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The RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of "RDFa API." RDFa enables authors to publish structured information that is both human- and machine-readable. Concepts that have traditionally been difficult for machines to detect, like people, places, events, music, movies, and recipes, are now easily marked up in Web documents. While publishing this data is vital to the growth of Linked Data, using the information to improve the collective utility of the Web for humankind is the true goal. To accomplish this goal, it must be simple for Web developers to extract and utilize structured information from a Web document. This document details such a mechanism; an RDFa Application Programming Interface (RDFa API) that allows simple extraction and usage of structured information from a Web document. http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/

Arcturus Technologies, Inc. has announced the release of Applicare 6. With Applicare 6, you know 'who' is experiencing a slowdown and you can drilldown to 'why.” Traditionally companies have gathered Nth level data on every single transaction and then manually decided what is good and what is not.This not only wastes computing power, and the job of filtering data can be time consuming. Applicare IntelliSense automatically detects the rogue transactions and keeps the overhead on good transactions almost negligible. IntelliSense normally eliminates the need to monitor every single transaction and provides self detection capabilities with low overhead. In cases where you need to trace every transaction Applicare's BTM can handle the job nicely. http://www.arcturustech.com

Qualys Inc., a provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, released BlindElephant, an open source web application fingerprinting engine that identifies application and plugin versions via static files. In conjunction with this release, research that describes results from large-scale tests of the tool and shows that many well-known web applications are running out of date software. There are many common web applications used for many purposes, such as blogging, forums, e-commerce, database management, email and a myriad of others. By their nature, these applications present special security challenges, and as vulnerabilities are increasingly discovered, it is important to have a reliable way to detect which applications and plugins are present at a site, and if they are running outdated versions. BlindElephant utilizes a new approach that relies on hashes of static resource files within the application to infer a version number. BlindElephant was designed for: Minimal human effort to support new versions/apps; Resistance to hardening (banner removal); Accuracy to reduce false positive and false negative rates; Reuses the same code for all supported applications; Speed and scalability for use on a large number of applications; as well as low resource usage. For each application that the tool will support, BlindElephant consumes a number of version directories. All files and directories are processed, and a hash is computed for each file. This hash is stored in a temporary table, along with the path and version of the application it came from. Accuracy of the tool was demonstrated by a large-scale survey on Internet-visible hosts. The results of the survey include information on which currently supported web applications are most commonly used and the distribution of versions. The survey focused on some of the most popular open source applications including: Drupal, Joomla!, Mediawiki, Moodle, MovableType, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, SPIP, and Wordpress. http://blindelephant.sourceforge.net/ http://www.qualys.com/

Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced the first five Kentico Certified Developers. Achieving the Kentico Developer Certification demonstrates a .NET developers experience and technical problem-solving skills, allowing them to be recognized as Kentico CMS experts. The first five Kentico Certified Developers are: Scott Morschhauser from Sedona Technologies; Bryan Soltis from Bit-Wizards Custom Software Solutions; Jeroen Fürst from IBL-Software BV; Richard Pendergast from Not At All Strange; Jonathan Hopper from Alchemy Group Limited. http://www.kentico.com

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group released a second web compatibility test for mobile browsers. Based on the same idea of evaluating support of a number of Web technologies at a glance as in the first Web Compatibility Test published in July 2008, this second version features a number of more recent technologies that promise to make Web browsers more powerful, in particular on mobile devices. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative. http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Omniture, an Adobe company (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced an integration with CrownPeak that combines Omniture Test&Target with CrownPeak’s content management system (CMS) through Omniture Genesis. Designed to allow marketers to manage content for tests and targeted campaigns from an integrated interface, the combination allows for the creation and deployment of content to drive A/B tests, multivariate tests, and content targeting. As a result, marketers could benefit from the speed and control of Test&Target as well as from the content creation and management workflow of CrownPeak. Through the integration, content is built within CrownPeak’s CMS, then deployed and managed by Omniture Test&Target from within the CMS. The integration should provide the following: Continuous testing and targeting that can automatically promote top performing content; rapid implementation of integration and ongoing deployment of tests without requiring IT involvement, putting control in the hands of marketers; API Integration allows one-step live deployment of offers; easy management of any testing scenario via an integrated interface. www.omniture.com www.crownpeak.com/