Before Peter and I are off for a single quite well deserved week off-actics-web-development (aka holiday) to recharge for the last sprint of finishing the new Actics site, I would like to quote a painfully experienced web-launcher. Today the always sympathetic Munjal Shah of Riya writes:
In the next few months (3-4) we will roll Riya 2.0 out slowly. Why roll it out piece by piece? As all engineers know, it is easier to test and deploy small changes than to do it all at once. Eventhough a single big release is great from a marketing standpoint, we are more interested in getting this out and learning from your feedback as fast as possible. Why not be secretive and not show where we are going? We just believe inclusiveness and transparency beat paranoia and fear everytime.
Amen! We couldn’t agree more in Actics
Actually, I am much too busy with the looong anticipated feedback fuelled redesign of our private-beta software to blog (this sentence is a performative contradiction…). But I’m pleased beyond the expressive reach of my English vocabulary to have Peter on board as our very own, in house, skilled, dedicated, no bullshit web developer and it need to share the joy. Thank God! No more outsourced dependence on far away developers with little understanding of and engagement in an ever-developing Actics concept. This has been - by far - the most challenging experience for my patience ever. Besides employed enforcement, we held the first meeting in the ‘Actics development advisory team’ yesterday and I’m bursting with ideas and possibilities for our new and improved software. I’ve gathered a bunch of really cool cats to discuss social software development with the intent of getting highly qualified advice on how to make the Actics public beta a don’t miss. Right now I’m filled with mostly exciting and mind-boggling thoughts on how to turn an ethical philosophy into intuitive and yet deeply valuable software. So, actually I cannot afford the luxury of blogging when I ought to figure out the design of our rating and comments tonight rather than tomorrow. But to blog is to exist and I owe any readers close-to-real-time updates on the progress. Pictures of Peter and the advisory team will follow shortly to add that extra documentary feel to my breathtaking reports from the frontiers of startup struggling.