Recently, in one of the blog posts, Kashyap @realstorygroup quoted: ” Content may be king but Context will be emperor ” and its truely the case with the changing nature of how we access information. Typically, there are three ways in which a user arraive at a site: Through direct URL Search engine Through reference …
Apr
13
Scarce Skills responsibility: Service Providers or Vendors or both?
Recently there was post from Irina Guseva from Real Story Group around CQ5 WCM development skills are hot — and scarce. This is not the case just with CQ but with an niche product. I have worked in Fatwire during its Open Market and Divine days in India and it was soo tough to get …
Mar
13
Hiding sites from Seach Result
Recently, google released another way to help you personalize the results, by blocking the sites you don’t want to see. This is another angle Google introduced around CEM (Customer Experience Management) giving more control on the hands of end user. Here is an extract from Google’s blog: You’ve probably had the experience where you’ve clicked …
Mar
06
IE6 Countdown: Right time for Browser Standards
Its good to see world is ready to move on from Internet Explorer 6. Here is a snippet from IE6 count down site: 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. This website …
Mar
05
Write Once, use everywhere? Content Vs Code
One of the thumb rule for any CMS system is: Have just one instance of the content and define templates/components/modules/elements to render it differently So, Why the same rule doesn’t apply for code written to define styles, javascript functionality across browsers? Let me take an example from one of my recent project: As per requirements, …
Feb
28
Which CMS is best suited for my requirements?
This is one of the common question across various discussion forums, Groups websites: Which CMS is best suited for my requirements? Along with/without few bulleted points around requirement To me questions like these doesn’t really make sense and I will come to my theory behind it. So how you will react if you see such …
Feb
25
WCM Space: Where are we?
The CMS space, especially WCM or WEM industry, has moved rather rapidly over last few years. With the dotcom boom followed by social media explosion and bogging space expansion, we can see CMS tool in some form or shape being present behind all these changes. That means that CMS tools has undergone rapid changes from …
Feb
21
Content Delivery over Mobile: Mobile Apps Vs Mobile Web?
In the recent times there has been lots of talk around where the mobile delivery is going? Are we heading towards more and more of Mobile Apps or is native browser going to win in the end? There is really some good information and comparison available on following sites: Mobile Web vs. Native Apps. Revisited …
Feb
18
Quality Content
There was a sudden burst of content over internet in last few years where every other person tried to host their website/ blogs and contributed content over internet. This has lead to lot of duplication of content with the quality of content going downstream. Internet 2009 in numbers Internet 2010 in numbers source: http://royal.pingdom.com Internet …
Feb
17
Are we getting more predictable?
In recent times there is a lot of spectulation around personalized and targetted content, whether we talk about Search or websites. There is lots of data gathering which happens when we are on internet and that helps to provide the content you are interested in. And as always Google is pretty good in this area. …
