It began with a focus on software development. Custom solutions. Third-party integration. Mainframe data pulls. Re-usable code, then re-usable tools. Version control. (Always version control.) And in the decade since we began, the internet—and its accompanying mobile devices—completely turned design and communications on its head. The Information Age, thought to herald a new global era, instead quickly became rapid, hyper-local messaging & networking: blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Google Latitude, etc. 