Social software intellectuals's topics - tribe.net

I wonder how much it would cost to buy Tribe?

2009-11-02T23:02:03Z

Question popped into my head in a blog post : http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-wonder-how-much-it-would-cost-to-buy.html

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we've got a hunch

2009-06-15T15:49:16Z

http://www.hunch.com/

crowd-sourced expert system?

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Your Basic Template for a Fake Online Death

2009-06-09T20:32:28Z

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/06/your-basic-template-for-a-fake-online-death/

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Twitter

2009-05-27T06:03:44Z

Anyone using it?
http://twitter.com/

I've created a profile but haven't taken the time to really explore what it's about.
http://twitter.com/atlantahoopla

In a nutshell I'd say it's the Short Attention Span Theater of blogging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

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stack overflow: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site

2009-05-05T15:52:35Z

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/anthropology_the_art_of_building_a_successful_soci.php

As a user of SO, can't say that I disagree with anything in the article.

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Who's Space?

2009-03-31T19:27:56Z

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/03/31/the-big-idea-julia-angwin/

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America.

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Location Innovation Awards

2009-03-28T07:28:32Z

Last week I launched the Location Innovation Awards. You can find info at http://www.locationinnovation.co.nz. You can only join if you live in New Zealand or are a New Zealand citizen. If you are one of those come join the fun!

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Glue? Flickrvision? Tweet Grader?

2009-03-12T22:31:50Z

http://getglue.com/

so many apps and buttons and widgets and there are more to come, methinks.

What are some of the most interesting? Anyone have favourites?

I am addicted to flickrvision.

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Yelp

2009-03-12T19:45:13Z

I stumbled upon this today while researching stuff for work.

Anyone actually use it?? What's the deal?

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Moderators on tribe / option

2009-02-05T09:42:06Z

So while looking at some tribes, and joining some tribes, something popped up in my mind. For them moderators on tribe, well for anyone, what happens lets say if for some reason we want to join a tribe, but the moderator dies, and we can't get to join that site any more because the moderator's not "available" I know "most" tribes you can get in just like that, but what about them others that needs the moderators decision? I know it's kind of a far off topic or a question, but I think it would be good if there was an option to have at least another moderator or three moderators for a tribe. Like in any business there's a "President", "Vice-President" and so on-

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OT: Power Stations

2009-01-26T23:48:55Z

Does anyone know about the Power Station that Tribe is connected to? Facebook? How do they work? How are we allowed to use this service free? There must be a major computer somewhere that all is connected to perhaps? A power station? Someone has to pay the power bill somewhere right? How are we able to connect here, chat, post ads, post pics, scroll forums etc... for free???

I am very very curious.

Thanks.

A link would be helpful, that explains how the internet works.

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"How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use"

2009-01-08T08:27:35Z

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/

javascript exploting a css "info-leak" (vulnerability?) - visited URLs have a color-change; therefore, the visitor has.. visited that particular social site.

hrm.

(I haven't used, just posting for theory)

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Looking to network with online companies

2009-01-06T04:46:21Z

I work as an instructor advising brand new business owners (limited pc skills) how to open and market an online business. On an average day I talk to about 30 people where I recommend web site services. I'm looking to partner with a few select web site services such as marketing companies that will pay me a commission per referral. If you have a company with any of the following services and you’re interested in such a partnership contact me.

*Free and or low cost web site creation / design

*SEM / SEO services

*Email list renting / sales

*Press Release Creation and or distribution

*Logo creation

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THIS is the fastest way to build the world we need!

2008-09-28T14:38:41Z

We have a huge, idealistic, smart, practical "movement" going, over on Facebook: The Next Step Together. There are more than a thousand folks in the group now, About 100 joining daily. There's proposal on the table to run our own presidential "election", and we are trying to enroll the entire world! Join us and bring in all your friends! It's all about acting PRACTICALLY, QUICKLY, WITH HUGE NUMBERS... So job ONE is getting EVERYONE IN!

Learn about the Next Step Together at http://nextsteptogether.net
Join the Next Step Together Group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24568801853

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi

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(yet another) in-page commenter plug-in. w/ a social-angle

2008-07-30T00:48:12Z

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256733

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Ending the rich get richer, poor get poorer problem

2008-07-13T06:11:59Z

We all know the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. On the Internet, we can change that formula. On the Internet, that formula is largely determined by search engines. The major search engines give the power to the very rich. That is, they give the traffic to the very rich, and almost no traffic to the poor. These means the rich continue to get richer and the poor continue to get poorer.

We can change that by creating a new search engine. I'm looking for people who would like to help.

This is not just about creating a search engine, 'cause it is useless to create a search engine if nobody is going to use it. I've got plans to get people to use it, and I need help with those plans as well. Not just programmers, but regular people as well. We will need to do some programming, lots of testing software, lots of searching for software, lots of promotional work, graphic design, writing, searching for groups and people to help and writing to them, etc. I'm thinking 20 to 30 people might be enough, depending on how hard they work on it.

If you'd like to help, send me a message and we'll talk by phone or skype. I've learned that talking by text does not work.

Tony

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Free Wallop invitations through 11/11/06

2008-07-11T19:31:20Z

If you would like an invitation ot Microsoft's Wallop Social Networking beta, please reply to this message with:
- your name
- your email address

Invitations are free and I ask that you return the favor for others who would like to join (rather than selling your invites on eBay as some others have). I will check this forum daily until November 11, 2006 and will send out invitations each day.

Happy walloping!
- sean / patternhunter.com

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ZenZuu.com

2008-07-09T01:46:08Z

Does anyone here know anything about it or have a profile set up there?

I'm curious as to what the deal is - I'm thinking some kind of weird MLM thing but who knows...

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brainstorm 2008 : fragmenting and reuniting

2008-05-26T05:22:24Z

Haven't looked in for a while ... what's up with Social Software Intellectuals?

Are we having big discussions? Coming up with next generation ideas?

Looks like I'm fragmented over a dozen social spaces ... got very into Facebook briefly and all my IRL fiends are there (not here) but it got old fast, I have Orkut but not to use much, addicted to Twitter. I want to try and use Behance well ... I see LinkedIn growing all kinds of extra features like Tribe already had ... and yet I'm still encouraged to make my "own" groups at Ning.

It's getting crazy. And I want ways to pull it all back together. I know about OpenID, but I want to talk about *use* more than technology. How do we want to *use* all these different networks together? Do we want to be able to simply merge all the social networks together behind one interface? Or do we simply want to import widgets from one network to another? Or to see a feed of messages posted from friends on any of these networks ...

What real life use-requirements do you have for integrating multiple social networks together? What real life requirements for NOT blurring them?

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What the Social Web was Like in the 1990's

2008-02-20T23:01:10Z

http://www.copybrighter.com/blog/social-media-in-the-1990s

If you like it, here's a link to Digg:
http://digg.com/arts_culture/What_the_Social_Web_Looked_Like_in_the_1990s

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working virtually

2008-02-03T11:15:45Z

Has anyone written a proposal for their company to work virtually?

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The Future of Website Marketing.....

