Posts Tagged with ‘community’

MySpace users are starting to feel the pain of the world's largest online community. I suppose this is only fair, it is their town after all!
MySpace has begun to limit the number and kinds of tools that users can embed in their pages. The giant community that sees over 90 million viewers a month wants to restrict users from having video players, advertising and other types of transaction tools. Evidently News Corporation, the owner or MaySpace, wants to ensure that [...]

What should the prevalent geek community view as evil? I read a thought provoking Mashable article today by Pete Cashmore, and I knew I should share and comment on it.
The Viacom versus YouTube case is in the forefront of Web 2.0 news, and rightly so. A billion of anything is something to notice and the obvious legal implications of this case will affect all of us. "The Geeks Guide to Good and Evil" invites comment and some focused "geek" [...]

LinkedIn is Web 2.0's version of exchanging business cards at a huge international business conference. More than that, LinkedIn is a community of people that make relationships matter. I know, that is their motto on the web page, but the professionals I have had contact with have exemplified the terms professional and connection.
I posted a question that people at LinkedIn could respond to, as a way of giving different perspectives and viewpoints about technology in general. I think the answers [...]

This week, the Walt Disney Co. is beta launching a community site aimed at mothers. The site, which will be known as Family.com, was designed based on input from 30,000 mothers surveyed in the past year, as well as an advisory panel made up of "Mommy bloggers."
According to Yahoo, Family.com is designed to be "a one-stop site for parents, especially mothers, providing everything from Internet search to user-generated articles on key topics such as education and food, and, eventually, a "ParentPedia," [...]

I was reading an older post from Shoutblog that, in turn, referenced Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The post started out describing two friends making an "all time top 10 list" of songs, but found as they voted out choices that weren't the same for both of them, they headed toward the Billboard charts, leaving edginess and originality behind for the common music that everyone seems to know.
The trend that seems to be taking hold of many Web 2.0 companies [...]

I see a lot of press releases about Web 2.0 community sites, and most of them, quite honestly, I skip right over. For some reason, one released last week caught my eye. GirlSense was being re-launched as a free site, and while I wasn't familiar with its previous incarnation, the concept of the site caught my eye.
Designed for tween girls, who actually make up a large consumer base, the site features your standard pink flowers and games designed for [...]

As reported by The Guardian, Reuters plans to launch an online community later this year for the purpose of exchanging financial information. Touted as a version of MySpace for those in the financial industries, the site will be limited to Reuters' subscribers. As Reuters CEO Tom Glocer says,
"People don't want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the credit derivatives market, but they probably are interested in being able to share research."

Reuters currently has 70,000 [...]

I found a really insightful essay in the New York Times by Daniel Coleman. The article deals with online behavior and in particular "flaming" before thinking in online communication venues. After all, we have all been exposed to rude and antisocial behavior from other people since we first ventured here.
In fact, offensive messages seem to plague every dialogue we enter into, and often comments that are not meant to be offensive can easily be taken badly. The "flaming" phenomena actually [...]

Whether you are organizing a weekly football match or are just interested to meet with people who share similar interests with you, I can say you won’t regret it if you pay Meetup a visit.
What is Meetup? Meetup helps people find others who share their interest or cause, and form lasting, influential, local community groups that regularly meet face-to-face. Meetup believes that the world will be a better place when everyone has access to a people-powered local meetup group.
But after [...]