First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

Bruno Bornsztein and I talk about;

• Open-sourcing CommunityEngine - the social network code behind Curbly, Uncooped, Teacherly, and many other community sites.
• Bootstrapping and maintaining a successful niche community site.

Listen to Bruno Bornsztein on Open Sourcing CommunityEngine [24 min].

Bruno Bornsztein, Ben Moore, and I talk about their recently launched project - Curbly.com - a social networking site for sharing DIY projects, tips, and finding help.

After we run through the site, we talk about;

• Using agile web development processes and what Ben calls WWIBAN (What Would I Bitch About Next) to be “one day behind the future”.
• The Ruby on Rails framework and the Ruby.MN developer group.

The follows my original profile of Curbly.com at MNteractive.com.

Listen to Curbly.com - The Home Improvement Social Network [23 min]