The perfect is the enemy of the good

Entrepeneur Mark Goldenson wrote a great article in Venturebeat last week on the lessons he learned working on his failed startup, PlayCafe.  This passage resonated with me:

3. Know when to value speed vs. stability. Another reason PlayCafe’s complexity hurt us is that developing good content and technology simultaneously required too much time....

Ning.com Gets a Major Upgrade

In the last six months we have helped build Ning social networks for the Pickens Plan and the National Peace Corps Association, among others.  We are fans of the platform.

Yesterday, Ning launched a redesigned version of their main website, www.ning.com.  This is a major upgrade.  Users of Ning networks know that under the previous design you pretty much had to visit each network you belonged to individually to figure out what was going on in each community. ...

Why is Team Obama Opting Out of Twitter?

Last week the Politico released a controversial list of the most influential Twitter users in the Washington, DC area.  The article spread around the Internet, as is typical of these types of articles, with the the LA Times and David Almacy responding with their own lists.  All three lists are interesting,...

Five Ways the Pickens Plan is Using Social Networking to Build Public Support

A few weeks ago one of the projects Bivings works on, the Pickens Plan, won a Reed Award for best use of social networking technology.  Since its launch in July, the Pickens Plan has recruited 1.4 million supporters and built a social network, Push.PickensPlan.com, consisting of 200,000 hardcore activists. 

Following are a couple of the key elements of the Pickens Plans’...

Twitter: New User Quick Start Guide

I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to go blindly into new experiences.  I do my research beforehand so I know how to make at least a B+ at whatever I’m attempting.  With Twitter, I definitely needed a short workshop before I flew into the birds’ nest of tweets and retweets. ...