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December 22, 2003
Blog Communities: Blogs + Social Networking
Posted by Stowe Boyd
John Battelle comments on the possible confluence of social networks and blogs:
"I think it'd be cool if you could join a network of folks who read the same blog(s). I've always maintained that any good publishing effort understands and reflects its community - that it is both a mirror to the community members, and a window into that community for folks who are interested in joining or understanding that community. Conferences have always been a neat way for readers of a publication to meet each other, for example. Foo Camp was one of the first I've been to where "blog ecologies" ended up meeting FTF, and it was quite something to see how folks who'd been connected mainly by blogs ended up working together in real space.
So think if you could "see" all the other people who read this site each day (and who opt-in to be seen, of course) - and invite them into a LinkedIn like network if you wished to. I wonder if that's in the cards for LinkedIn - to do vertical OEM stuff like that? Are there others working on stuff like this?"
You might want to take a look at
Mindsay, which is a community-oriented blogging solution, targeting young people. Mindsay has included comments and bulletin boards, as well as aggregated content in different communities, like art&culture. THey have just introduced ratings of blogs, which provides a slashdot-ish kind of social feedback. I expect even more social support in the months to come from Mindsay.
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1. Tito on March 18, 2004 05:54 AM writes...
That's something I'm working on at http://www.ublog.it
Permalink to CommentI wanted to give it a focus on mobility though; so I structured it as a mobile social networking service, based on MMS and wireless e-mail.
I'd like to integrate it with Presence and Location-aware platforms as well, to cover all axes of information: contents, authors and their network of friends, location, presence.
Let me know what you think.