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Dan Kimerling Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:30:55 -0000
Does this remind you of your job? Maybe you should check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Here is a sample from the past week: VP of EngineeringFederate Media - San Francisco, CA Senior QA EngineerCastTV - San Francsico, CA Senior Web/Business AnalystDigg.com - San Francisco,CA CTO/Co-FounderEmpatica3 - San Francisco, CA or New York, NY Senior PHP [...]
The Truth Behind Liveplace’s Photo-Realistic 3D World And OTOY’s Rendering Engine
Jason Kincaid Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:33:00 -0000
Last week we posted a video that presented LivePlace, a 3D world with an incredible amount of detail. The impressive technology behind it is called OTOY, a streaming platform that allows developers to generate movie-quality renders “in the cloud”, which can then be streamed to more modestly-powered computers and even mobile phones. For [...]
Songbird Releases Beta of Web-Integrated Media Player
Jason Kincaid Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:35:40 -0000
Later this evening Songbird, the open source web-integrated media player, will the unveil the .7 beta release of its software that introduces scrobbling to Last.fm, speedier track importing, and a more polished interface among a number of other features. The resulting application is a marked improvement over the last release we covered, but still [...]
Jackson Fish Market Does It Again With Another Beautifully Useless App
Michael Arrington Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:59:00 -0000
I have no idea what these guys actually do to pull in revenue, but God love ‘em. Jackson Fish Market, the ex-Microsoft team that brought us They’re Beautiful and Tafiti, launched Elmore City Dance Club earlier today. The application, which was conceived, designed and built by the company’s summer interns (Tyler, Luke and Alex) lets [...]
Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day
Guest Author Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:14 -0000
Editor’s note: The following on-the-ground report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for Microsoft. He is in Boulder, Colorado today attending TechStars demo day. Much like Y Combinator (which had its own demo day last week) and LaunchBox (which also had [...]
OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing
Erick Schonfeld Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:21:52 -0000
Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps. First there was MySpace and Orkut, then Hi5, and most recently Friendster. [...]

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About.com: Community Online - Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
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404 Autospec Thematics: Virtual Communities To Match Goals with Resources - Detailed strategy for creating virtual special interest groups.

Benton Foundation: Community Building - Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.

Building an Online Community: Just Add Water - The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
Meta Description: [ Digital Web Magazine - Building an Online Community: Just Add Water ]

Building Community: Online Resources - Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.

Club about Online Communities - Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.
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CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities? - News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
Meta Description: [ Will media giants bulldoze communities? | The Web is seeing a gentrification of sorts, with community sites getting squeezed by the slick, new high rise destination sites being launched by offline media giants. | March 31, 1999, 4:00 AM PT | Jim Hu ]

500 Code begets community - Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format.

Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration - Usability expert Jakob Nielsen's take on Online Communities: The Web is not a community: a huge impersonal city is a better metaphor. User-contributed content can be valuable (if edited), but chat rooms should be avoided because of participation inequality.
Meta Description: [ The Web is not a community: a huge impersonal city is a better metaphor. User-generated content (UGC) can be valuable (if edited), but chat rooms should be avoided because of participation inequality. ]

Community Leaders - Article by Janelle Brown discussing issues on the use of volunteers to manage a site's online community. The volunteers may feel good about giving their time, but the for-profit online communities are clearly profiting from those volunteers' services.
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500 Community Networking Movement - Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems.
Meta Description: [ Information and resources for people interested or involved in the Community Networking Movement ]

Community Networks: Putting People First - Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delvering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well.

CommunityAnswers.com - Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
Meta Description: [ CommunityAnswers.com is a FREE resource where community builders, community users, moderators, managers, owners and the like can gain support and advice about building quality online communities ]

Communitybuilding.com - The secret to success on the web is to build a community, not just a web site. Here one can find tools and tips to make a web site interactive and, as a result, a place of community.

CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn - Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
Meta Description: [ CornerWays - An International production house that specializes in; online community development,training, intranet building, focus groups, live events, moderation and web site design. ]

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community - Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.

Design Principles for Online Communities - Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).

Digital Geographer - Information architecture, interface design, and strategy for online places. Tips, tricks, and articles comparing real and online communities to improve your relationship with customers, clients and employees.

First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web - The authors present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the site they were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body.
Meta Description: [ The authors present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the site they were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body. ]

First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia - Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.
Meta Description: [ This paper employs team and club good theory as well as transaction cost economics to analyse the Wikipedia online community, which is devoted to the creation of a free encyclopaedia. ]

Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace - Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking.

Full Circle Associates - Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
Meta Description: [ Full Circle is the consulting and training practice of Nancy White and a network of independent professionals who provide a range of services individually and collectively for clients in the community, non-profit and business sectors. The site is also a respository of online community resources. ]

How To Kill Community Networks - By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.

500 Howard Rheingold - Online community builder, acknowledged expert on social and cultural implications of cyberspace. Includes informative articles and advice and commentary on current online communities.
Meta Description: [ Joi Ito's conversation with the living web. ]

Membership Agreements - Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.

404 Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet - Online book by Fay Sudweeks et al. Addresses the mutual influences between information technology and group information and development. Discusses network norms and experiences and the essential nature of network communications.

NTT Social Communication Laboratory - Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.

Online Community Building Concepts - List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.

Online Hospitality: Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips - Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
Meta Description: [ YOYOW ]

Peter Kollock - Associate professor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes curriculum vita, course syllabi and recent papers on online communities and markets, which is his current research.

Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted - As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
Meta Description: [ Netscape to community: You're evicted: As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. ]

Suite101.com: Communication in Cyberspace - Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
Meta Description: [ Tutorials, reviews and updates on various programs used to communicate on the internet. This topic will cover messaging, conferencing, discussion forums,telephony, chat and email. ]

The Mailing List Gurus Page - A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
Meta Description: [ A guide for e-mail mailing list subscribers and managers ]

The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project - Five PhD students out to study virtual communities, their rise and development, evolution, meaning and its effect to traditional organizations. (Some papers are in Swedish.)
Meta Description: [ This is the home page of the Virtual Communities project (VIRCOM). It is a part of the Net-Life Research Group web site. ]

VirtualCommunities Start4all - Directory of resources and tools for building online communities. Rich content for analysis of virtual communities. With a list of popular communities and vendors in this field.

WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts Manual - The WELL's description of conferencing, why it's the best tool for building community, and how to get starting in a conferencing environment. Links include the WELL Host Manual.
Meta Description: [ The WELL - Community building tips and online hosts manual ]

Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities - UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
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