http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+link Talk about community and link http://blogoforum.com/tag/business+community+craigslist+link+wsj/craigslist-ceo-interview-on-wsj-1345.html Wall Street Journal published an interview with Craigslist CEO: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115049840863382886.html Pretty interesting reading however left most interesting questions unanswered. Why Craigslist isn't profit-oriented? This theme is closely related to Blogoforum. Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:29:30 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/business+community+craigslist+link+wsj/craigslist-ceo-interview-on-wsj-1345.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/business+community+pagerank+seo+talkinghub/talkinghub-got-pagerank-7-684.html talkinghub pagerank reached 7: http://livepr.raketforskning.com/?u=talkinghub.com . This is a surprise. This is good surprise for me! How did talkinghub get here? I would I know! I have 2 web projects which are pretty popular. They are http://dotuseful.sourceforge.net/ - Java Swing tree library, and http://dkrukovsky.blogspot.com/ - "Make the Software Shine" - writings on software design. Both of them are pagerank 5. talkinghub.com is first one with PR 7. talkinghub was produced as a result from "How to Write Software" - I got an idea that it would be interesting to people if I will publish step-by-step story on how to write software from scratch. First post on it: http://dkrukovsky.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-write-software.html Some people were inspired in it and cheered me up. Thanks! If you are reading this please leave a few words about you. I got Java hosting at http://rimuhosting.com/ : http://write-software.blogspot.com/2006/02/hosting.html If you will go with RimuHosting - tell them that you were referred by Denis Krukovsky. talkinghub went live at 2006 February 6: http://write-software.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-write-software-now-live.html First post: http://talkinghub.com/forum/tag//i-will-be-posting-content-here-instead-of-blogger-soon-2.html It wasn't talkinghub that time - the name has come later. BenjiSmith advices to make the service more understandable: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.309199.3 Thanks Benji! Tag-based classification was added at February 16. Talkinghub got a name at 2006 February 19. That's the story so far! Now thanks all the people who supported me in my journey! Marcus Troiano runs an IT news blog and has a collection of some nice photos: http://marcustroiano.com/blog/ He liked the idea and gave me some useful comments. Thanks Marcus! A guy named CyberCoded runs blog - http://www.cybercoded.net/ - and makes money on small (and not so small) web software solutions - http://www.cybercoded.com/ . Thanks CyberCoded for your suggestions to me. Want to have a forum for your solutions on talkinghub? My short advice on cybercoded.net: you might want to create "Applications" page and briefly describe all your applications there. Ric Shreves runs software writings at http://ricshreves.net/ , blog on open source at http://postdb.ricshreves.net/ , and some other projects. He invited everyone to read my story. Pete Freitag runs blog on software development at http://www.petefreitag.com/ . It looks like he runs his blog on his own blog software. He even wrote "How To Make a Tag Cloud" article - http://www.petefreitag.com/item/396.cfm - where he described how a tag cloud works on his blog. Hey Pete, I like talkinghub tag cloud better. Nice man runs tech blog at http://www.cybernetnews.com . He opened my eyes that I need to fix my website layout to work under IE. David Kadavy runs good blog - http://kadavy.net/ , eats fat for money and recommends to write on Ruby. I wonder how do rubbyists do "Rename Method" refactoring? David Braverman - http://blog.braverman.org/ - blog on software and politics. Shrikant Joshi develops http://colayer.com/ - interesting view on information exchange. Thanks Shrikant for your suggestions. Max Ischenko runs Ukrainian developer's community at http://www.developers.org.ua/ , blogs on software development at http://max.textdriven.com/ , and develops book exchange service at http://knigoman.com.ua/ . Chris Jenkinson develops open source forum software at http://chimaera.starglade.org/aterr/ , maintains Wikipedia Forum article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum , and thinks to add tags to his forum at http://chimaera.starglade.org/forums/post/309 . Andrew Nesbitt runs popular tech blog at http://atariboy.wordpress.com/ . Thanks for your advices Andrew! Pete Cashmore runs popular blog on web 2.0 startups: http://www.mashable.com/ . Pete likes Wordpress forums more: http://www.mashable.com/weblist/talking-hub/ . Hey, no designer had an opportunity to touch talkinghub yet! Meredith runs blog on social web: http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/ Berlin Brown runs SpiritCompany at http://www.newspiritcompany.com/ , develops public service (not released yet), and released Calc System recently: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.333643.24 Amanecer runs .net blog at