Tag: COMMUNITY

One fascinating aspect to online social communities is the ability to meet people around the globe who share your interests. In many cases, you're introduced to people you never would have met under other circumstances. But the truth of the matter is most of us don't even know the people in our own neighborhoods. Of course, you could walk out the front door and ask to borrow a cup of sugar from ...

WordPress is a powerful and very extensible blogging engine that is gaining more CMS (Content Management System) features with each release. As anyone who has downloaded a copy can probably tell, the directory structure is pretty friendly to hacks and plug-ins, but unless you are your own WordPress coding ninja, you might be asking yourself: where exactly can all these themes, plug-ins and hacks ...

Microsoft is tapping the social network phenomenon by starting up one of their own. This financial social network will focus on finance professionals, and be targeted towards career roles. By the sounds of things, this financial site could be based of the current Microsoft Live pages idea where users get their own personal blog area with the addition of forums, and on Microsoft Dynamics Live. I ...

For those who have mastered their narrative skills with a camera and don't feel like waiting for YouTube to start sharing revenue, Zooppa (pronounced: zoo-pa) just might be your ticket to fame and fortune. As a new startup that's been stirring some buzz for a little while now, Zooppa melds user generated video with advertising for a unique business model. Businesses supply advertising briefs - ...

What better way to break up a day than to sit back and check out some cartoons for a laugh. Soon we'll have MyToons.com, a video and image sharing site for cartoons that is currently in private beta. Users will be able to upload and share their own artwork, rank other people's work and start a discussion on each piece. Video players can also be embedded in blogs or web sites. For cartoon lovers, ...

Vox, a Six Apart blogging community I admittedly am enjoying more and more each day, has just launched a few major new features, the most notable of which is Groups. Vox members can now create public or private groups for sharing anything you can already publish on Vox: posts, pictures, videos, books and more. Group owners can allows others to admin the group, and members can post either directly ...

I'm sure a lot of you had holiday parties over the last few weeks. How did your planning go? You could surely have used the new MyPunchbowl service. MyPunchbowl is set to launch its online party planning service on January 15th. Built by Punchbowl Software, it allows users to create an online community for celebrations. Members can use the service before, during and after parties to coordinate ...

Do you like news? Enough to have an online RSS aggregator and reader? With a community based approach to news content delivery? A new service called NEooWS is just that. NEooWS is taking a community approach to news and content delivery by building communities that discuss daily stories, allowing for the ability to provide different unique perspectives. It's a great spot to get the latest news ...

BookMooch does exactly what their tagline states and helps bring new life to old books. BookMooch is similar to a used book library online, making it easier to search and locate books that you might not have wanted to pay full price for, but are totally worth reading. BookMooch is also trying its hand at social networking by creating a community for exchanging books online, and have developed a ...

Faqqly is an online social network community where friends are brought together to trade questions and answers, give and get help, and ideas, and share. It's like MySpace without the crazy inundation of ads, and a little more personal, creating a more authentic service. Faqqlys main goal is to be a sharing community. Not so me-centered like other social networks. Its layout and interface are very ...

It seems like everything is going 'social' these days, and the tech bargain and coupon industry is the latest to join the list. Introducing: dealplumber, "a community-driven deals site that delivers the best deals and coupons from across the internet". Almost everything you might expect from a 'web 2.0-meets-discounts' site is here, including tags (complete with a cloud), comments, saving coupons, ...

Linspire, the Linux distribution criticized by some for being full of proprietary drivers and software, is trying to go the way of Fedora with a new "community-driven" distribution called Freespire. Two version of Freespire will be released, one with proprietary software and one without. The really-free version won't, for example, come with DVD playback, which users will instead have the ...