2008-01-26T02:12:41Z

Hello all, I'm new here. I'd like to spread the word about, Got Pixels? The Original Million Dollar Website. its the first one created in the U.S.A. and its the way to advertise for the future. We are all tired of the same old advertising thats out there. This is a new way to do it by buying pixel blocks and was created by a disabled man to raise money for programs for the disabled. Amazing! You can check it out here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~milliondollarwebpage/

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new Hunter S. Thompson Documentary

2008-01-23T22:36:28Z

Dear Friends,
This is a VERY funny and poignant film director Blue Kraning made about Hunter S. Thompson. You can follow this link to where the trailer is posted up on Tribe:

http://people.tribe.net/ef16dbc2-...e40916ff6d

or you can follow the other links to his website www.gonzopatriots.com to see the trailer and buy the film.

I went ahead and copied the text from the tribe page below so you get a better idea of the work.

Please support the spirit of independence in which this film was made AND BUY THIS FILM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much Love To All,
Lisa Ferguson (aka Petunia Maple Cake)

New Hunter S. Thompson Documentary
This is the trailer for the fun-loving but poignant film that is a tribute to Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, and a document of how his legacy continues to live on in the hearts and minds of his fans. Blasted!!! follows the many "Gonzo Patriots" across America that volunteered their personally owned artillery to fulfill the good doctor's last wish to have his ashes fired from a cannon. Before Johnny Depp became involved with the ceremony, and paid over 2 million dollars for a professional fireworks company to blast his friend's ashes from a 200 foot tall 'Gonzo fist,' an essay contest was held by the Aspen Daily News (at the request of Hunter's family) to see who would be available to provide the service of firing his ashes. Over 50 private cannon owners applied and though these letters were published in Harper's magazine, these brave men and women, who had come forward to fulfill the dying wish of their hero...were eventually forgotten.

DVD's for this film can be purchased at www.gonzopatriots.com

Blue Kraning, Los Angeles based documentary director and Emmy Award winning writer, has just released the DVD of his film, Blasted, The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson, which recently premiered at the Starz Denver International Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Three years in the making, this film is a tribute to a great journalist and renowned physician. Kraning says the film, “is intended for any fan of Hunter S. Thompson or just anyone who likes to see large stuffed animals blown to bits by a homemade Bowling Ball Cannon fired by a man in a purple polyester suit, or see transgender Civil War re-enactors blast their aptly named mountain howitzer...’Lucrecia,’ while reciting Hunter’s wisdom. I made this film entirely as a one-man-band, in the tradition of Gonzo individuality and artistic freedom, so I will be distributing the film entirely by myself by selling the film off my website at www.gonzopatriots.com”

"Hunter S. Thompson embodied the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Blue Kraning's Blasted!!! is a twisted, anarchic, fun, and funny tribute to Hunter, those ideals, and Americans who don't merely mouth the Declaration of Independence, but live it." - Michael Simmons, The Huffington Post

“These are not the famous actors, politicians or even journalists. These are Hunter's readers who are “his people” in the purest sense, an army of thoughtful citizens who are inspired by Hunter's work and who do a fine job of carrying on his legacy.” –Anita Thompson, wife of the late author, Hunter S. Thompson

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Apple moving into the make-up industry?

2008-01-10T02:47:19Z

iTune Dare You Mascara
"Lure him with your soft eyes that says download me!"

http://sierranighttide.typepad.com/sierra_night_tide/2008/01/is-avon-dating.html

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our fragmented identities

2007-12-14T18:56:37Z

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001019.html

Anil Dash has been blogging since 1999. He's been a part of the Movable Type team from the earliest days. As you'd expect from a man who has lived in the trenches for so long, his blog is excellent. It's well worth a visit if you haven't been there already. I was recently reading through his 2002 blog recommendations and marvelling at the hardy few who survived through five long years of the internet. The way I figure, that's equivalent to thirty-five people years.

But I also noticed something interesting lodged in the sidebar of his blog. A long list of Anil Dash's many online identities, spread across no less than 29 different websites:

<Anil Dash's many online identities>

Laurel Krahn created one of the first 30 weblogs back in 1998. Her home page paints a similarly fractured picture of her online identity. I count 21 different websites that represent some part of Laurel:

<Laurel Krahn's many online identities>

There's no way any one person could truly keep these 20 or 30 websites up to date. So which one of these websites represents the real Laurel Krahn, the real Anil Dash? Or do all these tiny fragments of identity cumulatively sum to a whole? Browsing around their sites, it's fairly easy to determine what is getting the lion's share of attention, and pare away the neglected parts. Still, it's unclear.

[....]

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Interoperability

2007-12-02T08:43:09Z

Back in the olden days before the privatization of the 'Net, the Internet provided just one of dozens of separate and incompatible email systems. To be truly connected back then required holding accounts on GENIE, AOL, CompuServe and others in addition to an Internet address. Over time of course this was recognized as silly and the various networks first implemented Internet email gateways, later adopting standard Internet protocols directly.

This morning I was updating my profile on two of the half-dozen social software sites I use, and I couldn't help but wonder why it is that even so late in the game each of these systems is an island, disconnected from the others.

Is there a push anywhere in this industry to apply the lessons of email to networking sites, so that one day we might maintain a single profile on the system we prefer but enjoy interoperability with all others?

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profile spam trap

2007-11-28T22:52:28Z

http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=157

writer John Scalzi on "gaming" social networks:

Cory [Doctorow] points out that one of the problems with Facebook, MySpace, et al., is that all of a person social spheres get dumped into one bin, and suddenly your conservative boss, who you’ve friended to be polite, knows that you hang out with a bunch of polyamorous hippies when you’re off the clock. Aside from my personal inclination to tell any potential boss with hangups about my personal life to just deal with it, dude, there’s no reason one can’t manage one’s online social life as one does one’s offline life, with multiple faces for different people. Use one MySpace account for all your polyfreak pals, another for family and non-polyfreak pals, and another one for your boss and coworkers and random people in the seventh grade what used to beat you up. Think of the latter as the social network equivalent of a spam trap. Don’t tell the people in your social spam trap that, obviously.

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New Tribe for Diggers, Redditors, Stumblers, Delicious bookmarkers and MORE!

2007-11-25T07:48:15Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/socialmedia

If you are a social media user who likes to submit and vote on stories... and you contribute to the community and you are not a spammer... use the power of tribe to become part of your network!

please join us and share your story submissions here:

http://tribes.tribe.net/socialmedia

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Zaadz purchased

2007-11-14T01:22:15Z

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003622454

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Social networking sites for sale

2007-10-27T17:44:02Z

Anyone wants to buy them? www.vibesnetwork.com US$220,000

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Really great animation made with machinima

2007-09-23T15:20:37Z

After the world has been decimated by a superflu, two survivors find each other on a desolate rooftop and reluctantly joing together to chart a future for themselves

http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=4825

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Social Network Software

2007-09-13T16:20:52Z

Checking into IntroNetworks, but quite expensive any ideas on a superb builder for a SN site?
Thank you

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Need advice: social network software for "Deadster".

2007-09-08T05:13:28Z

Hi friends,

I need some advice for a social network project that I want to develop here in Philadelphia. I cheekily call it "Deadster", because the goal is to map out the social networks of both live and dead people in my city.

