The blog’s been pretty quiet. We’ve been far from slacking off, but it doesn’t show here. Sorry about that. It’s going to change. This post outlines the topics you’ll see addressed in the next few weeks.

We’ve done a number of product updates, which I’ll detail in another post.

We’ve been thinking about how organizational structures influence online opportunities and costs, for both developers and the customers. You can expect to hear some “thinking out loud” on that topic very soon.

We’re starting to think about our second product, building on what we’re learning from Handmeon. At some point this may turn into a blog for Toliwaga, the company, rather than Handmeon, the product.

Mostly, we’re learning an awful lot about online interaction, and the intersection with mental models about online tools, particularly as they relate to the real-world. We’re right on track in the learning department.

Handmeon is about to get some fairly major structural changes. It’s not much in coding, but in presentation, education, and behavior modeling. A fancy way to say: We made a mistake in the original concept, and we’re going to address it, and it primarily involves asking our users to do things differently than we’ve been promoting to date.

Finally, there has been some great conversation about some of these topics inside Handmeon itself, and I’m going to promote some of those to the blog. We nearly installed forum software this week, but at the last minute decided to start with the blog. I see a need for forums at some point, but not yet. We want the blog to become a fairly public, and fairly transparent, window into our thinking about Handmeon and “the second product.” We’d like our fans to help us think out loud about these topics. We want to challenge your thinking, and have you challenge ours.

In other words, the blog is going to get more bloggy. Thanks for playing along.