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. ...

Is A Picture Worth 140 Characters?

<Cross posted from our ImpactWatch Blog>

Editors Note: Hannah installed the Firefox plugin Power Twitter in order to get photos and videos to appear in her Twitter stream.  For those of you that want to see what it looks like, see this screengrab.

Yesterday I was walking through Mexico City and I snapped a photo of a tanning salon....

Ten Observations from Drupalcon

I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference.

(1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people are willing to share. ...

So Why DOES Drupal Suck?

When I headed to DrupalCon this week, I thought it would be strange to attend a talk called "Why Drupal Sucks", but that's exactly the title of James Walker's talk this morning about Drupal and all that's wrong with it.

Walker starts off by talking about some of the great things about Drupal....

Academic Earth Aims at Free Universal College Education

Movies, TV shows and podcasts have been readily available online for years, and as syndicating content becomes even easier, internet users can get even almost anything online – but full college courses?

That’s the goal of Academic Earth, an online hub featuring full video lectures and entire courses from some of the nation’s top schools....