social entrepreneurs – Barbara K Iverson

Miro Introduces Novel Way for Users to Support the Site

Image via CrunchBase Having our users ‘adopt’ lines of code means that they will come to own and support Miro in a more direct way than ever before. As a non-profit, we have a social and public mission built into our organization. As free and open-source software, the tools we create are open for anyone…

Barbara Iverson

April 29, 2009

Business models, Disruptive Tech, New economic models

miro, Non-profit organization, Open source, social entrepreneurs

An App is Born

Image by biverson via Flickr The story of how twitter came about. It was simple idea, born out of a bunch of people sitting around brainstorming. It was allowed to evolve (note the discussion about settling on the 140 character limitation) and develop while interacting with users. I don’t completely understand why Odeo didn’t become…

Barbara Iverson

February 2, 2009

Blogging, Social network

Odeo, Online Communities, social entrepreneurs, Social network, Twitter