Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS5.5. Adobe helped spark the desktop publishing revolution in the mid 1980s with its PostScript page description language used in Apple LaserWriter printers.
Today, publishing is vastly different than it was 25 years ago, as consumers are accessing content in more ways than ever, and Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS5 team is hard at work creating the tools that allow developers to work in this new environment. “You kind of have to be under a really big rock to have not noticed the change in devices people are using to access the Internet today,” explains Scott Fegette, Senior Product Manager at Adobe. “It’s not just desktop browsers on two platforms anymore. It’s a variety of devices from tablets to smart phones to connected set-top boxes on HDTVs, including the desktop browsers that we all became used to.
So, this presents a number of issues for developers.” Dreamweaver CS5.5 has added features that help developers deliver content to this wide array of devices. More info: Adobe Dreamweaver web site: Ucubd: mashups for the masses. Web publishers are constantly looking for ways to get their audience to spend more time on their sites and become more engaged.
Mashups are one way to do this, but the technology behind them can seem overwhelming to non-programmers. Ucubd has developed an easy way for even non-technical users to mashup social media with other apps to make sites stickier. “We like to call ourselves mashups for the masses,” explains Marat Galperin, Co-founder of Ucubd. “People hear the word mashups and they think there’s a lot of hard core technology involved, and it’s something that’s outside their realm of what they can achieve. We take all the hard wiring and all the scary tech stuff out of the way and allow you to create compelling mashups with popular social media in a matter of seconds. Making a mashup can be as easy as dropping an embed code from YouTube, Vimeo, Docstoc, etc. into the Ucubd platform. More info: Contently: connecting writers and brands.
A corporation’s online presence today has expanded far beyond the single page brochures of the past.
Now companies regularly churn out content for their web site, blogs, social media sites, etc. They often need writers to help create this content, but that expertise can be difficult to find on staff. Contently is helping solve this problem through its online platform that connects writers with companies who need their services. “Contently is an easy way for businesses to get high quality writing done,” explains Joe Coleman, Co-founder of Contently. “What we’re finding is that brands are increasingly producing more and more content, but publishing isn’t their core competency, so typically brands don’t have people in-house who can write the content.
When you sign up with Contently, the first thing you do is have a conversation with the head of Contently’s editorial division. More info: Switchcam lets you watch concerts in a new way. ScribbleLive: Real-time Content Creation & Publishing. June 14, 2012 | Robert Scoble ScribbleLive meets the needs of media companies and companies that want to embrace real-time content creation and publishing with a robust and flexible platform that delivers timely and relevant content to attract and engage readers and customers.
Driven by the growing demand for real-time news and event coverage, ScribbleLive has established itself as the market leader with a feature-rich platform that powers live blogging, real-time journalism and on-the-fly story telling. “We saw the problems with existing content management systems. They were never going to keep up with the speed of social media,” says Michael De Monte, co-founder & CEO of ScribbleLive. “Our technology is allowing people in the news and media business to have that speed of social media, that connection to social media, and still empower journalists to create content in real time and publish it immediately.” ScribbleLive Website: