I'm often asked the question, "What do you think the next Twitter is going to be?" Until very recently my usual answer was to mention FriendFeed, due to it's powerful aggregation offerings.
The Cloning 16 social media sites in Drupal made it's way back to me again. While it doesn't provide step-by-step instructions, it does illustrate what a modular CMS like Drupal is capable of. High...
At the heart of most social networks is the ability for users to contribute content and collaborate/communicate with each other. At its foundation “relationships” are typically defined giving users...
Activity Stream is a Drupal module that allows you and your users to aggregate social media feeds into one place. The default modules supports feeds from Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Last...
Currently I am developing out the user interface for an online community. Before getting started, I spent a lot of time on some of the most popular (and some not so popular) social community websites...
Drupal 7 will bring about a new way of implementing user profiles with the integration of CCK in core & support for CCK fields for users. In Drupal 6, site builders rely on a core module called...
Building a large following on Twitter can be akin to acting as a club promoter trying get as many people to the party as possible. You have to build up your street cred, know the right people (or at...
Hopefully, if you’re making a decision on re-designing or building a new website for your company at least one of the criteria for selecting an agency is; 1. “Doe's the agency’s own web site reflect...
By default, views of type Term link to category pages (taxonomy/term/[tid]). I find that category pages are more useful as custom views where you can control fields. You can effectively replace the...
I am currently on a project that requires a 2-level drop down navigation and a sidebar block that displays the pages in the current section. This is not the first or second time I have used this...