It’s a new year, a time of global change and a great time to head to Germany for a Drupal invasion. You won’t want to miss DrupalCamp Cologne (aka Koln) or Drupal Ubercart training. It’s history in the making for Drupal.

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There was a time when inline editing, the ability to edit a piece of web content without going through an admin screen or a clunky submission form, was a key differentiator between web content management systems. That time is no longer.

Now we find ourselves in the age where content management systems and browser add-ons are friendly parts of the same sentence. Follow along with us as we see where Estonian Web CMS vendor is taking this technology relationship.

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Day Software, a web content management system vendor and provider of the Communiqué CMS, has sold off its UK agency services subsidiary, MarketingNet, to WAA, an advertising company. Day Software says that the sale is part of an operation to refocus its UK operations to the core Web CMS business and drive UK expansion through a channel-driven model.

Tis the season for breaking resolutions, so it strikes us as fitting that it's also that time for the Information Architecture Institute's (IAI) annual salary survey results.

If you recall, last year's survey revealed a minimal decrease in the pay gap between men and women and a slight increase of female info architects in the biz.

The annual survey collects data about salary as well as age, gender, educational level, job title, annual increase, hours worked, job tasks, vacation, holidays and benefits, attrition, size of company, and geographic area.

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Why would a highly-diversified Enterprise CMS technology corporation with licensing revenues in the billions of dollars be interested in a tiny company that specializes in support software for open source projects?

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High-impact rich media is a goal of many companies in regards to their websites. Adobe is here to help solve that problem and keep it cost-effective to publish such media. They bring to you Adobe Scene7, a comprehensive SaaS platform that provides scalability, ease of use and the use of integrated technologies.

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As good as EMC Documentum is at building an enterprise content management platform, the company leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to user interface design. If your problem is authoring XML content via Webtop -- Documentum's web-based GUI for accessing EMC Documentum repository -- JustSystems has a solution.

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Regardless of the global economic uncertainty, online advertising is not going anywhere.

Why? One word: analytics.

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If a customer cannot complete their top tasks quickly and easily on your website, why would they trust you to help them with other tasks?

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Kaltura, the platform that brought open source to video and enabled groups to edit and collaborate with online video, has released a video module for the open source Drupal CMS.

Kaltura is a popular video platform used by blogging platforms like WordPress and now Drupal sites. The platform is similar to Viddler, which allows video users to annotate, remix and interact with online video media, all within a Flash-based editor.

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Microsoft, the commercial software behemoth from Redmond, Washington, continues to dip its toes into the open source pool. Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) is home to the software vendor's relationships with a few open source products such as MySQL and SugarCRM. The OSTC has been hard at work lately -- especially, in the web application space.

After releasing their own open source CMS and making it easy to install open source applications on Windows Server, what else has Redmond been up to?

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Hey, look over there, it's the end of the year, yeah, just right 'round the bend. Hurray! We made it! And not only that, it's been our best year ever. Now we're winding down and cooling the CPUs as we settle into a week or so of end of year reflection and spiked eggnog sipping.

Here are some parting thoughts...

Thanks to the Readership

Thanks to you our ever appreciated readers, we've seen an especially fruitful 2008. We won't bore you with the details but will share that our audience size has grown another 100% over the course of 2008. And for that, we are very grateful.

Thank you for supporting us, for helping to spread the news and for joining in the conversation. We've got some exciting new things coming in 2009. So stick around and see where we take the CMS news game over the next 12 months.

Thanks to Our Editors, Writers and Contributors

Back in 2003 when the first bits of text crawled out from the CMSWire.com swamp, it was just little old me tapping away here. Nowadays we've got a tiny crowd of creative, energetic and technical folks who take pride in keeping the content management world informed.

My personal thanks goes out to Barb Mosher, Irina Guseva, Angela Natividad, John Conroy, Marisa Peacock, Jason Campbell, Eric Brown, Chelsi Nakano, Jason Harris, James Mowery, Gerry McGovern, Rick Sloboda, Seth Gottlieb and many others who have given their 2 cents on a topic close to their hearts.

You guys make my carpal tunnel syndrome weep with joy.

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Good ideas, critical reviews, field experience, and concise and entertaining writing all make for good content. The other part of the equation is progressive and intelligent (ahem!) sponsors who recognize the importance of our readership for their business cycles — and the importance of advertising during a recession.

Without you wonderfully insightful people we'd be, if you'll permit me to say, much more constrained. So a big thanks goes out to the following organizations for the rope they have provided us.

• Ademero — Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
• CMS Watch — The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• Ektron — Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management solutions.
• EMC — Enterprise content management, document management, collaboration and compliance solutions.
• Ephox — Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with enterprise features.
• eTouch SamePage — The enterprise-strength wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• The Gilbane Group — Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry informed.
• Ingeniux — Makers of Enterprise 2.0 web content management solutions.
• JBoye — High impact conferences for web practitioners. Coming to Philadelphia in 2009.
• Kentico — A simple .NET web content management system with workflow and rapid development support.
• Lyris HQ — Web content management meets web analytics meets marketing automation, and they have a big bad party.
• Open Text — Blending enterprise content management and email life cycle management Open Text manages enterprise content.
• SDL Tridion — Enterprise web content management for the multi-lingual and international organizations.
• Quantum Art — QP7 is a .NET web content management and content application platform that enables rapid development of content-centric functionality.
• Sitecore — Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Telerik Sitefinity — A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
• Xythos — Document management and collaboration solutions, either on-premise or SaaS.
• …and of course dear old uncle Google and the smart little thing they call AdSense.

And now, its time to rest the hands that type, and eat and sleep merrily. We'll see you wonderful people in January.