My goal is to document the deaths of gay men from HIV in Philadelphia from 1981- the present. For each dead person, I would have a webpage that would include a picture and brief obituary. People from outside the system could come on to the page and add their own personal stories about the person, and link their own profile to the page. Finally, I (ideally) would want to be able to link dead people to other dead people, in order to show how the social networks operated over time.

So my basic picture is something like Friendster or Orkut, except I would want to be able to create lots of identities on the site, link them to other identities (alive and dead) and (a dream here) have some sort of mapping utility that would show how the networks interconnect.

My vision is sort of a Shoah project for HIV (the Shoah project, for those who don't know, was Steven Spielberg's effort to document the lives of those killed in the Holocaust). I also describe it as an AIDS quilt with multi-dimensions---- the opportunity to recapture the stories of many wonderful people who died.

So--- can anyone suggest a software for this effort? I would be most grateful. I have collected many stories and pictures, and I want to figure out a smart way to get them on the web.

Chris Bartlett

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How to Get on the Digg Home Page: An Illustrated Guide

2007-08-06T18:11:18Z

My latest article:

http://copybrighter.com/blog/how-to-make-the-digg-home-page

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tall walls

2007-07-25T19:28:34Z

http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/

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Where next for Social Software?

2007-07-04T22:31:51Z

2006 has come and gone and we're up to our knees in 2007. Things are pretty quiet, so here's a Q. Where's all this "social" stuff going, eh?

The future of wikipedia, while not necessarily under threat, is "interesting". Tribe seems relatively. There are rumours that people are looking to find the "next" myspace. Youtube is owned by the big guns. Flickr... flickr carries on, it seems :)

Is the social aspect of all this "web 2.0" malarkey simply a business model in search of revenue? Have new, shinier business models come along to replace the old, or are there still some very real, very "grass roots" benefits to social technology that will keep it going, keep improvements coming?

2 new things I can think of that offer some interesting routes:

1. WiiMiis (or whatever they're called) on the Nintendo Wii. There may be some interesting experiments going on here, socially - the barrier between "home" and "abroad" has shifted, with the design more focused (than, say, websites) on *sending* your avatar off to other places. Furthermore, there are experiments with things like voting: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72963

2. Local SNS, such as http://www.neighbourhoodfixit.com/ which has just launched. Personally, I'd love to see more done on this, but are global sites such as Tribe the place to be discussing these? Surely more local forums are more appropriate? What am I doing here?

C'mon, splash out on thoughts...

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Pownce

2007-07-02T03:45:38Z

Anyone using it? It seems quite interesting, but it's invite only.

Speaking of, if you happen to have an extra invite...

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HyperLinking using AOL email

2007-06-30T19:26:32Z

I don't use AOL but my parents do (hey - I'm just glad they've got a computer!) and I've been wanting to show them how to hyper-link pages in the middle of a sentence while typing out an AOL e-mail by doing the old "CLICK HERE" thing instead of doing a copy & paste thing where the URL address winds up being 200 characters long.

But of course, after going to their house & trying to show them, I couldn't figure it out using AOL.

I tried to Google a couple of key words, but really haven't found anything to help. Will someone please link me to a cheat-sheet that will explain it?

Follow this link to my StumbleUpon.com page - in this entry, I use the word "RASTERBATING" to link to an external site.
http://atlantahoopla.stumbleupon.com/review/10653769/

This is an example of what I'm talking about when I say "...doing the old 'CLICK HERE' thing..." you know - where you type the word in all caps and link the page you want to show to that word.

I use YahooE-mail and they have a hyperlink icon you can easily use instead of having to know the HTML code but I can't figure out how to do it in AOL:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

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Web Application Engineer position

2007-06-28T18:30:52Z

Tribe.net is looking for a qualified Web Application Engineer professional contractor, to perform bug fixes and additions to our codebase for the site. Knowledge of Apache/Tomcat/MySQL is expected. The role will provide the opportunity to take the lead in feature development and debugging. We're looking for a programming expert who understands the Tribe community and how important it has become to the people who participate in it. This position would be at least 20 hours of work per week.

Job requirements:

- BS degree or relevant experience in Computer Science or related technical field

- experience working on large-scale, multi-user, public websites

- 5+ years Java experience including: JSP, JSTL, JavaBeans, Servlets, JDBC

- Strong working knowledge of HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript

- Strong working knowledge of MySQL

- Strong working knowledge of web application servers and frameworks such as Tomcat, Turbine, etc.

- Experience using code management and build tools such as Subversion and Ant

- Experience using web based bug and issue trackers such as TRAC

- Able to comfortably navigate a Unix environment

The ideal applicant also has the following skills:

- Shell scripting using Perl, bash, etc.

- Experience/interest in social networking sites

This is a contract position for a minimum of 20 hrs./wk.

Tribe.net is the premiere social networking website in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has a user base of over 750,000 members. We are growing every day, and keeping up with that growth from a developmental standpoint is vital to us. Please pm your resume to me to apply!

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Anyone familiar with ACT!?

2007-06-15T16:10:49Z

Does anyone have or know about this program? I'm having trouble with what should be a very simple application.
ACT! piggybacks off of outlook. I want to create a search folder in ACT! email, so that emails with certain words can go into that folder. However, it's not working in ACT! email while I have successfully accomplished it in Outlook.

Help!

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OurStory.com

2007-05-31T03:22:57Z

http://www.ourstory.com/

anyone using it yet? would love to hear some feedback

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AROUNDMe nearing version 1.0

2007-05-29T18:14:47Z

As many of your are aware, we have been rebuilding AROUNDMe into a tool to create web sites (called 'webspaces') easily - Yup, MySpace meets mashup:) We've been doing some testing and we've seen volunteers create a collaborative social space on the Web in seconds! The tools allows you full access to HTML and CSS and gives you a set of collaborative tools that you can plug in. These include a wiki, forums, events, polls, blogs and a guest book. You can find out more by going to http://www.barnraiser.org/ and clicking on the AROUNDMe logo. This page includes information on our nightly builds which are available for download.

We are always interested in feedback so we have a webspace dedicated to AROUNDMe at http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/ and you are very welcome to contribute!

If you need at OpenID account then please visit http://www.barnraiser.info/ where you are welcome to create your very own Internet identity.

Lastly we've created a service for social innovators and entrepreneurs from which you can create your own webspace at http://barnraiser.net/.

Hope you folks like it!

tom

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World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007

2007-05-27T11:21:06Z

World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007

http://tribes.tribe.net/worldgathering
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Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists.
---

World Gathering
- 25 & 26 August 2007
- Saturday and Sunday
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com
(These 2 websites are mirror images of each other.)

http://tribes.tribe.net/worldgathering

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
- All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide
- Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops
- Time For The Gathering - New Dawn Coming
- Truth For The World - Peace For The World
- Global Meetings - Global Powwows
- The Truth Is Coming
- 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING
- HILLTOPS WORLDWIDE - BE THERE!

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
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"A very great vision is needed and the person who
has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest
blue of the sky." - Chief Crazy Horse
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WORLD GATHERING - August 2007
Saturday August 25 and Sunday August 26
Three Events In One .....
(1) Saturday - DAY: Meet with friends and
contacts and discuss the world situation.
(2) Saturday - NIGHT: Meet on a hilltop and
shine a beacon of hope through the night.
(3) Sunday - DAY: Meet with friends and
contacts and discuss the world situation.

