Tag: social networking
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VIRB°
A new social networking site that’s too damn pretty to succeed. But it’s a great study in web design, user interaction, and functionality. VIRB°
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MyBarackObama: Who Built This?
In this comment thread on TechCrunch, there’s at least an explanation of who built the Obama site’s social networking software and where it’s been running, if not necessarily an explanation of the code behind it. MyBarackObama: Who Built This?
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ICM Interview: BigLickU’s Chris Winston – Innovation in College Media
Bryan finds out more about what BigLickU, a Roanoke newspaper social networking site for the Facebook set, is up to pre-launch. ICM Interview: BigLickU’s Chris Winston – Innovation in College Media
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Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be?
I’ve often heard conversations about launching a social networking site at a newspaper start with the words “Not that we’re trying to be the next MySpace, but…” And it always begs the question, well, should we? Should a newspaper-hosted site be the social networking spot for your geographical area? Here’s a few variations on an…
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SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag
Social networking scholar (strong word, but true) Clay Shirky posts this rather responsible take on how communities measure users, through the lens of Second Life. Most intelligent Valleywag post ever. SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag
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Tom Vilsack for President
Best. Candidate Web site. Ever. If every wannabe-Preznit doesn’t break out a videoblog and links to their social networking profiles, I’ll be sorely disappointed. Great job. Tom Vilsack for President
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Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers
Notes on online community building. Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers
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What’s been hard at Judy’s Book – A Sack of Seattle
Good notes on what’s difficult/easy about buidling local social networking sites. What’s been hard at Judy’s Book – A Sack of Seattle
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Participation Inequality – Jakob Nielsen
Usability guru on how to get more of your users/readers participating on your site. Participation Inequality – Jakob Nielsen
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The local follies: Finding the horizontal bonds in geographic communities
[Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.] The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas. Now that I have your attention… Online…