This post is continuation of previous post titled Good to Great. Hitwise released the top 20 social networking sites for February 2007. Here are the numbers: I am happy to say that two of our four social networking sites are in top 20. BlackPlanet.com and Migente.com are at number 4 and 19 respectively for February [...]

Before I joined Community Connect Inc., it was already a leader in online community destinations for US ethnic groups and multicultural audiences. It had more than 16 million registered members and 500 million monthly page views. In short, the company was doing well – very well. However, it wanted to be great. So, the engineers [...]

Over past few weeks, we have been really busy trying to release Migente.com on a new improved platform. On Sunday May 7th 2006, we successfully launched this new version of Migente.com. The launch was an exemplary demonstration of teamwork, dedication and discipline. Everything went according to the plan: team of backend developers, tech leads, front-end [...]

Last weekend was very fulfilling. On October 30th 2005, We released a new platform called Community 9.0 on AsianAvenue.com. This new platform is a total rewrite of the existing platform and is intended to serve as an easy launching pad for new communities. For business folks, this platform is guaranteed to provide a huge leap [...]

This year, I have been traveling a lot. I coached three major teams to transition to extreme programming. All the teams were located in Canada. I loved the company and the people. It had become like a second home to me. At the same time, it provided me with an oppurtunity to work with Joshua [...]