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Crowdsourcing, Social Platforms, Business Models

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: , , , , , , , , , , |

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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two ideas on how to monetize blogging

Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: blogging, monetize blogging, social platform |

The headline alone, “Social blog: turning a blog into a decentralised social network” of a talk given at BlogTalk 2008, caused me to get the clue/ide/impression/question of whether there might be a way to monetize a blog any other way but by wallpapering it with ads or post influenced by some favours one might get [...]

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What is a bare-bone social network?

Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, Couchsurfing.com, LastFM, Ning, Xing, buddy list, collecting peers, contact list, contact list management, fundamental social graph, social graph, social network, social platform, user account management, users' advantage |

So, what does a social network, gnawned off all flesh, look like? What’s the bare-boned of all bare-bone social network functionality?
As I am thinking through a social networking platform-to-be, I have to weigh between tools users need to gain a benefit of participating in the net — i.e. their reason to participate at all — [...]

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looking for a barebone social network framework in Ruby/Rails

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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