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Dan Zarrella, the social media pro who created Tweetbacks, released yesterday a new Wordpress module which encompasses Tweetbacks and even more Twitter functionality for blogs. Called TweetSuite, this add-on brings in things such as a "ReTweet This" button for each post in the Tweetback list, as well as a Digg-style badge for blog entries.

So now, I'll have to add all these features to the Drupal Tweetbacks module.

One of the TweetSuite functions I won't have to implement, however. The Twitter module for Drupal already handles sending out a tweet whenever you create new content on a site, so anyone wanting that can use that module instead.

I just put out a new version of the Tweetbacks module I put online on Friday. The download URL is now <http://drupal.org/node/357978/release>. This new version includes support for all of the options for Dan Zarrella's Tweetbacks system, although described in slightly different terms.

Download it, and have fun!

UPDATE: Tweetbacks is now on drupal.org! It will be a little while before builds start appearing but from now on, project development will happen there. If you are interested in helping me maintain this module, let me know. Also, there are a couple little bugs in the version currently available on this site. Please wait for the fresh drupal.org build to show up; when that happens I'll be taking down the file from here.

UPDATE 2: Builds are now appearing on Drupal.org. I've removed the download from here, so you'll want to go to the actual project page from now on.

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Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.

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While I’ll no doubt get lots of flames from Rob about this, I’m not afraid of saying that Drupal sucks as it is right now. That’s not to say it’s not getting better (for sure, it is) but a lot of problems that I and others have with Drupal stem from some poor basic design choices, which would require a stupendous amount of work to fix. Hiveminds Magazine covers a few reasons for why Drupal isn’t as good as it could be.

I’ve just put up both the next version of SPU, as well as a new development release of the Imgblog module for Drupal.

If you use Windows Live Photo Gallery and publish images to a Drupal-based website, you might be pleased to know that I’ve just made the task of publishing those images a whole lot simpler.

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I’m glad to say that my work on making a Live Photo Gallery plugin for publishing images to Drupal sites is progressing nicely, although I’ve had to do things a bit differently than I originally hoped.

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I’m crunching away on my Live Photo Gallery plugin. It’s little more than two interfaces, a form, and some miscellaneous data classes, so there’s still nothing to show for it. Still, the user interface bits are pretty simple, and the reason I haven’t made much progress is because I’m still trying to figure how best to send the pictures to Drupal and have it set up new nodes based on the pictures. Shame that Drupal’s BlogAPI module is such a lemon.

Yesterday morning, I was hit by an idea. You see, the current beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery includes support for publishing plugins, so you can quickly and easily upload your pics to, say, Flickr, with metadata intact, simply by selecting the pictures and making a couple mouse clicks.

I recently heard of, and looked at Zemanta, a blog enhancement service with various features I can use via Live Writer, Drupal, or both. I’m considering making use of it, but before I actually do, I’d love to get opinions from those who do (or have) used it. What do you think of Zemanta?