When Digg.com started there were some rumors that Digg was build upon Drupal. While these rumors were quickly demystified, the point was that in Drupal it would not be too hard to build something like digg, as the search on google shows

Now over at Wired (I used to read the dead tree edition back in the 90-ies) it says:
Build a DIY Digg Clone with Drupal

Drupal developer Tony Mobily has built a new module for Drupal which enables anyone to start up their own Digg clone. You can grab the code and contribute to the project at drigg-code.org, or you can see it in action at drigg.org.

I am sure that some old mainstream media who are eager to get on the 2.oooh boat (or will drown!) are willing to use something like this. I am not the type that says "there is a module that will do exactly what your business problem is" as some do. Yes, more then 2k modules but most sites need drupal core, views, cck, workflow and a handful of custom modules. But having a Digg-clone.module around sure is easy for those that see "digg-clone" as their business objective.

The funny thing is, back in 2000 / 2001 there was no Drupal. We had drop.org in those days. Drop.org was running Drupal and in fact it was like a Digg without the fancy AJAX (and the overhyped budget.. and the big audience... and...)

Over at businesswire.com you can read the pressrelease of KickApps and how it integrates with Drupal for the identity management part.

KickApps [...] today announced the availability of a Single Sign-On (SSO) module that enables a seamless member login experience between Drupal powered sites and KickApps hosted social media sites.

KickApps is an ASP service (nowadays people prefer to call it SaaS) that enables easy integration of rich media. Mind you, all that KickApps does can be done within Drupal but is sure more easy to use this as a service from someone else for the SoHo market.

The downside however of using an ASP webservice is that there is no integration with your own site. No:

1. cosmetic (look and feel) integration
2. meta data integration and
3. user / identity integration

The first one can be solved by sharing CSS files, the second one is hard but most people -even information managers- do not understand why the lack of meta data integration is bad. The last one is the real problem, you want personalization with identity integration and a seamless experience for the user. KickApps now released a Drupal module to enable this last point, identity integration from Drupal to KickApps.

You can read about how to integrate your Drupal site and KickApps at Kickdeveloper and download the Drupal module over there (rightly GPLv2 licensed).

Personally I dont care much for this service but any service that helps to let Drupal grow in any direction is welcomed by me.

Getting Things Done in Drupal, a very ambitious title and unambiguous. You can get lots of things done in Drupal. What I meant here was an integration of the "work-life management system" Getting Things Done and how Drupal could help you do so.

Getting Things Done is a title of a book (amazon) that evolved into a subculture of its own, lots of nerds and geeks dig the way of GTD to gtd. There are lots of computer programs to support you to use GTD as a management system, Things (screencast) for example for the Mac. The way most of these programs work is rather simple, you organise stuff, you file stuff and you prioritize stuff.

Or to be complete:

1. Collect
2. Process
3. Organize
4. Review
5. Do

Except for the actuall "doing" part, most mature CMS can help you here. Drupal for example is rather good at collecting and organizing data. So I was amazed that no-one ever wrote a small gtd.module that is able to collect your tasks from ical and your inbox, processes them with some minimal workflow, helps you label them with taxonomy (freetagging?), let you review the todo items and helps you actually doing things within time.

Drupal is a lot. It is a Content Management Platform, A Content Management System and can do amazing stuff. Part of where Drupal is heading is getting into the enterprise, not the layer on top of it; making a nice website with lots of intercation, but in the enterprise. There it will compete with Lotus and for example Sharepoint. Drupal can beat those, they are monolitic beasts that can do something they way the vendor thought it should be done. Rather well suited for that task but not flexible. Drupal as an intranet tool to let information workers share, grow and keep knowledge from falling into becoming information (or worse data). A big market with Open Source not being dominant as it is on the internet side of the company with other rules and integration problems. But a "getting things done" module in combination with the modules that are already there and more API's to use webservices will certainly help Drupal entering the corporate intranets.

So who will GTD by writing a first GTD.module?

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Gebaseerd op de overbekende 2.0 wolk en omdat ik binnenkort een presentatie op een evenement ga doen met de titel "Web 2.0, Eerste nota ruimtelijke ordening", beide gecombineerd. Nederland 2.0

(Ja, I know, The World Is Flat)