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Niche Communities

Posted on March 5, 2008November 1, 2021

Over the past few months I have talked quite a bit with Joel about online communities and about what philosophically makes a community. I think it is a group of individuals who collectively are interesting in something and need tools to facilitate communication and production of some artifact(s). The way the community interacts to make…

Disposable Communities

Posted on March 5, 2008November 1, 2021

I had a great chat with Brian Lamb yesterday. He and his team are working to use WordPress to support learning communities at UBC. In case anyone else is sick of WebCT, Blackboard or the boring Moodle interface this could provide an interesting replacement. Anyway, as we were talking it made me realize that it…

Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE

Posted on March 4, 2008November 1, 2021

I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…

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