Isaac Sukin

Facebook hasn't switched everyone to the new Timeline profiles yet, but they will soon.

Facebook made a few significant changes that became visible to most users starting last night.

• Restructured activity stream - you can now choose exactly who you want to see in your activity stream and what kinds of activity you want to see from them, as well as how much you want them to show up.
• Subscriptions - you can subscribe to people you're not friends with, so you can follow thought leaders like on on Twitter without having to actually have a mutual friendship. This also makes your stream more interesting.

While I was at Acquia this summer I wrote a number of blog posts for Acquia. Check them out below.

Drupal Commons: Then and Now

A comparison of Acquia Commons at the beginning of the summer when I joined Acquia to the end of last summer when Commons was released and I wrote an analysis of it for Mediacurrent.

Status Streams in Commons

A sneak peak and overview of the status updates / activity stream features I developed that have become the centerpiece of Commons 2.0.

BrowserID: from announcement to Drupal module in under 24 hours

A discussion of how I wrote the BrowserID module for Drupal in under 24 hours since Mozilla announced the BrowserID initiative. This kind of effort can only happen in a large open-source community like Drupal's.

Commons 2.0 and Contributing to the Drupal Community

Throughout my time at Acquia, I made sure that I could contribute nearly everything I developed back to the Drupal community. As a result, any Drupal website in the world can now use status update and activity stream technology similar to the features that made Facebook so popular.

I've been building open-source social networking software for the past four years, which has given me the unique opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of projects to build social networks and related tools. My experience has revealed a number of insights into the way that user interaction patterns are designed on websites that encourage a website's engagement and adoption to the point that it can grow organically from almost nothing – or, conversely, that doom a website to silent irrelevance in a distant corner of the web.

Today I published a blog post on my Mediacurrent blog analyzing the new social business Drupal distribution from Acquia called Drupal Commons. The post appeared on Drupal Planet. Head over there to get the full scoop.