‘Platform’ posts

WordPress Thelonious, New Optaros.com

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jun 2010

WordPress 3.0, code-named Thelonious (as in Monk), has been released. That same day, but with somewhat less fanfare, we released a new Optaros.com, running on WordPress 3.0. Here’s the overview video of what’s new in WordPress from the WP Dev blog:

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jun 2009

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring community into contact with content. One of the sites he mentioned was the Business Exchange, a new community (really a set of communities) | View post »

Social Networking on WordPress? Meet BuddyPress

Posted by John Eckman on 18 Jun 2009

Back in July of 2007, Andy Peatling posted on his blog about creating a social network called ChickSpeak on top of WordPressMU, the multi-user version of the popular open source blog platform . It was a compelling possibility – compelling enough that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) hired him to work on it full time. | View post »

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 »

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Apr 2009

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven’t bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn’t surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. Sociable Ads, a | View post »

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | 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 »

Drupal, Acquia, and 2009

Posted by John Eckman on 01 Jan 2009

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent “Predictions for 2009” blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia’s support | View post »

Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Nov 2008

Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” The panel is scheduled for Thursday, December 4th, from 3:30-5:00pm. The panelists will be: Nate Aune of Jazkarta (Plone / Zope / Python) Elie Auvray of Jahia Michael Wechner | View post »

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 »