Sight & Sound Software, the developers of BookSmart announced support for XSL within BookSmart 2.0. The combination of BookSmart’s internal XML data storage format, and support for XSL, offers flexibility in generating a variety of formatted data outputs from within BookSmart. For example, personalized booking confirmation email, formatted HTML for web pages, even other XML formats, such as the emerging Open Travel standard, are all as simple as creating an XSL style sheet. The proprietary BookSmart XSL server handles the translation from the internal XML format to the output format specified by the style sheet. XSL support gives complete control and flexibility to the web site designer to specify exactly how data should look on a page. Different style sheets can be applied for different sets of customers on the same web site, providing a fully personalized look and feel. Since XML also provides the basis for many of the emerging wireless standards, the new XSL support will make creating wireless booking applications with BookSmart much easier. www.book-smart.com

Interwoven, Inc. and ScreamingMedia announced a strategic partnership to bring fresh, customized content to portals and corporate intranets. The real-time content from brand-name providers like the New York Times Syndicate, AP, Sports Network and Medical Tribune, will be aggregated, filtered and streamed by ScreamingMedia’s Siteware into the Interwoven TeamSite content management software, where it can be seamlessly incorporated into a corporate intranet, extranet or Internet site. Web innovators are already taking advantage of the synergy provided by this partnership. Site editors can review the ScreamingMedia live news feeds and pull relevant articles. These articles are then routed through Interwoven workflow and published side-by-side with custom articles submitted by the company’s content contributors. Because news article selection is integrated with in-house content creation, the overall publishing process is streamlined and editorial review time is decreased. www.interwoven.com

Interwoven, Inc. and Bluestone Software, Inc. announced a strategic alliance in which the two companies will work together to integrate Interwoven TeamSite and Bluestone Total-e-Business. This alliance will allow Bluestone to offer Interwoven TeamSite’s advanced Web content management capabilities to Bluestone customers building e-business solutions. Bluestone Total-e-Business is designed to meet the diverse needs of e-business, putting business experts from operations, sales, marketing, and finance in control of key business functions, while allowing IT professionals to focus on technical performance and security demands. Through its alliance with Interwoven, Bluestone will add the functionality of TeamSite, providing a content management system to this comprehensive e-business solution. TeamSite features, such as templating and workflow, will allow Total-e-Business customers to be more productive and efficient, while features, such as versioning and rollbacks, will give customers a higher level of management and security. www.bluestone.com, www.interwoven.com

XMLSolutions announced the launch of XEDI.ORG.

XBuilder, which addresses slow web content download, has been upgraded to version 2.5.

Solbright Inc. announced the release of AdSuite, an automated workflow system that provides a comprehensive and efficient infrastructure for managing the sales and production processes of Internet advertising. AdSuite offers publishers a comprehensive solution, combining newly launched AdSales Manager with AdTraffic Manager. The new AdSales Manager system provides Internet publishers with an XML-based sales automation and contract management system designed to increase efficiency and standardize communication. By providing sales managers with a dynamic and flexible workflow application, AdSales Manager helps online publishers to efficiently generate quotes, access critical contractual data, and close advertising deals. AdTraffic Manager streamlines the traffic and production process by simplifying the complex workflows required to handle rich media and online advertising. AdSales Manager provides quick access to relevant account information for the sales and production teams, establishes consistent price/value propositions, provides detailed quotes, tracks and analyzes client-buying habits, and monitors the approval and production status of specific insertion orders. AdTraffic Manager provides web publishers an automated production solution that reduces the time required to process and approve all types of online advertisements. www.solbright.com