Last year we set up an Anolim page on Facebook and today, I integrated the Anolim Blog into the Facebook page. So you can now follow our blog on Anolim's Facebook Wall and Notes pages. 

The Anolim Facebook page now has 58 fans, so the pressure is on us to make it worthwhile for our fans to follow the page :-). So I will share with you this amazingly simple way to share your blog on Facebook.

Liebe Kunden, Freunde und Bekannte

Wir vom Anolim-Team bedanken uns recht herzlich für die tolle Unterstützung im vergangenen Jahr und blicken bereits voller Vorfreude auf das Kommende.

Aus diesem Grund möchten wir  bereits heute auf unseren 1. Jahres-Kick-off-Apéro hinweisen, welcher am 27. Januar 2010 (Abends) stattfinden wird. Eine gute Gelegenheit, mit uns das neue Jahr einzuläuten und uns über die neuesten Entwicklungen im Webbereich unterhalten zu können. Genauere Details folgen Anfang Januar.

Nun wünschen wir Euch ein besinnliches Fest im Kreis der Lieben und einen erfolgreichen Rutsch ins neue Jahr, in welchem sich Eure beruflichen wie auch privaten Ziele erfüllen sollen.

Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit.

What is content? Is it data? I like to think of content as the machine (computer) representation of information.

The word data usually conjures up visions of tables in relational databases, SQL, stored procedures, various normal forms, keys, indexes etc. Data in relational database tables is great when it comes to sifting through millions of rows spread across many tables to give us what we are looking for.

Here are the slides for the talk Lukas and me gave about why Drupal is popular in the Media at the Drupal Media Camp 2009 in Aarau, Switzerland.

Here are the slides for the talk I gave at the Techtalk hosted by the Internet Briefing on 7 April 2009 in Zürich, Switzerland.

On behalf of Anolim I have been active in the organization of the Drupal Media Camp on 8-9 May 2009 in Aarau, Switzerland. Two of the big media users of Drupal  in Switzerland the publisher Edipresse and Radio DRS will be attending - in fact Edipresse is sponsoring the event.

This event will be offering lots of interesting presentations about Drupal and the Media. Themes being covered include things like how Drupal can help with developing solutions for media platforms or the technical nitty gritty about Drupal's media modules for photo, video and audio handling and of course how to mashup / tie this all together with communities and existing services on the web like flickr, twitter, youtube, facebook etc.

Head over to Drupal Media Camp Registration to sign up for the event.

There is still room for interesting presentations - head over to Call for Speakers if you have something interesting to share with (potential) users and the Drupal community. This is an international event and there will be presentations in English and German.

Today I gave a talk to a group of my peers at the Internet Briefing group where I examined some of the trends in the areas of:

• the semantic web,
• web development tools and
• web / cloud infrastructure platforms.

A lively discussion followed. Judging by the number of questions, there was a lot of interest among participants about the potential of the semantic Web. I highlighted two of the standards, RDFa and SPARQL that are available today e.g. in Web Content Frameworks like Drupal. Semantically marking up content can also lead to better search experiences using for example Yahoo's SearchMonkey.

An important component of Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the semantic web is to enable more automated processing of information. This would allow us to start thinking about the web as a giant database which is what makes SPARQL an interesting standard. See Tim Berners-Lee's talk about his vision for linked data in this TED video

At the recently concluded Drupalcamp in Cologne in January, 2009, I organized a workshop about building a community site with Drupal. It was a lively workshop with lots of questions and suggestions. I didn't get through as many features as I wanted to cover, so I have put the workshop online at http://dropper.anolim.com for those of you who are interested to follow it and continue the workshop online.

After registering yourself you should be able to activate and configure a whole bunch of community modules and try them out on the site. I look forward to continuing the lively exchange with you online.

Drupalcon Szeged 2008 demonstrated that the Drupal community is as vibrant as ever and Drupal itself is maturing as a product and as a community. (See references for a list of links relevant to the conference.) 

Drupal has grown rapidly the last few years thanks to its being a unique combination of a content management system as well as a development and programming framework. The vibrant community has ensured that most current and popular web technologies and services are supported in Drupal through the large number of contributed modules and themes (currently > 3000).  As a result Drupal adoption has been widespread from small business sites to large newspapers, web 2.0 community and media sites.