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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Content Management |
| Predecessor | Clickability, Inc. |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California  |
Key people | Noah Logan, SVP and General Manager, Clickability |
| Products | Web cntent management system |
| Website | http://www.clickability.com |
Clickability, Inc., a web content management system company.
History
In 1999, John Girard, Jeff Freund, Sean Noonan, and Timur Yarnall started Clickability in San Francisco.[1] After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Clickability cut its employee number from 40 to 15.[2]
Clickability raised $7.3 million in 2000. In 2008, it raised $8 million from Shasta Ventures and Convergence Partners.[3] According to a 2008 article in the San Jose Mercury News, since 2004 Clickability had been profitable.[3]
In 2011, Limelight Networks purchased Clickability.[4] In December 2013, Limelight Networks sold Clickability to Upland Software.[5]
Products
Clickability's first product was the "save this" tool, which the company released in late 1999 or early 2000.[1] Other initial products were Internet tools like "email this", "print this", and a "most popular" articles list.[1][6] Its products were used on hundreds of news websites such as CNN and The Wall Street Journal.[1]
In 2000 and 2001, online advertising was having running into difficulties, so Clickability decided to change its strategy to focus on creating software able to distribute content widely and concurrently to hundreds of websites. The company offered a content management system that allowed customers to administer the material on their websites. According to Information Today, the product had four components. First, Clickability acted as clients' infrastructure as a service by being their web hosting service and content repository. Second, Clickability helped move customers onto its platform. Third, it provided a software as a service by allowing customers to manage the content throughout its creation, review, and distribution. Fourth, it provided an online forum for clients to discuss how to make optimal use of the product.[1] In 2004, InfoWorld's Mike Heck said that Clickability cmPublish Version 4 was a Java-based software that "won't break your budget" and has "essential content creation and administration features".[7]
Clickability used memcached to retain "content objects as serialized Java objects" to provide caching to avoid unnecessary database accesses. In 2009, Clickability had 400 million page views every month.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e McClure, Marji (October 1, 2008). "Clickability Empowers Clients to Build Successful Sites". Information Today. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Ivey, Mike (August 9, 2007). "Design for News - Broadcast Interactive Creates Cutting Edge Media Sites". The Capital Times. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ a b Marshall, Matt (February 6, 2008). "Fremont Mobile Services Gets Funding". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Lawler, Ryan (May 2, 2011). "Limelight Adds CMS to the Cloud With Clickability Buy". Gigaom. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Aponovich, David (January 2, 2014). "Limelight Sells Clickability: Speed Takes Priority Over Web Content Management". Forrester Research. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Bialik, Carl (May 19, 2009). "The Growing Popularity of Popularity Lists". Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Heck, Mike (October 25, 2004). "Content Control on Demand". InfoWorld. Vol. 26, no. 43. p. 40. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Galbraith, Patrick (2009). Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. p. 6. ISBN 0470538325. Retrieved September 10, 2016.