Rumour has it that Google's new open source browser, Chrome, is out today. Infact it's not just speculation, Google made an official announcement on their blog.

Google's Chrome browser is accompanied by a 32-page Scott McCloud comic book detailing Google's thoughts behind the release of the new browser which lands in a market dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and constantly chased but never equalled (in terms of market share anyway) by Firefox, Opera, Safari, Flock and others.

The Google Chrome book is a neat & friendly way to introduce punters to the new browser, making a nice change from the usual stuffy instructions you might expect.

So let's see what happens later today when the Google Chrome beta is released...

Labels: browsers, google, open source

At last, after nearly 2 and a half years, the rebel alliance that broke away from Mambo CMS and became Joomla, has finally given birth to a new CMS...

Labels: CMS, joomla, news, open source, software

Joomla! CMS rolled in its 100,000th verified forum user yesterday. That's 100,000 users in just over 18 months and officially "Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet."

Stats-wise the Joomla! forum has:

• An average of 172 new user sign-up each day
• 765,000 posts
• More than 1200 posts daily

There's even a funky Free Joomla! A3 poster to commemorate the ocassion.

Now if the next landmark can be just to get Joomla! 1.5 out of the door, that would be awesome.

Labels: CMS, news, open source, software, tools

New Life in IT is a premier web design company specialising in the provision of Open Source Software solutions.

With a firm footing in the Joomla! CMS arena, New Life in IT provide a depth of experience from Business Analysis & Consulting through Professional Training to some pretty funky enterprise level web development solutions... we know because we've had the pleaseure to work with them.

Andrew Eddie, Director of New Life in IT, is well known as one of the original developers of Mambo CMS and the recent Joomla! CMS so they're headed not only by a sharp programmer & consumate professional but all-round nice bloke too.

Be sure to check out New Life in IT.

Labels: CMS, consultancy, design, development, news, open source

If you are a commercial organisation using an Open Source Content Management System then you may be interested in participating in Isovera's Open Source CMS Survey between Feb 22nd and Mar 19th.

Just 10 minutes long and optionally requiring an email address & web address (neither will be published) the survey aims to "better understand how satisfied organizations are with specific systems across implementation stages and functional areas."

You can see the previous results of their Open Source Survey for non-profit organisations.

Take the Open Source CMS Survey .

Labels: CMS, open source, survey