When Flickr sold to Yahoo , some users were concerned about the fate of their community. More recently, Google bought YouTube and now users are complaining: " Since it was the `people' that made YouTube, why aren't they
Read →I'm all excited this morning. I ran into Jack Slocum 's PHPBB+YUI project. You can see the default PHPBB install here and then check out the YUI version here . The readability improvements are absolutly astounding. I've
Read →I can't begin to guess how many times I've complained when someone with my e-mail address would forward something silly to me and a few hundred friends - with all of our names exposed in the CC - only to have half a...
Read →Blog : A public forum where only one user can create a thread. Forum : A community blog, or collection of blogs organized by subject, where any community member can create a thread.
Read →I've always loved video games. My first non-pen-and-paper RPG was Dragon Warrior for the NES. I got it free with my subscription to Nintendo Power - so it was long after the game was originally published. My next RPG...
Read →Disclaimer I'm using the term 'blog' as it's accurate to the subject; however, any source of original syndicated content would apply. To assume that what I present here is limited to the scope of blogging is rather...
Read →So, I'm wanting to find out more about this projected called Citadel . It's a groupware package for lots of important stuff like calendars, email, and chat. I actually found it while looking for a good calendar...
Read →Over the past couple of days, I've had an e-mail dialog with the organizer of a meetup.com group for marketing. It all began shortly after I added the group to my list. I noticed several very pointed e-mails asking...
Read →I just found Frappr.com tonight. What a surprise! As this post's title suggests, the best way to sum the site up is as "a Web 2.0 version of MySpace ". It really is kinda nifty. From what I've found about the site...
Read →I was reading Web Development 2.0 and found a lot of really interesting information. One bit relates well to virtual communities. One example: Flickr had a report of users with no contacts in the Flickr social...
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