FastCompany.com

cfuller12 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:06:38 +0000

Achieve Internet is proud to have been an integral part of the development process for the new FastCompany.com business community site. We provided custom Drupal software development and project management leadership to deliver a world-class union of award winning journalism and online community. The site incorporates a professional grade content management system and editorial workflow controls, along with a full suite of cutting edge Web 2.0 applications.

The Achieve development team, in conjunction with Lullabot, created customized user registration and profiling ability. More than just allowing community members to build profiles, we extended the ability of Drupal to facilitate members’ ability to search for common interests, keep track of all their contributed content along with interacting with contributions of other users and editorial staff. With this expanded capability, FastCompany.com offers business professionals a unique opportunity to collaborate with other business people and professional content creators in building a next generation business community.

Another piece of custom functionality provided by Achieve was to extend the Drupal RSS capability in unique ways. Community members of FastCompany.com have the ability to send their own submitted content out onto the web as an RSS feed, they can also integrate various off-site feeds and ‘browse’ stories, blogs and editorial content from the entire FastCompany.com site. This customized evolution of Drupal RSS capability is unique to the FastCompany.com experience.

The new FastCompany.com website, which was built by Achieve Internet, Lullabot, Advomatic and Tree House Interactive, expands the tool kit of today’s business professional, by giving them a variety of powerful Web 2.0 applications. These collaborative tools allow them to leverage the best of interactive media and provide access to a larger global audience.

Popular Science

Laura — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:56:25 +0000

In February 2008, Popular Science, the fifth-oldest continually-published monthly magazine, relaunched its online presence with an enterprise-level website developed by pingVision, powered by Drupal.

Founded in 1872, Popular Science, the “What’s New, What’s Next magazine,” has witnessed, reported on, and evaluated countless scientific and technological developments, from the dawn of electricity to the latest innovations of today’s information age — advances that have shaped the way we live, work, play, travel, communicate, understand and interact with the world.

Prior to its relaunch, the Popular Science website used several disparate systems to deliver content. One of the goals for the new site was to provide a unified user interface while increasing usability and functionality. pingVision was able to use Drupal to meet Popular Science’s usability and functional requirements, while converting and importing several years’ worth of content from a Vignette 7 CMS and TypePad blogs.

pingVision also integrated several third-party services, including a fantasy stock trading system, video conversion and hosting services, and advertising. In addition to taking advantage of various contributed modules, pingVision created a number of custom modules, including the Drupal Markup Engine for content placement within nodes and Node Carousel for displaying content. The site was deployed on multiple servers, with additional caching handled by using Memcache.

(Case study coming soon. We will update with a link when that happens.)

Drupalcon Boston 2008 - Enterprise Sites

FastCompany.com

Popular Science