Drupal sites
New Zealand government using Drupal
The New Zealand government is using Drupal at http://beehive.govt.nz. The site features information about all their ministers, their speeches, press releases, ministerial briefings, major government initiatives and more. Hat tip: Bevan Rudge.
Industry Standard using Drupal
The Industry Standard, aka thestandard.com, is using Drupal. The Industry Standard features news and analysis that covers emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches, and other developments in the internet space. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network. The site is part of the IDG network, which includes sites like Computerworld, Infoworld, JavaWorld.com, Macworld, PC World, and more.
Like most big Drupal sites, they use CCK, Views, memcache, and a master-slave database configuration. Two noteworthy items are the fact that they use Apache Solr for search, and Mollom as their spam deterrent.
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!
Led Zeppelin using Drupal
English rock band Led Zeppelin is using Drupal for their official website at http://www.ledzeppelin.com. According to Wikipedia, they have their own label called Swan Song Records. Rock!
Sun using Drupal
Sun Microsystems recently launched another cool Drupal site: Sun Learning Exchange. The site enables Sun employees to easily publish rich media training content such as videos, podcasts, and documents to be accessed by all Sun employees and customers. Media can be rated, sorted, and tagged by site members and is automatically transcoded and hosted on LimeWire. The site was built with the help of our friends at Chapter Three. Sweet!
EA using Drupal for Battlefield Heroes
Computer and video game developer Electronic Arts (EA) is using Drupal for their upcoming shooter game called Battlefield Heroes. I'm not big on games, but their trailer looks fun so maybe I'll give it a try. It sounds like, for a change, I wouldn't repeatedly get killed by a ultra-skilled 15 years old ...
According to the trailer, they have big plans for their website. They want to use it to host a long-running territorial conflict meta-game. Curious to learn if that will be built in Drupal too.
