Types and Technological Genres of Communities

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Virtual Community sites and implementation

Contents 1 Pointers to Community Building Tools and Resources 2 E-Mail Lists 3 GAME THEORY explains the psychology of auctions 4 Wiki, wikipedia and wikitexts 5 Usenet 6 Matching, matchmaking and introductions 7 News 8 Calendars 9 Peer-to-Peer filesharing 10 Web-based Boards, Communities 11 ICQ, IM and presence 12 MUD, MOO, MUSH 13 IRC and other synchronous chat 14 Communities of Practice 15 Community Bars 16 WebRings 17 Recommender Systems, Collaborative filtering, personalization 18 Weblogs, bloggers, "neighborhoods" 19 Multimedia, Webcams, 3D and Virtual Reality 20 FOAF, "X-ster" Social Network sites 21 Reputation Systems 22 Hobbies 23 Photo Sharing 24 Wikis 25 CrowdSourcing 25.1 Projects 25.2 blogs 25.3 Books 26 Information Markets 27 Research and Scholarly resources 28 A list of lists

Pointers to Community Building Tools and Resources

• • http://cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/CommunityTools/index.html - CNET's choosing tools
    
  • http://opennet.net/about-filtering OpenNet resource about "Filtering"
  • Handelsaltz's treatment of "The Link" http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=956771&bl=2&contrassID=2
  • Wooley's Think of It - http://www.thinkofit.com/webconf/
    
  • About.com's Netconference.about - http://netconference.about.com/
    
  • CNET's Builder.com Tools for Community - http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7391.html * **http://www.cybersoc.com/vc/toolkit.html - Online Community Builder's Toolkit
    
  • http://www.fullcirc.com/commresources.htm - Online Community Resources
    
  • http://www.aoir.org/list.php - List of Internet Research Lists
    
  • http://www.dontlink.com/ - Do Not Link!!!
    
  • http://www.captcha.net - Telling Humans and Computers Apart (CAPTCHA)
    
  • http://www.virtual-communities.com/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=1
  • Rheingold's SmartMobs book and website - http://www.smartmobs.com
    
  • http://www.lithium.com
    
  • http://www.ning.com
    
  • http://www.cyber-yenta.org (technologies for nonprofits)
  • A web 2.0 directory located Here: http://www.go2web20.net/

E-Mail Lists

• • http://www.topica.com - Topica
    
  • http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html - CataList the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists ForumOne - http://www.forumone.com
    
  • http://www.smartgroups.com/ - Smartgroups
    
  • http://www.egroups.com/ - Yahoo Groups (E-Groups)
    
  • http://www.groups.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo Groups (E-Groups)
    
  • http://www.listbot.com/ - Listbot/List Builder
    
  • http://www.liszt.com/ - Liszt
    
  • http://www.plinko.net/Roulette/faq.asp - E-Mail Roullette
    
  • Hafner and Lyon - http://www.olografix.org/gubi/estate/libri/wizards/email.html
  • The History of E-Mail
    
  • http://www.vicomsoft.us/knowledge/reference/email.server2.html - EMail Server FAQs, (POP, SMTP, DNS, etc.)

GAME THEORY explains the psychology of auctions

• • http://www.gametheory.net/
  • http://www.dklevine.com/general/whatis.htm - What is Game Theory?

Wiki, wikipedia and wikitexts

• • http://www.wiki.org, http://www.wikipedia.org
  • http://WikiIndex.org (a wiki of wikis)
  • http://twiki.org (a wiki with esp. good user access control)
  • http://wikimedia.org (one of the more popular wiki systems)
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • http://www.wiktionary.org/
  • http://wikigraphe.orangeseeds.net/ Graphical wikis
  • http://www.wikimatrix.org Comparison tables of Wikis
  • http://wikipatterns.org Wiki Patterns

Usenet

• • http://groups.google.com/ - Groups Google (acquired Deja)
    
  • http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/ - Usenet Infocenter
    
  • http://www.newsville.com/ - Newsville NNTP access
    
  • http://www.cyberfiber.com/index.html - CyberFiber Usenet Directory
    

Matching, matchmaking and introductions

• • http://match.com - Match.com
  • http://lavalife.com - LavaLife.com
    
  • http://Friendster.com - Friendster.com
    
  • http://JDate.com - JDate.com
  • http://www.datebar.co.il/home.do
  • http://Hevre.co.il - Hevre.co.il
  • http://SingleswithScruples.com - SingleswithScruples.com
  • http://JCupid.com - JCupid.com
    
