DISQUS

louisgray.com: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/can-microblogging-power-blog-community.html

  • Louis Gray · 9 months ago
    Post by Rob Diana: http://friendfeed.com/robdiana
  • leolaporte · 9 months ago
    This is an experiment we tried some time ago at TWiT and it's been a rousing success. A microblog focused around a community is a very different experience from the hurly burly of Twitter, and more satisfying in many ways. One also tends to use a small microblog differently - the public stream, for instance, is much more useful. I don't even follow anyone; I just read the public stream. We used Laconica for the TWiT Army install and it's working very nicely. http://army.twit.tv
  • robdiana · 9 months ago
    Based on the posts from Dave, I figured you were using a Laconica install. I think the "follow" concept within a community would be pointless as everyone is mostly there for the same reason. If the install becomes simple enough it could be a very powerful community builder for smaller blogs.
  • Starshadow Rivaulx · 9 months ago
    I reposted this on my own feed. It's definitely food for thought!
  • Jesse Stay · 9 months ago
    I talked about this last August and its potential for brands to embrace this. I've been working on it with several clients and we're in weeks of launching some *very* cool and innovative stuff that will hit very niche audiences, and due to brand loyalty, I think will be pretty popular. I'm glad Winer is supporting this - we'd love to have him help promote if he's interested in the cause. Laconi.ca's feature-set kicks Twitter's butt, and better yet, it integrates with Twitter and soon will also integrate with Facebook as well.

    http://louisgray.com/live/2008/08/identica-and-...

    Of course, you can expect me to write about it (and hopefully others will support!) when we go live in the next several days.
  • Jesse Stay · 9 months ago
    btw, it was my hiatus from Twitter last year that helped me discover this potential. :-)
  • robdiana · 9 months ago
    Cool, I did not know you were working on this for clients. I would be very interested to learn how difficult the process really is. My main concern with the idea is that installation for most people would be painfully difficult.
  • Jesse Stay · 9 months ago
    Rob, let's talk offline and I can probably let you see what we're doing.
    It's very impressive! (If you're married your wife will want to see it as
    well - that goes for Louis and Kristine, too)
  • JMaultasch · 9 months ago
    I am concerned about this idea. Does it create new walled gardens? One of the things I love about Twitter is that it is default public. I hate not being able to find what's said on a topic - I think that was the problem with blog comments until Disqus, backtype, etc opened those up.

    I guess I don't understand the problem with using Twitter to talk about a particle blog or blog post?
  • robdiana · 9 months ago
    The general idea of twitter, publicly broadcast messages, does not lend itself well to good conversation. In addition, several websites would like to have more of a community based on their site. The only option previously was forums or message boards. A local twitter or laconica installation gives sites a simpler community option. This is not mean to replace Twitter, just add more features to a blog.
  • Jeff C · 9 months ago
    Interesting. And there's even more evolution in this space than most are aware. Present.ly (Yammer competitor with SaS & behind firewall products for Corps and Orgs) launched a public facing 'microblogging community for professionals' (http://www.presently.com) at SXSW yesterday. As Linkedin is to Facebook, Presently.com is to Twitter.
  • PXLated · 9 months ago
    Looks like Presently is truly Twitter, I just got a fail whale :-)
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    Leo, Been following your setup of Twit Army. Did you and Evan ever figure out how different instals of Laconica interact - member of one can post on others with registration just required on one, etc.?
  • Scott Pantall · 8 months ago
    I think having private, smaller micro-blogs is a good idea and it's gonna happen whether or not people think it's a good idea or not. It would serve the same purpose as sites like ning.com that allow you to make your own private social networks.
  • Ching Ya · 8 months ago
    This is an interesting idea: It's a network tool that's similar to Twitter concept, yet in a smaller scale, which provides an option other than forum/message board alone. Am I getting this correctly? Then for those who's interested, they just need to install the widget/tool on their blog and .. that's it?

    if the blogger/site owner could use both application wisely, that just might work. But would it affect the page loading time in anyhow? Just wondering.