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The next Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup is on Tuesday, July 8th from 6 – 8 at Teqcorner in Mclean. More information here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12804

Recently, we chatted with Acquia about the Calais modules for integration with Drupal that we developed in partnership with Thomson Reuters.

Listen to the podcast here: http://acquia.com/node/269

Tonight’s meetup will feature a presentation from Worthpoint’s Amran Anwar about scaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ dynamic page views a day. We’ll kickoff the presentation at 6:15. Hope to see you there!

On Tuesday, May 12th, we hope to see you at TeqCorner to hear Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, discuss his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system.

It’s the biggest but is it the best? If you want to go beyond Google, here is a great list of alternative search engines.

I came across an interesting Wiki today, brought to you by the folks at East Coast Blogging. It lists and tracks companies in first stages located in the DC metro area. It also includes what they do and if you have a startup or know of one, you can add it easily. I found out about several great startups that I surely would never have stumbled across. Check it out

As media companies continue to worry about how to make money, some are getting into the advertising business. Read the article from AP

Phase 2’s Frank and Irakli are on their way back from Boston. Check out their coverage of DrupalCon 2008.

Here’s a nifty tool that allows you to create widgets without Flash know-how.

Phase 2’s own Irakli and Frank are blogging live from Drupalcon 2008 in Boston. Check it out here