Thoughts on monetizing online communities

These are random and slightly haphazard, so bear with me.
I’ve been part of a few discussions the last few weeks that have resulted into me going back home with the ultimate question in mind:  how do you monetize a community? Or rather – can a community even be monetized?
Everyone is trying to do this – [...]

Late night thoughts

Social Networks: diaryland.com

I’ve been thinking a lot about what really constitutes a social network. I found this amazing historical and pictorial representation of the launch dates of major social network sites in a paper authored by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. While this is fairly accurate, I think has missed out a couple key movements in this [...]

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Web apathy

Drawing from history

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