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| The Stylehive is a global social shopping community, dedicated to discovering and sharing the most exciting products, the stores that sell them, and the people that find them.
You don't have to join the hive to enjoy it. Casual readers can just browse, search or subscribe to it via RSS. You'll discover and share what you find in the hive by exploring tags, individual people's hives, popular or recent bookmarks, and popular sites in the hive. Or, you can simply check out our blog, a publication that constantly covers what trends our editors are seeing emerge in the hive. | Software spots key players in online communities - 17:48 20 July 2007 - NewScientist.com news service - Kurt Kleiner
Software that identifies the most informative people in an online community, based on their posting patterns, has been developed by researchers at Cornell University, New York, and Microsoft Research in Washington State, both in the US.
The researchers worked out how to spot key players within discussions by analysing the connections between thousands of messages on several topics.
The work could help website designers automatically reward, or highlight, the most valuable members of a community, or improve methods for searching through a conversation for the most relevant information. | Citizendium may be one of a few markers that reveal the evolution of user-driven content. The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on the Wikipedia model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. We have over 1,000 articles and hundreds of contributors. But we will avoid calling the Citizendium an "encyclopedia" until the project's editors feel comfortable putting their reputations behind that description. | FriendCircles is the Circle of Friends Network. Start connecting with people and friends. Form activity partners, social groups, clubs. About FriendCircles.com: FriendCircles.com is dedicated to the members of our online community - which we affectionately refer to as ' Friendizens '.
"Our goal is to help our Friendizens form lasting, fruitful relationships in a fun and vibrant atmosphere. We also strive to assist our members in organizing their social, professional, personal and family lives through the many free tools we offer.” | Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites on the Internet. | MySpace.com is a free service that uses the Internet for online communication through an interactive network of photos, weblogs, user profiles, e-mail, web forums, and groups, as well as other media formats. This all-inclusive service is sometimes called a social networking interface. MySpace is a very active site, and additions and new features are being added constantly. Meet people from your area in the country and keep in touch | Google Groups - Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments. | Realpeoplerealstuff - World's first Web 3.0 site
It leverages all the features of Web 2.0 including media-rich content, adds the social networking and commerce of CraigsList, then it goes a step further than YouTube by incorporating a proven revenue model – making it the world's first Web 3.0 site. | Flixster is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love.
Only a year old, Flixster is already one of the largest movie sites on the web with over 10 million registered users and over 300 million movie ratings. | What is a Wiki ? - A Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a ... | The WELL is a cherished and acclaimed destination for conversation and discussion. For twenty years it has captivated intelligent, creative people. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born — where Howard Rheingold first coined the term "virtual community." Over the last two decades, it's been described as "the world's most influential online community" in a Wired Magazine cover story, and "the Park Place of email addresses" by John Perry Barlow. It's won Dvorak and Webby Awards, inspired songs and novels, and almost invisibly influences modern culture. | Technorati: Home
Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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