Comments on: Web Colonies and Web Forks http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 22 May 2012 15:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Blog femme: mode feminine http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-170587 Blog femme: mode feminine Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:23:00 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-170587 <strong>Accessoire de femme est un moyen d?être charmante...</strong> Sans conteste le sac à main idéal doit être pratique, original, commode et tout le nécessaire doit y entrer: clefs, porte-monnaie, maquillage, papiers etc. D?habitude une sac à main est composé d?une grande poche qui peut aussi comporter...... Accessoire de femme est un moyen d?être charmante…

Sans conteste le sac à main idéal doit être pratique, original, commode et tout le nécessaire doit y entrer: clefs, porte-monnaie, maquillage, papiers etc. D?habitude une sac à main est composé d?une grande poche qui peut aussi comporter……

]]> By: Non-profits, organizations, and social media « just write click http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-54134 Non-profits, organizations, and social media « just write click Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:51:21 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-54134 [...] to read their blog. I cracked up because I realized it’s so true for me. Read his post here: Cote talks about the “web I know” and it’s different for all of us, based on age, based on experience, based on education [...] [...] to read their blog. I cracked up because I realized it’s so true for me. Read his post here: Cote talks about the “web I know” and it’s different for all of us, based on age, based on experience, based on education [...]

]]> By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-34850 cote Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:07:11 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-34850 Thanks for the LiveJournal mention, Anne. There certainly are boat-loads of people over there. It seems more like a semi-transparent colony, but that might just be a bias on my part towards blogs. Thanks for the LiveJournal mention, Anne. There certainly are boat-loads of people over there. It seems more like a semi-transparent colony, but that might just be a bias on my part towards blogs.

]]> By: Anne Gentle http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-34155 Anne Gentle Thu, 31 May 2007 21:13:23 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-34155 Great post, Cote, I'm reading parts of it and laughing with my 30-something husband because it describes me to a tee (T?). Refusing to sign up for MySpace or Facebook, clinging to my LinkedIn contacts (and I just discovered that I can now see who has viewed my profile, ooo), blogging and connecting via posts, digg, and so forth. I lurve del.icio.us and I just signed up for Twitter last month and haven't really started using it. Why the omission of LiveJournal for 30-somethings? That area of the web is definitely where many of my 30-something friends are "jailing" their content. :) For some reason, I'm also drawn to the question of what are the seniors doing? We bought all the grandparents webcams this Christmas but their web presence and web reading lists don't yet include many blogs, instead they are up to their ears in Forums about their personal interests and hobbies. These Forums are mostly email-based reading, come to think of it. Your large print blog layout is probably taking care of that demographic, no offense to anyone because I truly like your large print layout. I thought you'd probably also be interested in this Ask MetaFilter post asking whether investing in a Second Life presense makes sense for a non-profit. "SecondLife presence for nonprofits -- Yay or Nay?" at <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/62698/SecondLife-presence-for-nonprofits-Yay-or-Nay," rel="nofollow">http://ask.metafilter.com/62698/SecondLife-presen...</a> looking to attract "teh kidz." Heh. Great post, Cote, I'm reading parts of it and laughing with my 30-something husband because it describes me to a tee (T?). Refusing to sign up for MySpace or Facebook, clinging to my LinkedIn contacts (and I just discovered that I can now see who has viewed my profile, ooo), blogging and connecting via posts, digg, and so forth. I lurve del.icio.us and I just signed up for Twitter last month and haven't really started using it.

Why the omission of LiveJournal for 30-somethings? That area of the web is definitely where many of my 30-something friends are "jailing" their content. :)

For some reason, I'm also drawn to the question of what are the seniors doing? We bought all the grandparents webcams this Christmas but their web presence and web reading lists don't yet include many blogs, instead they are up to their ears in Forums about their personal interests and hobbies. These Forums are mostly email-based reading, come to think of it. Your large print blog layout is probably taking care of that demographic, no offense to anyone because I truly like your large print layout.

