Drupal 6 and Multilingual Websites

Version 6 of the open source Content Management System, Drupal, was released last week. We are really excited about this release, as we specialize in Drupal and have been playing with the beta releases of this version for many months now. Version 6 represents a significant step forward for Drupal....

Not every site needs to be a social network

With the explosion of MySpace and Facebook the last few years, many of the clients/prospects I talk to are looking to integrate some form of social networking into their website programs. I don’t think I’m alone in getting asked about this.

Many of the Presidential candidates this cycle built full blown social networks on their public sites (Clinton,...

Twitter/Twittervision/Google Maps Super Tuesday Mashup

You election junkies out there should check out this site tonight as you watch the Super Tuesday results roll in. It is a mashup of Google maps and election-related Twitter posts. Right now it is just pulling in relevant posts about Super Tuesday and displaying them based on location (see screengrab below),...

Why did the Fred Thompson Blog Work?

As most of you know, The Bivings Group was a part of the team that built Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign website. Our main client contact on the project, Michael Turk, has a good post up rounding up the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the online program we all put together....

Wall Street Journal Content to Remain Behind Pay Wall

After the New York Times abandoned Times select last Fall, making all of the content on its site free, the assumption was that it was just a matter of time before the Wall Street Journal followed suit and went to a free model. Today, the Wall Street Journal rebelled against all those assumptions and confirmed that most of its content will continue to be behind a pay wall....