We've arrived at the Drupal conference! Currently in the Drupal keynote talk, with Dries (Drupal founder) and Rasmus (PHP founder). More news as it comes to hand.

I was reading a blog today, and it had a set of quite interesting widgets, showing realtime information about where in the world visitors to the site were coming from. There were also blocks showing realtime "related-pages" etc. This information turned out to be provided by http://feedjit.com/ which has been getting a little bit of buzz recently. I thought this was cool, added a custom block to this website to experiment, then threw together a quick Drupal module, to make it easy to add these blocks to your own Drupal site. Enjoy!

Now, the interesting thing is not the module, but it's searchrank. Within a couple of hours of creating the project on drupal.org it was ranking number FIVE on Google for the term feedjit, from a total of 9.3 million results. Wow! It appears that Drupal is (again) doing an incredible job of exposing content to Google.

Taniwha Solutions will be sending two people to the next Drupalcon in Szeged, Hungary. This should be another exciting opportunity to meet fellow community members, talk about the future of Drupal, and write some new code! Of course, there's a full schedule, but as I do more of these things, I'm learning that the real action is not at the sessions, but elsewhere!

Nine weeks to Drupalcon Szeged - and registration is now open. See http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/ for details.

Taniwha is sending two of it's staff to Szeged, Hungary, to catch up with the latest and greatest in the Drupal community, renew relationships with other Drupal people, and generally have a good time. If you're in the neighborhood, come along!

The quote says it all:

... an open-source (i.e. free) content management system that’s flexible and feature-packed. Over the last couple of years or so, it’s taken off as the go-to platform to run websites that require a lot of community and content management features. From personal blogs and brochure sites, to fully-featured social networking sites, portals, news sites, and e-commerce websites, Drupal has proven itself as the most robust platform currently available in the content management system market.

It then goes to showcase a list of 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites, with screenshots.