I thought you'd probably also be interested in this Ask MetaFilter post asking whether investing in a Second Life presense makes sense for a non-profit. "SecondLife presence for nonprofits — Yay or Nay?" at
http://ask.metafilter.com/62698/SecondLife-presen… looking to attract "teh kidz." Heh.

]]> By: Ric http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-33632 Ric Wed, 30 May 2007 19:31:06 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-33632 Two things - I've sent you a 'friend' request in FB, and you haven't responded yet! ... and I'm thinking much the same way you are. I have been bemused for some time about how my kids and their contemporaries seem so enamoured of MySpace/Xanga/Ringo, where the pages look like a 1950's ad exec has vomited on them, and where you HAVE to be logged in to see anything. I can see why those sites think that's good (but that's still such 'old' thinking), but it's a shame my kids are more conformist than I am. Whether or not Redmonk uses these sites is up to you guys - I don't need to be there to get the benefit of your conversation. As you can tell, I've been looking at FB since they opened it up a bit, but I'm not convinced I'll stay there. I'm actually reasonably happy with Linkedin for the purpose of business contacts, and the online resume thing, but if you look at what I'm doing with FB, it's just connections to existing social sites like Flickr, del.icio.us, last.fm and the blog - I'm not sure what additional value FB gives me, since I can put all those things on my blog (and have). Two things – I've sent you a 'friend' request in FB, and you haven't responded yet! … and I'm thinking much the same way you are. I have been bemused for some time about how my kids and their contemporaries seem so enamoured of MySpace/Xanga/Ringo, where the pages look like a 1950's ad exec has vomited on them, and where you HAVE to be logged in to see anything. I can see why those sites think that's good (but that's still such 'old' thinking), but it's a shame my kids are more conformist than I am.

Whether or not Redmonk uses these sites is up to you guys – I don't need to be there to get the benefit of your conversation.

As you can tell, I've been looking at FB since they opened it up a bit, but I'm not convinced I'll stay there. I'm actually reasonably happy with Linkedin for the purpose of business contacts, and the online resume thing, but if you look at what I'm doing with FB, it's just connections to existing social sites like Flickr, del.icio.us, last.fm and the blog – I'm not sure what additional value FB gives me, since I can put all those things on my blog (and have).

]]> By: Jared Hanson http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-33503 Jared Hanson Wed, 30 May 2007 14:12:34 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-33503 This observation hits at the heart of the matter: "And that whole Facebook activities view sure is handy: sure we could have such a thing in the public web, but we don’t and they do. Running code tends to win." I resisted joining a "colony" for a long time. However, I'm now have a profile at Facebook, and the news feed is invaluable in allowing me to maintain contact with friends and family. Still, I maintain a blog and connect it to all the "component" services (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm, etc.). Since I'm a techie, I enjoy wiring everything up in a SOA-ish manner. But for the masses, that's not a reasonable expectation. One-stop-shops, such as Facebook, give them everything they need and are easy to use. That's what makes the Facebook Platform interesting. Now people can integrate disparate networks and services, This observation hits at the heart of the matter:

"And that whole Facebook activities view sure is handy: sure we could have such a thing in the public web, but we don’t and they do. Running code tends to win."

I resisted joining a "colony" for a long time. However, I'm now have a profile at Facebook, and the news feed is invaluable in allowing me to maintain contact with friends and family.

Still, I maintain a blog and connect it to all the "component" services (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm, etc.). Since I'm a techie, I enjoy wiring everything up in a SOA-ish manner.

But for the masses, that's not a reasonable expectation. One-stop-shops, such as Facebook, give them everything they need and are easy to use.

That's what makes the Facebook Platform interesting. Now people can integrate disparate networks and services,

]]> By: BillyG http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/comment-page-1/#comment-33498 BillyG Wed, 30 May 2007 13:57:28 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/05/30/web-colonies-and-web-forks/#comment-33498 I must be getting too old, at 40, I've never been, and have no desire to go to any of those sites. Admittedly, I stay within my blogroll, with an occasional addition/deletion to it. I must be getting too old, at 40, I've never been, and have no desire to go to any of those sites. Admittedly, I stay within my blogroll, with an occasional addition/deletion to it.

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