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Six Apart announced the availability of Movable Type 4.2 and with it the debut of Movable Type Pro (MT Pro), a product that combines Movable Type's advanced blogging tools and content management system with social networking features so any website or blog owner can create a social network by letting their readers and visitors become members of their sites, with profiles and the ability to rate content and follow each other. Movable Type Pro makes building a community possible for anyone, including publishers, individual bloggers, educational institutions, small and medium-sized businesses or large enterprises. Site owners can build community blogs, in which members create their own posts, or forums, in which members participate using the same profile and avatars used throughout the site. The release of Movable Type 4.2 introduces major improvements to the Movable Type platform, including: enhanced performance: common tasks are "up to 100 times faster" than on previous versions; simplified default templates that make it easy to get up and running quickly; and a built-in free open source antispam product, TypePad Antispam. In addition, improved search and threaded commenting are included in the release. Movable Type 4.2 is available under a free, open source license or as part of Movable Type Pro. Six Apart also offers Movable Type Enterprise, which adds support for Oracle and SQL Server databases and LDAP on top of Movable Type Pro features. Movable Type is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish. It is free to bloggers and to K-12 schools, with an option to purchase support for $99. It is available to businesses in 5-author and 20-author licenses, for $395.95 and $1499.95, respectively. Discounts for non-profit institutions are available. The free, open source version of Movable Type can be downloaded from the Movable Type community site at http://www.movabletype.org. http://www.movabletype.com, http://www.sixapart.com/

Silicon Space, LLC announced its SocialSpace Business-to-Business (B-to-B) social networking solution. Optimized for enterprise environments, the SocialSpace solution provides the services and expertise required to bring a social network community to market. SocialSpace combines content management and infrastructure services with Silicon Space's technical platform and expertise in software development. With the SocialSpace platform, Silicon Space partners with enterprises to develop a tailored B-to-B social networking solution based on a detailed analysis of their business model. Based on this analysis, SocialSpace deploys its technical platform, along with the launch marketing, moderation services, and long-term management of the community to ensure member engagement. SocialSpace is a complete solution that offers enterprises a way to deploy a social network for their end-users. The Silicon Space SocialSpace solution will be available Q1 2008, with pricing based on a usage model. http://www.socialspaceinc.com

FatWire Software announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp, a new solution that offers enterprise 2.0 collaboration capabilities including wikis, blogs and social tagging, plus an advanced content integration platform. FatWire also unveiled its strategic roadmap for Web Experience Management, an integrated set of capabilities that enable organizations to deliver a personalized, interactive web experience to users. FatWire TeamUp is a solution for facilitating internal and external, enterprise collaboration and is the result of FatWire's recent acquisition of Infostoria. FatWire TeamUp enables non-technical users with a single click to set up a wiki, blogs, invite participants from within the enterprise or partner organizations to join, and start working together and sharing content of all types. It facilitates user-generated content and community-building among customers and other site visitors. Site owners can enable blogs, wikis, and content tagging on any part of the site. TeamUp also includes Content integration and reuse, and Digital asset management capabilities. FatWire also unveiled a roadmap for rapid integration of FatWire TeamUp with FatWire Content Server, their web content management solution. http://www.fatwire.com

Six Apart announced the commercial release of the Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS), a package of social media features built on top of the Movable Type 4 platform. The Movable Type Community Solution is a complete, out-of-the-box social media solution that enables the deployment of online communities. Site owners can now use Movable Type to power entire websites, including blogs, social communities, member profiles, forums, recommendations and ratings, content management, podcasts and rich media, under a unified management system. MTCS is a solution for media companies that want to power communities, encourage user-generated content, and manage web publishing from a single, scalable application. Advanced reporting and management tools designed for site administrators provide management of content and assets, permissions and user management, and fine-grained controls that allow site managers to develop and maintain a community. Designers can customize every part of the site's experience: templates and design, login and registration forms, email notifications, and user profiles. The Community Solution extends the Movable Type platform with advanced user registration with support for the OpenID authentication standard, member profiles for registered members which list all of a user's contributions to a site as well as customizable fields, ratings and recommendations to let your users promote their favorite content, member blogging, allowing any registered user to submit site content, and integrated commenting and profiles between forums, communities, and blogs. The Movable Type Community Solution is available in English, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish and may be purchased by contacting Six Apart. MTCS comes bundled with one year of support, which includes guaranteed response times, access to an account manager and support personnel, and all updates. http://www.movabletype.com/