  • http://MuslimSingles.com - MuslimSingles.com
  • http://ChristianSingles.com - ChristianSingles.com
  • http://VeggieDate.com - VeggieDate.com
    
  • http://www.atrafdating.co.il - Atraf dating
    
  • http://www.myspace.com/
  • http://www.capiyot.com/ - capiot.com
  • http://www.onlyu.co.il - university graduates and students

News

• • http://he.wikinews.org- he.wikinews.org
  • http://www.scoop.co.il- www.scoop.co.il
  • http://www.mivzakon.co.il-www.mivzakon.co.il
  • http://portal.ymp.co.il- portal.ymp.co.il
  • http://news.yahoo.com/
  • http://rotter.co.il/

Calendars

• • http://www.evite.com/ - Evite.com
    
  • http://www.event411.com/
    
  • http://calendar.yahoo.com/
  • http://calendar.netscape.com/ על פי הודעה באתר - לא זמין כרגע
  • http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/calendar.asp?id=31994
  • http://www.google.com/calendar/ - A calendar for google account owners

Peer-to-Peer filesharing

• • http://gnutella.wego.com/ - Gnutella
  • http://www.limewire.com - Limewire
  • http://www.bearshare.com/ - Bearshare
    
  • http://www.groove.net/ - Groove
  • http://corp.bantu.com/ - Bantu
  • http://www.jabcast.com/ - JabCast
  • http://www.idc.com/ - IDC
  • http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=14 - Emule
  • http://www.streamcastnetworks.com/ - Morpheus

Web-based Boards, Communities

• • http://www.ezboard.com - EZBoard
    
  • http://www.webcrossing.com/ - WebCrossing
    
  • http://groups.google.com - Groups.google (formerly Deja)
    
  • http://clubs.lycos.com - Clubs Lycos
    
  • http://clubs.yahoo.com - Clubs Yahoo
    
  • http://www.habbohotel.com/ - Habbohotel ,
    
  • Women: iVillage - http://www.ivillage.com
  • http://www.webgrrls.com/
    
  • http://www.jdate.com - Jdate and other matchmakers

ICQ, IM and presence

• • http://www.webmessenger.com/
  • Humanclick: http://www.humanclick.com/
  • http://www.habbohotel.com/ - Habbohotel
  • http://corp.odigo.com/ - Odigo
  • BUZME: http://www.buzme.com/buzme/default.asp
  • http://baloo.itsalive.com/demo/web/ - Botfighters
  • http://web.icq.com/community/message_boards/index - ICQ message boards
  • http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ - A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client

MUD, MOO, MUSH

Magic- online cards game: 1. The link to the game: http://www.wizards.com/magic/playmagic/default.asp?dcmp=ILC-MTGCOMNEW 2. The rulls of the game: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/rules

• • http://www.mudconnector.com/ - MudConnector
  • http://cache.cow.net/~draith/mu.html - MU* list
  • http://www.godlike.com/ - Godlike
  • http://www.habbohotel.com/ - Habbohotel
  • Telnet to Lambda Moo - telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888/

IRC and other synchronous chat

• • http://www.irchelp.org - IRC help.org
  • http://www.ircbeginner.com/ - IRC Beginner
  • E-Pub Chat: http://www.e-pub.com
  • eShare Expressions: http://www.eshare.com
  • The Palace: http://www.thepalace.com
  • Rooms3.0: http://www.ichat.com
  • Virtual Places: http://www.vplaces.com
  • VolanoChat: http://www.volano.com
  • Beisswenger's - http://www.chat-kommunikation.de/

Communities of Practice

• • Wenger, Etienne (1999-2002). Supporting Communities of Practice: A Survey of Community Oriented Technologies, available as Zip file - http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/VirtualCommunities/WengerCommunitiesofPractice.zip and from - http://www.ewenger.com/

Community Bars

• • http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/CB/ University of Calgary

WebRings

• • http://webring.yahoo.com - webring.yahoo
    
  • http://www.webring.org - Webring.org
    
  • http://bomis.com - Bomis.com

Recommender Systems, Collaborative filtering, personalization

• • http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ungar/CF/ - Recommender systems
  • http://www.multiagent.com - Multiagent.com
  • http://aplab.rutgers.edu/ant/ - Antworld
  • http://www.kurzweilAI.net - KurzweilAI
  • http://www.filepile.org/ - FilePile
  • http://foner.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/yenta-brief.html - Yenta
  • http://www.computer-dating.com/ - Mayer's computer-dating
  • http://www.jdate.com/ - JDate
  • http://www.match.com/ - Match.com
  • http://www.phoaks.com/ - PHOAKS ("together, we know it all")
  • http://www.alexa.com/ - Alexa
  • http://www.imdb.com - IMDB, moviefinder, movielens
  • http://www.launch.com/ - Launch (music)
  • Firely Passport Office:  - http://www.firefly.com
  • GroupLens Recommendation Engine:  - http://www.netperceptions.com
  • LikeMinds Preference Server:  - http://www.likeminds.com
  • http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/recs/instant-recs/-/books/0/107-8013259-0286922 - Amazon recommendations and Barnes and Noble's for books - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bin/index.asp?userid=2VLBHGO25D&pcount=0?
  • http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/ - GroupLens
  • http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ - Citeseer
    