The main details for the World Gathering are here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/gathering.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/gathering.html

Arrange Meetings, Powwows, and Hilltop 'Beacon'
vigils for Saturday and Sunday, 25th & 26th August.
Then, send your event details to the email on this page:
http://www.worldgathering.net/contact.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/contact.html

Details of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' will be displayed
under fourteen 'World Regions'; then by Country/Nation;
then by area, state, etc. The main index for the details
of LOCAL 'World Gatherings' is on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/events.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/events.html

The World Gathering is being launched at the end of
May, 2007, so there may not be many details at our
websites for Local Events until the end of June.

'What should I organise in my area for the World
Gathering?' - Ideas and suggestions on this webpage:
http://www.worldgathering.net/yourevent.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/yourevent.html

Join our Google and/or Yahoo Newsletter lists:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldgathering

Discussion and Planning at TRIBE:
http://tribes.tribe.net/worldgathering

Watch a short, 'World Gathering' slideshow video at
either Google Video or YouTube. Search at Google
Video or YouTube for: 'WORLD GATHERING'.

Please help publicise this unusual and unique global
linkup. Print out posters; place a WG banner on your
website; forward our Update mailings to your friends,
contacts, and mailing lists; and tell friends about the
World Gathering video at Google and YouTube.
Ideas and materials for WG promotion here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/publicity.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/publicity.html

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"Use every letter you write, every conversation
you have, every meeting you attend, to express your
fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others
the vision of the world you want."
- Dr Robert Muller, formerly of the U.N.
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“We are at the final stages now… so as our prophecy
says. Then it must be up to the people with pure hearts
that will not be afraid to help us to fulfil our destiny in
peace for this world.” - Dan Evehema, Hopi Nation
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Additional 'World Gathering' inspiration here:
http://www.worldgathering.net/worldgathering.html
http://www.michael-irving.com/worldgathering.html

- WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007
- All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide
- Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops
- Time For The Gathering - New Dawn Coming
- Truth For The World - Peace For The World
- Global Meetings - Global Powwows
- The Truth Is Coming
- 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 WORLD GATHERING
- HILLTOPS WORLDWIDE - BE THERE!

World Gathering
25 & 26 August 2007
http://www.worldgathering.net
http://www.michael-irving.com
(These 2 websites are mirror images of each other.)

http://tribes.tribe.net/worldgathering

Please forward to friends, contacts and mailing lists.

Thank you. World Gathering.

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Tagged.com

2007-05-26T19:47:24Z

If get another fucking invite to this shitty website I'm gonna' stab somebody.

http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2007/04/09/i-hate-tagged-com.aspx

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VIRB

2007-05-18T21:57:20Z

Didn't see a thread for it so here it is...

http://www.virb.com/

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Partition Software

2007-05-13T23:35:36Z

Can you recommend an application which would allow spliting a hard drive with files remain in place?

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Joost?

2007-05-06T02:59:26Z

Has anybody here made it into the private beta for Joost? I'd love to get my hands on an invite "token".

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TheWhole9.com

2007-05-01T15:20:08Z

http://www.thewhole9.com/home.php

haven't used it - don't know anything about it, but i've been hearing quite a bit of buzz the past 2 days & thought i'd share

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"The torrent of deciphering political lies." or how I started politics blogging

2007-04-25T16:19:06Z

Hi Everyone,

I am sick with the state of the union and thus I started blogging about politics:

http://political-thinking.blogspot.com/

I welcome comments, suggestions and death threats.

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Funding dos and don'ts

2007-03-17T15:34:42Z

We are a samll starup in the valley thinking about funding. We have a good business model and some interesting technology (do't we all!). I'd welcome and dos, don'ts, caveats or advice....

Cheers

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Mashable.com

2007-03-17T00:28:28Z

interesting website.

excerpt taken from the main page, "...With in excess of 1 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks..."

http://mashable.com/

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Digital Point shares adsense revenues with 15k member community

2007-03-16T23:52:26Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/technology/16ecom.html

I thought this was interesting. I don't know how they're doing it from a technical perspective, but they're doing it.

I've been trying to figure out a relatively easy way how to do this. Any ideas?

Carey

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Tribe.net from Techcrunch Aquired

2007-03-05T19:35:50Z

Last year was a turbulent one for Silicon Valley based Tribe.net. Founding CEO Mark Pincus was ousted, in April and then returned in August. While Pincus was gone rumors swirled that the company had been acquired by NBC, but the deal was never consummated.

But now the New York Times is reporting that the assets of the eight person company have been acquired by Cisco. This follows their acquisition of Five Across, a social networking infrastructure service, two weeks ago. The hope is to use the two company’s technology to help Cisco’s corporate clients build their own social networks, so it isn’t clear whether or not the Tribe service itself will live on.

The price of the Tribe deal hasn’t been disclosed, but usually these things leak within a few days.

The demand is clearly there, as seen by Reuters’ announcement today that they’re looking to build their own Myspace clone, for financial types. Everyone, it seems, wants their very own social network these days.

Cisco is now a player in the social networking space. That certainly wasn’t in anyone’s predictions for 2007. And there are bound to be a few snickers around the valley as Cisco dips its toes in this new business.

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Ning (which just upgraded its build-it-yourself social network platform), had a great sound bite on this topic in the NYT article. He said “The idea that Cisco is going to be a force in social networking is about as plausible as Ning being a force in optical switches.”

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Check out RealityAllStarz

2007-02-21T22:12:19Z

One of my new projects, a social networking game where you earn points posting proof of all the cool things you've done, and then get your friends to vote on it.

It's been amazing to me to see what my friends have done without my having known about it, it's evolved into a sort of resume for all that's cool about you. :)

A lot of our early adopters are burners so we're giving away a Burning Man ticket as the prize for the month of February.

http://www.realityallstarz.com

Here's my RealityAllStarz profile: http://www.realityallstarz.com/users/5

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Vista

2007-02-21T03:09:17Z

Dare I ask? Has anyone tried it out? Is it anything special? It didn't look like much on their site with only a few new things and that infamous promise to never crash.

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Social Networks are Dead

2007-02-20T11:58:15Z

Was going to post the stuff below here originally, but it got quite long so thought I'd add it to my site instead. I'm wondering if our ideas of what SN sites should do are lagging a bit, and need to be "moved on"...

http://www.exmosis.net/node.Social_Networks_are_Dead

Thoughts and comments welcome here...

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MySpace Search tool?

2007-01-30T23:07:08Z

okay, so maybe not exactly 'intellectual' so much, but it falls into the social software realm, right?

Can someone point me in the direction of a tool that actually fucking WORKS when trying to search for a specific profile on MySpace?

I read s/thing on the web s/where about s/thing that was on Dennis Leary's MySpace main page - but couldn't find a link anywhere and well... I'm sure most of us know that the MS search tool is not really a tool, but more of a neat idea.

