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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 March 17, 2008. Filed under: BuddyPress, Bulletin Board System, D Glazer, Debian Etch, Facebook, Google staffer, MySpace, N O'Neill, Ning, OpenSocial, Ruby on Rails, TechCrunch, Wordpress, core social network, developing a social network, facts, figures, like-a-breeze tutorial, social network, social sites | Tags: user base size |
On the subject of social sites, my current aim is to develop a freely available core social network. To be able to do so, I did some online search. I begun with a search for a Bulletin Board System based on Rails. But I didn’t go into depth until now.
What I found somtime amidst it [...]
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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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