This morning I stumbled across the following post by Derek Powazek, who wrote Design for Communities a few years ago, describing the three communities important to magazines: those involved in creating the magazine, the readers, and the advertisers – “Magazines… Continue Reading
I’ve always said that brands that want to “do” online community need to find a topic, or a small number of topics, that they can plow all their effort into. There’s no point in trying to do a whole bunch… Continue Reading
In Saturday’s Weekend supplement, The Guardian’s John Lanchester tried to get to grips with “web 2.0” and met with some of it’s movers and shakers. Some of those interviews have been published as podcasts but, sadly, there isn’t a full… Continue Reading
Facebook, the #2 social networking website in the US, has announced a new product called “share“. The feature allows facebook users, predominately American university students, to collect content from partner websites and publish it on their profile pages. Initial partners… Continue Reading
Wired Digital, part of the Conde Nast group, has purchased the social bookmarking site Reddit for an undisclosed amount. Like Digg, Reddit is essentially a social recommendation tool for online news stories. Registered users add a story and other users… Continue Reading
It seems everyone is jumping on the Second Life bandwagon. In the past few weeks, Wired and C-Net set up offices there, joining the BBC, who rented an Island to host a concert, and Reuters, who recently set up an… Continue Reading
Last week I got an email from Maggie Stiefvater who had seen a photo I posted on flickr and wanted permission to use it as the basis for a painting. The photo, which is of a few pubs, including the… Continue Reading
This week I’ve spotted two instances of legal claims being filed not against the websites hosting content but against the person(s) actually posting the content. In one instance, a copyright infrindgement claim was made against a blog posting premiership football… Continue Reading
Lisa Williams has posted an invitation for a sneak peek under the hood of placeblogger, a project she’s been working on. Placeblogger will be a searchable directory and aggregator of placeblogs which she explains are: Placeblogs — sites that focus… Continue Reading
AOL Europe is advertising for a social media intern. This might be of interest to someone looking for a good starting point for a career in social media, social networking, online community, “web 2.0”, etc.