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Identity 2.0 Keynote Presentation

2007-01-29T03:03:37Z

Found on The Brain of Wade blog ( www.blog.wi.id.au )

O'Reilly OpenSource Convention
Keynote, Identity 2.0
Dick Hardt, Founder and CEO / Sxip Identity

http://blog.wi.id.au/2007/01/05/identity-20-presentation-zen/

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Looking for a couple of people willing to do a carere profiles

2007-01-28T13:40:17Z

I write for a career and education website and would like to ask if anyone would be wlling to do a career profile. If you are interested, pls email me.

Some of the questions I ask are:

Average Annual Salary:
Necessary Education:
Skills & Responsibilities
Things I like and don’t like about my job:

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seen this?

2007-01-26T18:14:56Z

http://www.stalkertrack.com/spy/

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Ubiplanet opened for public access

2007-01-22T15:53:25Z

Hi all,

We opened today our site www.ubiplanet.com.

Our vision is that to date communication and exchange tools remain too diverse and too complex for “normal people” to give them everyday value (except for the youngers), are mostly feature centric vs. user centric, are not integrated, people have to open several accounts (e.g. Flickr, youTube, Blogger, Messenger, …) and then have to manage several contacts lists…

Fakes identities are spread all over the web resulting in undesired messages (spams, blogs). Therefore it is almost impossible to carry over a LEVEL OF TRUST from the real world to the Internet world…

Most sites offer low or even no privacy. They are mainly not suitable to handle my “private life”.

Our ambition is to provide a web based tool with
- an integrated approach to fit all daily communication & exchange needs (photos, blogs, mail, im, groups, calendar),
- with a single network view, centered on the user,
- with no fake identities but 1:1 distance between people (relationship + geographic),
- total privacy control from the user on each piece of information.

A service that is designed to help me easily handle my private life (communication & exchange with people I already know) as nobody does that way.

I would appreciate to get your feedbacks here, it would help us a lot to improve our service taht is in a beta phase.

Thanks !

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Motivations for Contributing to Online Communities

2007-01-10T19:36:51Z

Just came across this & thought it was interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivations_for_Contributing_to_Online_Communities

This is kinda' cool too (List of Social Networking Websites):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

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Zaadz

2007-01-04T21:12:51Z

I didn't think it was possible to find a network with more hippies than tribe but there it is. Anybody eff with this?

http://zaadz.com/

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Invite only or not?

2007-01-02T12:46:27Z

Hello, all! My name is Yosra and I recently remembered that I had a tribe profile, so I thought I'd wander on over to a group designed for discussing social networks. But, that's not really what I'm here to talk about.

I was just wondering, what exactly effects the intellect of these social networks? I've been wondering about this for a while now (because I'm on break from school until January 3rd, and contemplating my navel only takes up so much of the day), and I just can't seem to figure it out. In one sense, the invite only policy seems to work fairly well. When Orkut was first launched as invite only, the original communities and their posts seemed fairly well thought out and understandable. However, as time went on, this was no longer the case. There was an increasing number of people simply posting the "kiss or kill da person above u" or "dedicate a song to da person above". I'm sure Orkut users will know what I'm talking about. Interestingly, though, this began and picked up momentum even before Orkut revoked its invite only policy.

Similarly, Myspace isn't exactly creating the right kind of atmosphere for any sort of thought provoking discussion, either. At this point, it seems to have settled for becoming a plot device on Police drama shows on television (eg. BeFriends on Law and Order). But then, it never really peddled itself as hotbed for political or philosophical discourse, did it? It was a place for friends.

However, then there are networks like this one where despite there being no invite only policy, seems to have escaped the "do you want 2 make franship wit me" epidemic. There was also a group? It had little faces for people without profile pictures that were similar to the ones on flickr? Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? Well, anyhow, I digress. My point is, till now it doesn't seem like tribe and a few more social networks are overrun by sillyness or lewd messages. Of course, with that being said, I probably should back peddle and mention I've only been on the site for about twenty minutes, which is hardly enough time to pass judgement (because I'm a judge-y type of person).

Anyhow, now that I'm done being a lilly livered Pollyanna, any thoughts? If not exclusivity, then what lowers the IQ of a social network?

Also, if anyone has an invitation to Wallop, it would be greatly appreciated! If not, thank you anyhow!

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M-Audio FW 410

2006-12-10T13:49:53Z

Hello,
Im currently trying to figure out if its possible, with the use
of a FW 410 external soundcard and no external mixer, if
somehow I could take the output signal from one of my channels,
and reroute it directly into my inputs without the use of an
1/4" to 1/4" cord connecting the two ports. Working towards
simplifying the recording process, if anyone had any suggestions
they would be most appreciated.

Keith

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Enviromental software

2006-12-09T23:56:47Z

If I wanted to calculate my carbon footprint, is there software or a web that would help me do it? I can't find anything - feels like a big gap......

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Requesting a Wallop invitation

2006-12-05T16:37:47Z

Hi,

I'm interested in receiving a Wallop invitation for networking with a diversity of people in different industries (not spam). I write articles on a variety of careers including education and in general just like socializing with others; I find it easier for me to meet people I have spoken to online first.

Thank you.

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Replay Solutions' OPEN HOUSE INVITATION - December 6th, 4-8pm

2006-12-01T22:52:00Z

OPEN HOUSE EVENT INVITATION
Wednesday, December 6th, 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Replay Solutions, 1600 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA

We would like to invite you to join us for the opening of the new Replay Solutions' headquarters at the Pacific Shores live-work campus in Redwood City, CA.

This will be an exciting evening, please drop by to...

See the latest Replay technology and meet the Replay team.
Enjoy wine, beer and beverages, as well as hot and cold food and hors d'oeuvres.
Meet and view the artwork of several up-and-coming Artists from San Francisco.
Participate in several competitions including Dart throwing and Guitar Hero 2!
Win great cash prizes, as well as a Nintendo Wii console!

Replay Solutions is actively building a great team to bring our technology to the masses. We would love to meet with you and other professionals you know to fill you in on the opportunities we have available.

This will be a great event and an opportunity to connect, meet some great people and learn more about how Replay is changing the way software is being developed. We hope you can join us and we'll look forward to meeting you!

To attend, please send a quick email to rsvp@replaysolutions.com.

Thanks for your time!
Daniel Parrillo
Sr. Technical Recruiter / Staffing Manager
Replay Solutions
1-877-400-7444 or 415-695-1600
E-mail: dparrillo@replaysolutions.com

Website: www.replaysolutions.com
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thehonestrecruiter

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Alpha Testers Needed

2006-12-01T04:08:39Z

I'm looking for alpha testers for a new social netware I'm developing. Particularly, I am interested in those who know a little (or a lot) of CSS, have a passion for social networking and find themselves frustrated with the current offerings. Send me a message with your email address and a little something about why you think you would make a great alpha tester.

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Does someone know Ubiplanet

2006-11-30T09:38:57Z

Seems to be interesting but invitation only !
http://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2006/a-la-dcouverte-dubiplanet/
http://fr.techcrunch.com/2006/11/16/coup-de-projecteur-sur-quelques-startups-francaises/

Full flash..
Close to Wallop ?

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Need SQL Help

2006-11-30T00:47:22Z

I'm a SQL-n00bie..so please bear with me....

