community building
Posted on April 26, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, D Heinemeier-Hansson, LastFM, Ning, Twitter, Wikipedia, Xing, being utility, community, community building, core social framework functionality, crowdsourcing, customer care service, dedicated functionality, developing a social network, free culture projects, free software projects, gaining users, gathering a resource, providing sharp tools, social network, social platform, social platforms business plans, white-label social network | Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk@Home, cell phones, cliff hangers, global society, Mambo, The Long Tail, user base, userbase, win:loose, win:win |
I’ve been a bit shy — maybe too shy — to go on with my series of posts of prerequisites needed to launch a social network because my previous posting ended with a cliff hanger on “now we finally approach social networks”. Point is, my original notes on different kinds of communities were not as [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: Asterisk, Asterisk@Home, CallWeaver, Fonality, Joomla!, Mambo, PBX In A Flash, Trixbox, community, community building, community management, free software projects, freedom to fork, gathering a resource, make a buck, market share, marketing, mistakes in dealing with a community, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, monetize free software, number of installs, snakeoil, tricking a community, user lock-in, userbase | Tags: Techdirt, forks, free software, GPL, trojan horse, funding, crowdsourcing, hassles in usage, lessons learned, brand, social interaction |
I just read the current topic on Slashdot — Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community –, and originally, I wanted to post a short reply only. But as I look at other failed .. failing communities, such as Mambo, Asterisk, Trixbox, this became a bit longer. Therefore I prefer to put it as a post here.
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Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, barebone social network framework, community building, contact list, contact list management, core social framework functionality, drafts, handle for a user, tutorials, user management, videos | Tags: Active Record, ERM, LovdByLess, Migrations, Rake, videos |
Since I pondered on implementing a social network for weeks, this weekend I might have some time to get something up and running. It’s plain to me that I am new to Rails, and I probably will miss several important points. (For the same reason, I don’t dare to approach to comprehend how the LovdByLess [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: PHP, Rails-based SN platforms, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, barebone framework, community building, content management system, recommended read, search results, social network, social platform, social software |
Few weeks ago, I learned that I might be about to get some relief from the need to do PHP — and might get allowed to do Rails. Days later, I learned for the current site, Rails might get used as well. Only issue: The current project leader’s not yet too familiar to Rails himself. [...]
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