CMS, or content management system is the most popular and yet easiest way to make a content Web site up and running, all we need to do is to upload and configure the source files to the hosting server. However, selecting the right CMS for the use of content driven site and make the real comparison between different CMS available on the Web, it is not easy. Thus, it’s not surprise that there are bunch of articles entitled from “Joomla vs Drupal?” “Joomla vs Drupal vs PHPnuke?” till “CMS made simple vs Drupal?” with the purpose of advising people in choosing the right CMS.

Still, there is a new entrant entering into this CMS space that called GetSimple. As the name suggests, GetSimple could be one of the simple CMS based on the fact that it is an XML based and in other words, it doesn’t need a database in order to run it. It is lightweight, open source, with the source files written in PHP and will help you build a small Web site in less than an hour.

Currently, GetSimple installation files come with two (2) themes, the Default_Simple theme and Cardinal theme. It is also equipped with some basic features such as “undo” as well as backup. Although it is not an ideal tool for developing large dynamic community Web sites, but for those who are in need of developing a small Web site, GetSimple offers an alternative to the popular CMS such as Drupal or Joomla.

Starting an online job board seems to be a good idea to monetize on the Web, though it’s not easy to find a niche for the field you’re targeting at if you planned to start a job board. For instance, if you’re looking forward to start a tech job board, or job board for freelancers, part-timers, you might come across a lot of the similar one in your home country. From a business perspective, that’s probably what the developers around the world were thinking when they developed the job board scripts which they can charge on a per-domain basis, so as far as the software-end is concerned, it’s hardly to find any of the good yet open source job board scripts out there.

Let’s say you want to start a job board and you do not want the hassle to develop your own by programming it or outsource it to the software house, you can now turn to an open source, and light-weight piece of job board script called JoobsBox.

JoobsBox, similar like another popular job board script Jobberbase, is built using PHP/MySQL. Currently, JoobsBox is still in Alpha stage, but includes features such as RSS feed integration on each category of job categories, plugin system that make it possible to extend the application easily, custom templates, iPhone ready and the availability of an admin panel. However, the posting of job opening is rather basic right now, employers will not need to register an account in order to post the job details to the job board. In other words, there is no any connection in between job seekers and employers where they can looking for each other. But JoobsBox is very easy to use as you can perform the installation in a 3-Step process, and it’s done.

In fact, this job board script is built to be light-weight, so you won’t find employer accounts, payment integration or resumes management. However, the aforesaid features is told to be developed in the upcoming release on its official blog.

If you’re interested with this job board script, check out the demo via here.

Zimplit is a newly launched extremely lightweight CMS (content management system) that designed for Web site owners to build the CMS-based small Web sites. If you’re in the middle of developing a content driven site that is up and running fast, Zimplit is an ideal tool that makes your Web site creation easy.

Since Zimplit is aimed to be an extremely lightweight, small and versatile CMS. It is designed for the non-technical people, and not the technically skilled users that familiar with customizing the bespoke or off the shelf CMS projects. With Zimplit, any user with the basic knowledge of Microsoft Office or Open Office can do the customization and manage hierarchical Web site she need without any bloat. If you wanted badly a small CMS, Zimplit would suffice.

To install this Zimplit, you’ll just need to upload and install it to your Web server provided your Web server supports PHP 4.3 and above. The software source file is small, consists of only one core engine file, i.e. zimplit.php that weigh in at 32KB. After you installing Zimplit, you will notice that there will be no admin panel, not like any other CMS framework that bundled with a beautiful admin interface in which you are allowed to define the data model. As a result, you don’t need a back-end database when you are using Zimplit. What you do is you just log in and edit on-site with the toolbar that offers some basic inline content editing features. Since Zimplit is offered without any charge, the Zimplit Legal Notices or “Zimple power” must be remained in the footer of your site, and if you wish to remove the Zimplit credit link from the footer, you simply can pay the credit removal fees for $49 per domain name.

Zimplit is an open source CMS released under AGPL3 license, and the startup behind this CMS is based in Estonia. In short, this CMS is focused on user-friendliness, and not on scalability.

Intel’s cool software platform, like any other Digg clone, the article submitted by registered user with the most votes will always be appeared on the main page. In evaluate how its offering can bring value to the software lovers, it does its founding mission. However, when I pay close attention to the community participation on the site, it still did not generate the same kind of buzz as generated by Digg, not to mention how this site will help Intel to find out “the next Google.” Perhaps all those so-called “the next Google” are still the small and lean ventures, and definitely not that easy be found by the ordinary Internet users, only private investors and venture capitalists will know how to access them in the first place.

This site is said was powered by Pligg, a famous open source content management system. When it is developed using an open source tool, I still curious how it cost around $40,000 to develop.

Update: This site has been closed down.

Sweetcron is a new open source software that helped one to create a self-hosted lifestream service. Currently developed in Japan and in Alpha phase, it probably will be released soon by its creator, i.e. a php programmer called Yongfook.

At this moment, very little information about this newly open source software, but the front page of Sweetcron stated that it will be an open source RSS aggregator, with a bunch of php source files that one can easily debug and improve from it, and of course, a default CSS theme readily offered to the users. Since it is an open source software which you can self-host it with your own domain, it also means that you need to configure the update yourself.