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Last Saturday I broke the news about Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar. In it I listed several problems with the new platform revealed to my by a source. These issues has since been confirmed in the comments or via direct feedback to me.

In a recent blog post Aza Raskin, human computer interface expert and Creative Lead for Firefox at Mozilla, announced that Tab Candy will be named Firefox Panorama. It is a tool for organising browser tabs in groups and will be included in Firefox 4, due out later this year.

UPDATE 08/24/2010: It looks like Examiner.com has changed the permissions to the video so it no longer can be embedded. Also, yesterday I was contacted by a Examiner.com regarding my posts. They want to correct some "inaccuracies" as well as address my questions. Currently I haven't received their comments yet, but when I do so I will publish a follow up.

UPDATE 08/24/2010: Quote and link to Examiner.com writer claiming he got suspended after complaining.

When the news broke last week that Examiner.com had launched their website on Drupal 7 it took the Drupal community by storm as well as surprise. This was big news, it is a top 500 website and have over 42,000 writers contributing content to it.

Lately I have sensed there is a growing impatience among Drupal users about that it, for some, seems to take forever for Drupal 7 to be ready, or even come out in a beta release. Many of those complaining about the delays have also indicated that they are not going to give it a spin until the beta is out - Because its too buggy right now. Of course it is buggy, that is why it is still in alpha. Its also still in alpha because the upgrade path from Drupal 6 isn't fully working yet.

Drupal Gardens is a cloud based SaaS (Software as a Service) provided by Acquia that lets you create websites using Drupal 7 quickly and without any technical or developer experience. In this post I will walk you through how to create your user account as well as your first site.

Creating your Drupal Gardens site is easy. Simply follow these steps:

Drupal Gardens went into public beta not long ago. This means that anyone now can create a site on it instantly.

This post is the first in many about Drupal Gardens. In this series I plan to cover as much as possible, from creating your first site, to going into details about the various features it offer. In this post I will give you an introduction to it, as well as what it will mean for Drupal in general.

Every organisation and most products have their own logo to draw attentions to them. As time changes and passes most logos do the same as their owners want to adapt their offerings to the latest trends or name changes. The Drupal logo is no exception from this. In the beginning it was Drop, now it is Drupal.

The popular skin suite for Google Gmail, Reader and Calendar from Globex Design has been released in version 0.5 for the Mozilla Firefox browser. Google Redesigned is a very popular and quick way of transforming the original look into something much more pleasant. Just compare the before and after screenshots below.

The release of the first Drupal 7 beta version is very close. The community is working hard on squashing the last beta blocker issues for the upgrade path. Code sprints, such as the Acquia sponsored one in Boston on August 17, are arranged in several places to speed things up.