I need to alter a column in a table and I've tried to use this syntax, but I keep getting an error:

ALTER TABLE faculty
ALTER COLUMN emp_id INTEGER IDENTITY(500,1);

The error is: Incorrect syntax near 'emp_id'.

Help, pretty please!

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swicki.eurekster.com

2006-11-15T21:19:56Z

Anyone using this yet?

http://swicki.eurekster.com/

"...Eurekster Swicki - community powered search and advertising for your blog or website..."

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PDF question please ?

2006-11-09T16:34:30Z

Hi there,
I used the online converter to convert my word doc to a pdf file, but now I cannot figure out how to delete the last page ?

I've read so much in the tutorial but no luck yet ....

Can anyone help me please ?

Thanks so much !!!

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Demographic markets and social network services: Your Wallop is not My Wallop

2006-11-07T16:48:05Z

OK, I just been playing with Wallop for 10 minutes (thanks for the invite, Sean!), and been having some thoughts.

Non Sequitur's post over on the recent Orkut thread brought up an interesting point, even if it was only a sentence long:

"A couple of years and a few thousand brazilian users too late."

This sums up the essential truth of modern social networking services, IMHO, which is: No one service will cover everyone, and so a service is integrally tied to its demographic. That's to say, the multitude of services, along with competitive differences and staggered releases, means that each service will capture a fundamentally different section of the global 'marketplace'. This is then reinforced through positive network externalities, such that you cannot *predict* which audience you will get when you initially launch a service.

Hence, Orkut = Brazilians. Tribe = leftfield, alternative. MySpace = teenagers, et al. The *culture* that arises on a particular network cannot be chosen by the originators: it must emerge as the result of a random mix of the technology used (e.g. what languages are allowed), marketing, culture and timing (i.e. who's the next 'big group' in search of a relatively 'unused', 'unclaimed' social space?), and probably more.

The challenge for service providers then is to *recognise* the emerging audience, and *adapt* to it. I'm hesitant to say "encourage" it, as I think you can put many people off through such a method - people don't like to be told who they are, and what their space is. The key is to allowing people the freedom to develop their own culture, and adaptation encapsulates this 'liberal direction' - i.e. basically making sure that the emerging audience can do what they want.

Which brings me back to Wallop. Who is Wallop for? Who will pick it up? My initial play with it makes me think "ooh, swishy. what does it actually *do* though?", but this is important for one reason - my functionalist approach betrays my observing-cum-technologist viewpoint. I am *curious*, about how it works, but - importantly - I am not in search of a place to 'colonise' - I already use other services and sites.

Hence, my concern that I cannot copy and paste text easily, or that my usual scrolling method has been replaced with draggy-scrollbars (shudder), is important in turning me off, but is unimportant in that I also wasn't likely to adopt it *despite* such niggles. Thus, the question is: which demographic/market is likely to pick up Wallop and run with it, or is the route of general non-adoption still the most likely?

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Connecting Groups for Action Through Tribe Spokescouncil

2006-10-31T07:33:03Z

If you are part of a radical to moderate group or organization of 20 or more people, and can potentially serve as their spokesperson, you are invited to join the Tribe Spokescouncil – a peer group of representatives from Tribe converging to build critical mass for unified action. Groups of Friends, and Tribes, on Tribe.net should be an ideal place to organize. (If you do not yet have a group of 20 to represent, you may still participate, but you may not block consensus decisions.)

We hope that our collective effort will help displace frustration, fear, and malaise with a sense of community, responsibility, focus, and effective, practical power. It’s time.

Our intention is to unite a network of Tribe Friends, Tribes and other groups outside Tribe to generate critical mass and take practical, effective action for better communities, nations and world.

Spokespeople will connect their groups to the Spokescouncil. Discussion and consensus building around agreeing to an action or series of actions will happen in consultation with your group. As a spokesperson you represent the viewpoints of your group, not yourself. You are an emissary (or general!) from a non-violent army meeting with other emissaries to negotiate how to most effectively "fight" for peace, justice and sustainability. We won't spend time covering issues we don't agree on – the need for our prompt action is too great and we agree on too much.

The Tribe Spokescouncil leadership will be equally shared by all present through consensus decision-making based on the Formal Consensus process. www.consensus.net/ocaccontents.html

Groups represented in the Council should be in general agreement with The Earth Charter: www.earthcharter.org

The organizers of this process will not attempt to achieve their personal or organizational preferences for action while facilitating; we are assuming service roles, taking responsibility to call the circle, help facilitate and keep the process moving within the mission of the Tribe Spokescouncil.

The mass of people eventually represented by the Council will undertake the most effective series of actions upon which it can agree. As a process based in consensus we expect that people will come together with diverse issues they care about, and will find common ground through sharing and listening. We will not act until we have achieved the critical mass necessary for the greatest possible impact. We expect these actions will be diverse in nature, scale and scope. In order to achieve critical mass for one action we suspect groups will need to agree to "build each others' barns", that is, groups will come to know and trust each other through their representatives and agree to lend their numbers to a series of campaigns, so each campaign has the critical mass required for prompt and full success.

If you feel called, or are just curious, join the Tribe Spokescouncil, tribes.tribe.net/spokescouncil

If you have questions about the details of the process, please see the FAQ for the Valleywide Spokescouncil of western Massachusetts, www.valleywidespokescouncil.net

If you know of others who may meet the qualification of responsibly representing at least 20 others and should be invited, please invite them to join.

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Orkut is now open to the public - no invitation needed

2006-10-26T13:01:49Z

http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?done=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2F

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Social interfaces, rather than social services

2006-10-25T22:44:50Z

I'm curious about why there aren't more shared devices/interfaces (i.e. off-line, group-centric) in the world. To me, it feels like the move towards social networking services encapsulates an _isolation_, wherein we must each access a group through our own window to the world, and our interaction with others is limited to the third party services offered to us - *sold* to us - in places that are not our own.

I've started jotting down some thoughts/rhetoric on this here:

http://www.exmosis.net/node.SocialInterfaces

but I'd be interested in hearing others' thoughts on the matter, plus any links to real examples of more off-line type services that encourage face-to-face computing (side-by-side face-to-face: "face-by-face" services? :) - check out the Dynamo project linked to on the page, for example.

Are we being forced into "personal" computing? How can we integrate the real world with the "elsewhere" feel of computing? Why do I have to wait until I get home in order to "send a link" to somebody, hours after we were talking about it?

Hmm, I even feel slightly guilty just sitting on my own typing this post out... ;)

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Skypecasts

2006-10-23T14:22:25Z

Do some of you have used Skypecasts to develop contacts with your blog readers, or to have voice discussion online forums participants?

I would be interested to get some feedbacks

Thanks

David

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In need Wallop Invitation -

2006-10-17T18:31:28Z

Hey Guys, I'm not begging but I want to get an invitation.
I'll be your wallop ambassador to the middle east - Israel

eamil: er.davidov@gmail.com

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Ohmigod, teens are so over e-mail!

2006-10-05T03:42:23Z

i thought this was an interesting article:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/technology/thirdscreen0726.biz2/index.htm?cnn=yes

:...E-mail use is dropping fast among teens - a bonanza for wireless operators, but a troublesome trend for Web portals and online marketers..."

