Category: The Power of Many

Keith Hampton has announced the launch of i-neighbors, a set of free web services for neighborhoods in Canada and the US inspired by the research into the connection between virtual and f2f communities done by himself and Barry Wellman. With their software you can Meet and communicate with your neighbors. Find neighbors with similar interests.…

Cliff Figallo, whom I’ve met via the Well and our blog conference there (likely to “graduate” from being an independent conference to a featured conference, next month, if current trends hold) is blogging his experience trying to use LinkedIn for business networking, in a Blogger-driven site called Working Linkedin.

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eBay Acquires Minority Interest in craigslist Craig’s take on it seems to be that it’s pretty benign. I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. This sounds big. Let’s keep an eye on this. Update: Commenters on Craig’s blog seem to be wavering between hopeful worry and cries of “sell out.” My sense is that…

Brian Dear wonders who is behind Multiply (brianstorms weblog: Multiply? Subtract 1.): You know what? A customer should not have to search high and low to find out simple things like this. Of all the kinds of web businesses, SOCIAL NETWORK businesses really owe it to their customers to share some of their information about…

Online Communities in Business: Past Progress, Future Directions is “a survey report focusing on how companies and other large organizations are using community and collaborative technologies.” (via Nancy White)