a blog or something like that
I recently got a snapshot of ocszone.com ’s visitors.
We technically have visitors from all the livable continents of the planet.We don’t have visitors from the Arctic but so what!!! The scientists have better things to do other than visiting ocszone.com 
That’s really amazing.
*that’s only a 500 plot snapshot of Sept. 2007 visitors.
Link exchange between the sites just don’t cut it anymore. “Cross-site information sharing” paradigm is growing into a greedy monster requiring new ways to expose your content. RSS has been holding up really good in that front. Given that you can put together - mash up- a website filled with thousands of articles in a matter minutes; it seems like, RSS over-accomplished its task. So what’s next ?
Today, core Mambo and Joomla! are both lacking good RSS facilities. You can only share your “Front page content” via RSS in Mambo (probably the same for J!). If you are keeping only one content item with some “never-updated-flashy” short content, your RSS feed is technically useless to the rest of the world. You can find a good RSS extension, which would cover that scenario.
What if you want to expose more from your CMS site ?
Answer:
With the addition of the Brilaps REST API, MiaCMS, Mambo, Joomla! will allow for advanced external interaction. Meaning that interaction with the site and its content no longer has to occur directly through normal browsing methods. For the first time you can start to consume Mambo’s internals as external services via the data type of your choosing (i.e.) JSON, XML, or Serialized PHP.
Brilaps REST API, MOStlyREST provides the com_rest as a base library that takes care of the message receipt and packaging back to the caller. Brilaps also released a few other goodies that goes along with the base implementation that the other 3rd party developers can use as samples or extend from those. com_rest_content and com_rest_stats components sit on top of the base component(com_rest) and expose your “top ranked”, “most popular” articles, or articles for certain sections/categories, or your site stats to any application that’s capable of parsing some simple XML.
Why do want to REST enable your Mambo or Joomla! site? One simple answer to that is, larger audience. Larger audience is both audience as in visitors and utilizing applications.
A few examples:
that you can distribute to your visitors to track or search your site at the comfort of a desktop application. I believe, REST enabled MiaCMS, Mambo and Joomla! sites will change the landscape of the content management landscape covered by MiaCMS, Mambo and Joomla!. Indeed, that’s a pretty large landscape. I guess, we just sit back and watch what’s gonna happen next…
For questions and comments about the REST API for MiaCMS, you can visit http://forum.brilaps.com
*Same article is also posted on Chad’s site; http://www.opensourcepenguin.net . If you’d like a take a peek at some other cool stuff, browse on.
Today, Brilaps released version 0.8 of Mia chat -Ajax web based chat- application. Chad Auld states, “This release is stable enough for everyday use and has undergone a great deal of testing on the various popular platforms and browsers. We have been using it to do all our own chatting for months now and we’re loving it. We are nearing a 1.0 release, but have a few new tricks to try before then”. Mia Chat is released under the MIT License. For more information about Mia Chat go here.
Edit: Mia Chat and MiaCMS are entirely different applications. Mia Chat is a a standalone web application. It cannot be installed as an extension on MiaCMS.
MiaCMS was one of the Open Source projects that was presented at Thailand OSS Festival 2008. Love it. !!!
MiaCMS at Thailand OSS Festival (presented by Akarawuth Tamrareang, a.k.a Krit)
You can see the rest of the Flickr set here.
You can download the presentation from http://miacms.org. And see few surprising news too.
moseasymedia, a sort of well known video embedding extension in the Mambo Joomla! community, has a new release. moseasymedia 2.0.x version is released in mid April with a few neat features.
I’ll try give some highlights from the readme.txt that’s in the zip package.
Please read on,
The Mambo Team announces the final release of the Mambo 4.5.x series of releases. This marks the end of an era for one of the web’s most popular Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS). The enormous success of Mambo 4.5.x led to many forks, some successful, some less so. “Mambo 4.5 has been a great CMS, a good framework, and a great school to many of us”, says Ozgur Cem Sen, Core Team Leader of Mambo.
“We have been overwhelmed with the positive feedback we’ve received for the Mambo 4.6.x series, initially released over 16 months ago”, continues Mr. Sen. “We encourage all Mambo users to upgrade to the latest stable release of Mambo 4.6.”
During the last several months, the Mambo Team has been working very hard on the upcoming Mambo 4.7, as well as maintaining and doing minor development on Mambo 4.6.x. The Mambo Team also has been discussing Mambo 5. “It is time to look forward, and focus our efforts towards growth”, says Nicolas Steenhout, Secretary of the Mambo Foundation, Inc.
