess of the stone age, documents were written with typewriters. Administrative assistants still took dictation. If you wanted a simple document or a report to look professional, you took a trip to the local typesetting ...
• One Web: Desktops and Devices Unite!
As Web-enabled devices proliferate, the goal is to deliver one Web experience for users.
- There is but one Web and the issue of a mobile Web versus a desktop Web should be of no consequence.
If Adobe has its way -- given its Open Screen Project announcement of May 1 -- that will be the case. The Open Screen Project is an Adobe-led effort to drive rich Internet experiences across televis...
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• Product marketing joins politics at Democratic convention
Political conventions are about more than just politics-- small and large companies alike are looking for opportunities in Denver to promote their brands and products.
• How do DNC Dems spread the word: Twitter, text, or telephone?
How are the Democratic delegates getting out their party's message while at the DNC? Are they texting like Obama? Social networking on Twitter or Facebook? Or relying on the old standards: phone and e-mail?
• Google uses Democratic convention to pitch products to governments
Google told bureaucrats in Denver for the Democratic convention that its applications can make governments run more efficiently and on a smaller budget.
• FBI arrests blogger accused of leaking Guns N' Roses tracks
Los Angeles-area music blogger has allegedly admitted to streaming tracks of an unreleased Guns N' Roses album on his site.
• YouTube's filters help copyright owners profit from pirated videos
Hollywood has long called for YouTube to help copyright owners scrub the site of unauthorized videos. Now, copyright owners are using the site's copyright filters to help generate ad revenue.
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• IDC: Power is a Server Sales Point
Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.
• Study: Pricey iPhone Still a No Go
Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.
• Yahoo's Panama Panning Out...So Far
A new study says the system designed to ratchet up click-through rates for sponsored ads is working.
• Gartner: Server Growth Up 8.9 Percent in 2006
HP still rules, Sun is making money again and mainframe sales keep on chugging.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Market Continues to Grow
10 GbE makes large strides but the technology still has a few years to go until it leads the Ethernet segment.
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• Password Stealing Worm Catches NASA Napping
Houston, we have a virus.
• Microsoft's IE8 Beta Sports New UI Features
This release emphasizes the user experience, with new UI features, improved security and changes to the address bar and search function.
• FCC Concedes to Testing on Free Internet Plan
Amid pressure from T-Mobile and other carriers, commission agrees to conduct interference testing ahead of new spectrum auction.
• Mozilla's Ubquity Mashup: For The Masses?
It wants to help you paste actual content instead of links into an e-mail or Web page.
• Technical Analysis: Stocks Wind Up
The Dow and S&P are getting wound up for a big break. Which way will it be?
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• Google stretching underwater comms cable?
To Guam and beyond
It looks like Google is prepping another underwater comms cable.…
• US utilities plot remote switch off
I'm sorry Dave, I can't turn that kettle on
HomePlug, the networking standard for sending data over mains wires, is to implement ZigBee's Smart Energy protocol, allowing utilities to reach out and the thermostat turn down, or up, when power is short.…
• Mobile broadband: What's it for?
Don't ask the operators
In the next few weeks (hint: CTIA is in three weeks) I'm expecting mobile operators to be offered a new tool, which will allow them to work out what on earth their mobile broadband customers are doing.…
• BBC iPlayer upgrade prompts new ISP complaints
High definition network freezes out the little guy
The BBC is facing more criticism that the way it delivers iPlayer traffic will make it harder for smaller ISPs to survive.…
• FCC pelts Comcast with rotten veg
Order, order
Having put the company in the stocks two weeks ago, the FCC heaped a load of rotten vegetables over US cable giant Comcast yesterday.…
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• Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox 3 – Win an iPod
A new version of the Netcraft Toolbar is now available for the Firefox 3 web browser.
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• July 2008 Web Server Survey
In the July 2008 survey we received responses from
175,480,931 sites. The web has grown by 3.14 million sites over the past month, with Apache web servers increasing by 2.2 million and Microsoft IIS by 1.4 million.
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Aplus.Net is the Most Reliable Hosting Company Site in June 2008, following its second place ranking last month.
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• Facebook Outage Affects Multiple Countries
The social networking site Facebook suffered a period of short outages yesterday.
A spokesman told the BBC that the outage was not thought to have affected every country, but Netcraft found the site to be unavailable from all of its performance collectors, located in London, Pennsylvania, San Jose, Phoenix, New York, Virginia and Italy.
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