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Drupal Camp CT and OpenScholar

OHO Interactive continues to strengthen its Drupal portfolio and is proud to annouce our involvement in Drupal Camp Connecticut @ Yale University and our support for the OpenScholar Project at Harvard University.

OHO is a long-time supporter of the Drupal CMS and will be presenting on August 28th at Yale University, the site for the 2010 DrupalCampCT event. At the event, OHO's Chief Architect, Langdon White, will discuss using Drupal to support multiple sites from a single implementation.

OpenScholar, developed by the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. is based on Drupal and provides a feature-rich, easy to use platform for scholarly publishing. The platform also helps universities to raise their online profiles by ensuring that publications (all types) are readily available and indexed by major search engines.

OHO is providing cloud-based implementations of OpenScholar as well as  support and customization services. Sign-up for your demo account today.

Mark Sacco
Aug 12, 2010
Drupalcamp, OpenScholar
OHO Hosts Alfresco's Northeast Lunch and Learn

 July 21st, 2010 – Waltham, MA

Today, OHO Interactive hosted Alfresco’s Northeast Lunch and Learn conference in Waltham, MA. The event showcased Alfresco’s market-leading open source enterprise content management system. The event was very well received with over 100 technology and business executives registering for the event.

 

During the event, OHO presented a case study featuring a custom manuscript management system developed on Alfresco 3.2. The solution affords authors from around the globe access to an easy to use, web application that marshals manuscripts through a rich editorial process that ultimately results in the publication of content rich scientific books.

 

Alfresco was well represented at the event and showcased Alfresco Share, a solution designed to simplify the management and sharing of all types of content across any size organization. Other new and enhanced features of Alfresco Enterprise 3.3 include

 
CMIS 1.0 Compliance, enabling integration with
·         IBM Lotus Integration
·         Microsoft Outlook
·         Drupal
Simplified Web presence and content distribution
·         Alfresco Web Editor
·         Deployment Services
·         Rendition API
Enhanced social collaboration within the Enterprise
·         Document management
·         Permissions management
·         Rules and actions
·         Collaboration lists
·         Google like search

 

If you’ve been considering a next-generation Enterprise class document management platform that provides out-of-the-box functionality and a rich api supporting custom applications (web & mobile), you should put Alfresco right at the top of your list.

 

 
Mark Sacco
Jul 21, 2010
High Profile Technology Start-ups select Drupal (and OHO) to support next generation web solutions ...

Two high-tech startups have recently partnered with OHO Interactive to wrap the Drupal content management system around their proprietary Web products and services. The two firms, xPeerient and SilverRail Technologies, are delivering 'game changing' solutions to their customers - and both needed a partner that could tackle the 'last mile challenge', getting them to market quickly.

Prior to their launch, xPeerient and SilverRail made significant investments to develop their products. Each firm was expert in their respective market's business models and supporting technologies. Each firm focused on solving domain-specific challenges - and did so, brilliantly.

With these challenges well understood, initial solutions developed and roadmaps planned, the firms needed to get to market quickly. They needed market-facing websites and a CMS that would manage their websites and the front-ends of their high-performance web products.

To solve the CMS challenge, both firms evaluated a number of open source platforms and selected Acquia's distribution of Drupal. Both firms found Drupal's extensibility, scalability and availability of integration components to be precisely what they needed to take their solution to market.

With this critical decision made, both firms began their search for a partner that could support incredibly aggressive timelines, support their needs for design, their needs for robust, experienced project management, and their needs for technical expertise for integration.

OHO delivered on all fronts, and both firms have sucessfully launched their solutions into the marketplace. Congratulations xPeerient and SilverRail!

(Are you a Software ISV? OHO has a Drupal offering that may interest you)

Mark Sacco
Jul 08, 2010
Drupal Acquia Software Start-ups
Complimentary Web Usability Assessment ...

Have you been considering a website upgrade? Are you developing the next version of a web application?

OHO is offering a complimentary web usability assessment for new customers.

