November 12th, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
Forums essentially descend directly from the “ancient” bulletin board systems, in many ways the original social networking applications (other than email). But most of them don’t take full advantage of everything we’ve learned or implement common features from other social applications.
I spend a lot of time on a specific community that primarily uses a forum [...]
November 12th, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
I recently started playing a new MMOG on a trial basis because I have family members who play it. The game itself doesn’t seem to be holding me for any number of reasons, but two things stood out to me as the trial has progressed:
First, as noted, what pulled me to the game had nothing [...]
July 2nd, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
Like a lot of other folks interested in the social Web, or just the Web overall, I have a lot of profiles scattered across many different sites: Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Wordpress, YouTube, LinkedIn, del.icio.us, etc. And then there are my identities in MMORPGs; this is not a separate problem from Web sites. End users [...]