August 19th, 2008
Dries Buytaert hailed as one of MIT Technology Review’s 2008 Young Innovators
The M.I.T. Technology Review has published their annual list of . The name that jumped out of the page at me was of course Drupal's very own founder, :
The Internet has made publishing on a global scale almost effortless. That's the rhetoric, anyway. The truth is more complicated, because the Internet provides only a means of distribution; a would-be publisher still needs a publishing tool. A decade ago, people who wanted such a tool had three choices, all bad: a cheap but inflexible system, a versatile but expensive one, or one written from scratch. What was needed was something in the middle, requiring neither enormous expense nor months of development--not a single application, but a platform for creating custom publishing environments. For tens of thousands of sites and millions of users, that something is Drupal....
Head over to the for a full profile on Dries and Drupal written up by (author of Here Comes Everybody).
Rock on !
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