Posts Tagged with ‘social’

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. [...]

London’s most exciting event for the makers (and us end users, too) of web applications is the Future of Web Apps conference, which will be making its next footprint on the UK’s main metropolis come February 22, when it’ll be taking over the Kensington Conference Center for 3 days of Web 2.0 talks, discussions, workshops, [...]

The World of Warcraft player base is large enough to be considered a community, don’t you think? I think so. A number of other folks think so too. So being an entrepreneurial bunch, they decided to launch a network to pass those hours of downtime away conversing with fellow guild members and the such. Warcraft [...]

The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) was built on submissions, many of them from without project. Just read The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester. It was one of the most ingeniously devised social networks of the 19th century, perhaps in all of history. Begun with a grid of 54 pigeon-hole cubbies to organize quotations [...]

What doubled its collective online traffic over the course of a single year? Why, the Web 2.0 world, of course. Nielsen, partnered with NetRatings, released data that showed Web 2.0 ahead of all other sites, save for the strongest and most prolific of search engines – yeah, guess which one that is. Anyway, I was [...]