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Portland, Ore.-based concrete5 released its version 8 beta for testing and feedback. It's good for site builders who are comfortable reporting and fixing bugs, and who are prepared to build their test sites from scratch. Just remember: Beta releases are never recommended for production websites.
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Amsterdam-based Hippo today released the latest version of its web content management platform — an update a company official called a "completely re-architected platform with all benefits of the cloud.
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WordPress upgraded to version 4.5.3 last month with a security release for all versions of the content management system. But it quickly discovered a number of vulnerabilities.
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Diamond Bar, Calif.-based Liferay is capitalizing on digital transformation with the launch of its Digital Experience Platform (DXP) today. The solution is designed to help companies create and manage experiences that support the end-to-end customer relationship, the open source enterprise CMS provider noted.
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Ever since Google's Accelerated Mobile Page project was launched earlier this year, publishers everywhere have been jumping on the bandwagon to optimize their mobile web content. AMP is an open-source initiative that helps publishers create mobile-optimized content with faster load times and lower data usage than non-AMP pages.
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Ottawa, Ontario-based Shopify is making it easier to use the oh-so-popular WordPress platform for e-commerce.
The company just released a plugin for WordPress, which enables owners of WordPress-powered websites to add a shopping function, along with all the "features and security that comes with Shopify.
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US tech companies are hiring. And they're paying six figures.
The US technology industry added nearly 200,000 net jobs in 2015 and now employs more than 6.7 million people, according to a report published by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).
The report — “Cyberstates 2016: The Definitive State-by-State Analysis of the U.S. Tech Industry” — released this week
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By any measure, WordPress is the most popular content management system on the planet. But that distinction also makes it especially popular with hackers and attackers.
Early this month Menifee, Calif.-based security company Sucuri reported a spike in WordPress infections, with a large number of sites getting injected with
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Amsterdam-based Hippo is combining traditional digital experience management with Content-as-a-Service in version 10.2 of its CMS platform. It includes a new automated Content REST API, which WordPress also included in its last iteration.
REST, or more formally, Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style that has a number of
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A content management system (CMS) — which provides a structured way to store things such as features such as news documents, images, video and other online content — is arguably one of the things a lot of content producers love to hate.
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A consortium of open source CMS vendors are making progress in their efforts to create more ethical web experience management.
Earlier this year, Jahia, together with other vendors, launched initiatives to address the rapid growth of digital experience and the data it generates.
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A little love, please, for Miami-based dotCMS, maker of Java open source content management system (CMS) software. Just yesterday, it was chosen as one of the 20 Most Promising Open Source Software Solution Providers by CIO Review.
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For me, it was the aha moment of the day.
Nine hours of great talk about digital experience, including e-commerce and web content management systems, had passed. It all came together in the final hour hour at last Thursday's Hippo.Connect Boston conference.
Who should own the customer experience,
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In one corner, we have Hippo CTO Arjé Cahn, expouding the merits of open source CMS.
In the other, we have Bryan Soltis, Technical Evangelist at Kentico Software, a Web Content and Customer Experience Management provider, espousing the virtues of proprietary systems.
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