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Want to create a custom video, the kind with photos, video clips, and music? Normally, it’s a time-consuming and/or expensive hassle.
You can use Microsoft’s Windows Live Movie Maker free of charge, but it’s pretty limited–and kind of a pain in the neck, in my humble opinion.
You could also spend upwards of $100 on a movie-editing [...]

FathomDB is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
A startup called  FathomDB is launching a new product today that represents the next step in its efforts to run [...]

The founders of DocVerse today announced that Google has acquired their company. In a blog post on DocVerse website, Shan & Alex said the following:
“I’m excited to tell you that DocVerse has officially been acquired by Google (click here for more)!  This is great news for our company, our team, and most of all, our [...]

According to InformationWeek magazine, the US Army is launching an internal Web application development contest, Apps for the Army, that will award cash prizes to soldiers and Army civilian employees who develop software that best fits the judgment criteria of the contest.
The contest, announced at the Gov 2.0 Summit in November 2009, aims to encourage [...]

Vaadin is an open source web application framework for rich Internet applications. In contrast to Javascript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. Ajax technology is used at the browser-side to ensure a rich and interactive user experience. On client-side [...]

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. MongoDB Combines the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes. Written in C++, MongoDB features:

Document-oriented storage (the simplicity and power of JSON-like data schemas)
Dynamic queries
Full index support, extending to inner-objects and embedded arrays
Query profiling
Fast, in-place updates
Efficient storage of binary data large [...]

Piwik won the ‘Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (Web Analytics)’ in Infoworld’s annual BOSSIE Awards. The awards “recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.”
Selected by InfoWorld’s editorial and test center staff, other winners [...]

Alfresco offers true Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and aspires to be “Documentum fast and free”, and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart “spaces”. Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods.
Users can set up Alfresco [...]