Drupal is the overall winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, edging out Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who came 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The Open Source CMS Award is run my Packt Publishing and is selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. There were over 18,000 votes.
This week Google has revealed its plans to enter the mobile phone market and it aims to "bring the internet into cell phones in a very cool way". The mobile market reached saturation point in the developed world long ago, but if one company can give it a massive shake up, its Google.
I expressed my delight for holding my PageRank at 4 last week and reasons why I felt it was holding steady. Well, now I have PageRank egg on my face! Google has now dropped my PageRank to 2!
SEO is getting easier. I know your probably thinking that I have lost my marbles. How can anyone say that SEO is getting easier with the ever increasing number of web pages available to the search engines? Because the major search engines are getting better at getting rid of the bad pages, spammers and anyone who has previously ranked using dodgy or even slightly dodgy methods.
Google has released another PageRank update and bloggers all over the world are complaining of a drop in PageRank. Even ProBlogger has had a drop to a PageRank of 4. Luckily my little blog has maintained its PageRank of 4. Alright, 4 is not fantastic, but its not bad either.
Jonny Platt has developed a Drupal module that integrates Affiliate Window's ShopWindow functionality into Drupal. ShopWindow is a system that enables a webmaster or affiliate marketer to add thousands of products to a website with amazing ease and speed.
If you are using Drupal on share hosting, you have probably experienced a white screen. You see nothing on the screen. You had might as well be skiing in a blizzard. This generally happens when PHP runs out of memory and is one of the biggest problems with shared hosting.
But do not panic. It is fairly easy to fix in most cases.
Another UK affiliate has made it onto Dragons' Den. Last session we had Ling Valentine gracing us with her presence in Den, who famously said "I eat Dragon's for breakfast" while turning down the Dragon's investment.
I've been planning on doing a weekly roundup of interesting or inspiring posts from the blogsphere for sometime now.
So here it goes, a few posts that grabbed my attention in the past week
PC Magazine has released the list of its top 100 blogs of 2007.
There are some quality blogs in the list. You probably already have some in your RSS reader, but I'm sure you'll find some more real gems.