Posts Tagged with ‘gather’

We here at Profy first profiled Gather.com - a social networking site geared to provide a meeting place of sorts (hence the title) for above-average intellectual discussion (as opposed to the mostly idiocratic MySpace and so forth) - in November of 2006. The following February we delved in a bit deeper, spotlighting the site’s establishment of Essentials, a selection of channels comprised of expert sources of information for books, music, health, money, and so on.
And in September, we [...]

The social community Gather.com just announced the launch of a political discussion and a national search for a “People's Press Corps”. Election 2008 on Gather will engage voting adults into political discussions on vital issues of the upcoming election. Seven of the presidential candidates have already committed to creating groups within the Gather community and Gather's special demographics may prove interesting for voters and candidates alike. A recent poll of the Gather.com community revealed that 98.8 percent of members plan [...]

It looks like social networking tends to evolve into social-expert networking: a community is not enough for a user - we often want to find experts in the community to rely on their opinions. LinkedIn launches Answers, BitWine partners with Skype - it is all about expertise and shows that expert opinion is what matters and generates income today.
Gather.com - a social media website for adults - is announcing its new move in the very same direction: partnerships for [...]

While scouring Newsvine Sunday evening like I do most nights, I happened upon a burrowed link, which led to Gather, a social network unlike Myspace and its clones. Gather is a virtual café, where everything from books to food to gardening to travel is discussed.
It’s continually growing collection of articles is its strongest feature. There you can read musings from ordinary people about public and private issues. The page is laid out to invite exploration, like you would browse the [...]