  • http://www.thinkcycle.org/home - ThinkCycle's thinkspaces
    • http://www.d.co.il/gyms.html - Healthy
    • http://www.weekend.co.il/ - Tourism

Weblogs, bloggers, "neighborhoods"

• • http://www.slashdot.org - Slashdot
  • http://www.haayal.co.il/ - haayal hakore
  • http://www.plastic.com - Plastic.com
  • http://www.metafilter.com - Metafilter
  • http://www.blogger.com - Blogger
    
  • http://www.fusionpage.com/
  • Rebecca Blood: http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html, weblogs: a history and perspective, See her Weblog Handbook too
  • R.Sinha's interesting India/Pakistan experiment: dialognow.org: http://www.dialognow.org/
  • Software:
    • http://www.blogger.com - Blogger
    • http://www.moveabletype.org - MoveableType
    • http://www.noahgray.com/graysoft - Graymatter
    • http://scoop.kuro5hin.org - Scoop
    • http://www.slashcode.org - Slashcode

Multimedia, Webcams, 3D and Virtual Reality

• • http://www.webex.com
  • http://www.activeworlds.com/ - Activeworlds
    
  • Avatar Teleport - http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/wchat.html
  • Worlds Chat Space Station - http://www.Topgirlscams.com
  • Topgirlscams.com - http://www.paltalk.com/
  • http://www.icuii.com - icuii
  • http://www.ispq.com/ - ISPQ videochat
  • http://www.dualview.com/ - Dualview
  • http://www.cryopolis.com/ - Cryopolis
  • http://www.moove.com - Moove
  • http://www.cybertown.com/ - Cybertown
  • http://www.2nd-world.com/ - 2nd-world
  • http://secondlife.com/ - Second Life

FOAF, "X-ster" Social Network sites

• • http://www.friendster.com/ - Friendster ,
    
  • http://www.orkut.com - Orkut ,
    
  • http://www.linkedin.com - Linked-In ,
    
  • http://www.hevre.co.il/main.asp - Hevre,
    
  • http://www.tapuz.co.il/communa/ - Communa
    
  • https://www.quickbase.com/db/9f72vfgx?a=q&qid=1
  • Social Networking Sites and Software database - http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_networking.htm
  • http://www.asmallworld.net/login.php - Small World - Exclusive Celebrities Social Network ,
    
  • http://www.dex.co.il/view.php?u=2 - Social Network in Israel ,
    
  • http://www.cafe.themarker.com/view.php?u=4 - Social and Business Network in Israel
    

Reputation Systems

• • http://web.si.umich.edu/reputations/ - UMich Reputation systems collection

Hobbies

• • http://moach.livedns.co.il/
  • http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/userCommunaMsges.asp?CommunaId=2281 - Runners and triathletes
  • http://www.griddlers.net/pages/home - Griddlers

Photo Sharing

• • http://www.flickr.com/ - Online photo management and sharing application
  • http://www.photoblog.com/ - Organizing photographs and thoughts

Wikis

• • http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Wiki Feature Comparison Table
  • http://experts.about.com/e/l/li/list_of_wiki_software.htm About.com's list of wikis
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software Wikipedia's list of Wikis
  • http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html OnLamp's "Which Open Source Wiki" resource

CrowdSourcing

Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.