The assessment does require a bit of a commitment on your part. We ask that you set aside about an hour for a call and that you share use cases, personna information, workflows and the goals and objectives for your project.

Next, OHO assembles our best-and-brightest to review your situation and identify appropriate strategies to meet your usability needs.

From here, we will schedule a follow-up session to walk through our general and specific recommendations.

Interested in exploring this complimentary assessment?

 

 

Mark Sacco
Jul 01, 2010
The Actors Fund Selects Drupal over Plone ...

The Actors Fund – a human services organization in New York and LA serving the entertainment industry – has engaged OHO Interactive to migrate their existing website from Plone CMS to Acquia Drupal. The site will also integrate with the Blackbaud suite of products including Raiser's Edge, Patron's Edge, and Patron's Edge online.

As part of the engagement, OHO is developing an enhanced resource database and working with the management team to overhaul the homepage to better represent the organization and balance the needs of the membership, services, and development departments.

Drupal will provide a more flexible platform for:

  • updating and dismenating content
  • improve capability for adding video to the site
  • provide a stronger platform for the development of custom features
  • enhancing cross-site promotion of content such as calendars and events
  • better content tagging

The new site is slated to launch later this summer.

Jason Smith
Jun 30, 2010
Blackbaud, Technology, Web 2.0, Website
Open source enterprise content management is heating up ...

Open source Enterise Content Management (ECM) is one ot today's 'hot topics' and is playing a key role in helping organizations leverage internal knowledge to drive competitive advantage. ECM is also being used in new innovative ways - literally ushering in new Web-based business models.

OHO has already stepped into this area and has partnered with Alfresco to deliver customized ECM solutions. Alfresco, an emerging market leader in ECM, offers a wide range of open source products including ECM, WCM (web content management), and Records Management.

Interested in learning more? Join us on JULY 21st at Alfresco's Northeast Lunch 'N Learn event in Waltham. At this NO COST event, you'll learn how companies are seeing a huge return on their investment with Alfresco’s solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to view a product demonstration and chat with the Alfresco / OHO teams. 

Attendance at the event is limited (really), so if you think you'd like to join us, do let us know sooner rather than later ....

marks
Jun 15, 2010
Where does TV meet the Web?

Google answered that question today at Day 2 of Google I/O, and the answer is at Google TV.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves...  They spent the first half of the keynote building up suspense talking about the Android momentum:

  • 21 OEMs
  • 48 Countries
  • 65 Devices
  • 100,000 Daily activation run rate
  • 1 billion miles traveled in GPS navgation
  • 50,000 Applications
  • 180,00 Developers

They announced the next release of Android 2.2 called Froyo, which has 5 Focus Areas:

  1. Speed: Just-in-time (JIT) compilation
  2. Enterprise: Exchange friendly
  3. Services: Application Data Backup API, Cloud-to-Device Messaging API, Tethering & Portable Hotspot
  4. Browser - 2x-3x javascript performance (The V8 engine from Chrome but ported for Android), fastest mobile browser, voice recognition for: searching, translations, support for flash
  5. Market - Update All feature, Automatic updating, and more

Then, they surprised all us by giving all five thousand attendees Sprint HTC EVO 4G Phones!

The second half of the keynote focused on the announcement of Google TV (Tagline: TV meets Web.  Web Meets TV).  The Google TV interface is extraordinary.  Do you ever search the web for when/what channel a show is on because the guide on your TV is too overwhelming?  Google TV merges this into one easy step on your TV using a bluetooth keyboard.   Google TV will integrate with DVR, Netflix, Amazon, and others.  The TV based browser is slightly transparent so that you can see the TV shows behind the browser as well.  Google TV has increased the number of channels on your TV from hundreds to millions by integrating all of the video on the web as a TV option for the common TV viewer.

The hardware includes a Google TV box that connects via HDMI to your current set top box.  It comes with a keyboard and mouse to control the Google TV device.  If paired, the Android phone with google voice search can also integrate so that you would not have to use the keyboard or mouse.  They're going to publish the protocol so that developers can create their own applications and hardware for Google TV as well.

