As I write this post on my wordpress mu based site, I am already thinking 
whether I need to move to CrowdFusion. My first look take on it, even if it is half as good as it claims to be, it is here to stay.
So, What is Crowd Fusion?
A CMS. An intelligent CMS. All the time in the world as we talk about WEB 2.0 we keep moving towards WEB 3.0. An intelligent Web. CrowdFusion takes the CMS queue forward in this WEB 3.0 direction.
What is there in Crowd Fusion?
Crowd Fusion happens to be a platform which will enable content management, database managment and social features with their implementation of blogs, wikis and other stuff in an unified platform. “Unified” seems to be the buzzword these days.
Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are pretty good. What is the need for Crowd Fusion then?
More and more content based sites seem to be creating a structured database of products or topics they write on. They want to link their sites’ internal content to engage the user, and even update themselves and the content with something else happening around the web on related stuff. People go on to find stuff using their feeds and provide links the way I do. Crowd Fusions seems to have the right solution for a complex problem. Weblogs co-creator Brian Alvey describes Crowd Fusion as “the last [content management system] you’ll ever use.” A bold claim. I don’t believe that it will be the last but I hope Crowd Fusion is a big step forward.
It seems to have a integrated feed system which keeps you updated about the stuff you write on your website, putting their excerpts in your post, with links to them (the way we do it) and even provide related posts online about the same. The face that it has a plugin architecture means it is extensible. Also, the fact that it has already been opensourced means it should not struggle to get developers.
Revenue Model?
A big question here. They say, they like the MySQL model (scaling, hosting etc) a lot. Lets hope it works for them.
How do you get it?
It is in public beta. Check it out here. If you want to see a sample site made with crowd fusion try this site. I registered for their Beta program and so can others.
So What else do we want?
A big question is if they have built tools to import wordpress, drupal etc based sites on the go. I feel that will be important, because to get people create stuff from the scratch may not work. This can be taken as a piece of advise from my side to the Crowd Fusion team.
Best of luck to the CrowdFusion team from the Microreviews team.
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