TAG: community
"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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"Even though points on Consumating were redeemable for absolutely nothing, not even a gold star, our members had an unquenchable desire for them."
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"I’ve found it an odd phenomenon to feel relationships strengthening by simply reading status updates, constrained to 140 characters no less, over a period of time."
Tags: twitter community culture socialnetworking
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
"At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to the social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet."
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"Developed internally at Virgin America, the system is named Red and provides live satellite tv, movies, mp3s, games and plane-wide chatting. Yes, chatting."
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A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Join the Mob
"Enter Picnic Mob, a multi-city, “non-commercial art experiment� created and curated by the computer programmer and thinker. Through its website, Picnic Mob organizes aspiring picnickers into small groups."
Andrew "Cult of the Amateur" Keen gets slapped around a bit by David "Cluetrain" Weinberger in the Wall Street Journal.
Tags: culture community creativity media talent
How social networks work: the puzzle of exhaust data
"This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. Phatic communications doesn't get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done."
Tags: community data facebook twitter socialnetworking
"Due to access restrictions that limit who can see your profile, there are no ’stars’ there. I wonder - does this detract or attract? It’s kind of nice not to be confronted with celebrity at every turn."
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"A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X."
Tags: likemind library culture community
"Have some invitations that you want to get off your hands? Why not share them with others."
"There's no such thing as "small world.""
Tags: culture community networking emergence
Rob Walker's latest New York Times Consumed column on the t-shirt site Threadless.
Tags: fashion tshirts community
"A system like this, which is able to predict what I would like based on the likes and dislikes of people I know, might be called 'collaborative micro-filtering.'"
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo
"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation."
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Forget 'Digital'. We're Talking Post-Communication
"This is not a digital revolution. It’s social. Your Freeview box is digital. Your computer is digital. Everything else is people."
Tags: media community technology culture
"I sat there at one moment thinking what it would cost me in time and effort to meet any of these people. Tons. Tons of time and effort. But these people have found one another, thanks to the internet, blogging"
Tags: blogs culture community trend
Stewert Butterfield responds to Flickr Complaints
"There are several policies which will be changing as a direct result of this incident and the goal is that nothing like this ever happens again. Any errors from now on should be on the side of caution."
Tags: flickr business transparency community
Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video...
"The point is, face-to-face still matters. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable."
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Anil Dash weighs in on the nasty side of the blogosphere.
Tags: blogs culture ethics community
the end of accidental networks
"One of the things that the internet extinguished was the need for accidental sociality, for post-kinship connections that depend on spatial or institutional proximity."
Tags: networking community attention culture socialnetworking
Narcissism and Fame Are a Little Too Easy
"The act of conveying information to others is in itself a very pleasant experience for most people . . . Sharing gives you a buzz, especially when that sharing is acknowledged directly."
Tags: blogs attention community culture
What is an Open Creative Community?
"The barrier to entry is creative citizenship, and you are either a citizen and a participant or you are not, based on your individual relationship to that community’s interests, practices, proximity and values."
Tags: creativity likemind opensource community culture technology bestarticlesof2007
"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good; for he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished . . . "
Tags: community networking marketing culture
Will Online Video Remain A Monopoly?
"It would, however, be deeply ironic if “community� becomes the mechanism of monopoly for New Media, replacing the limited access to production and distribution that defined Old Media monopolies."
Tags: video community youtube google media2.0
Just another lonely, terrorist-like blogger
CK breaks down why bloggers are not necessarily as lonely as one professor seems to think they are.
Tags: blogs community culture books
"Plus, if they're saying something negative online they're already saying it offline. So now they're no longer talking behind your back. That's more polite, no?"
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"Community is not a buzzword to describe a monolithic mass of marketing data. Communities are made up of people with endless motivations, hopes, dreams and goals and all have unique personalities."
Tags: community socialnetworking marketing
"These 'networkers' start conversations with random strangers and often reveal personal information, such as their favourite films or which celebrity they think is most attractive."
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"Moving forward not-knowing is more valuable than moving forward assuming we know. Doubt, not certainty, is the foundation of reasoning, emotion, and learning."
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"Enough about jargon, the explicit implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user."
