Leancode » drupal http://leancode.com bernie's small batches of software goodness Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:37:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Top Drupal Modules http://leancode.com/2007/05/08/top-drupal-modules/ http://leancode.com/2007/05/08/top-drupal-modules/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 17:20:18 +0000 Bernie Thompson http://leancode.com/2007/05/08/top-drupal-modules/ Drupal is a great open source CMS. Unfortunately, their primary database of available modules (plugins) is a bear to sift through. Limited tagging. No download numbers. No ratings. They need to use more of their own modules for their module database. Drupal is such a rich ecosystem, you could spend days just sifting through what’s available.

So here’s an alternative. I like what Amazon has done with Unspun. Just “Top X” lists, aggregated from several sources. And once you create a list, they pre-seed the ratings by paying their small army of Amazon Mechanical Turk voluntee.. um, I mean, workers .. to enter and rate. This is a great tool & strategy, by the way, for any startup to get over the hump of an initial critical mass of data.

So here’s the unspun take on the top Drupal modules, starting from a ranking of a few modules I happen to use. It will be interesting to watch it evolve.

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