Social Media

Simpleshare

If you run a site where your users can share twitter and Facebook content this module claims to make this easy to do without the onerous configuration required by some other Twitter modules. The point I guess about this module is that where people want to do this, it needs to be immediate and easy rather than imposing barriers around access and configuration.
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Shoutem

"ShoutEm API Drupal module allows you to bring your Drupal-based site to the growing population of users who read content from mobile devices like iPhones, iPods, iPads or Android based phones." It achieves this goodness by providing an api bridge to the Shoutem mobile apps site where you can publish an app, making it available for download direct to smart phone.
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Flickr Batch Import

In previous module roundups I've avoided mentioning some modules like this one because I figured if the key word 'Flickr' is in the title it would be fairly easy for someone to find this on drupalmodules.com However, this edition I've included this as a good example of a module that helps integrate Drupal with other Web 2.0 applications. Basically this module allows you to pull in content from a Flickr account, which then makes it possible to add all the functionality that's possible in a Drupal site. I've seen a similar approach to events published to an external calendar so that once imported your visitors can sign up, receive notifications, or get an RSS feed. Here, you can use Flickr to publish and publicize your material but then re-organise it on your Drupal site.
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Privatemsg advanced

This is a small module that adds some extra functionality to the Private message module. It provides some user interface tweaks such as a quick link and a view, and also an administrative check on blocked users. As a module with some quite specific functionality we probably wouldn't always pick this up in modules round-up but it's an interesting example of the helper module built on another module. For new Drupal users, it points up the value of doing some digging when you find a module that does most of what you want but needs an extra tweak. This type of module may add what you need or at least form a good example of how to extend an existing module.
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Features

The Future of Commenting in Drupal

Distributed Comment Systems Key to Access and Quality
While comments are a key part of social media, there is yet to be an ideal solution to the problems of making it easy for good comments to be added - and bad comments to be weeded out. Steve Parks reports...
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