HubPages is one of the "newer" social media content sites – and in my opinion, one of the most exciting. The most fascinating aspect of HubPages is the algorithm that determines an author's and an article’s "HubScore."

Good for Google = good for the universe. What would a social network be without applications, you ask? Nowadays, probably obsolete; which is why the ambitious, sort-of-new social network Ning made a good move by announcing their support of Google’s OpenSocial v0.7 standard. This will allow developers to easily build applications that can also be shared across a variety of other supporting social platforms.

Lately, Web CMS and Enterprise CMS vendors have been choosing to co-exist with SharePoint peacefully and friendly rather than fight it. The friendly gesture tends to come in the shape of various SharePoint connectors and integrations. Open Text, Mediasurface, Day, EMC Documentum and Immediacy -- they’ve all done it.

The Frankfurt Book Fair is a popular global book extravaganza that not only sells books, but also serves as a cultural interchange across national borders. This year, while bookworming their way around the aisles, the organizers conducted a survey designed to figure out if the digitization has begun to influence the publishing industry, as well as who might be the driving force behind it. Over 1,000 industry professionals from over 30 countries responded to the survey.

Gartner analyst Adam Sarner has new research that states that 50% of all Social Media campaigns will fail. Didn't we hear something similar to this before when a study by Deloitte informed us that social networking was a waste of money? What is the real story here -- are marketing departments trying to fit social media into a traditional marketing bucket or is social media marketing just a lot of hype?

Not as Web-savvy as you’d like to be? Well, GoDaddy just solved that problem with the release of SmartSpace -- an inexpensive, no-skills-needed tool for building instant Web sites complete with your popular social media widgets of choice.

In these times of economic upheaval, many businesses -- large and small -- start to take an even closer look at how they are spending their IT budgets. For those who have or are considering SaaS-based solutions, you should know there are opposing views on whether SaaS has what it takes to survive in the long term.

CaseCentral, an eDiscovery software provider, who was recently selected as KMWorld Magazine's 2008 Trendsetter, has announced the release of its third version of the CaseCentral eDiscovery review platform -- the first multi-case, multi-party eDiscovery review platform with process analytics.

What analytics do you use to measure your site? I think that most people prefer Google Analytics, but there are lots of other options. Some of my favorite free tools...

Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.