In another indication of how easy it is for malware authors to
leverage Web 2.0 technologies, spammers have taken control of a
Facebook site with more than 1.5 million users.

The site, 5,000,000 against the new version of Facebook,
was set up by Adam Stanborough in September for Facebook members
unhappy with the social networking site's redesign in July. It gained
one million members within 12 days, according to the Herald and Weekly Times.

A blog posting at Graham Cluley's Make Money Fast said spammers had put up advertisements on the site. Cluley is senior technology consultant for security vendor Sophos,

These advertisements are for get-rich-quick schemes and one is a
guide on how to seduce women, according to the blog. A check of the
site today though, by InternetNews.com, showed the ads had disappeared.

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space is about more than just managing content. It's about creating content too.

That's where open source ECM vendor Alfresco's new Labs 3.0
release comes into play. Alfresco Labs 3.0 adds new Web Studio
functionality that enables users to build sites with drag and drop
ease.

Alfresco's open source products compete in the commercial space against
Open Text, EMC/Documentum and Microsoft's SharePoint, among others. The
Labs release is Alfresco's community version and represents the leading
edge of its open source release efforts.

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Among the new additions in Alfresco Labs 3 is the Web Studio
application, which uses the Alfresco developed Surf web framework. Surf
is a modular script-able Java-based web framework for Web applications.
Newton claimed that Web Studio can be used for a drag-and-drop design
experience to build Web sites and applications.

"Web Studio allows you to work with and view the Web site you
are developing, but uses the Yahoo YUI [Yahoo User Interface] AJAX
libraries," Newton explained.

The Yahoo YUI is an Ajax toolkit for building and displaying dynamic
Web content. Web Studio is also designed to develop and edit Web sites
safely by using the new Alfesco Web Content Management REST (define) based Web Scripts.

Alfresco Labs 3.0 will also integrate with other Web content
management systems like the open source Joomla project. However,
Alfresco is targeting a different space for his products overall.

"Joomla and Drupal have very successfully focused on Web site
presentation management, which allows the non-technical content editor
to manage page layouts and site features," Newton said. "With the
introduction of Alfresco Web Studio, Alfresco has provided comparable
tools for the enterprise, allowing non-technical users to create and
manipulate new Web sites, but still adhering to the enterprise
architecture and technology requirements."

Alfresco Labs 3 also includes some support for the new CMIS (Content
Management Interoperability Services) standard that is currently being
developed by the OASIS standards body. Newton noted that CMIS holds the
promise of one day becoming the SQL (define) of the content management industry.

The Labs release is a precursor for upcoming features in the Alfresco Enterprise release, which benefits from additional testing, certification and support services.