Jahia, the Swiss-based open source web content integration ISV backed by the European Parliament, has picked up Virgin America as a paying customer. The budding California-based airline, which is promising to make in-flight cattle cars humane with mood-lit cabins, custom-designed leather seats, power outlets and in-flight Internet - is using Jahia to power its intranet as well as its onboard Wi-Fi. Jahia kinda competes with proprietary widgetry like Documentum and Vignette but, aside from being way cheaper, functions more as a one-stop shop for document management, web content ma... (more)

Browser as Operating System Microsoft-Style

Google's not the only one spouting the old Netscape line about the browser as platform or trying to evolve it into an operating system that can support an increasingly sophisticated web environment. Microsoft, which has yet to dignify word of Google's proposed Chrome OS with a response, has similar ideas. As part of a long-term project meant to bring web applications into functional and... (more)

Ulitzer vs. Ning - a Quick Review

Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a quick comparison, so I will. The obvious point for me is that the sites have two different objectives for the writers.  For Ning, the writer is trying to be involved in a niche social network from scratch.  For example, I have built my ... (more)

Google Chrome OS On Its Way From Google

Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management at Google, and Linus Upson, a Google Engineering Director, posted details about the long-awaited Google Chrome OS yesterday on the Official Google Blog. Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. "Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from sma... (more)