Project Leader, Chad Auld says that this is both a sad and an exciting time for Mambo. “It is always sad to see software reaching the end of development,” Chad says, “Mambo 4.5 has been with us for many years”. He adds, “Mambo 4.5’s time has passed and Mambo is moving forward to an even better future. With 4.7 getting closer to release and planning under way for Mambo 5.0, we have exciting things coming.”
Team Mambo supports those sentiments and wishes to thank everyone who contributed to Mambo 4.5. This is an exciting step forward for Mambo and one which the Team hopes will be supported by the community.
What’s Changed?
1) Hardened security.
2) Updated mod_templatechooser to improve security.
3) Fixed a small issue with the PDF code.
4) Fixed a PHPMailer issue
5) Fixed login and logout redirection issue.
Mambo 4.5.6 is code named “Sunset”.
You can download Mambo 4.5.6 from the Mambo Code forge here:
http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=304
While there, you may like to click on the link to the forge sponsors site. Every project hosted on the forge is offered free hosting for the project on BuyHTTP and they have some good deals going for Mambo hosting too. Support for our sponsors directly helps the Mambo project.
If you have any reminiscences or thoughts to share about the sunset of the Mambo 4.5 branch you can discuss them here: http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?t=9843
I launched semanticwebfeeds.com in Oct. 2007. The web site is intended to be a feed repository of Semantic Web related websites.
From a technical perspective, a Google Reader style Ajax RSS feed reader is the main attraction of the site.
The site was initially built on top of http://sementicweb.com, after a typo accident.
StarvingEngineers.com made the news. Gotta love the publicity 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22179829/
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=800971
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071210/0337520.html
http://hosting.phpmagazine.net/2007/12/simply_hired_signs_distributio.html
and more….
| Press Release | Source: Simply Hired |
Simply Hired Signs Distribution Deal With Go Daddy to Expand Publisher Network
Monday December 10, 6:00 am ET
#1 Domain Registrar, to Offer Millions of Customers Job-a-matic to Monetize Their Sites
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(MARKET WIRE)–Dec 10, 2007 — Simply Hired, operates the world’s largest search engine for jobs at www.simplyhired.com, while also providing job board technology to thousand of publisher sites. Simply Hired will quickly expand their publisher network through a prominent distribution deal with Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar. Through this partnership, Go Daddy is now able to offer their millions of hosting customers the opportunity to monetize their site while seamlessly integrating valuable content into their hosting platforms.
When Simply Hired approached us about offering their free Job-a-matic product to our hosting customers, it was an easy decision,” said Vice-President of Technology Michael Chadwick. “Go Daddy provides a one-stop shop for individuals and businesses to easily establish an online presence. Using Go Daddy Hosting Connection, our customers can take their site to the next level by monetizing it and quickly adding relevant job content.”
The Simply Hired Job-a-matic product allows Go Daddy hosting customers to instantly add a free job board to their site and to utilize a suite of tools to easily customize and monetize their site while providing users with a seamless experience. Another feature of the Job-a-matic product is the quality backfill of relevant jobs coming from the Simply Hired database of more than six million jobs, so the job board will always look full.
“We view Go Daddy as a significant distribution channel for our Job-a-matic product, complementing our existing network of more than 3,000 publishers,” said Simply Hired’s Co-Founder and CEO, Gautam Godhwani. “By coupling our easy-to-use technology and extensive job database with Go Daddy’s flagship brand and massive customer base we are set up to enjoy a very successful and long term relationship and we are pleased to see the positive feedback we are already receiving from Go Daddy customers.”
“We recently published a technical site for engineers and incorporated Job-a-matic into the content of our site after coming across it on GoDaddy.com. The Simply Hired job board technology makes our site look very neat, elegant and most importantly simple and it will provide more value within the context of our site,” explained Ozgur Cem Sen, www.starvingengineers.com.
Contact:
For more information, please visit:
http://www.simplyhired.com
or http://www.jobamatic.com
http://www.GoDaddy.com/WebHosting
Media inquiries, contact:
Julie Craft
510-295-3935
OCS Software Solutions launches http://StarvingEngineers.com as a job market place for many engineering disciplines.
Throughout 2007, job postings will be $5 for 30 days.
get your job site
at simplyhired.com
MiaCMS Official Site MiaCMS Forum
