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Webnodes has announced CMS’s to have dynamic support for Schema.org. The new feature has an intuitive vocabulary mapping user interface as well as a code API and Asp.Net controls to streamline the work for site developers. The Webnodes CMS ontology management user interface provides a separation between data, data model and presentation layout. Schema.org which is all about making search engines understand the meaning of your content is a natural extension to thesemantic core engine.  http://www.webnodes.com

PostRank has announced on it's blog that it has been aquired by Google. PostRank is a web analytics tool for social engagement data, and used to monitor where and when content generates interactions across the web. PostRank will move to Google's Mountain View headquarters from its current offices in Ontario.http://www.postrank.com/ http://www.google.com/

Google is reportedly testing the waters of "voice-activated search" with select users, and may even integrate the feature into the Google.com search engine once the experiment is complete. The news follows reports that Google's voice-search product has advanced to the point of recognizing Chinese and will even learn from the user's speech patterns. Moreover, Voice search detects your computer's microphone settings and can open up a "Speak Now" widget to detect your words and transcribe them into a search query. Android phone owners are already familiar with Google Voice Search; it is available in the Google Search widget. http://www.google.com

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XSL Working Group and the XML Query Working Group have jointly published a Proposed Recommendation of the "XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0" facility. This extends the XPath and XQuery languages to give support for full-text searches against XML Documents or other data model instances. Comments are welcome through 22 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/, http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/

Layer 7 Technologies, a provider of XML Gateways for SOA and cloud,  announced a portable license for XML Gateways and SOA appliances. The Layer 7 Freedom License allows customers to move SecureSpan or CloudSpan production licenses across hardware, software, VMware, Xen, Redhat KVM, CA 3Tera and Amazon EC2 without incurring any additional cost. Moreover, with the Freedom License, customers can refresh their SOA appliance hardware without incurring the usual forklift upgrade cost, as is the case with other hardware XML Gateway vendors like IBM and Oracle. http://www.layer7tech.com/.

Collecta, the streaming real-time search company, announced that it has secured $4.7 million in additional funding by new investor Dace Ventures, joining with existing investors True Ventures and other individuals. Collecta will use the capital to accelerate in delivering the real-time web, with particular focus on building out the team, expanding content distribution partnerships with publishers looking to increase their reach, and enriching the level of engagement and time spent on their sites. Collecta flows customized data to partners through widgets, APIs, and its Site Search Platform. Data flowing through Collecta can stream real-time content and real-time searches. The company is moving its headquarters to Los Angeles in order to better take advantage of the vibrant media presence in the area -- further emphasizing Collecta's focus on strategic and business partnerships with publishers and online content providers. Collecta's real-time platform is based on the open messaging standard XMPP, and is capable of shooting information instantaneously in a continuously updating stream of results. The platform brings real-time content from a network of more than 15 million content sources -- including Twitter, WordPress, MySpace, Examiner.com, Flickr, The Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, MySpace, and more. http://www.collecta.com/