Comments on: An awesome comment showing the power of online community http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cheap shopping online http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-4401 cheap shopping online Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:13:24 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-4401 <strong>cheap shopping online...</strong> Huh. Maybe my taste in the action figure department has been blunted from sticking to only figures I can afford (i. e., the ones that barely resemble the actors and crop on eBay for dirt cheap), or it could be that pesky inability to recognize faces, b... cheap shopping online…

Huh. Maybe my taste in the action figure department has been blunted from sticking to only figures I can afford (i. e., the ones that barely resemble the actors and crop on eBay for dirt cheap), or it could be that pesky inability to recognize faces, b…

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-691 alan patrick Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:51:39 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-691 Nic...re the 'Net going up its own wazoo....have you been following the hooha about Flickr and Technorati - they have essentially both changed the rules for their own user communities, and are drawing great ire. I have of course added soothing oil to the flames <a href="http://broadstuff.com/archives/136-Flickr-slickr,-usrs-sickr.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://broadstuff.com/archives/138-WTF-is-up-with-Technocrapi.html" rel="nofollow">here </a> - those posts were fun to write :) What it means is that I think there is a flipside to your post, i.e. that the internet re-organising around people makes companies running these services far more beholden to those people. This is clearly having some unforseen impacts on their ability to act commercially. Nic…re the ‘Net going up its own wazoo….have you been following the hooha about Flickr and Technorati – they have essentially both changed the rules for their own user communities, and are drawing great ire.

I have of course added soothing oil to the flames here and here – those posts were fun to write :)

What it means is that I think there is a flipside to your post, i.e. that the internet re-organising around people makes companies running these services far more beholden to those people. This is clearly having some unforseen impacts on their ability to act commercially.

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10594 alan patrick Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:51:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10594 Nic...re the 'Net going up its own wazoo....have you been following the hooha about Flickr and Technorati - they have essentially both changed the rules for their own user communities, and are drawing great ire. I have of course added soothing oil to the flames <a href="http://broadstuff.com/archives/136-Flickr-slickr,-usrs-sickr.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://broadstuff.com/archives/138-WTF-is-up-with-Technocrapi.html" rel="nofollow">here </a> - those posts were fun to write :) What it means is that I think there is a flipside to your post, i.e. that the internet re-organising around people makes companies running these services far more beholden to those people. This is clearly having some unforseen impacts on their ability to act commercially. Nic…re the ‘Net going up its own wazoo….have you been following the hooha about Flickr and Technorati – they have essentially both changed the rules for their own user communities, and are drawing great ire.

I have of course added soothing oil to the flames here and here – those posts were fun to write :)

What it means is that I think there is a flipside to your post, i.e. that the internet re-organising around people makes companies running these services far more beholden to those people. This is clearly having some unforseen impacts on their ability to act commercially.

]]> By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-690 nic Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:15:28 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-690 Hi Alan - re internet peeps - there were thirteen speakers and thirteen different ideas! You might say the internet is going up its own wazoo! Hi Alan – re internet peeps – there were thirteen speakers and thirteen different ideas!

You might say the internet is going up its own wazoo!

]]> By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10593 nic Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:15:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10593 Hi Alan - re internet peeps - there were thirteen speakers and thirteen different ideas! You might say the internet is going up its own wazoo! Hi Alan – re internet peeps – there were thirteen speakers and thirteen different ideas!

You might say the internet is going up its own wazoo!

]]> By: mspoke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-689 mspoke Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:59:22 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-689 The internet is defnitely moving to the centre of the social fabric. I often use iChat video to talk to my 6 year old nephew, he can work a Mac better than me. I was sitting quietly thinking about this recently, he doesn't know any different than this, me and him chatting on the net is just what people do to him, how families who are not located near to each other communicate with each other, it's all so normal to him. The internet is defnitely moving to the centre of the social fabric. I often use iChat video to talk to my 6 year old nephew, he can work a Mac better than me. I was sitting quietly thinking about this recently, he doesn’t know any different than this, me and him chatting on the net is just what people do to him, how families who are not located near to each other communicate with each other, it’s all so normal to him.

]]> By: mspoke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10592 mspoke Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10592 The internet is defnitely moving to the centre of the social fabric. I often use iChat video to talk to my 6 year old nephew, he can work a Mac better than me. I was sitting quietly thinking about this recently, he doesn't know any different than this, me and him chatting on the net is just what people do to him, how families who are not located near to each other communicate with each other, it's all so normal to him. The internet is defnitely moving to the centre of the social fabric. I often use iChat video to talk to my 6 year old nephew, he can work a Mac better than me. I was sitting quietly thinking about this recently, he doesn’t know any different than this, me and him chatting on the net is just what people do to him, how families who are not located near to each other communicate with each other, it’s all so normal to him.

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-687 alan patrick Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:41:53 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-687 Nic A parallel thought: the structure of the Internet and human society are similar - both are types of scale free networks - so it is probably no coincidence. And re Internet Peeps - where is the Internet going then? Nic

A parallel thought: the structure of the Internet and human society are similar – both are types of scale free networks – so it is probably no coincidence.

And re Internet Peeps – where is the Internet going then?

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10591 alan patrick Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/01/31/an-awesome-comment-showing-the-power-of-online-community/#comment-10591 Nic A parallel thought: the structure of the Internet and human society are similar - both are types of scale free networks - so it is probably no coincidence. And re Internet Peeps - where is the Internet going then? Nic

A parallel thought: the structure of the Internet and human society are similar – both are types of scale free networks – so it is probably no coincidence.

And re Internet Peeps – where is the Internet going then?

]]>