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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 April 8, 2008. Filed under: A List Apart, Blogger.com, GMail, Google, Wordpress.com, Xing, data breaches, distrust, personal data footprint, privacy, privacy concerns, social network, suggested reads, usability | Tags: Geni.com, privacy concerns, privacy risks, PrivacyRights.com, Privacy Rights, legal life, gradual engagement |
In my previous post, I introduced usability in general as a tool to lower the hurdles that might afflict random passers-by to become users of your service. Even more, usability provides you with chances to discern your service from alternative services, it’s relatively simple to implement and, once established, in your process of design and [...]
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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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