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We're happy to announce that the latest version of our free Drupal AMI has been released: Drupal AMI 1.0 RC1, AWS ID ami-7e5bbf17. Like the previous version of our AMI, it will allow you to install any version of Drupal that you like, at the click of a button.
What's new in this version? At the request of our users, this AMI comes pre-installed with several packages that are dependencies used by many popular Drupal modules, including pear, screen, php-soap, Crypt_HMAC, and mcrypt (both the package and the apache configuration). read more »
We’ve had a great response to CDN2, our video platform for Drupal. The number one request so far was to make a Drupal 6 compatible version. I’m happy to announce that CDN2 is now available for Drupal 6 on the Drupal.org project page.
So, for a while now, we at WorkHabit have been wanting to integrate two of our favorite tools: Google Docs, and Drupal.
If you haven’t tried to do video online, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is. There’s a large number of formats out there, and often your source video isn’t appropriate for displaying on a web page. The process of converting the source to a format and size that works online and then getting it into Drupal and delivered to your viewers turns out to be expensive and time consuming. read more »
A few questions arose about how to use the Drupal Amazon EC2 AMI we released in August. We added some screenshots to the page to help show how to configure it and clarified the instructions a bit. To help further, I created a quick screencast demonstrating the process of launching the AMI, connecting it to persistent storage, and then stopping the instance and reconnecting the persistent storage to another instance. read more »
While Twitter has been the source of many articles speculating to it's monetization potential, no known articles exist that analyze the feasibility and potential market size of Twitter given leading ideas. This article examines five possible revenue models that we consider "best bets" for Twitter. From these models and observations, we consider the possibility of whether a full time, dedicated-to-twitter-based agency can exist, and what possible market they would serve. read more »
Is it possible that the nature of user's attention has changed, and continues to change in reaction to a change in communication brought about by social networks? I'm trying to dive into more in-depth, research backed positions about some of the key issues that have been bothering me. I'm using my background to find empirical information, rather than rely on anecdotal evidence. Most of the articles I read in other blogs on this subject rely on anecdotal evidence: increases in spam, increased search eliminating the need to know (when you can look up) read more »
Here is a fact: developers tend to overvalue their innovations.
Contrarily, consumers tend to undervalue innovation. This disconnect is fundamental, and explains so many behaviors in Silicon Valley, I'm surprised by the lack of awareness or at least attention paid to these points by venture and early capital investors. It's out there, but it's advice you'll usually only get after you drive a few companies into the ground, and that can be tough advice to learn. read more »
Ruven made a really great post about cloud interoperability today: read more »
I was just encountered with the need to have a multi-site drupal install which utilized a specific theme for each site. In a lot of cases, multi-sites are set up on one drupal install, but utilize individual databases for each site. This is done by setting $db_url in settings.php to point to the database to be used for each site.
In our case, we needed to have a multi-site platform on one drupal install using only one database, but each site needed to display its own theme. This is accomplished by modifying each settings.php file for each site and un-commenting the following code. read more »