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More walloping

2006-09-27T10:32:17Z

While it's been in development for quite a while*, Wallop is still getting attention:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/26/1547247

Looks like the domain name has thankfully changed from mywallop.com, anyway. For some reason I'm curious. Anyone have a spare invitation they don't mind wasting on me? :)

* http://tribes.tribe.net/322ce0e2-5b4d-4bda-8030-78cb93abd866/thread/37d817ff-b058-42aa-9e64-9dbc57d3f938

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(Cross Post) ISO witers / bloggers to practic learned SEO/M knowledge

2006-09-20T21:33:06Z

I’m now well into Search Engine Optimization & Marketing education and I am having a personal web site created so that I can start practicing what I’m learning.

On the site will be a blog for business related articles and here is where I am putting out a call to anyone interested. I’m looking for a few people who are interested in posting articles (attributed to you at the end of the article) and posting them in the blog on my site. Yes you can link to your site in the blog.

The Downer:
You would be submitting the articles for free - no pay -

However…. The primary reason for the site is so that I can practice driving traffic to my site and building a rating for it. So you will get recognition. I plan on utilizing a variety of methods including handing out business cards with the web site on them personally.

The topics for the blog need to stay decently within the business arena.
Ideas / themes I would like to see or will consider:
• Personal opinions on business related software / gadgets / products
• Personal opinions on business related events or upcoming events
• Views on local non business events (no adult or edgy events - sorry). Events that are located near business centers / gallerias ect where business people could walk to or drive a short distance to (any city/state - but must be stated at the top of the article)
• Anything business related – any business / industry (non adult / edgy)
• Topic ????

I am open to suggestions

If interested pls comment or send me a message. I will be investing my own personal income towards this project so I am taking it seriously. If it becomes successful I will move into a money generating phase.

The site will be available between Oct. 2nd to 5th 2006

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What is 'fake' content, anyway?

2006-09-20T09:27:32Z

Couldn't see anything about recent 'faked' user-generated content here, so starting a new thread...

My big rant on why youtube is probably screwed:

http://describe.blogspot.com/2006/09/symbol-meets-world.html

Gist: Separating "good" content (i.e. legal content generated 'truthfully' by genuine users) from "bad" content (illegal or 'faked') is impossible in a culture that is defined by its "privately-owned" media (i.e. a dependence on privately-owned films, music, games and hardware, etc). In traditionally optimistic fashion, I'm predicting the "free run" of current social networks will be replaced by a collection of separated, competitive networks owned by content owners (in much the same way as film content and distribution are entangled, for example).

The question is, is this unavoidable? Can we really rely solely on technology and the innovation of a few small companies/individuals to change the status quo?

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plaxo

2006-09-19T15:02:56Z

It might not be a social site but an online contact list with your friends.

What are your thoughts? Or concerns with this site?

http://www.plaxo.com/

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Cambrian House - Crowdsourced software

2006-09-19T14:58:40Z

Hi

Has anyone checked out www.cambrianhouse.com ? This is something I've been waiting for...a way to get multiple web ideas developed in a collaborative way, things that I don't want to have developed on my own, with a way to potentially make money.
For example a few months ago I posted an idea here on Tribe that I thought was cool, and other people here did to, and told me to just do it. Well this is the kind of thing I'd post on Cambrian with hopes people would be motivated to participate with the prospect of it getting launched as a team effort.

You wouldn't post ideas that you would be upset if someone "stole" them, just ones that you know for sure you wouldn't want to build / launch yourself.

This is one I submitted for example. If most of you are in SF I would love to hear what you think of it. If it doesn't win / get implemented within a year via Cambrian, the IP comes back to me.
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea-warz/idea-promoter/ideas-id/WOAgYF0/

What do y'all think? I'm curious.

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Locked Tracks

2006-09-18T04:08:24Z

Good day, Ive recently encountered multiple albums where when
ive gone to add album / artist labels, and for some reason im unable
to add any context to some tracks. When opening up the information
for the track, within the artist, album, grouping ect, fields im unable
to select or move my cursor into the boxes to create any labels. As if
these options have been glazed over rendering them useless, seemingly.
Seeing as I had the same problem with my last version, my itunes 7 still
seems to do the same thing. Going into the track information individualy
outside of itunes, ive selected all the fields under ownership and permission
as read and write, and yet still ive found it to be useless in applying and labels.
As im looking to see if anyone has ran into the same problem before, or if there
is some program to unlock locked files out there that someone could refer me to.

best regards
keith

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Is What YAHOO Doing True?

2006-08-06T03:28:59Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/b77a049e-435e-45cf-b692-b3741e2abc32

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youtube for amateur porn?

2006-08-02T19:14:58Z

does this exist or is it in development? i've seen some things along these lines
but nothing that really has captured the power and features of youtube.

any ideas on sites that are close to this or teams working on such a thing?

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Unique Congressional Campaign

2006-07-14T04:56:41Z

How often does a genuinely new idea enter the political arena in America? Here is one that should be considered and discussed by anybody who is dissatisfied with traditional methods for bringing about positive change in America. It represents a momentous development in technology as well as politics.

I am the first candidate anywhere to offer a secure state-of-the-art digital voting system that will enable citizens in my district TO CONTROL my votes in Congress. My candidacy is connected with www.NevadaVoteDirect.org, a citizen initiative to end political corruption and make government more responsive to the people. At Nevada Vote Direct, registered voters in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District may vote not only on the issues of the day, but also on specific legislation pending in Congress. The system provides secure electronic voting in secret ballots conducted continuously on the Internet or by telephone. People are not obligated to vote, and may vote only on the issues and bills that concern them. But this is not just another opinion poll, for I have pledged that, when elected, I will vote in Congress EXACTLY as directed by the majority of voters in my congressional district.

We see Nevada Vote Direct as the solution to the problem of political corruption, because no lobbyist will even attempt to buy my vote, knowing that my vote belongs to the majority of voters in my district - no ifs, ands or buts.

Naturally, this idea raises many questions: about the nature of our republic; about the system's fairness and security; about how it works in practice. Our Frequently Asked Questions Page provides comprehensive answers.

People should also consider how this technology may be applied at all levels of society in order to free us from unresponsive and corrupt leadership in labor unions, civic and environmental organizations, political parties, etc.

Please look us up and pass this information on to your friends and associates. We are not merely introducing an idea. We intend to win in November. But we cannot do this without your assistance. Together, we will demonstrate to the nation and the world that corruption in politics and government is obsolete. Our success in Nevada will be followed by other candidates for office all across the nation. Help us to make history in Nevada, and to change the world.

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NBC after Tribe's left-wing demographic?

2006-07-12T07:45:13Z

Here's the theory.

http://www.valleywag.com/tech/nbc/guest-post-why-nbc-is-buying-tribecom-185586.php

But who knows?

http://www.paidcontent.org/tribenet-being-bought-by-nbc

http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3618661

via

http://www.google.com.br/search?q=tribe+nbc

I'm old enough to remember when NBC bought one of the original "free homepage" sites : Xoom, that I was using. Can't say they did much with it.

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please help ? need webforms software ... anyone ?

