Tag: ONLINE COMMUNITIES

My friends think I'm crazy ... overreacting. I've gone and done it, though. I've deactivated my Facebook account. My privacy settings were set to be as restrictive as Facebook allows, and I still didn't feel comfortable with it. Not because I have anything to hide, but because I don't trust Facebook to not use my information (and that of my friends) for evil, or even to adequately protect ...

Patrick is the author of Managing Online Forums and is somewhat of an expert on managing online communities in general, having managed the iFroggy network for several years. I caught up with him here in Austin and asked about first impressions of the conference and a little about his core conversation, "Shameless Self Promotion Without Looking Like an @#$%^&!" Share tweetmeme_url = ...

SXSWi 2008: Freshbooks talks to Download Squad from Download Squad on Vimeo. We've written about Freshbooks -- the online invoicing system -- before and have been big fans of their approach and service. We were even more impressed upon meeting Saul and Sunir, two of Freshbook's team members, at SXSWi 2008. Grant talked to Saul and Sunir about the service, the importance of community and ...

AOL has announced that they have acquired Userplane, a company that builds communication software for online communities. Userplane applications are primarily developed in Flash, using the Flash Communication server. This makes it extremely easy for developers to plug it into their websites. The Userplane suite of software includes: Webchat - a multi-user Flash-based chat interface, that can ...