Perilous online communities

Posted about 1 year ago by Caspar
31/07/2007

Things move fast in the world of generic communities. One of the first communities to market was Friendster - it was in fact the community that inspired me to launch my first communities here in the UK when they were only 3 months olds.A good friend of mine (the same one who originally mentioned Friendster to me several years ago) has just sent me a link http://www.scribd.com/doc/80907/How-to-Kill-a-Great-Idea. The article describes how the first to market here grew spectacularly and then with a wealth of expertise and funds thrown at it managed to lose its way to subsequent market entrants Facebook...

Do web only working relationship....work?

Posted about 1 year ago by Ed Charvet
30/07/2007

One tenant of the web 2.0 movement is open source.  Like everything in this arena the messaging around this has become some what confused.  Open source was around long before web 2.0 was being talked about, but if today you are developing second generation web applications using the open source community then it is really quite likely that you can go a long way before you actually meet someone in person...now that is very 2.0.Take us, why not, that is all I talk about in these blogs, we have been building a relationship with a guy who runs a development...

THE END!!

Posted about 1 year ago by Ed Charvet
29/07/2007

Closed Wikinomics tonight and felt a real sense of sadness.  This is a book that personally I never wanted to end.  I can't really explain what this book has done for me in direct relation to what Caspar and I are building, because, without trying to sound too emotional about it [and failing], it just sums up the whole thing....The "whole thing" is that within the covers of this book is the clearest description of one the most compelling reasons why the internet and web are simply breathtaking.  You know how, if you walk around talking about second generation web,...