Here's some shared experiences I've gained when creating my Drupal site and using its meta system.
Actually, its kinda a second installment of series - first part was posted to Drupal-devel mailing list

Here's what I've done:

MoreGroupWare - First there was phpGroupWare and now there is MoreGroupWare. [PHP Everywhere]

It's always good to see a fresh bunch of screenshots around. But I was wondering - where are Drupal's groupware modules? There was some activity from Gerhard's side and also from Italy, but what is the status now?

From Radio Aaronland:

And as far as the Blogger API goes, with any luck the community as a whole will develop something that *Blogger* writes to. The API, as it currently is written, fills a vacuum but I'd like to see something a little more comprehensive."

Maybe I just travel in the wrong circles, but I'm surprised that I don't hear more of this. At first I thought the Blogger API was going to be this great thing, and then nobody ever developed anything but libraries, and apps that did less than the Blogger interface, not more. Now the whole blogging world is treating Ev.'s personal, not very highly developed API, that he seems to have lost interest in (where is blogger.publish? for that matter, where are the methods that the API page doesn't even document?), as though it were the be-all end-all of blogging APIs. The only problem I see with a community standard API is getting Ev to support it (remember pinging weblogs.com?), so that it isn't just a shiny new toy the other kids get to play with.

Dave: On left would be Radio in a circle. In the middle would be a circle for the Blogger API. On the right side would be a series of circles for Blogger, Manila, Greymatter, MovableType, Drupal, Slash, whatever -- centralized blogging tools that support the Blogger API. There would be an arrow connecting the Blogger API circle to each of centralized tools. The arrow would be in gray for each tool that doesn't currently support the Blogger API. They all will eventually, of course.

I recently read that a meme's[1] viability is greatly dependent on how quickly it spreads and how many people are exposed to it. This sounded like guidelines for successful meme propagation to me so I tried to apply this insight to the question "how can we assist the evolution of desirable memes using knowledge management and community publishing tools like drupal?"

On the drupal-devel mailing list, Dries wrote:

Dave and the people behind UserLand are rolling out Radio 8.0. Hidden in all the marketing noise they generate, are quite some interesting bits we, as developers of weblog software, can pick up and learn from. Dave's site, Scripting News, is a good starting point today, tomorrow and probably the rest of next week.

Yahoogroups - When did Yahoogroups start bumping up the advertizing noise? You can't move around the website without hitting ads. /.../ It's all just getting too annoying so it's time to look for another system methinks.And I still want to know how you back up all the old messages. One day they'll close down and then where will all that data be? [Voidstar - Julian Bond]

I just stumbled upon pMachine, a weblog/content management tool written by Rick Ellis.

pMachine is blogging/news software with a LOT of extra features, like member registration, mailing list manager, random content displayer, public weblogs, search engine, birthday calendar, hit counter.... and well...

The .com bust has forced many media companies into bankruptcy and the surviving ones are struggling to manage their balance sheets. Coming to the rescue are a few innovative companies that have started building software solutions to minimize the high costs of scalable, high quality, fast media delivery.

Here is a quick introduction to four such companies.

The web is constantly changing and new sites pop up every second like mushrooms. Yet it's been a while since I've 'discovered' a new site and gotten hooked to it.

This got me thinking: how do you find new, interesting sites? Usually you get told by someone else, but where did they find it? Search engines have never given me anything but single pages (it seems there's a ton of information in some lost location, especially if you're looking for specific things) and most sites do everything to keep their current audience at their site.