Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support. And it's FREE for both
commercial and private use.
Echo is the next generation commenting system. It's the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments and more.
Latest cool prototypes from Sitecore US lab
Alex Shyba
Solution Architect
Sitecore
Oct 19, 2011
Noon Pacific, 3:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM UK.
Alex will be showing some of the latest Shared Source components that he has been working on.
Alex Shyba has been with Sitecore for more than 6 years. His primary role is helping implementation partners in North America build successful solutions on Sitecore platform. Whenever he is not reading car magazines, Alex enjoys exploring dark corners of Sitecore by reading kernel code from Reflector and building cool prototypes.
Alex maintains one of the oldest Sitecore blogs at http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/ where he shares his ideas about ways to implement Sitecore and provides recommendations on various aspects of the product. You can connect with Alex on Twitter @alexshyba.
Video from the presentation
OpenCalais Integration module allows you to to automatically discover semantic relations between your content, Create relevant tags in the Sitecore Taxonomy and tag your content with those by integrating the Sitecore Taxonomy Module, WeBlog Module or any Sitecore item based taxonomy seamlessly with OpenCalais service without additional development.
The service is open for commercial and non-commercial use and is free if you don't need to tag more than 50,000 documents a day. The service is easy to apply in your project with this module and almost effortless if you're already using the Sitecore's Shared Source Taxonomy Module.
WeBlog is a blog module for Sitecore 6.2+. It is the successor to the EviBlog module.
Features
Windows Live Writer integration (MetaWeblog API)
Page Editor support and custom WebEdit ribbon
Wordpress Import
CSS-based themes, with custom themes possible (one included)
Various blog navigation components
Comments (with author notification and optional approval workflow)
Comment CAPTCHA through MSCaptcha or reCAPTCHA
Gravatar Support
Social sharing through ShareThis or AddThis, and other Facebook and Twitter widgets
Tagging and tagcloud
RSS Feeds (Sitecore Integrated RSS)
Multi-server (staged architecture) support
Globalized labels and messaging (English, Danish, Dutch, and Japanese translations provided)
Most importantly, WeBlog has been architected to allow you to easily integrate it into your existing content and design, and to allow you to customize its templates and layout to your project requirements.