I have been writing quite a bit lately about open Social Networks and the infrastructure that I think will emerge from Wordpress to help fill that niche. Then David sends me to Ringside Networks. Although new, this projects appears to be a fairly robust piece of software that can integrate with your existing [...]
Ringside Networks
April 1st, 2008 No Comments
Tags: open source · ringside networks · Social Software
Disposable Communities
March 5th, 2008 No Comments
I had a great chat with Brian Lamb yesterday. He and his team are working to use Wordpress to support learning communities at UBC. In case anyone else is sick of WebCT, Blackboard or the boring Moodle interface this could provide an interesting replacement.
Anyway, as we were talking it made me [...]
Tags: communities · disposable · freedom · open source · Social Software · Web2.0 · Wordpress
Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
March 4th, 2008 3 Comments
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful.
When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up [...]
Tags: communities · Education · open source · Social Software · Teachers Without Borders · Web2.0 · Wordpress










