Big Drupal: Ten Trends for the Enterprise

Acquia, amazon web services, cloud computing, community, distributions, drupal, drupalcon, Open Calais, open source, OpenPublish, RDF, rdfa, semantic web, Tattler

Jeff:

As the Drupal community and lots of newcomers all descend on San Francisco this week, I am making just one (maybe not so bold) prediction: This conference is the tipping point. Drupal is officially big. Why is this all happening now? It is likely a combination of many things: maturity of the product itself, size of the installed base, growth in community popularity and participation, lack of affordable alternatives for comparable web 2.0 functionality, etc. I actually prefer to view it more as the maturity of Drupal as a platform through which the Drupal technology community is pushing Drupal forward - potentially straight into enterprise software territory. Here is my "top ten style" list of the technology trends I see fueling this growth.

Posted 04/19/2010 - 14:37

Knight Foundation Funds Open Source Innovation

community, innovation, journalism, Knight Foundation, open source, technology

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As a leader in the news industry, the Knight Foundation is transforming the way communities and journalists create and disseminate content. Each year the foundation grants millions of dollars to this initiative and while it prides itself on giving to a wide range of projects, there does seem to be an exciting underlying trend¬open source.

Posted 06/30/2009 - 15:09

A different take on 2.0

community, social networks, web 2.0

Tiffany:

Earlier today, I posted an article form Gartner about how companies could use Web 2.0 to better their business. This afternoon, I came across a post on Click Z cautioning corporate sites against trying to create communities when it doesn’t make sense. I think there’s a middle ground. The key is simply knowing your audience and engaging them in the right way.

Posted 02/26/2008 - 18:47