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WordPress Video Framework released

Posted by John Eckman on 14 May 2009

The folks at Automattic rolled out an upgrade this week to the video quality of videos hosted on WordPress.com blogs using their VideoPress service. The upgrade adds support for HD as well as other formats, using automated transcoding (see the announcement for more info): With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left | View post »

DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Mar 2009

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year – the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). I’ll be posting more specific updates on | View post »

BostonPHP: MediaWiki in Production

Posted by John Eckman on 18 Jan 2009

Earlier this week, I was happy to have the chance for Optaros to host a BostonPHP meeting again – we used to do so in the old Canal St. offices but hadn’t done so in a while – certainly not since moving to Milk St. The topic was MediaWiki in production, with presentations by Greg [...]

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel

Posted by John Eckman on 23 Jun 2008

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Specifically, the report claims that “enterprises interested in open source should keep an eye on two offerings — Alfresco Software and Drupal.” (Also check out Matt | View post »

Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Apr 2008

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook’s API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. As I’ve written before (“Open Social is a start but not the whole picture“), however, | View post »

Open source ecommerce – Magento releases 1.0

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 01 Apr 2008

  Magento, a new open source ecommerce platform is a promising new entrant that should be evaluated against OFBiz and osCommerce. The Magento project is lead by Verian Technologies, a consulting firm that worked with osCommerce and then decided they could do better by taking their experience and creating a new ecommerce platform.   Magento | View post »

Creating a new Retail Concept for ecommerce

Posted by Optaros on 28 Mar 2008

A retail concept is a new Website that sells your merchandise in a different way. A/B testing is a proven technique to tune features on your existing ecommerce site, but it is comes up short of a new digital property with its own capabilities and branding. Selling your merchandise in entirely new ways with new | View post »

Open Source Ecommerce – Assembled

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 06 Feb 2008

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. <!–break–> The SOA architecture we implemented (based on Mule ESB) integrates the different services provided by packages such as SugarCRM(CRM, SFA, Partner management), SAGE(finance), SCPA(logistics), ATT(Traceability), osCommerce(order tacking), Ogone(payment) as well as | View post »

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