"The most fundamental Web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together. By publishing open, nonproprietary standards for Web languages and protocols, the W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation...

"It’s applying its technology to help users sort out not so much the minutia of everything being said but the nature of a hash tag debate – over, say, health care reform. It will categorize comments in order to provide a visual navigation tool for the debate (who said what most intensely, and over what period of time, etc.).

The Acquia Drupal Installation Profile extends the Drupal core set of modules by including a select set of third-party, contributed modules to the CMS that are also under Open Source license. Acquia's development team has reviewed and in many instances assisted with the programming of these modules, so they are considered secure and safe for enterprise deployment.

The Drupala Installation Profile is built on the Drupal 5.x Drigg Installation for social bookmarking and the Advanced Profile Kit for social networking. The site architecture makes extensive use of Views, Panels, and multiple content types to build a portal organized around taxonomy terms that includes blogs, articles, social bookmarks, and user profiles.

 For those interested in researching the diversity of the Drupal CMS, the website DrupalSites.net has a showcase of over 3000 domains in their registry. Theme developers will be able to gather design inspiration by looking at the various CSS styles, and Drupal admins can expand their development ideas by looking at all of the code extensions and their functionality.

Learn how Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's start-up Acquia is working with Solr & Lucene to improve the Drupal search process and site indexing. "Based on the powerful Lucene and Solr technologies from the Apache project, Acquia Search creates a rich index of your site content and increases the number of page views and time on your site by as much as 50%.