Wazala is an online application that adds an instant, elegant online store to any website or blog. All done WITHIN in as little as 15 minutes! With 15 languages and 23 currencies, Wazala allows the store owners to set up shop in multiple languages and leave the decision to their customers to choose the language to browse and purchase in. Even though it has been built with simplicity as its main goal, Wazala still manages to cover all the features needed to transform a site into a fully-functional store front and it does it beautifully!

An amazing new shopping experience that anybody can integrate easily into any existing website and start selling even digital good instantly. The service integrates only with Paypal and Google Checkout the two most widely used payment platforms for accepting credit cards and online payment for stores and ecommerce platforms, there is no alternative solution to pay directly with credit cards. The service is available free for 5 products, and paid account start from $9.95 for 25 products. More information and demo at www.wazala.com

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GwebMail is a GMail like open source Webmail that you can run on your own server using PHP, MySQL and Ajax. It allows to connect to to any email server including Gmail servers and display the email content in a very similar layout to Gmail webmail. The solution aims to reproduce most Gmail features, however don't expect to find everything there. GwebMail is available free for up to 10 users, there is a $9.95 domain license with unilimited users and updates.

GwebMail features include :

• IMAP support including SSL encryption (IMAPS)
• Rich interface using AJAX technology
• MIME Support including inline attachments
• Internationalization support with UTF-8
• MySQL storage for messages, settings and cache
• Action Logs and reporting
• Full branding and banner inclusion
• Message filters allows you to setup rules that auto flag messages
• Private Label, you are free to remove any copyright or link to gwebmail website
• Different colors for different type of messages
• Flag important messages with a Star to find them easyer
• Fast searching using advanced criteria
• Drafts and Sent folders
• Labels with ability to hide
• Rich HTML editor and fancy upload with progress bar
• Autocomplete from AddressBook
• Auto save to Drafts
• Remove scripts from html messages for more security
• Block remote images so nobody can track when you read them
• Open links in a new window and block relative links
• Display thumbnails for image attachments

You may check the online demo and download sources at http://www.gwebmail.net. Requires MySQL 5, PHP5 with imap, tidy, gd, sockets enabled, and Zend Optimizer for PHP, minimum version 3.3.

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Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients. If you are looking to create your own social application, want to build and run a site for your organization, or introduce a social layer into your technology stack, Elgg is a great choice.

Elgg highlighted features :

- Powerful Data Model: Elgg provides a powerful data model making the creation of different entities simple, yet flexible.
- Activity Streams: The granular activity stream API ensures your plugins can push the required content to your users.
- Plugin API: Use Elgg's powerful plugin API to build and add your required features.
- User Management: Elgg handles your user management and relationship requirements.
- Access controls: All objects in Elgg can have an access control level applied making granular access permissions possible.
- Web Services API: Expose functionality through the REST API by building a plugin and then either publish the API for other developers to build clients or provide your own.

Tons of plugins available in gallery to extend Elgg functionalities. Elgg run on a LAMP stack and require MySQL 5+, PHP5.2+ installed as Apache module. Released under the GPLv2.

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At the most recent TikiFest in Ottawa, Canada, several Tiki Community members met to socialize and contribute their talents to the future of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. For four days (August 15 - 18), the attendees (including several remote participants) discussed, planned, and coded many features and enhancements planned for Tiki 6.

The TikiFest ended with a wine-and-cheese social at the Code Factory in Ottawa, hosted by Citadel Rock, Blindside Networks, Pondstone Communications, and AvanTech.net, all of whom are active participants in the Tiki and BigBlueButton communities.

The cornerstone of the TikiFest was to improve the integration between Tiki and BigBlueButton that was first introduced in Tiki 5. Additionally, a full day of the event was reserved for various internationalization (i18n) topics, including:

* Establishing a collaborative multilingual glossary
* Creating a translation server
* Making it easier for the Tiki Community to contribute translations

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The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects.

WordPress won the 2009 Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award in what was a very close contest with MODx and SilverStripe. While MODx was the first runner up, SilverStripe, a Most Promising CMS Award winner in 2008, made its way to the second runner up position in its first year in the Open Source CMS Award final.

