You know that situation on a party, where somebody asks you a hypothetic "lonely island" question, and you think about it really hard and then realize, that the right answer is, to fulfill your needs and not your wishes.
Like: What would be the drink, you'll take with you in unlimited supplies on that lonely island, if that's the only drink you'll ever have for the rest of your life? Champagne being your wish, but water fulfilling your needs.

With the new release of Intermedia Fotoficient we supplied a generic JSONP brokerage infrastructure to enable cacheing of data sets.
This post shows, how it works and why it works.

After three months we finally released a new version of Intermedia Fotoficient. Our timing is adjusted to the fact, that provided demo licenses from the previous release are due to terminate in a few days.
If you are hestitant to perform the upgrade (either by downloading the ZIP or through svn support), then download the ZIP and grab just the license file itself.

You'll miss out some great new features - so don't blame us then.

Recently published research puts a spotlight on the growing importance of rich media with enterprises.
This includes a growing significance for Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions for overall enterprise content management scenarios.

Copy the following link to your bookmarks: Intermedia Content Bookmarklet (for instance by drag & dropping it to your bookmarks toolbar).

The New York Times has an interesting piece about retailers advance into mobile ecommerce. The craze on how mobile devices will change our lifes, especially in the online world, has raised the expectations on all sides.

Summary:

New Feature:

• A persistent metadata cache see doc/configuration/intermedia.properties: intermedia.metadatacache.type

Bugfixes:

• A xss vulnerability has beend removed within modules/pixelboxx/intermedia.js as well as within the Helma JSON module
• The handling of invalid imageids in imageProperties was added, which could also lead to XSS vulnerabilities, see Root/macros.js

Special thanks to Marcus Niemitz (mail@mniemietz.de) for finding this nasty one.

Yesterday, Steve Souders announced the release of the HTTP Archive - a record of the ways, digitized content is distributed.

An interesting study reveals, that a slow performing website actually is stressing users more. They have to concentrate up to 50% more on slow performing websites. This white paper describes the CA 2010 Web Stress Experiment in more detail.