Awakened Voice

I met Vineet Gupta at the recent DrupalCampNYC event. Vineet is a technology evangelist and engineer for Daylife. Daylife is a social news site that is providing application developers with tools that allow them to include dynamic news in websites by leveraging the Daylife technology platform.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Daylife since their launch [...]

The Drupal platform has always lacked in one area that interests lots of people. The inclusion of rich media (video, audio, photos) into Drupal sites has historically been achieved by node focused solutions. Modules like Video and Audio attach media to specific nodes. These modules work well for certain implementations. But the issue of a [...]

I recorded a session that took place yesterday at DrupalCampNYC4. Day one was a pretty relaxed day with a lot of networking and small groups sharing information. There was also an intro to Drupal session that was full. Some of us who weren’t in the Drupal intro session got together for a wide-ranging discussion about [...]

I’m going to be at DrupalCampNYC 4 tomorrow in Brooklyn. I’m going to learn more about this platform that is getting a higher profile every day. I hope to turn some of that knowledge around to you. Some of that turnaround will be more immediate and some will be turned around over time. I’ll try [...]

Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central has recently used his blog and podcast to rail against WordPress and Drupal. The Drupal rant occurred on his March 4th podcast where he announced his surprise at the funding of Acquia. A couple of days ago Todd took aim at WordPress in a blog post about his preference [...]

I’m a big fan of both Drupal and WordPress. So it was great to see via Weblog Tools Collection that a module has been developed to integrate WordPress into a Drupal install.
Key features are single sign-on and synchronization of user profile data. I haven’t tried it yet but will be interested in doing so soon. [...]

I have posted a new tour over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center. It is a 15 minute look at the Miro open source video player. Play it below or get the full resolution version over on the original post.

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One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is how passionate members of the open source community are about the tools that they make and use. When I started doing screencasts last summer I didn’t really have any road map with respect to the tools that I would cover. I decided to focus on [...]

I have added a new tutorial to the Learning Center. This one shows you how to add video to a site based on the Drupal content management platform. Check it out here.
[tags]Social Media, Drupal, Video, Screencast, Educational, How To, Open Source[/tags]

Prepare to be blown away. Everyone knows that the one-two punch of iTunes and (a distant second) Windows Media Player has dominated the desktop media player market for years now.
And since iTunes added podcast subscription and a directory in June 2005 it has been the defacto app for finding and subscribing to podcasts. That could [...]