2006-07-10T07:28:11Z

Hi there,
I'm hoping someone here can help me.
I'm looking for a host that can offer webforms as part of their web building tools package.
However, someone mentioned to me that some hosts have packages that include these webforms and building tools.
If not, then I'm willing to buy a software that does it, but it must be REALLY professional and REALLY flexible or specific, and at least have a demo with clear and concise indications and MAJOR user-friendliness ...

I'm looking for the following features/options on my website, and need tools that will build them for me :

1) Membership Registration option
2) Login Option and forgotten password option that auto sends an email to members
3) A profile building form for members, that includes pull down (multiple choice) options of my choice, and will classify them in a specific section of the website.
4) The profile option should include a set maximum of text and 2 photos.
5) An edit option to edit that profile.
6) An auto-reply message, that tells them their profile has been approved and posted.
7) A form posting to classifieds, events, and the forum... available to members only, that will auto-classify the posting to the right section of the site.
8) A feature that prohibits non members from posting any profiles, events, postings to classifieds, or to the forum.
9) Security for members privacy.
10) Paypal service and HIGH security for members to shop or download files.

This membership will be 100% free to attract as many people as possible in a non-profit community, so my budget is quite low.
I don't need more than 2 email addresses, and sub domain pointers, and numerous FTP accounts are not priority for me.

My web-building skills are dated, so I do not understand many of the terms/jargon and names of some of the features listed in the "hosting packages".
But, I do know EXACTLY what I'm looking for.

What is the availability like out there for a software that will offer me the TEN above adjustable tools/forms for my website ?

How can I find out who Plenty of Fish, Yahoo or Lavalife uses ?
I'm not building a personals site but I do like the look of their forms, and plentyoffish.com is free so it can't be that much.

This may also help me make a decision as to which host to go with.

I'm so stressed out over this since I have such limited time ~*~
I would be so very grateful for your feedback ...

Thank you so very much :)))

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Shd i get VCs for my social networking project

2006-07-10T07:03:30Z

Hey .

I have a doubt on getting VCs for the social networking project which i am working on..
I am currently in the midle of the project and I am planning to get a VC.Some of my friends suggest not to go for VCs.I am confused.Can the members here help me out of this confusion..i have two things from now to go ahead.
one is complete the project ( without a VC) or get a VC and complete the project.Can anyone let me know abt the advantages and disadvantages of getting a Venture Capital for the project.

Thanks

Seenu

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Tell your member of Congress to support strong net neutrality provisions.

2006-07-08T00:29:50Z

The House of Representatives could vote as soon as this Friday to turn control of the Internet over to a few powerful corporations.

We can stop them. Tell your member of Congress to support strong net neutrality provisions.

http://www.commoncause.org/OurInternet

Under the COPE Act, we'll lose the Internet as our "town square" - where we talk to one another, exchange views, find information from many diverse sources of news and opinion, blog, contact candidates and engage in our democracy. We will be left with an Internet that is mostly about selling things - entertainment, TV, films, games and other goods - and that is no longer about citizen engagement.

http://www.commoncause.org/OurInternet

Please help by sending an email or making a phone call to Rep. Lloyd Doggett at (202) 225-4865 today. Say that you support net neutrality provisions like those proposed by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), and urge your Member to demand a vote on net neutrality.

http://www.commoncause.org/OurInternet

Don't let Congress squash freedom and innovation by putting the Internet in the hands of the telephone and cable companies.

Thank you for all you do for Common Cause.

Sincerely,

The Common Cause Media Reform Team
Lauren Coletta, Celia Wexler and Dawn Holian

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Citizen Media

2006-07-08T00:27:47Z

We just startet "www.readers-edition.de", a Citizen Newssite, in Germany. Now... can anybody tell about things like that in the US or elsewhre (like bayosphere.com)?!

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Everything on Social networking sites

2006-07-05T09:38:09Z

Hey ,

Lets discuss on all aspects of the Social networking sites which are currently availabel on the net.lets discuss on everything on good , Bad , past , present and future of these sites.This will be one stop for anybody to know on social networking sites..

Thanks

Seenu

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How to get VCs for a Social Networking Project

2006-07-05T09:35:40Z

Hi All,

I am into developing a Social networking site.I am planning to gte VCs for my project.Rigt now I am working with my own money.
How to get Venture Capital for my project.Any suggestion/ideas will be useful to me..I am also working on it .But i feel the valuable suggestin given by the members here wil give me some idea..And also if u people know any VCS who is interested in a social networking project.Let me know.i am ready woth my business plan and other stuffs.I have also posted other two post, Lets discuss on that tooo.

Thanks!

Seenu

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College Social Networking Project

2006-07-05T09:12:54Z

Hey all -

So --- I am working with a pretty talented team on a social networking project for college students. Yes I know I know - social networking is a bit in the past - But we want to offer more, think flash happy : professor reviews, travel information, a marketplace, funny videos, calendaring, etc. (much more of course).

What kinds of things would you want if you were in college? Don't you want video, voip and all that new technology - no longer trying to use an site that markets to everyone from 12 year olds to 60 year olds?

Just wanted to see if there were any thoughts...

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Computer program for language, quick and easy?

2006-06-15T13:40:12Z

I am not sure if I am posting this in the right tribe, but is there a software that I can get whereby if I type in, say the word, "Time", or sentence, "What time is it?", that it will tell me how to write and say it in another language?

Thank you so much!

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AROUNDMe 0.6.9 released

2006-06-14T06:02:47Z

Hi All,

I just thought i'd post a little update on our activities of late. Barnraiser is almost 2.5 years old now and we've grown to be over 500 networked folk who collaborate in amoungst other things the development of social software. Using that software, education and a little determination we have had successes in working with people globally in creating small open digital society projects. We are now looking towards Africa (lake victoria region) to link social software and tech folk with local villages down there in creating mentor networks. We of course have no idea if the project will be a success or not, but that is no reason not to try. If any of this interests you feel free to take a look at our network (http://build.barnraiser.org) which is using version 0.6.9 of AROUNDMe; our free social networking and group collaboration platform.

Some may look upon this as a blatent advert and they are of course absolutely right:) But in my defence Barnraiser is a non for profit organisation and all our software is released under GPL license and if you take interest in social projects using social software then you are very welcome to join in in our collaborative efforts.

Tom

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Jaron Lanier--Hive MInd

2006-06-07T16:20:15Z

Jaron Lanier has an intersting post up at Edge http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html

>The collective is more likely to be smart when it isn't defining its own questions, when the goodness of an answer can be evaluated by a simple result (such as a single numeric value,) and when the information system which informs the collective is filtered by a quality control mechanism that relies on individuals to a high degree. Under those circumstances, a collective can be smarter than a person. Break any one of those conditions and the collective becomes unreliable or worse.

Meanwhile, an individual best achieves optimal stupidity on those rare occasions when one is both given substantial powers and insulated from the results of his or her actions.

If the above criteria have any merit, then there is an unfortunate convergence. The setup for the most stupid collective is also the setup for the most stupid individuals.<

Lanier beats up Wikipedia and I use and like Wikipedia enough that criticism of it is often hard to absorb. But Lanier makes some good criticisms and then points to ways correct. One very important point is that the Internet should connect people and to the extent too much attention is paid to the "hive mind" this essential strength and function of the Internet is undermined.

The essay also made me think about how much tribe.net gets it right.

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