Perttu Tolvanen

Good article about making a content inventory or a content audit. Audit is a high level overview which examines the style of content and tries to identify the most important groups of content. Inventory is the excel file that has every piece of content identified, described, classified and priorized. Maybe the most important phase of any site redesign.

The difference between usability and user experience explained. Good examples ranging from useit.com to iPhone user experience. From the page: "By far the easiest (and probably most over-cited, please forgive me) to distinguish these two comes on lauded usability expert Jakob Nielsen's homepage, useit.com. Jakob has dedicated a lifetime to the study of usability, and his website represents a page that is extremely easy to interact with. Everything is front and center, easily searchable, with important ideas stressed through bold text. Yet despite its high level of usability, the lack of interesting layout, design, or even typography makes the site rather boring and feel uninspired. I can accomplish my goals here easily, but I probably won't have much fun in the process."

Good comparison of Solr and Sphinx which are the most popular open source enterprise search engines at the moment.

Good article and graph about the rise of Solr search engine. From the page: "Granted, Lucene and Solr still lack some of the spit and polish that Microsoft FAST, Autonomy, Google's enterprise search appliance, and other proprietary competitors offer, but this isn't slowing its adoption."

Some common mistakes with Solr implementations. These do apply to other enterprise search engine projects also.

Ontolica Search for SharePoint is a SharePoint addon product which effectively enhances the SharePoint 2010 search product. Some key feature addons are: 1) refiner counts, 2) auto suggestions, 3) "search as you type", 4) metadata search, 5) improved people search.

Vignette VCM V8 is a good example of how in-context editing can also support more advanced functionality, like changing the page template on the fly or adjusting metadata.

Interesting case about Oracle's licensing tactics. Oracle is being quite strict about licensing models and this might not be a good thing - especially considering the competition coming from open source products. Allthough Microsoft and others are doing to same play...

Great predictions about ECM industry in 2010. Especially interesting is the 8th prediction about open source software making strange bedfellows.

Drupal founder makes predictions for 2010. Dries predicts that commercial CMS players will start adopting more open source practices and will be a tough competitor for Drupal and others.