The 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize the best content management system, Packt is introducing categories for the Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source E-Commerce Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries and Open Source Graphics Software. CMSes that won the Overall CMS Award in previous years will continue to compete against one another in the Hall of Fame CMS category.

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The jQuery team have just announced jQuery Mobile Framework, a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. The project is under heavy development and is expected to be released later in this year. jQuery Mobile got already some very interesting sponsors as : Mozilla, Palm, and Filament Group.

Absolutely critical to us is that jQuery and the mobile UI framework that we're developing work across all major international mobile platforms (not just a few of the most popular platforms in North America). We've published a complete strategy overview detailing the work that we'e doing and a chart showing all the browsers that we’re going to support.

Great news for the mobile community to have an optimized cross-platform & cross-device jQuery mobile framework. The future is definitely around web mobile, and web mobile development is becoming really more fun with such amazing tools, and most probably in the future you will find jQuery already embedded in your mobile handset.

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ShiftEdit is a new and very interesting web-based IDE built around ExtJS and Bespin Embedded. ShiftEdit provides the basic PHP support, HTML/ CSS/ JS, in addition to Syntax highlighting, Integrated FTP/ SFTP, Tabs, Find/Replace, Revision history + it's free ! The Philosophy behind the project according to its founder, Adam Jimenez :

"The web-based IDE is one of the final frontiers of apps ported to the web. I would like to be able to develop from any computer or operating system and have the same experience without having to install software or create site definitions."

An interesting project that will never replace your desktop IDE, however you'll find it very useful to work online from your browser, update or fix code on the fly. More information at http://edit.shiftcreate.com.

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The Tiki Community Software Association is proud to announce the 5.1 release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This latest release includes many fixes, tweaks, and updates, including several new and improved features:

* Improved compatibility for Microsoft Windows and IIS
* Fixed the Since Last Visit module
* Better support for UTF-8

Review the Tiki 5.1 Release Notes and change log for complete information.

More than a dozen members of the Tiki Community have contributed over 140 updates to this release. All Tiki admins are encouraged to upgrade their sites to this latest release. See http://info.tikiwiki.org/Download for information on how to download this release.

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Carahsoft to Offer Zend PHP Web Application Development and Management Solutions on its GSA Schedule

Cupertino, CA, August 9, 2010 - Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced a new partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government IT solutions provider. With this partnership, Carahsoft will market and sell Zend PHP Web application development and management software to federal, state, and local government agencies through Carahsoft's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. Zend provides IT organizations with a complete, proven and supported PHP solution used to develop and manage applications for Web and Cloud computing environments.

"We expect Carahsoft to quickly put Zend Technologies in front of government agencies at a time when PHP is gaining ground in large-scale and mission-critical applications," said Glenn Hasen, SVP Worldwide Field Operations at Zend Technologies. "Our software is ideal for government as it delivers ease of use, scalability, performance and reliability without the high costs, technology constraints or lengthy implementations often imposed by conventional software products."

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The OpenAjax Alliance made a great announcement yesterday to make Ajax and Web 2.0 applications more accessible for people with disabilities. A great announcement to make web 2.0 experience easy to adopt mainly in government and consumer web sites. The new tooling technology simplifies the way Web applications are tested for compliance with current accessibility standards and guidelines, helping to speed up delivery of new accessible Internet applications according to the press release. It's also a new experience for developers since they will be able to develop and check real-time for accessibility compliance :

Previously, developers had to complete their code and run various reports to determine if their application was compliant with accessibility standards. Using the new tooling technology, applications are tested dynamically, as developers build the code, providing real-time feedback on compliance.

OAA maintains the new tooling technology will help narrow the Web 2.0 digital divide for many segments of the global population by facilitating consistent, industry-wide interpretation of standards such as the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).

The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of vendors, open-source initiatives and Web developers dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. Led by IBM, the alliance count today more than 100 members including BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend and Zimbra.

Press release available here.

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