[p2p-research] [P2PFNL] Ning and Knol

[Michel Bauwens]

Martien,

can you explain the difference between a do-it-yourself network such as
Ning, and campfire ...

Michel

On Dec 17, 2007 7:21 PM, Martien van Steenbergen <Martien at aardbron.nl>
wrote:

> I find myself in a dilemma here. On one hand, I love social nets like
> Ning and see the value of quickly launching yet another peer group.
> On the other hand, there are sooooo many of these nets. Right now,
> I'm being Plaxo'ed to death... I can't keep up with all of them. And
> every time I have to enter my name, birth dat, hobbies, photo,
> professional history, etc. And they're often kind-a sluggish. And
> that keeps me from using them intensively.
>
> I want something that turns it inside out and that puts ME in
> control. And something that works smooth, silky and snappy. Something
> like Campfire...
>
>        http://wiki.aardrock.com/Campfire
>
> Succes en plezier,
>
>        Martien.
>
>
> On 17 Dec 2007, at 12:29 , Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > Ning is a do it yourself social network, founded by Marc Andreessen...
> >
> > My question is: does it make sense to create one for creating an
> > added community layer .... This would be a way to let various blogs
> > (mine, sam's etc..) work better together, in a neutral
> > environnement, and it integrates discussions etc...
> >
> > See http://www.ning.com/home/networks
> >
> > I also think we should be very fast on the ball when Google's Knol
> > is officially launched ...
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Michel
> >
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