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Everybody’s writing about the new social organizer phenomenon, So I thought I could add my two cents to it.
What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be part of it? [...]

The recent opening up of the facebook platform has created a rage in the industry. Facebook themselves , after opening up to public signups, have had an increase of 80% in their monthly uniques. The facebook platform is just another icing in the cake.
There are innumerable number of apps that are being created on the [...]

Collaborative apps have been around for quite sometime now, but they have been lurking very close the corporate apps which can be used primarily in a business scenario. A simple example of the same could be the productivity 2.0 apps like Zoho or Google Docs. The only other breed of collaborative app has been games, [...]

The 10 mistakes that put projects at risk of failure include:
* Never committing to project success.
* Freezing the schedule and budget before a project is sufficiently understood.
* Overscoping a solution.
* Circumventing the application development organization altogether.
* Underestimating the complexity of a problem.
* Being stingy with subject-matter experts, in which their participation is not sufficient.
* Choosing [...]

Google Gears was released recently as an effort to promote offline web. I have written time and again about this genre of web applications and have spoken about the advancements like the Dojo Offline Toolkit, AIR and the new Silverlight that try to blemish the line between web and desktop applications.
Google Gears is designed [...]