February 2008 - Posts

• Graffiti 1.0 Now Available!

  Graffiti 1.0 is out the door! You can download it here: http://get.graffiticms.com/ Graffiti is a lightweight, simple content publishing system you can use to quickly and easily publish a blog or an entire web site. It blends together traditional CMS tools like revision history and workflow with more modern blog-style publishing. Graffiti is available as both a free Express Edition as well as several commercial editions. We're also happy to announce the new Graffiti Marketplace where you can download new themes and functionality for your Graffiti site. We've already published several themes that were created for Graffiti 1.0. You can also browse and install new features from the Graffiti Marketplace all within Graffiti itself! Thanks to everyone at Telligent as well as all of our beta testers and customers that have taken the time to try out this new product. Building software is easy. Building easy to use software is hard. We think Graffiti is in the latter category. The team has spent countless hours working to make Graffiti really simple and intuitive.  We really hope you enjoy Graffiti! Frequent Questions: What is required to run Graffiti? Graffiti requires Microsoft .NET 2.0 or later running on Windows or Mono* running on Windows, Linux, Apple, etc. Graffiti uses VistaDB as the default database but also support Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and MySQL. More details here. * additional announcements around Mono support are forthcoming. Full support of Mono should be available in the next release of Mono (1.9?) although Graffiti 1.0 has been tested with Mono v1.2.6. How do Graffiti and Community Server work together? They don't. Graffiti is optimized for individuals and small groups whereas Community Server is optimized for large Enterprise social networking sites. For example, if you are running a single blog Graffiti is better. If you are managing more than 1 blog Community Server is better. Is Graffiti free? Graffiti is available as both a commercially supported product ($399 for 10 user license) as well as a free Express Edition designed for individuals. How does user licensing work? A license is required for each user that wants to publish content within Graffiti. There are no limits to the number of readers! I bought a pre-release license to Graffiti, when do I get my license? We're sending emails to everyone that pre-purchased a Graffiti license. You should receive your email within the next 24 hours. If you don't, please email me: rhoward@telligent.com What is coming in the next release of Graffiti? Stay tuned to graffiticms.com for details :) Posted Feb 18 2008, 01:34 PM by Rob Howard's Blog Filed under: Graffiti

• Graffiti 1.0 launches tomorrow

  Graffiti will officially launch tomorrow morning! We're really excited to get this new content management tool into the market. Today is also the last day to pre-purchase Graffiti 1.0 at the $99 price. Tomorrow Graffiti 1.0 will be $399. Posted Feb 17 2008, 02:10 PM by Rob Howard's Blog

• Community Server 2008, Beta 1

  Come and get it! Beta 1 of Community Server 2008 is now available: Web Installer: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1web Windows Installer: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1msi Upgrade Tool: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1up Below is a brief list of what you’ll find in this Beta: Groups. We’ve added support for private and public groups that support their own membership, blog, forum, gallery, and pages. You can now easily create mini-communities for friends or for your team. Web Services APIs. Community Server 2008 includes a complete Web Services layer for working with Community Server. This makes it even easier to share data from within Community Server with other applications or tools. The Web Services implementation is a RESTful implementation and we also include a client library to include within applications that need to talk to Community Server. Friends. We’ve completely overhauled the friends functionality to make it easier to both manage and add friends. You’ll find the friends behavior much more like FaceBook’s friend functionality. Media Gallery. We’ve merged the Photo/File Galleries into a single Media Gallery application. The Media Gallery includes viewers for rendering images, audio, video making it even easier to share content in your community. Message Streams. New to Community Server is a message stream application that enables multi-user conversations (formerly private messages), social streams (similar to FaceBook), profile comments, and more. Enterprise File Storage. We’ve completely overhauled file storage so all files are in a Centralized File Store (includes both a File System and Amazon S3 provider). Widgets. Community Server now support shareable widgets in all sidebars. Simplified Permissions. We’ve tried to simplify the rich permissions functionality that Community Server has always been known for. All the previous permissions capabilities still exist, but we’ve added some tools to make it even easier to manage and apply permissions. User Experience. We’ve started to introduce some new user experiences in both the Control Panel and other aspects of the site. When Community Server 2008 ships you’ll find a much friendly and beautiful experience for both running and managing your community. Many, many additional new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. As always, we value your feedback! Posted Feb 05 2008, 08:50 PM by Rob Howard's Blog

• Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

  I heard on the news this morning, albeit briefly, that Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44 billion. There have been a lot of rumors in the past year about this, it sounds like it actually may be on the table officially now.   Posted Feb 01 2008, 07:19 AM by Rob Howard's Blog