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Adriaan Bloem

Adriaan Bloem

Adriaan M. Bloem is an Analyst based in The Netherlands, and he covers web content management, social software, and enterprise search technologies. Before joining The Real Story Group, he was an independent consultant, advising large organizations on both technical and organizational aspects of content management. Although Adriaan started his career studying Law at Leiden University in the early nineties, he was more fascinated by the nascent web, and became a developer, webmaster, coordinator, and project manager for a host of legal knowledge management, e-learning, and web content management projects for ten years before joining The Real Story Group.

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Adriaan's Recent Posts

  • Sitecore 6.3 is more Major than Minor - 30-Aug-2010
  • Vendor Landscapes and Horse Races - 19-Aug-2010
  • What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway? - 18-Aug-2010
  • SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think - 13-Aug-2010
  • CMS Vendor EPiServer Not Going Public - 12-Aug-2010
  • CoreMedia integrates with SAP NetWeaver Portal - 15-Jul-2010
  • Do you need a simple or a complex CMS? - 7-Jul-2010
  • SDL acquires XML editor Xopus - 6-Jul-2010
  • WordPress 3.0 released: Bzzzzz. - 2-Jul-2010
  • Decoding Content Management jargon - 1-Jul-2010
  • Facebook Likes...to take your web content - 10-Jun-2010
  • Exalead acquired by Dassault Systemes - 9-Jun-2010
  • Eyjafjallajokull's Cloud hanging over the Web - 23-Apr-2010
  • The 90-9-1 Rule, Forums, and Social Media - 20-Apr-2010
  • Jive and Drupal: Don't take their word for it - 16-Apr-2010
  • Exalead keeps tabs on Sarkozy - 14-Apr-2010
  • Facebook competing around the globe -- but not always winning - 22-Mar-2010
  • Google, DocVerse, Jive, and vendor-switching in the Cloud - 19-Mar-2010
  • Yammer's microblogging branches out - 2-Mar-2010
  • Good times for HTML - 15-Feb-2010
  • Search fares well in sluggish economy - 8-Feb-2010
  • Alterian drops Immediacy - 4-Feb-2010
  • EPiServer goes public - 27-Jan-2010
  • SDL moving into targeted marketing and e-commerce - 18-Jan-2010
  • SurfRay Ontolica 2010 - 12-Jan-2010
  • Movable Type 5 -- too little, too late? - 11-Jan-2010
  • Searching for Terrorists - 8-Jan-2010
  • Twitter is not just microblogging anymore? - 4-Jan-2010
  • Social software is still software - 17-Dec-2009
  • Keeping Google Appliances past two years - 7-Dec-2009
  • The Difference between SharePoint and Lotus Notes - 3-Dec-2009
  • Tridion, Forms, and Interaction - 1-Dec-2009
  • Coveo Expresso: Free Search, Black, No Sugar - 23-Nov-2009
  • Riding the Google Wave - 28-Oct-2009
  • Google Appliance 6.2 catching up with marketing - 20-Oct-2009
  • JSR Cheat Sheet for content technologists - 6-Oct-2009
  • Lotus Connections now with Microblogging and Wikis - 5-Oct-2009
  • Google Sites with API: Still No SharePoint Killer - 2-Oct-2009
  • Where did all the HTML editors go? - 19-Sep-2009
  • Tagging your web content - 31-Aug-2009
  • Back-end designs and the CMS cycle of disillusionment - 27-Aug-2009
  • Goodbye Morello, Hello Alterian CME - 21-Aug-2009
  • Yet another WordPress release - 13-Aug-2009
  • Bluenog angers Hippo - 13-Jul-2009
  • Open source: it's just a license - 13-Jul-2009
  • A browser is a search engine? - 30-Jun-2009
  • Lucene can read almost anything: Lucid and ISYS team up - 30-Jun-2009
  • GSA6: Google Billions, Revisited - 11-Jun-2009
  • Google Search Appliance v6: don't believe the hype - 2-Jun-2009
  • Google Wave: Tsunami or Wipe Out? - 29-May-2009
  • Wolfram Alpha search engine: just the facts - 25-May-2009
  • Search, query syntax, Google and Starbucks - 20-May-2009
  • Search in New York next week - 6-May-2009
  • Vivisimo - still searching for real social marketing - 21-Apr-2009
  • Oracle proves the value of static web content delivery - 20-Apr-2009
  • Read me that file so I can index it, please - 8-Apr-2009
  • Searching Lucene, Solr, and the gang - 26-Mar-2009
  • Software versions - how strange the change from major to minor - 18-Mar-2009
  • Search vendor SurfRay back in business - 15-Mar-2009
  • Exalead BI aspirations demystified - slightly - 13-Mar-2009
  • Omniture SiteSearch has Atomz core - 10-Mar-2009
  • Dutch government consolidating websites on Hippo CMS 7 - 10-Mar-2009
  • Microsoft discloses plans for FAST ESP - 10-Feb-2009
  • Search vendor SurfRay in liquidation - 10-Feb-2009
  • John Lervik resigns from Microsoft-FAST - 23-Jan-2009
  • More trouble for search vendor Surfray - 19-Jan-2009
  • A Hippo in Drag - 19-Jan-2009
  • Google is an end - Translate knows how to bake - 19-Jan-2009
  • SharePoint - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No... - 2-Dec-2008
  • e-Discovery: selling umbrellas when it's raining? - 1-Dec-2008
  • Google breaking out of the box - 10-Nov-2008
  • More Fast Upheaval - 16-Oct-2008
  • Tridion developer skill set - 13-Sep-2008
  • Meet us in Utrecht next week - 12-Sep-2008
  • Scared of Spiders? - 3-Sep-2008
  • The Emperor's New Box - 18-Aug-2008
  • Cuil could be cool - 1-Aug-2008
  • Stop the Presses: the Word is out - 30-Jul-2008
  • How Fast is Attivio? - 5-Jul-2008
  • Blog migration: your castle is your domain - 11-Jun-2008
  • FAST clarification - 3-Jun-2008
  • FAST and the Furious - 30-May-2008
  • Enterprise search: free as in free beer? - 16-May-2008
  • A tale of two search technology selections - 18-Mar-2008
  • The game of musical chairs continues in enterprise search - 17-Mar-2008
  • To boldly go where they have gone before - 7-Mar-2008
  • Google Search Appliance: small step in technology, giant leap in marketing - 17-Jan-2008
  • That was FAST: Microsoft to acquire Norwegian search vendor - 8-Jan-2008
  • All universities are equal... - 30-Nov-2007
  • Coming second in a one-horse race - 18-Nov-2007
  • Microsoft's Free Lunch - 7-Nov-2007
  • Mondosoft: going once, going twice... - 26-Oct-2007
  • Mondosoft's ride coming to an end? - 15-Oct-2007
  • Search the X-Files: unknown entities - 21-Sep-2007
  • Autonomy: Find the Search - 12-Sep-2007
  • FAST Weathering it out in the Fjords - 17-Aug-2007
  • FAST, Microsoft and the meaning of working together - 20-Jul-2007
  • Google introduces Custom Search Business Edition - 18-Jul-2007
  • FAST buys RetrievalWare from Convera - 6-Apr-2007

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