Publishing
24 heures using Drupal
24 heures, a Swiss newspaper published daily by Edipresse relaunched on Drupal recently. With more than 200 titles, Edipresse is one of Europe's biggest media and communications companies. According to Pierre-Jean Duvivie from Edipresse, 24 heures has more than 70,000 visitors a day and according to Wikipedia it has a readership of 245,000. Other Drupal sites from Edipress are http://www.tdg.ch, http://www.femina.ch (covered before), and http://www.lesquotidiennes.com. Cool!
Femina using Drupal
Drupal continues to rock the newspaper and magazine world. Femina, a women's magazine, recently switched to Drupal. Femina is owned by Edipresse, one of Europe's biggest media and communications companies. They publish more than 200 titles, including some leading European newspapers (i.e. Le Matin, Le Temps, 24 heures).
Edipresse is known to use eZ publish for many of the group's websites. In fact, Femina used to run on eZ publish as well. I don't know the details but maybe more Edipresse websites will be Drupal-ized?
GigaOm using Drupal
Fast Company using Drupal
Fast Company, a well-known business magazine about innovation, technology, leadership, management, design, social responsibility, careers and work/life balance, is now using Drupal.
With their new Drupal website, Fast Company is probably the first major business publication that blends professional journalism and online community in a significant way. You can now start your own blog, join a group, post a video, comment on articles, etc. And if you're lucky, you might find yourself featured on the front page of their website alongside articles of established journalists.
Fast Company has always been a trend setter, so expect more mainstream publications to follow. One can only hope that the traditional media becomes more open.
This is what Edward Sussman, president of Fast Company, had to say about Drupal: Our office is now the New York home of the monthly Drupal meet-up. Open source allows us to take advantage of the work of thousands of developers contributing back their work free-of-charge to the platform. We hope the development work we contribute back will help to improve all sites running on the Drupal platform.
The website was developed by Lullabot, Achieve Internet, Treehouse, Advomatic and the Mansueto Team itself. Good job!
Popular Science using Drupal
With the help from pingVision, Popular Science relaunched using Drupal. This move is notable, not only because Popular Science is a popular website, but also because they moved from Vignette v7 (a proprietary content management system) to Drupal (an open source content management system).
According to a recent press release, Vignette's revenue for 2007 was down 3% compared to 2006, and their licensing revenue was down more than 15%. One data point doesn't constitute a trend, but to me, it is further proof that Open Source content management systems are gaining market share. Just last year, Drupal grew by more than 200%.
Forbes using Drupal
Forbes just launched a video-sharing site built with the GoingOn platform, which uses a modified Drupal at its core. Check out the YouTube of Corporate America at http://officepranks.forbes.com.
MensHealth using Drupal
MensHealth, the publisher of one of the largest men's lifestyle magazines in the world, is now using Drupal for their German community website. Check it out at http://community.menshealth.de/. Brings health and dating tips closer to male Drupal developers! ;-)