Again, the entire keynote will be posted on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers if you'd like to watch.

-Submitted by Chris Apolzon and Laurie Richards

Laurie Richards
May 20, 2010
Android, Development, Google, HTML, Technology, TV, Web 2.0
I/O: Input/Output or Innovation in the Open?

The answer is...  Both!  Google I/O got its name from both a developers roots (Input/Output) as well as developers future, (Innovation in the Open).  They kicked off their third annual developers conference today and San Francisco is currently crawling with more than five thousand developers (including two from OHO Interactive) anxious to hear whatever big news it is that is almost always released at their conferences (stay tuned to our blog, it sounds like it'll be announced during tomorrow's keynote at 9AM PDT).

The conference can already be seen to have an incredibly strong focus on HTML 5, as well as the open web and the mobile web.  Some of the HTML 5 examples demonstrated, particularly the offline mugtug demo, were amazing.  Can you imagine running an entire web application locally from the cache?  With HTML 5 it'll be possible. 

In addition to HTML 5, Open video is also here!  Today Google, and their partners, announced the webm project, an open web media project.  The VP8 codec is also now open source and royalty free.  Youtube is supporting both initiatives, and is working to convert all of their videos.  Nightly builds of Mozilla and Opera are available now to start developing against webm/VP8 to try out the next big thing in video on the web.

Time Magazine was also on hand to announce the Sports Illustrated HTML 5 web application.  With this announcement, we can see that HTML 5 will usher in unique and intuitive experiences bridging the tech-savvy web with the fast-moving journalism space.

Perhaps the most exciting news of the morning was that Google wave is now open to ALL!  Sign up for your account today at wave.google.com.  They've also added lots of new features and usability improvements. My favorite new feature is email notifications of waves so that you don't have to have yet another application, tab, etc open on your phone or browser.  Embedding waves inside other applications (i.e. in salesforce "chatter") will also be more common in the coming months.

The entire keynote was streamed live on You Tube, and will soon be available on demand if you’d like to watch it.

-Submitted by Chris Apolzon and Laurie Richards

Laurie Richards
May 19, 2010
Development, Google, HTML, Web 2.0
MarkLogic Conference 2010: We're Here!

Here at day two of the MarkLogic User Conference in beautiful San Francisco. From a developer's perspective, I can't think of a better way to spend Cinco de Mayo.

The big tagline for the conference (and the giveaway T-shirts) is "NoSQL before NoSQL was cool." And it's true: MarkLogic has been waving the NoSQL flag for nearly 10 years now. The way they store and access data is streamlined, unique, and ideal for a number of Web 2.0 applications.

The technical sessions have been superb. Interesting to see the concepts behind the speed and scalability of the MarkLogic database, as well as how we can best interact with it.

Here at OHO, we're proud to be one of the official sponsors of the event, as well as a MarkLogic partner. Personally, I'm looking forward to implementing some of the stuff they've presented, expecially in the arenas of XQuery and RDF. I love SQL and all, but sometimes a little change is good, no?

Chris OConnor
May 05, 2010
GET Conference 2010 and the Personal Genome Project

Today was the first meeting of the GET Conference here in Cambridge.  The GET Conference has brought together a unique group of genomics experts, investors and business leaders.  A fantastic small setting lead to limited presentations and a large amount of collaboration and discussion.  Dramatically lower costs for genome sequencing are going to change our lives in myriads of ways.  Today's conference was a creative event discussing concepts ranging from personalized medicine to better disease forecasting.

You can share in this event by seeing the interview with Harvard Professor George Church.  Professor Church is a Professor of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School , Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, and the founder of the Personal Genome Project.  The PGP team created today's event.

Also worth watching is this interview with the Christophe McLeod CEO of 454 Life Sciences talk about new low cost and high speed genome sequencing machines.  Fox Business News covered the event and recorded both of these interviews today. 

OHO is proud to be part of the team that developed  this creative and thought provoking day.

 

Ed Hastings
Apr 27, 2010
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