Projects

• Assignment Zero - a failed attempt to bring journalists together with people in the public who can help cover a story
• Dell Idea Storm - The goal is for the customers to tell Dell what new products or services you’d like to see Dell develop
• InnoCentive - Open Innovation community to solve some of the toughest problems facing the world today
• X Prize Foundation - The X PRIZE Foundation creates and manages prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today

blogs

• Crowdsourcing - Jeff Howe's blog,
• Smart Mobs - the accompanying web site of Rheingold's "Smart Mobs" book

Books

• "Wisdom of Crowds" - James Surowiecki's book

• • CrowdSourcing Stand Alone Page

Information Markets

• • http://answers.google.com
  • http://answers.yahoo.com
  • http://www.shvoong.com
  • http://www.yedda.com
  • http://www.pmcluster.com/
  • http://www.ideosphere.com/

Research and Scholarly resources

• • http://pmguide.wetpaint.com/?t=anon Participatory Media Guide: Rheingold and Berkeley students
  • http://www.aoir.org/ - The Association of Internet Researchers.
  • http://vc.yeda.info The Interruptions research collection
  • http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/ - The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communcation.
  • Grether's 3600 Research Essays about the Net - http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem/pool.html
  • http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html - Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research.
  • http://www.behavior.net/JOB/ - Journal of Online Behavior.
  • http://www.infosoc.co.uk/current/contents.htm" - iCS - Information, Communication and Society Journal.
  • http://www.pewinternet.org/ - Pew Internet Project - includes the Open Research Initiative and the Data Dump.
  • Silver's Resource Center for Cyberstudies - "http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs
  • Jenny Preece's Online Communities site - http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities/index.asp
  • http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC10020/ - Mediated Communication bibliography site.
  • Kling's Indiana - Center for Social Informatics - http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI.
  • Walther's Bibliography - http://www.rpi.edu/~walthj/home.html
  • Beiswenger's Bibliography on chat communication - http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~mbeisswe/biblio/index.html
  • American Psychological Society - Psychological Research on the Net - http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/exponnet.html
  • ISWORLD's - Virtual Teams resource page - http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/research/resources/vt/vt-introduction.htm
  • http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jvaughn/csl/papers.htm - Cyberstudies links, at Temple.
  • Vanderbilt's - E-Lab - http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu
  • http://www.hcibib.org - HCIBIB
  • http://www.usabilityfirst.com - Useability First
  • http://forumone.com - Forum One
  • MSNBC's Invasion of Privacy coverage and interactive tools - http://www.msnbc.com/news/491587.asp
  • http://www.fullcirc.com/commresources.htm - Online Community Resources
  • Robin Hamman's Cybersoc.com - http://www.cybersoc.com/
  • http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com - OnlineCommunity Report
  • http://www.ctheory.com/ -CTheory: Journal of Theory, Technology and Culture
  • http://www.firstmonday.dk - FirstMonday
    (peer reviewed journal on the internet)
    
  • http://www.onlinepolitics.com - Online Politics
  • http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/ - EFF Net Culture and Cyber- Anthropology
    
  • http://www.communitymanager.net/ -- books, articles, resources
    
  • Putnam's Bowling Alone: http://bowlingalone.com Putnam's Bowling Alone, http://bowlingalone.com http://www.bettertogether.org http://www.bettertogether.org
    
  • http://bowlingtogether.net http://bowlingtogether.net/
    
  • http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/index.html - Happy, Fun Communication Land Dillman, Western Maryland College
    
  • http://www.aoir.org/list.php - List of Internet Research Lists
    
  • http://virtualcommunities.startpage.com/ - VIrtual Communities Start page

A list of lists

• • Social networking:
  • MySpace: http://www.myspace.com
  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
  • Ryze: http://www.ryze.com
  • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com
  • Orkut: http://www.orkut.com
  • Friendster http://www.friendster.com

• • Politically oriented OSNs
  • Essembly: http://www.essembly.com
  • DFALink: http://www.dfalink.com
  • PartyBuilder: http://www.democrats.org

• • For Second Life related OSNs, there are
  • SLProfiles: http://www.slprofiles.com
  • SLUniverse http://www.sluniverse.com
  • BlogHud: http://my.bloghud.com
  • Rezzed: http://www.rezzed.net

For media sharing, there are the video sites

• • Youtube: http://www.youtube.com
  • Blip: http://ahynes1.blip.tv/
  • Flickr: http://www.flickr.com

• • MicroBlogs
  • Twitter: http://twitter.com
  • Jaiku http://jaiku.com
  • MySay http://www.mysay.com
  • Pownce: http://pownce.com

• • Reader Rolls
  • MyBlogLog: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz
  • BlogCatalog: http://www.blogcatalog.com
  • BumpZee: http://www.bumpzee.com
  • BlogCave: http://www.blogcave.com

• • Tagging and Social Bookmarking sites:
  • del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon: http://stumbleupon.com
  • ma.gnolia.com: http://ma.gnolia.com
  • Digg: http://www.digg.com
  • Technorati: http://www.technorati.com
  • NewsTrust: http://www.newstrust.net

• • Reputation sites:
  • Wink: http://wink.com

• • Music preference sharing
  • last.fm: http://www.last.fm