Online communities: what’s new?

Ross Mayfield analyzes the new generation of web-native online community tools :

  • blogs and journals
  • public and private networking clubs, e.g. Ryze and Friendster
  • real-world meeting services, e.g. Meet-up

which displace older models like bulletin board systems and usenet.
Jon Lebkowsky replies that much of the “new online community” is not so new.

We’re building new tools which are refinements of the old tools, and the social practices are clearly an extension of stuff we’ve done all along

2 thoughts on “Online communities: what’s new?”

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    In my earlier post, I accidentally attributed Matt Webb’s posts on social software to Matt Jones. My bad, and I’ve

  2. the people in my (social software) neighborhood

    In my earlier post, I accidentally attributed Matt Webb’s posts on social software to Matt Jones. My bad, and I’ve

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