Tags: attention trend community privacy aggregation recommendation
10 Social Media Strategies for the Fortune 1000 Corporations
"Social Media (Blogs, Forums, Wikis, Podcasts, Video blogs and other tools) are appearing in every industry. Below are my 10 strategic themes for 2007."
Tags: socialmedia blogs community business marketing
"The fact is that most user-created content on the Web is not challenging the authority of a traditional expert. It's working in a zone where there are no experts or where the users themselves are the experts."
Tags: web2.0 media2.0 technology community aggregation
Second Life: What are the real numbers?
"If most of the people who try Second Life bail (and they do), we should adopt a considerably more skeptical attitude about proclamations that the oft-delayed Virtual Worlds revolution has now arrived."
Tags: secondlife community games socialsoftware bestarticlesof2006
"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
Tags: community google design business socialsoftware
Second Life Will Save Copyright
"This is exciting, because it turns Second Life into a laboratory for trying out alternatives to prevailing real world copyright rules."
Tags: secondlife copyright community law
Why can't design be like this?
"I don’t know any members of the AIGA and I’m starting to wonder if it’s a design culture where people just want to stay in their own bubble."
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"We are much more active in our content - we desire the ability to move beyond content and toward conversation. In our world today, content is a conduit for conversation."
Tags: education media2.0 community
"When a site takes on a life of its own, though, cliques need to be actively busted to make the site fresh, avoid groupthink, and welcome newcomers."
"In this model, there would be an evolving non-linear brand narrative. Different channels could be used to communicate different, self-contained elements of the brand narrative that build to create an larger brand world."
Tags: marketing planning advertising community media2.0
Transmedia planning & brand communities
"I really like the transmedia planning model, because I think it addresses those two weaknesses of media-neutral planning: ignoring that different media are better at different things, and that people are social beings."
Tags: advertising community planning marketing
"Today, ideas need to have multiple layers and meaning because you are no longer talking to a single person, but rather a group who are working together."
Tags: planning community media2.0 marketing ideas
JPG Is An Elegant Publishing 2.0 Play
"Magazine, website, community. If only Time Warner had figured out this simple formula, they might not have Time Inc. on the block."
Tags: media2.0 magazines community photography
Chasing Bees, Without the Hive Mind
"These ARGs teach participants how to navigate complex information environments and how to pool their knowledge to solve problems."
Tags: community games internet arg
"No medium, unit of content, individual, application, action, or unit of data exists in isolation. Every action has a ripple effect throughout the network."
Tags: community web2.0 media2.0 zen
Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
A man posted on Craig's List looking for sex then posted the emails (including photos) that he got.
Tags: attention privacy sex craigslist culture community law internet identity
"That leaves 19%. This is the golden segment. If you can figure out how to engage these folks, you win. "
Tags: attention community internet media2.0
They run the fastest-growing Web site on the planet. They have 100 million friends. Not bad for two guys who just wanted a place to hang out.
Tags: myspace business socialnetworking community
Understanding the Unconference
"Because the cost to attend is minimal (or non-existent), anyone who wishes to can come. And because everyone at the unconference participates in some fashion, interaction, networking, and the exchange of ideas is a given.
Tags: conference community trend marketing
Interface Culture 10 Years Later Notes
"Interface ecosystems. It's now easy to think of the world in terms as modules. Don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You deal with this problem, I'll deal with that one. Easier to stitch together innovations."
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Internet killed the TV star from Guardian Unlimited
"Hardly a day goes by now without the minting of a fresh internet celebrity. Some of them will no doubt go the way of Mahir Cagri and the Hamster Dance, but most no doubt hope that they are making their first steps towards mainstream stardom."
Tags: celebrity community video media2.0 internet
Motivation for online behavior
"I’m not fully convinced yet, but I’m increasingly thinking that successful social software is nothing more than an online Skinner box. Positional, status-conveying goods. . . entice people to contribute their valuable content for free."
Tags: psychology culture attention community media2.0
interesting things that are going on
"Russell Davies talks about some of the interesting themes/topics/trends he's seeing in the media/marketing/advertising world."
Tags: marketing business media2.0 community advertising trend
10 Reasons Readers Donâ t Leave Comments
"Compelling content causes comments." Good point.
