Posts Tagged with ‘community’

RottenNeighbor.com is a fairly new web service, launched in July, that is out to provide web users with insight into the which neighborhoods around the United States have experienced reports of bad neighbors.
To do this, the website implements Google Maps to provide users with where unfriendly neighbors are located, as posted by other users.
The layout is simple and easy to use, but Rotten Neighbor does have its flaws, beginning with the seemingly excessive use of Google Ads [...]

Being new to online social networking, I still find myself becoming excessively lavish when discovering new ways to connect. That is not to say I am excessively foolish and connect for the sake of connecting, although I was guilty of becoming lax with Plaxo in the beginning. In reality, I use Plaxo more than any other network program now to seek and develop my online network in conjunction with LinkedIn.
As I try to strengthen my network connections, I am also [...]

According to Wikipedia, 'Web 2.0' is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004.
Until November of 2006, I had never heard of Web 2.0 and to be blunt I was not even remotely interested in writing a, "GASP", blog.  In the spring of 2007 that changed as I created, my first blog/RSS feed titled, "The Colour Blind Photographer". I would have done so sooner but personally, up to that particular [...]

"Why don't you just change it, uncle, if you feel so strongly about it?" I said with a hint of irritation. He is my uncle, all of these years and having been brought up entirely in the Silicon Valley habitat I am designed to be impatient trying to help uncle the complexities of something new in the cyber world.
"What do you mean - change it? It is a text in an encyclopedia written by an authority. I may not [...]

Strong Bad and Homestar Runner. Weebl and Bob. Red Meat. some of the most popular comics are either exclusively online, or have increased their reader base significantly over the stereotypical alt-weeklies and college papers where they were previously hidden. You'd have to assume that this would have an impact on print comics, and apparently, DC Comics has decided to do something about it with their launch of Zuda Comics.
Zuda Comics has all the right 2.0 buzzwords: community, blog [...]

If you have been using MyBlogLog, then chances are that you know about the recent changes that have been implemented on the service, particularly the new community messaging feature. Apparently, users have been demanding the ability to quickly send one message to all members of a community. At least that is what the team at MyBlogLog (MBL) is saying. I have yet to see any positive responses to this new feature, and believe me, I have looked. In fact, several bloggers [...]

iLike is now the fastest growing music service on the web, with 300,000 new users signing up every day, according to a recent press release from the company. Today, I found out that Facebook has a lot to do with the sudden popularity of the emerging iLike service. According to a Reuters article, some recent changes at Facebook (which unveiled Facebook platform on May 24 for developers to use freely) were put to very good use by iLike with a custom version [...]

People who study the Internet for a living have expended a good deal of effort arguing about its impact on the democratic process. Ever since Web 1.0 came along and changed the world, a popular line of argument has gone roughly like this: ?cyberspace allows people who possess relatively little power in the so-called real world to have their political voices heard in a more egalitarian manner on the Internet.? While the social promises made by a lot of Web 1.0 [...]

There are enough social music networks on the internet now, that anyone should be able to find one that best fits their interests and needs. uPlayMe is one example of such a network, but this one has a few differences that may give it an edge over the others that simply appear to be last.fm clones. uPlayMe even attempts to stand out with a funny commercial that I am not quite sure gets the point across about how the service works, [...]