Percussion Software introduced its Community Marketing Solution, the latest in its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series. The Community Marketing Solution enables marketers to more easily leverage blogs, RSS feeds, external content feeds and user-generated content as part of their online marketing efforts, while delivering the kind of controls and accountability that marketing management requires. Percussion's Community Marketing Solution allows marketers to embrace the world of blogs, RSS feeds, social sites and user-generated content to achieve marketing goals, including increased customer loyalty, wider brand awareness, more effective lead generation and prospect qualification as well as improved sales lead conversion. The solution enables marketers to manage the balance between how much to embrace the unrestrained characteristics of the new social media, and how much to exert control by selecting, utilizing and processing only the best content and channels for any given initiative. It transforms almost any blog or external content source from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a consistent, multi-channel customer experience, regardless of whether content is company, or customer-generated. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series enables marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives for their customer-centric Web content managed by Percussion’s Rhythmyx WCM platform. http://www.percussion.com

Traction Software announced the latest version of TeamPage, Traction's enterprise blog and wiki software. TeamPage 3.8 can now show the 'latest stable version' of wiki pages without inhibiting the ability to edit collaboratively and reach consensus, making it easier to follow compliance requirements and do blog-style communication in the same space and context as wiki-style page editing. Traction will introduce a forward linking feature set with full referential integrity, name aliasing and cross-wiki project name aliasing, all combined with page name history (in addition to page content history). TeamPage project spaces now support integrated blog and wiki style collaboration using a combined name space, or can enforce a wiki style unique name space in any or all projects. Authors can collaborate on changes over time without disturbing the "latest stable" view of the wiki. Page changes can be published later, when all the pages are ready, or have been reviewed and approved. Authors can see, search and review the combined effect of all drafts for collaboration, or flip back to see and use the latest stable view of all pages. New permissions allow control over who can publish drafts, edit drafts, read drafts and even lock pages. Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 will be available for preview use this month and will ship in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.tractionsoftware.com/

Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTCQX:DYIHY) announced general availability of its new Web 2.0 collaboration solution. Part of Day's Communiqué family of products, Communiqué Advanced Collaboration (CQ AC) offers wiki, blog, and calendar functionality. Providing centralized management for social media and essential metadata information, CQ AC enables connectivity to social computing, social networking and user participation. By providing management through a central repository for all departments in the enterprise, CQ AC extends the value of rich media. The product also leverages Web 2.0 design features, such as an AJAX user interface. Fully integrated with Day's CQ Web Content Management, CQ AC leverages JSR 170. CQ AC Wiki offers easy editing via standard wiki syntax, version history and comparison and email notification for content changes. Material created within the wiki is immediately indexed and available for full-text search. CQ AC Blog provides easy creation of blogs and posts, a rich text editor for content editing and RSS support. CQ AC Calendar allows users to create event schedules, different views for time-based events, including calendar view and display of multiple event hierarchies. http://www.day.com

Xythos Software announced Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) and Digital Locker Suite (DL) 7.0. The new software suites feature enhanced business process automation and interoperability features, as well as support for popular Web 2.0 social networking features such as Wiki's, blogs and content tagging. Xythos' enhanced JSR-170 Level 2 support enables organizations to centralize content and metadata from multiple applications in a common storage repository. Full specification interoperability also allows the Xythos system to become a repository of record which can read and write to and from other enterprise applications such as the enterprise ERP, human resources applications and learning management systems. Xythos has redesigned the Xythos EDMS 7.0 user interface to add a Web 2.0 functionality including Ajax right-click menus and customizable content and metadata views. Additional end-user focused features include: Ajax Based User Interface, Right-click menus, User-defined Layout, Desktop to Web Drag and Drop, Social Networking, Integrated Wiki, RSS integration, Complete historical record, Enhanced Search & Discovery Capabilities, Free-form File Tags, and Upgraded Search and Bookmarks. Xythos EDMS and DL 7.0 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. http://www.xythos.com/

FatWire Software announced that it has acquired Infostoria, a provider of Web 2.0 collaboration and content sharing tools for the enterprise. Infostoria's technology enables single-click wiki creation and blogging, and offers an advanced content integration platform to help organizations manage, find and securely share content stored in disparate repositories. http://fatwire.com, http://www.infostoria.com

Percussion Software introduced its Percussion 2.0 Solution Series which enables marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives for their customer-centric Web content managed by Percussion's Rhythmyx platform. The Solution Series is designed to automate on-line marketing functions, which now extend not only to Web sites and email, but also blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, new mobile apps and social networking. The Percussion 2.0 Solution Series maintains and consistently delivers branding and content across multiple channels. The first two offerings in the new 2.0 Series are the Blog Integration Solution and WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution. The Percussion 2.0 Solutions for Web Analytics and Blogging will be available this month and support Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Integration Solution provides a way to track the behaviors of targeted audiences, measure the effectiveness of campaigns, and learn the channels and sites that Web users prefer. Percussion's WebTrends Analytics Solution provides the ability to understand Web usage data in the context of a Web site’s content and structure. Then it can be linked back to the content management system, so that WCM users can take action by modifying the site using the data to enhance the experience of Web site visitors. The Rhythmyx Blog Integration Solution transforms almost any blog from a separate, isolated channel into a cohesive part of delivering a comprehensive, multi-channel customer experience. http://www.percussion.com