In the past few weeks, two high-profile people have departed established content management vendor empires for upstart players

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge.

We've just released the latest major update to our Web CMS research. (That's Version 17 for those counting.)

"Channel partners" are consulting or integration firms that implement or provide supplementary services to a software vendor's technology

After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order

On the heels of Clickability's announcement yesterday that it has received a second round of VC funding, the other pure-play SaaS vendor we cover in the 2008 Web Content Management Report, CrownPeak, is making some news of its own. Today the company announced a new product...

We all have our computer time-wasters. For some it's games, for others, IM'ing with friends. For me, it's the geo-web

Last week The Malcontents invited me and Tim Denby (formerly of Web CMS vendor Ektron and now an independent consultant) on their podcast to banter about a few of my favorite topics, taxonomies and folksonomies, and the advantages/disadvantages of each.

Clickability's announcement of a pending 2007 user conference (2006 agenda here) reminds us that sometimes customer communities need to meet in person, even if they don't regularly communicate online.

CMS vendor Ektron has launched a publicly-available DevCenter.

Lately, I've been speaking a lot about trade-offs in web content management technology.

Bob Doyle of CMS Review did a superb job filming the CMS Idol competition at last month's Gilbane Conference in Boston.

I recently dinged Ektron for its lack of native deployment capabilities.

Which came first, your CMS or your website? Probably the latter.

Perhaps heeding the old saw that Windows Explorer is everyone's first content management system, vendors are constantly trying to make their tools more Explorer-like.