"You really should be paying your users for the value they create, but if that value is still an acquisition or advertiser base down the road, keep in mind that for many, being cool or prominent trumps being paid"
Tags: community money attention
"It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."
Tags: community internet cgm socialsoftware
Your social life will never be the same, thanks to a digital service called Dodgeball
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"Perhaps, as the study’s authors themselves hint at one point, we’ve also gotten better at demarcating what constitutes truly intimate communing  expecting more of our confidants, we have, in effect, defined intimacy up."
Tags: connectedness community psychology internet culture nytimes
The 1% rule: bloggers can't do maths
The ratio of uploads to downloads on YouTube is 0.065%. In other words, a comparatively small group is uploading the majority of the content.
Tags: youtube video blogs community
5 reasons why social networks fail
1. Walled Gardens -- 2. Not integrated with other apps -- 3. Not granular enough -- 4. No real reward or penalty system -- 5. Privacy concerns
Tags: socialnetworking community
The 4 Aspects of Passion-centric Web Communities
"This work has led me to believe that there are four aspects that need to be adequately satiated for a passion-based community to thrive and sustain. The four aspects are Entertainment, Social Engagement, Information and Services."
Tags: socialnetworking passion community
Making Virtual Football More Like the Real Thing
"Multiplayer gaming once meant a bunch of lone-wolf players each trying to do in the others. These days . . . gamers are discovering the camaraderie and esprit de corps that have long been the province of soldiers and athletes."
Tags: videogames sports community
"If you believe that tools influence content, and I absolutely do, then the most important thing we can do with all this technology is to try to build tools that encourage meaningful expression."
Tags: technology creativity communication community relationships blogs
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen's state of the media audience.
Tags: blogs media2.0 community trend journalism
Situational Relevance in Social Networking Websites
"At different times in our lives, different social networks play more or less important roles: they are situationally relevant."
Tags: socialnetworking community friendster myspace facebook
"And so it goes as media companies formerly known as mainstream try to figure out this Web 2.0 thing. When everything begins with "where's the money," nothing innovative comes out the other end."
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Tags: marketing socialsoftware community trend
Ross Mayfield profiles the different levels of participation.
Tags: community longtail collaboration socialsoftware
"A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice."
Tags: business videogames community marketing
"True learning happens when learners stop seeing themselves as mere students who do homework and complete assignments. True learning happens when they don’t see it as learning."
Tags: education blogs learning community writing
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
"Social technologies succeed when they fit into the social lives and practices of those who engage with the technology."
Tags: socialsoftware myspace culture youth socialnetworking friendster community
A photo site with facial recognition.
Tags: photography community privacy technology
"Audience relationship businesses take these proliferating content options as an opportunity, rather than a challenge. The more options there are, the more value that can be created by organizing, packaging, presenting and adding to these options for spe
Tags: advertising unbundled media2.0 community attention
Wikipedia and other online databases provide a soupy morass of information, but where can we find the variety of views that leads to wisdom
Productivity: Meet, Greet, Then Market
"These days, the best way to get people's attention is not to engage consumers with a brand, but to host or facilitate a context for people to engage with one another."
Tags: media2.0 branding marketing community
The Art of Creating a Community
Guy Kawasaki's eight tips for creating a community around your product or company.
Tags: marketing business community passion
How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
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Tracking Down An Address In 1939 Vienna
An AskMetafilter member asks if anyone can help track down the address of his grandfather in Vienna. In turn he gets not only the adress, but also documents including he never knew about.
Tags: history cool community posted
"Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications."
Tags: community development free socialsoftware web2.0 posted
How Craigslist Has Changed New York
“Erotic servicesâ€? providers, reality-TV casting agents, Eames loversâ€â€all have plenty of reasons to celebrate the site’s fifth anniversary.
Tags: culture nyc craigslist community posted
Web Content by and for the Masses
The next generation web will be read/write . . . wow New York Times, way to be on the ball.
Tags: community flickr internet web2.0 yahoo nytimes posted
What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist
NYTimes: "Unlike eBay, which is dedicated to removing geographic obstacles to trading and defines "community" along national boundaries, Craigslist thinks and acts locally"
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