43 Things
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 6, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, advice, attention capturing, become well-known, blogging, competition, gaining users, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, providing benefit, respect, rules of thumb, series of posts, social interaction, story, user experience | Tags: 255 characters of link context, backlinks, blogging, Click Here links, contribution to the user experience, gaining audience, net-prominents, RSS feed delivery, search engine results, trackbacks |
This one is going to be a bit long, as I refer to my own experiences in blogging, how I approached increasing the number of readers, my failures and lessons learned. In the end, I come up with a conclusion that points back into the direction of usability and communities.
In 1999, I didn’t care much [...]
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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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