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Drupal will Explode your Site into a Million Pieces, and Why You Want That.
Views as a Web Widget has the potential to revolutionize the Internet, now that I think about it. Taking a hint from Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion in The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites, we are entering a time where creating an API for embedding content within another site is becoming a standard way of sharing information.
The leading players on the web all see the train coming. They are wisely creating APIs and turning themselves into plug-and-play services, not just big destinations. YouTube is just the latest to do so today. Amazon has S3. Google has OpenSocial and an extensive library of APIs. As does Microsoft. Facebook is allowing its applications to live outside the site. Twitter is an API first and (eventually) a business model second. Finally, the booming widget economy shows the promise of small content that can go anywhere.
The Views as a Web Widget project is being proposed for Google's 2008 Summer of Code. This project will allow an administrator to turn any view into a widget.
As I have experience with this, having implemented Views Slideshow (any view into a slideshow), Embedded Media Field (embedding external "widgets" from YouTube, Flickr, etc.), and a widget for Maplight, and am interested in being a mentor this year, I plan to offer to mentor that project, along with Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg.
Tim Berners-Lee spoke last week on the topic, saying that the semantic web will supersede the monolithic giants of Facebook and Google. As Dries recently indicated at his State of Drupal address in Boston, the Drupal of the future will be semantic web.
The Drupal of the Future will explode your site into a million pieces. And if your site can handle that, it will thrive in that multifaceted environment.
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Alexander (not verified)
Drupal is good in russia too.
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Pedro Pablo (not verified)
This is a great module, and I have implemented successfully in business sites like this http://aelis.es, but you should be aware that due to some nasty Windows vista problems/features when rendering text, if you use this module with a view that includes text, and want to activate de fade option (btw, really cool), all your Vista users will see how the text pixels after the first transition...
So this nasty thing avoid the use of fading transitions for almost every view... or to say "go away, this site is for people with a decent OS" to Vista users :-) -
Iran Plata Cuban Artist (not verified)
Interesting art - there is a lot of good artwork out there by relative unknowns - it's a pity the artworld has such a snobbish reputation which I think puts off a lot of people taking up art ("I'll never be recognised / how to please the critics?") or enjoying it at face value ("Should I like this painting? So many art critics hated it, maybe I should too").
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Jay Batson (not verified)
Soooooooooooo exciting. I'm jittery with excitement. :-)
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bangpound (not verified)
it looks very fine!
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Drupal is good in russia too.
Now that is what I call an
Now that is what I call an excellent guide, thanks
Drupal - Embedded Media
I've been searching the web for Drupal 6 information. I've found DrupalCon info as well as anti wordpress folks. I think the future of the web is going to be in API and obviously YouTube, Google and many others have jumped on board. I agree with the writer of this post that integrating the many apps such as twitter and embedded media is the way to go. Nice read. Thanks! ~Phil
youtube
my vote goes to youtube,
allowing users to register and login makes them feel they are part of the system and want to contribute
its nice to be able to visit sites add photos videos or whatever
i have been to parties where users shoot photos of themselves and post them on facebook the next day
thats all they do
hello! you know, as a common
hello! you know, as a common ordinary user i've heard about Drupal, but i had no idea about what's it and how does it work... after your article it's really interesting! i think one day i will need this information. and esepcially i appreciate this idea that in the Internet battle win only servce providing business not sites themselves
There a lot of potentially
There a lot of potentially high quality application usage brought about by Drupal. Technology has really come a long ways, in giving online users a heightened Net experience.
Nice page. Thanks for
Nice page. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for Overview
I'll be sure to write more about the project as the summer progresses, but for now I just wanted to end by saying congrats to John Snow, and THANK YOU to google for funding this initiative, and to all the hard working Drupalistas (most of all Webchick) who have helped Drupal to accept 21 awesome students, whose projects promise to bring an amazing amount of new features and functions to Drupal
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Drupal is the best open source framework.
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Easy to install - Drupal installation described here;
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Lots of modules to add even more functionality to your site;
Flexibility - you can easily turn your drupal installation into a forum, faq, blog, wiki and many other types of web sites;
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Nice to hear someone fighting
Nice to hear someone fighting the Drupal cause from a perspective different from that of the full on techie.
Nice to hear someone fighting
Nice to hear someone fighting the Drupal cause from a perspective different from that of the full on techie.
From Peter Monroe
We're considering using drupal for a new electrical business that we are starting here in New Zealand. This has helped cement my ideas about it. Thanks!
Welcome to Drupal!
Glad to have you on board!
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