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I recently hit a couple of interesting posts by Guy Kawasaki . For the most part, I like his content. However, he threw me a curve ball in his last post titled " The Art of Creating a Community ". The curve ball is...
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My idenity server idea is terribly flawed.
My identity concept was horribly flawed. I'm a little surprised I overlooked something so terribly obvious. As such, I suddenly realize what aspect of the identity problem OpenID serves to solve so nicely. I wanted...
Read →Identity 2.0
I'm a huge advocate for the creation of a new generation of online identification . Dick Hardt of Sxip explained the current identity scene very well at OSCON. You can watch the entire presenation of Identity 2.0 right
Read →Isogame - The Virtual World Based Forum Interface Experiment
Several months ago, I started a project I called Isogame . Using bits of programmer art, art from old projects, and art borrowed from google images (apologies to artists) - I built a very basic isometric map with an...
Read →News Corp Buys Again - Fox owns gaming community network IGN
News Corp must have a plan. Either that, or they're still operating off of that mentality that drove so many investors to waste cash during the bubble. Recently I mentioned that News Corp picked up Myspace for $580...
Read →ComScore Inflates Numbers: A Bogus Blog Report
The Social Software Weblog posted a bit about comScore 's " Behaviors of the Blogosphere ". Halfway through the report, I was shocked. Ranking high in a graph titled "Top Blogs Ranked by Visits", I found sites such...
Read →Bringing Communities Together: Under One Login
Problem: I frequent several different communities on a regular basis and I must maintain an individual profile on each of them. Solution: One login to rule them all. The monolithic dark lords of all that is digital...
Read →Beyond the Blog: Blogging Alternatives
Blog Blog Blogidy Blog I suppose I've been a blogger longer than I realized. In August of 1996, I started making weekly web updates regarding the progress I was (or wasn't) making on a computer RPG project. Back...
Read →A Few Good Forum Ideas
I'd like to share a couple of forum structure ideas that have made managing the Gearbox Software Forums a little easier and an idea we've yet to try. Internal Combustion Many message boards offer a forum dedicated to...
Read →Community Building Case Study: Tips from DallasFestEvil.com
Introduction I began development on the DallasFestEvil.com website around July of 2004. I was working in conjunction with a promoter (now retired). Up-to and during the event, we worked to build an online following. Our
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