Nobody Listens Anyway

I was just following Windley on Twitter. He is in China and was unable to view Scoble’s blog. Scoble’s response - China blocks all of Wordpress.com. Ouch.

There is a lot of buzz on the BuddyPress mailing list now that there is a list. What is interesting and cool is that the group is interested in using standards like OAuth, Microformats and OpenID. This is great news. I think one of the great strengths of Wordpress has been its [...]

There’s real information on the BuddyPress site today. I am so excited. This is one of the first steps towards easy to create, distributed social networks. Hopefully it is as easy to extend as Wordpress.

The LDS cultural has encouraged personal history and journal writing since its inception. Ever since then the vast majority of the members have ignored this council and the overall level of guilt among the LDS faithful has continued to rise as each successive generation followed the example of the previous. Technology now provides [...]

I’m not sure if anyone has seen David Wiley’s blog today, but I think his efforts help to illustrate the idea of distributing the social network. Take a look at it. It might change, so look soon. Does it look familiar?

I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around Wordpress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun [...]

When Digg was new I spent plenty of time following the latest news ‘dugg’ up by the community. Now I rarely go back. Somewhere along the line Digg became an online Frat house and I am no longer interested in the 10 ten latest shocking things or in hearing about Scientology or in [...]

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 [...]

Over the past few months I have talked quite a bit with Joel about online communities and about what philosophically makes a community. I think it is a group of individuals who collectively are interesting in something and need tools to facilitate communication and production of some artifact(s). The way the community [...]

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 [...]