Amit from Joomlatools contacted me to introduce me to their new company as well as their new product, Nooku.  The introduction is somewhat ironic given the fact that Johan already contacted me last Spring.  I have also had a link to Joomlatools' blogs in my Blogroll for a number of months!

However, it sounds like they're doing exciting stuff over at Joomlatools that should make quite a bit of the Joomla! community happy.  Nooku looks like a great product and the extension/framework should help Joomla! 1.5 users create multi-lingual websites more easily. I wish the best for Joomlatools.

The following is a copy of the email Amit sent to CMS Report.

Hello,

We wanted to introduce ourselves to you & the Joomla community.  We are a new company called Joomlatools, focused on building applications for Joomla users that want professional, extendable open source extensions.  All of our extensions will be built from the ground up with lots of user feedback, tried and tested by real customers and professionally written by folks who helped create Joomla!

Lionbridge Developing Web Services Connections with Leading CMS Providers Such as Ektron, Interwoven and Acumium to Simplify Global Content Management and Delivery WALTHAM, Mass. – November 20, 2007

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced the formation of the Content Management System (CMS) Alliance Program, an ecosystem of CMS providers and system integrators who are committed to simplifying global content management and publishing. Combining the expertise of all participants, Lionbridge is using Web Services to connect Freeway™, Lionbridge’s free, hosted translation management platform, to leading CMS platforms, helping companies greatly improve processes and lower the costs of global content management.

The industry’s first scalable translation content management system integrating people, processes and technology is launched

New York, NY – November 13, 2007 – thebigwordGroup, a global translation services company, announces the launch of the LanguageDirector™ platform, the first complete translation management system which integrates technology, people and processes into one solution. With a modular design offering three versions, LanguageDirector™ users can effectively direct their own translation projects from three core components of functionality - access to language services, project control and visibility as well as industry-recognized language technology.

Development teams have quickened up the pace with the release of Mambo 4.6.2. The release marks the completion of the complete revision of the Language Manager that began with the initial 4.6 release.  The Mambo core is now fully translatable.

Other features introduced in this minor version release include:

• Stability & security improvements
• Lighter database footprint
• A number of bug fixes
• Improved compatibility with older 3rd party extensions
• Added support for 4.5.x style SEF URLs
• Updates to many of the internal extensions
• MOStlyCE WYSIWYG editor enhancements (cross browser compliance issues addressed via an update to TinyMCE v2.1.0)

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