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Seminar Drupal as a web platform: Slides online

You can find the slides of our presentation on 18/11/2009 online: http://www.calibrate.be/events/drupal-web-platform

Thank you all for coming and we hope to hear from you soon!

Dries Buytaert receives CIOnet Innovation Award

- 17 november 2009

Dries Buytaert, de oprichter van Drupal, heeft de eerste CIOnet Innovation Award gekregen. Begin volgend jaar moet trouwens Drupal7 klaar zijn.

De opensource cms-oplossing Drupal werd al meer dan 2 miljoen keer gedownload. Het kan rekenen op een actieve community van 1.500 ontwikkelaars die al meer dan 4.500 modulles toegevoegd hebben. Zo zijn er meer dan tien e-commerce modules. "We werken volgens het Darwin-model: de fitste overleeft. De beste module haalt het en muteert op z'n beurt," vertelde Dries Buytaert tijdens het CIOnet event in Brussel. In de marge kondigde hij aan dat begin volgend jaar Drupal7 wordt gelanceerd.

Er draaien vandaag zo'n 400.000 websites op Drupal, waaronder de website van Obama en zopas ook de website van het Belgische koningshuis. "Mag ik me nu ook hofleverancier noemen?", grapte Dries Buytaert.

New MTVNE digitexts are live

Calibrate has launched new, updated versions of the Nickelodeon, TMF and MTV digitexts. MTV Networks now has total control over the content they offer in their respective digitext environments. The new Calibrate Digitext system allows to create contests, live call to actions, manage the digitext content and disable/enable functionalities to the home viewer.
Importantly, this environment is multi platform, which means that all content can be viewed by both Belgacom and Telenet customers. The new Belgacom version will be launched on a later date.
A chat client is integrated into the new TMF digitext, which will become available to the customer in a few days. In the chatrooms, fully manageable by MTV Networks, viewers can discuss the latest TV shows, music, video games and much more.

The White House goes Drupal

De nieuwe website van het Witte Huis draait op Drupal, software van Belgische makelij. Internationaal draaien behoorlijk wat vooraanstaande websites op Drupal. Al is Whitehouse.gov wel een referentie die kan tellen.

Drupal is als openbronsoftware voor webcontentmanagement aan een opmerkelijke opmars bezig. Ook de NAVO, de NASA en de BBC gebruiken Drupal vandaag al voor hun sites. Naast de sites van Greenpeace, Sony, Hillary Clinton en de popsterren Jennifer Lopez en Britney Spears.

Calibrate offers cross platform solution to SBS Belgium

SBS Belgium asked Calibrate to deliver a cross platform system, that would allow them to publish content simultaneously to both IDTV and Web platforms. We delivered by offering them a perfect mixed blend of Drupal, custom CMS solutions and the most advanced IDTV platform in Belgium.

Now, SBS Belgium can brand IDTV and web pages, hold cross platform contests and create their own content. A quickmenu allows easy access for the home user. From this menu, other digitext application can be accessed, without any extra loading time or delay.

New Essent website designed by Calibrate

To give the Essent customers a clear view of the information they need, Calibrate designed a fresh and green look.

Calibrate was responsible for the redesign based on the current house style. We also created a static HTML and CSS.

Check it out on www.essent.be

Calibrate brings Nickelodeon on Belgacom TV

As Calibrate is THE cross platform provider in Belgium, we also create and maintain applications for the MTV group. Nickelodeon, a childrens’ TV channel, wanted to have a TV environment that is easy to understand for kids while offering valuable content at the same time. We created a beautiful, cross platform capable CMS, which allows Nickelodeon to offer games, VOD content and a crystal clear agenda to the children. As a first, Calibrate now also offers a game on the Belgacom platform.

http://www.mtvnetworks.be/nl/press/articles/?id=96

Integration between your Drupal site and Campaign Monitor

Thanks to the excellent work of Davy Van Den Bremt and the sponsorship of Calibrate, a new Drupal module has been released that integrates your Drupal site with your Campaign Monitor account.

Drupal is a popular open source content management platform, and by adding this module you can integrate the users of your Drupal site with your Campaign Monitor subscriber lists, in a quite advanced way. This module includes features like:

Support for multiple lists.
Automatic fetching of lists and fields from your Campaign Monitor account.
Asynchronous pushing of subscription and unsubscription requests to make it fast and reliable to keep things synced.
Match Campaign Monitor custom fields to Drupal tokens, profile fields and PHP code.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2864/drupal-module-offers-advan...

http://drupal.org/project/campaign_monitor

Missed our seminar on Drupal with a Rich Internet Interface?

With 65 subscriptions this seminar was a big succes! If you are interested in this subject, but couldn't attend, please don't hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to give you more information and/or send you the slideshow of the presentations.