News and announcements

Hi,

I posted this first to the Drupal Showcase section of the forum. I'm not sure if that was the best place for it, so I decided to post it here as well. I launched quite an innovative web-application recently, powered by Drupal and jQuery - Streetread.com. Streetread is an ajax-driven financial news aggregator that really shows off the potential of Drupal. As a thanks to everyone involved in Drupal, this great project, I spent a few days doing a writeup of the development process and some key techniques needed to produce such a site. I hope everyone can benefit from it.

I find it rather significant that the American Library Association published a whole issue entitled "Drupal in Libraries". While there are a couple other open source options in the library-sphere, Drupal is clearly gaining traction.

This (paid content) piece starts provocatively with a section entitled "Welcome to a new paradigm" and then jumps right into describing what Drupal provides to library scientists and how it can be used. The sections include:

Google's Knol, a service similar to Wikipedia, was announced open yesterday on the Google blog. As the service will undoubtedly draw a number of visitors, I thought it prudent an article on Drupal be established. I've started one, but I have nowhere near enough history with the community to write the article by myself.

The AvatarBlocks module provides a collection of blocks for use on a Drupal social networking site. The avatars act as click-able links to the profile pages for your site's users. A live demonstration is available on the AvatarBlocks Demo site. Complete instructions for installing and using AvatarBlocks can be found in the AvatarBlocks Handbook.