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Lighthouse Seminars announced a new survey to collect votes on the questions the opening keynote panel at Gilbane San Francisco will be asked. Anyone can vote, whether attending the conference or not. All voters will be entered into a drawing, and one lucky voter will win a free conference pass to either Gilbane San Francisco or a future Gilbane event. The results of the survey, plus the answers to the top 3 questions will be published after the conference. Vote here! Details of the keynote panel can be found at:

Belus Technology released version 1.7 of XStandard, a WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop and browser-based content management systems. The new version of XStandard accelerates the authoring process by incorporating content locking, content markers, subdocument support, a collapsible/expandable editing window, and support for keyboard shortcuts. For developers, new features include more programmatic APIs, support for almost all CSS 2.1 selectors, and for IE 7. Locking portions of content against editing, or exposing areas of content for editing, reduces the risk of publishing inaccurate or unauthorized information. Markers are used to flag elements of content with short, informative text messages. Used in combination with content locking, markers can guide authors to appropriate editing areas quickly and smoothly. A third and significant new feature in XStandard 1.7 is support for subdocuments. This permits authors to snap chunks of reusable content into documents as required. Classic examples of subdocuments include frequently used information such as author bios or company backgrounds that, for consistency, are edited and stored elsewhere in the content management system. XStandard’s support for subdocuments now safely places this type of content at the service of authors throughout the organization. By year-end, XStandard will transition to an entirely new interface that will be fully keyboard-accessible, and compliant with W3C’s Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG). Markup generated by XStandard already complies with W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Within CSS, the selector’s role is to pattern-match and determine which style is applied to elements in a document’s structure or “tree”. By supporting W3C’s latest Working Draft of CSS selectors (CSS level 2 revision 1), XStandard anticipates the spec’s eventual release as a Recommendation, anticipated for later this year. http://xstandard.com

SealedMedia Inc. launched Version 5.0 of its enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) platform. The new release delivers scalability, improved corporate compliance controls, and Web-based administration tools that simplify enterprise deployments. SealedMedia 5.0 features a Standard Administrative Model and a Web-based Management Console. These enhancements, coupled with the overall simplification of the implementation process, are aimed at positioning SealedMedia 5.0 as a mainstream E-DRM solution for everyday enterprise users who need to safeguard digital content within, across and between organizations. SealedMedia 5.0 was designed with corporate compliance in mind. The software’s Standard Administrative Model provides a hierarchical system that manages rules and enforces auditable segregation of duties. For instance, SealedMedia 5.0 can ensure that financial managers can’t access HR records, and vice versa. SealedMedia 5.0 supports enterprise-wide administration of policies. This helps ensure that SealedMedia 5.0 scales in global environments. http://www.sealedmedia.com

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco, taking place April 24-26, 2006 at the Palace Hotel, will offer free attendance to its exhibit hall featuring over 50 content management technology vendors. Attendees will see some of the most innovative and cutting-edge content management solutions available on the market today. To see the full press release with the new products and features to be highlighted see:

CrownPeak announced new media features aimed at helping online marketers create and manage RSS feeds. Through new RSS and Content Syndication capabilities, CrownPeak is offering companies an easy way to automatically create RSS feeds for their Web sites, without the hassle of maintenance or management. Any Web site marketing manager can be enabled to create RSS feeds by simply publishing a piece of content on an RSS feed. Feeds can also be automatically created from any part of their existing Web site content. Visitors can define a search using a keyword or phrase, based on special interests, and subscribe to personalized RSS feeds when new content related to that keyword or phrase appears on the Web site using CrownPeak. On the publishing side of RSS Feeds, companies can use CrownPeak CMS to import and publish any kind of XML, including RSS Feeds. Any RSS feed can be automatically imported into the CMS on any frequency and can then either itself be published as an RSS feed, or as a static piece of content to the customer’s web site. CrownPeak RSS Solutions are available now. Pricing starts at $250/month.

Inxight Software and Clarabridge, provider of text mining software, announced an agreement to integrate and jointly market the Inxight SmartDiscovery suite with the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform. The combined solution allows users to rapidly extract meaning from text, alongside structured data sources. The partnership is meant to provide customers with a comprehensive suite of text processing technologies to transform unstructured content such as contracts, filings, forms, call center notes, medical records, insurance claims, emails, etc., into rich, structured data so it can be efficiently and effectively understood and analyzed within existing or future BI applications. The Inxight SmartDiscovery suite is a solution for text understanding in all major languages. Its set of text analysis tools includes search, categorization, and entity, event and relationship extraction. Automatically identifying concepts, people, organizations, places and other information, SmartDiscovery provides structure to unstructured text, providing that structure as XML-out, for use in routing, categorization, search and BI applications. The Clarabridge Content Mining Platform provides customers with the ability to source, transform, store and analyze unstructured data, and do it in a way that is easy to manage, allowing it to perform like structured data within an existing or future BI deployment. http://www.Clarabridge.com,

Stellent, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL) announced the release of version 7.6 of the Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution, designed to help companies streamline their 404 and 302 processes for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution version 7.6 further simplifies global enterprise compliance with enhancements to the application’s shared component and process libraries, language and localization capabilities, internal audit testing and management assessment processes, and configuration features. The new features in version 7.6 are designed to increase efficiency, speed implementations and improve ease-of-use in organizations striving to meet the complexities of global compliance legislation. The functionality was designed with input on the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance process from Protiviti Inc., an internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, with whom Stellent holds a strategic integration and consulting agreement. http://www.stellent.com

ceTe Software, a company which specializes in components for real-time PDF generation and manipulation, announced the release of DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET and DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET. These versions provide many new features such as linearization (fast web-view), creation of interactive form fields, PDF/X and prepress support, XMP, PDF417 bar codes, JavaScript, ordered and unordered lists, etc. Additionally, many enhancements were made to existing features. The DynamicPDF products enable software developers to provide PDF content dynamically from enterprise applications for presentation, distribution or archiving. These products are available with flexible licensing including royalty-free developer licensing and server-based licensing. DynamicPDF Generator v4.0 for .NET is a class library that can be used by software developers to create PDF documents from their applications programmatically. It offers an object model that is extensible and allows a high degree of customization. With DynamicPDF Generator, PDF documents can be generated straight to a file, byte array, Web Form or System.IO.Stream object. A free Community Edition of this product is available on the company website. DynamicPDF Merger v4.0 for .NET can be used by software developers to programmatically merge, split, stamp, form-fill and personalize PDF documents. The updated version 4.0 includes many new features such as retention of annotations, preservation of bookmarks, addition of interactive form fields to existing PDF documents, and preservation of document-level JavaScript. A free Evaluation version of Merger is available. http://www.cete.com