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A study analyzed the impact achieved on the Internet by 113 organizations: 50 of them are those with the highest market capitalization on the Colombian Stock Exchange. The Online Presence Barometer, prepared by the Llorente and Cuenca Observatory, revealed that the use of communication channels offered by the Internet is not exploited by the most important companies in Colombia.

The term Web 3.0 does not have a precise meaning although several experts try to give definitions - which do not completely fit together - about it, but ultimately the term is linked to the Semantic Web. The semantic aspect of version 3.0 of the Web is an extension of the World Wide Web where the language can be interpreted more easily by software agents, in this way, it will be possible to find, share and integrate the information that circulates from a faster way.

Drupal, as a content management system (CMS) with wide global coverage, has evolved its platform towards version 7 and brings with it the possibility of generating content and proposals directly related to Web 3.0. The user community has contributed to updating and improving the interaction and usability of Drupal.

This is great news for the Drupal community, Google has accepted 20 Drupal projects for the 2011 Google Summer of Code, representing an investment of $110,000 US by Google for these projects.

With version 3 of the CCK module comes an innovative sub-module: Content Multigroup. This tool allows users to dynamically add groups of fields to their forms, solving in a simple way a common problem in previous projects. Can you imagine being able to create forms with unlimited fields without having to write custom code? This and much more will be possible with Content Multigroup!

We invite all Drupalers in Bogotá to celebrate the launch of Drupal 7 at Bogota Beer Company on 139th Street at 6 PM. We hope to gather as many people as possible and have a toast!

On Friday, February 9, 2011, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips announced at  Tech@state  that a second set of contributions to the Drupal project had been released, these contributions are both developments of new modules and contributions to other modules widely supported and used by the community.

I'm happy to share another huge success for Drupal; The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched its own internal collaboration platform in Drupal. The Forum is a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Angela Byron, a leader at Drupal, reveals how a scholarship changed her life and led her to become part of an open and diverse community, with more women than in other similar projects. Want to know why Drupal 7 is a big leap and how to upgrade smoothly? Discover the key tools and how to join this vibrant community that is ready to support you.

When we present Drupal as the platform that we recommend for the development of a Web project, it is inevitable that the client will be concerned about how stable it is and, above all, if it will be able to support the traffic projected for the project.