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Social Publishing ≠ Social Networking - So What Is It?

Posted on Wed, Feb 27, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott

John Willis recently published a post that equates social publishing with social networking. While the post is pretty good, and I agree with most of the points, I need to correct the bit about the definition of social publishing. It’s way more than social networking. Let me explain.

Social publishing is a blend of three categories:
1) web content management
2) social software (blogs, wikis, social networking platforms, forums, etc.)
3) web app frameworks

The stuff that I am able to build with Drupal ... is just mind-blowing

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http://www.twit.tv/mbw55

"That is a system that would have cost a half a million dollars...The stuff that I am able to build with Drupal that scales and handles load and does the kind of stuff I am want to do is just mind-blowing. And I find it very easy to use."

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Anne Zelenka Checking Out Drupal & Acquia

Posted on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott

I just noticed that pro blogger and technologist Anne Zelenka is checking out Drupal and Acquia.

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A Dormant Drupal Opportunity?

Posted on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott

Gartner, one of the leading technology industry analyst firms, published their list of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 back in October 2007 at their Gartner Symposium/ITXpo event. I was at the event, but somehow missed the press release. Karthikeyan over at Seeking Alpha just posted a summary that brought it to my attention.

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On The Market Value of a Brand

Posted on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott

Sandro Groganz has an interesting post where he attempts to calculate the value of the MySQL brand as a component of the acquisition price Sun paid. Here's the punch line: "As of today, a whopping 85% of MySQL’s economic value added can be attributed to its strong Open Source brand." I haven't checked Sandro's math in detail, but it's clear that brand is a huge component of the value of MySQL."