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Open source disrupting the Web 2.0 market size

Posted on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 by Kieran Lal
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On Thursday, Jeff, Bryan, Barry and I had a follow up meeting with Oliver Young, who recently released Forrester's Global Enterprise Web 2.0 market forecast. Oliver's been pretty busy explaining that his forecast methodology focused on just seven specific tools used in Web 2.0 deployments, and not the entire Web 2.0 market. It was an important clarification that addressed my questions about the costs related to generating user content or gardening collective intelligence.

Drupal 6: Hot new themes

Posted on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 by Robert Douglass
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This video highlights the new theming features of Drupal 6. The themes, Pixture, Wabi, and Twilight, are the work of Hide Ito (Pixture), and utilize not only the Farbtastic color picker, but also the ability to adjust the width of the layout, and in the case of Twilight, a configurable header silhouette.

Drupal's Search Framework: The execution of a search

Posted on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 by Robert Douglass
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Drupal's ambitious search module provides a framework for building searches of all kinds. By isolating the tasks involved in searching, and allowing the actual search implementations to be handled by other modules, the search framework sets the stage for all sorts of creative search applications. This article, which applies to Drupal 6, explores the structure of the search framework by following the steps needed to execute a search.

## Stucture of a search

Vote for Acquia @ Web 2.0 Launch Pad from your desk - in the next hour

Posted on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 by Bryan House
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The Launch Pad session at Web 2.0 Expo is getting started and you can join from your desktop. There's a good number of Drupal community folks here at the show, but you can participate from your desk.

The "winner" will be chosen by live audience voting via mozes. The SMS number will be announced at about 2:25 pm Pacific time. I'll tweet the SMS number on the Acquia twitter feed - here: http://twitter.com/acquia.

Stay tuned & vote!

Clay Shirky on growing the Drupal community

Posted on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 by Kieran Lal
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I am at Web2Open and participating in the rapid fire question and answer session. Clay Shirky, Web 2.0 keynote speaker, and author of "Here comes everybody" is at my table. Clay's ideas are like poetry which leaves me struggling to even think of a topic to discuss with him.

Forrester study: Hot growth for Web 2.0 suites.... [ed. like Drupal]

Posted on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 by Kieran Lal
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On August 9th, 2007 the Drupal association was invited to participate in a study to size the global enterprise Web 2.0 market. We were invited since Drupal was associated with this technology market. Forrester wanted to get our insights and perspectives to help us with their research. The research and questions were answered by Troy Angrignon and myself. Troy and I discussed this report at Druaplcon Barcelona and he offered to help make some estimates of the Drupal business opportunity at the time.

Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs...

Posted on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 by Kieran Lal
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For fans of one of the greatest action classics of all time, Die Hard, you'll remember East coast cop John McClane's sarcastic description of his invitation to come out to the west coast after he gets trapped in a building full of thieves.

The Minnesota Search Sprint

Posted on Mon, Apr 21, 2008 by Robert Douglass
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Continuing the great and growing tradition of bringing people together in small groups to attack focused problems, a search related code sprint has been planned. From May 9 to 11, in the headquarters of the University of Minnesota Libraries, a small but dedicated group of Drupal coders will be melding minds to bring forth the next generation of Drupal search.

## Why Search?

Drupal has a great search module. The search index it builds powers search on Drupal.org and thousands of other sites. It is a critical piece of the Drupal project and fundamental to countless sites built on Drupal. Being able to effectively search for issues and solutions is a cornerstone of keeping the Drupal.org community happy and productive, so investing in making search even better is akin to investing in Drupal's overall success.

Dries Selected as a Business Week Best Young Entrepreneur of Tech

Posted on Fri, Apr 18, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott
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This is really cool and very well deserved. Dries was selected by Business Week magazine as a Best Young Entrepreneur of Tech.

Dries is "among a handful of innovators who are building businesses and products aimed at other companies and who were identified in a survey of venture capitalists and BusinessWeek editors and readers as some of this year's most promising young technology entrepreneurs."

Shining the light on Acquia and Drupal

Posted on Fri, Apr 18, 2008 by Bryan House
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Things are cooking here at Acquia - with lots happening to spread the word about Acquia and Drupal.

First - Dries was named one of Tech’s best young entrepreneur’s today by Businessweek.com. It’s a good piece & Dries got great billing in the article. Congratulations, Dries - well deserved .

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