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The Actors Fund Selects Drupal over Plone ...

The Actors Fund – a human services organization in New York and LA serving the entertainment industry – has engaged OHO Interactive to migrate their existing website from Plone CMS to Acquia Drupal. The site will also integrate with the Blackbaud suite of products including Raiser's Edge, Patron's Edge, and Patron's Edge online.

As part of the engagement, OHO is developing an enhanced resource database and working with the management team to overhaul the homepage to better represent the organization and balance the needs of the membership, services, and development departments.

Drupal will provide a more flexible platform for:

  • updating and dismenating content
  • improve capability for adding video to the site
  • provide a stronger platform for the development of custom features
  • enhancing cross-site promotion of content such as calendars and events
  • better content tagging

The new site is slated to launch later this summer.

Jason Smith
Jun 30, 2010
Blackbaud, Technology, Web 2.0, Website
Where does TV meet the Web?

Google answered that question today at Day 2 of Google I/O, and the answer is at Google TV.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves...  They spent the first half of the keynote building up suspense talking about the Android momentum:

  • 21 OEMs
  • 48 Countries
  • 65 Devices
  • 100,000 Daily activation run rate
  • 1 billion miles traveled in GPS navgation
  • 50,000 Applications
  • 180,00 Developers

They announced the next release of Android 2.2 called Froyo, which has 5 Focus Areas:

  1. Speed: Just-in-time (JIT) compilation
  2. Enterprise: Exchange friendly
  3. Services: Application Data Backup API, Cloud-to-Device Messaging API, Tethering & Portable Hotspot
  4. Browser - 2x-3x javascript performance (The V8 engine from Chrome but ported for Android), fastest mobile browser, voice recognition for: searching, translations, support for flash
  5. Market - Update All feature, Automatic updating, and more

Then, they surprised all us by giving all five thousand attendees Sprint HTC EVO 4G Phones!

The second half of the keynote focused on the announcement of Google TV (Tagline: TV meets Web.  Web Meets TV).  The Google TV interface is extraordinary.  Do you ever search the web for when/what channel a show is on because the guide on your TV is too overwhelming?  Google TV merges this into one easy step on your TV using a bluetooth keyboard.   Google TV will integrate with DVR, Netflix, Amazon, and others.  The TV based browser is slightly transparent so that you can see the TV shows behind the browser as well.  Google TV has increased the number of channels on your TV from hundreds to millions by integrating all of the video on the web as a TV option for the common TV viewer.

The hardware includes a Google TV box that connects via HDMI to your current set top box.  It comes with a keyboard and mouse to control the Google TV device.  If paired, the Android phone with google voice search can also integrate so that you would not have to use the keyboard or mouse.  They're going to publish the protocol so that developers can create their own applications and hardware for Google TV as well.

Again, the entire keynote will be posted on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers if you'd like to watch.

-Submitted by Chris Apolzon and Laurie Richards

Laurie Richards
May 20, 2010
Android, Development, Google, HTML, Technology, TV, Web 2.0
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