Not getting what you need from the mainstream sites? Build your own.

Building a social website isn’t the same as adding social elements to a website. You’re not just plugging in a widget to your website to show the streaming newsfeed from your blog. If your business model is focused on building a social website, what does this mean from a development point of view?

Features and Functions

Whether you’re building an online magazine or a social network

for your business, the most important thing to do before you start building is to outline your features. What do you want your users to be able to do? What information will be available to the public and what information will be private? What functions do you need to put in place to protect your data?

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Lucy Prebble, the 29-year-old British playwright, won over legions of critics and jaded London theatergoers last fall with Enron, a tragicomedy inspired by the 2001 collapse of the infamous Texas-based energy firm. Now the play is set to open on Broadway this month, and from the sound of it, it will offer something that hasn’t been around since the beginning of the financial crisis: a little love for disgraced CEOs and bankers.

Prebble chatted with Entrepreneur about the production, Jeff Skilling–Enron’s former president–and her plans after writing the Enron screenplay. (Of course there’s a movie in the works.) “I’ve got an idea for what’s next,” she says. “It will be set in a completely different world–I’m escaping finance.”

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