http://amanecer9.blogspot.com/ Victor Zambrano runs design company at http://www.frwrd.net/ . AJAX site. Lindsay Donaghe writes about software and photography at http://www.macrolinz.com/macrolinz/ . Hey Lindsay, more suggestions from you? Bob Stumpel keeps list of web 2.0 services at http://www.openbc.com/cgi-bin/forum.fpl?op=showarticles&id=1333506 PRWeb publish press releases for you: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb355096.htm Paul Terry Walhus developed a web 2.0 app which runs slide show of 1400 web 2.0 apps: http://web2slides.com/ Gavin Bowman runs a software company and business blog at http://webhelperbrowser.com/blog . Anyone I forgot please post your complaints here! Thanks people for your support! Denis Krukovsky author, talkinghub.com - 2 replies Thu, 18 May 2006 13:04:05 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/business+community+pagerank+seo+talkinghub/talkinghub-got-pagerank-7-684.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/adding-an-additional-thought-302.html As I look back on the communities that I've worked with, it is screamingly apparent that the largest enemy of long term, and note I do say long term, usage of community software, is the larger corporation. Each community that I've worked with beginning with WebChat Broadcasting, moving along to other role play and similar sites, has been taken over by a larger corporation( in the case of WBS it was Disney/Go, who effectively killed the community and closed the site within a relatively short time span. Therefore, based on first hand knowledge I'd have to say that the community is not its own worst enemy, but the larger corporation, who thinks it has a better way of operating that community than the individual who nurtured it into being.. RD. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:52:57 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/adding-an-additional-thought-302.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/thoughts-on-online-communities-clay-shirky-a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy-137.html Somebody from Joel on Software forum recommended this article on behavior of online communities: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html Thanks to Mr. Shirky for raising some pitfalls to be aware of. Seems at this time I'm more liberal then he is. Thru the reading I feel his idea that we should create barriers for behavior we think is bad. What if we let the community to decide what is "bad"? No - not the community - beware of "tyranny of the majority" - but a concrete individual can be responsible for its own actions and avoid what he think is bad. This will be a goal for talkinghub.com . To help individual to work with what he think is good. Also I have new thing to add to his list of things. When we are talking about online communities, there are no rules. We can note some social online patterns from the past. Those patterns are pretty weak. And we can have much different result even with a small change. Denis Krukovsky. - 2 replies Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:52:57 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/thoughts-on-online-communities-clay-shirky-a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy-137.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/thoughts-on-online-communities-clay-shirky-denis-response-my-thouthts-292.html After reading the article in question I admit to wondering what the point of the entire exercise was. Beginning with data gathered in the middle of the last century, and moving forward to analyze just bits of the online community, I could assert nearly anything I wanted about community software, based upon the small scale demographics he seems to have used to come to his conclusions. We are and were all aware of the pitfalls to be found in community software, much the same pitfalls I might add, as those which are apparent in community groups of any kind, be they online or offline. Granted he does perhaps have valid insights into the ways in which a user of a public forum will behave, however, it appears to me that he is writing from gathered data, not from actual experience. As someone who has used every type of chat software, beginning with the BBS system, up to and including working as customer service director for one of the largest gaming sites on the internet, hosting gaming rooms and working with online medical communities I've seen software that was used as it was supposed to be, and software that was not. He does make a valid point in that the users are there for each other. Hence the term community. In truth a large part of that is dependent upon the user that the software targets. If in fact it targets a group of individuals such as physicians, nurses and attorneys, it will be used with a far different result than that which targets lonely rebellious teenagers. It doesnt' appear to me that he has made the differentiation in coming to his conclusions. Roberta Drake Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:53:59 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+link+online+psychology+social+socialsoftware+talkinghub/thoughts-on-online-communities-clay-shirky-denis-response-my-thouthts-292.html