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Hi all, we have a slight dilema and I thought it would be good to see if anyone “out there” had any thoughts or experience they could help us with. The company we use for hosting and who we are very happy with, Bytemark,  provide the hardware and support services that this and other sites of ours run on.  We are getting to a stage now where our server is quite sluggish at times and has a lot of old baggage that we could really do with cleaning up. Our plan is to get a second server and then to migrate just the services we need in a controlled fashion. Once that is accomplished and we are happy, we can then shutdown the old (this one) machine and stop paying for it.

Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.

Here's another reason why ultraportables are going to take off.

I'm looking forward to evaluating the new FeedAPI module for Drupal. Though one feature I haven't seen in any of the aggregators I've seen so far for Drupal...a way to snip the original RSS feed. Some sites provide you the entire post in the RSS feed with no teaser. This may be great for the reader, but I'm not sure everyone is happy to see their entire post on someone else's site. From time to time, I've hacked the core to get me closer to how I would like the content from an RSS feed to display at my site. There has to be another way and perhaps FeedAPI could by my solution... Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released - After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal. Advertisement: read more

Mochila Sees the Power of Syndication Mochila is again on the move. The online media marketplace for text, photo, and video content just introduced an application programming interface for Syndication. This API gives publishers the ability to automatically connect their content management and web publishing systems to Mochila’s high-quality rights-managed content. Members have the option to customize real time feeds through this open standards XML-based API using multiple parameters including keyword, category, byline, and source. By connecting with Mochila’s API, members have the potential to provide millions of their monthly visitors with enhanced search functionality that includes relevant information from the Mochila content database.