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43things,
[1].
October 7,
2006.
http://daniel.haxx.se/advogato/stats-2006-06-03.html
International Herald Tribune article,
Join? Well, if you have to ask....
Prose.
BlackPlanet,
BlackPlanet homepage.
BBC News article,
Teen craze over networking sites.
Blue Dot Inc.
Blue Dot Continues to Change the Way People Share with Friends.
Press release.
Quantcast ratings for broadcaster.com.
Blurty's stat page as of
10 August
2006.
Bolt acquires UK SMS text messaging company Fonepark
http://www.cardomain.com/
Care2 statistics,
Care2 Homepage. Accessed
25 January
2007.
The View article,
Take a Second Chance with that First Love.
February 1,
2006.
Consumating.com,
[2].
10 August
2006.
Business Week article,
E-Society: My World Is Cyworld.
September 26,
2005.
DeadJournal,
DeadJournal.com statistics.
10 August
2006.
http://www.dodgeball.com/
http://www.dontstayin.com/pages/stats
http://www.doostang.com/
Ecademy announcement,
[3].
20 October
2006.
[4]
About Facebook, accessed
1 February
2007.
Facebox Corporate Pages, accessed
10 March
2007.
Faceparty,
Faceparty homepage.
13 April
2006.
Flirtomatic,
Flirtomatic homepage.
14 February
2007.
Blog article,
[5].
April 3,
2006.
Fotki Journal,
Their "Blog" Entry - accessed
18 January
2007.
Friends Reunited,
Their UK 'About Us' Page, accessed
1 February
2007.
Friendster,
Friendster overview, 2006.
Frühstückstreff,
[6], 2006.
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http://www.gaiaonline.com/ as of
5 November
2006.
http://www.gopetslive.com/
Graduates
[7], as of
21 December
2006.
http://www.greatestjournal.com/
as of
10 August
2006
Usercount is available
to logged-in members
http://hyves.nl/ as of
13 September
2006
http://www.imeem.com/
IMVU,
IMVU Information. 2006.
Homepage. Accessed
14 February
2007.
Official iWiW blog.
19 July
2006.
Interview with Martin Stiksel of last.fm. Accessed
18 February
2007
http://www.linkedin.com/ Number of accounts cited in feature
article on
LinkedIn in December issue of
Business 2.0
http://www.livejournal.com/ (as of
15 August
2006).
PressBox.co.uk Press
Release,
LunarStorm launches new, fun, young adult and teen service in UK.
17 November
2005.
comdex score
http://migente.com/
Press Release by mixi, Inc. (in Japanese).
29 June 2007.
Multiply.com company blog entry.
25 August 2006.
mygamma.com,
myGamma homepage. as of
23 February
2007.
Members' Homepage (you must be a logged in member to view
usercount). Accessed
12 March
2007.
Web generation preserves memories online.
25 June
2006.
http://www.nexopia.com/
Count based on number
of people available in primary network as of
12 March 2007.
http://www.passado.com/index.aspx
http://www.phrasebase.com/
Wall Street Journal, "Myspace's
New Rivals Are Winning Friends", September 29, 2006.
Press-release MTG/Playahead acquisition,
9 January
2007
ProfileHeaven Press
Release,
Profileheaven to Appoint Paul Myers to Board.
March 18,
2006.
[8]
http://www.reunion.com
https://www.ruckus.com/
Ryze,
Ryze business networking. May 2006.
ClickZ article,
Alloy Buys High School Social Networking Site.
March 29,
2006
http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html
http://tagworld.com/
http://www.takingitglobal.org/
http://www.student.com/mediakit.php
http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats.cfm
browse people. Retrieved on
17 January
2007. Open to members only
http://vampirefreaks.com/
VietSpace member list
Media Week article,
Media Run wins travellers' website account.
27 April
2006.
Profiles featured on
http://www.webbiographies.com/ front page are a sample, and
not a complete list of members--as per email from Web
Biographies' staff.
Trendwatching.com,
Youniversal Branding. July 2006.
WPXI article,
Warnings Issued For Popular Web Site.
July 21,
2005.
openBC Press Release
openBC hits the 1 million member mark.
31 January
2006.
Xuqa,
Xuqa homepage.
April 13,
2006.
In the Race With Google, It’s Consistency vs. ‘Wow’.
New York Times,
24 July
2006.
Zaadz People,
Zaadzsters page.
15 December
2006.
Online dating category - articles on a number of dating
sites.
Hospitality service
www.Travellersconnected.com is a huge free community site
for long term career break and gap year travellers
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Benchmark virtual communities
BBS or
Internet Forum:
The WELL,
GEnie,
Dead Runners Society
Blog:
LiveJournal,
Xanga,
MySpace,
Facebook,
Blogger
Webcomic:
UserFriendly,
Penny Arcade,
Sluggy Freelance,
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Virtual world/city:
LucasFilm's Habitat,
Secondlife,
Millsberry,
Red Light Center
IM:
ICQ,
Yahoo! Messenger,
Windows Live Messenger,
AIM
IRC/EFNet
MMORPG:
Everquest,
Ultima Online,
RuneScape,
World of Warcraft,
Silk Road Online
MOO:
LambdaMOO
MUD/MUSH:
TinyMUD
P2P:
Kazaa,
Morpheus,
Napster,
Limewire
USENET
Wiki:
Wikipedia,
WikiWikiWeb,
Wetpaint,
PBWiki
WWW:
eBay,
GeoCities,
Slashdot,
Digg
Dead Runners Society
GameFAQs
Offtopic.com
Something Awful
2channel
The Talk
Zombie Squad
IGN
Americhindia
TOTSE
Art communities
Albino Blacksheep
DeviantART
Elfwood
Newgrounds
Sheezyart
Vexels.Net
ArtGrounds
Kyberia.sk
Hexvalue.net
MUD, MUSH, MOO
GemStone
ifMUD
Category:MU* servers
Category:MU* games
Ethnical communities
Fillos de Galicia
MIT BBS
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Other types
4chan (imageboards)
bianca
Del.icio.us (social bookmarking)
eHarmony (online dating service)
vMix (online video sharing community)
GameTZ.com (an online game, music, movie, and book trading
community)
CouchSurfing (free accommodation world wide through
hospitality exchange)
Hospitality Club (free accommodation world wide through
hospitality exchange)
iPoste.org (a
video-enabled, non-commercial interest-centered community)
Meetup (an online service designed to facilitate real-world
meetings of people involved in various virtual communities)
Stumbleupon (web surfing)
YTMND (Picture, Sound, Text)
MacJams.com (mac music
sharing/community)
Smootsy (Online dating
community)
Group blogs
Virtual community pioneers and experts
Ted Nelson
Vanessa DiMauro
Jonathan Bishop
Bart Cilfone
Peter Kollock
Jenny Preece
Sheizaf Rafaeli
Howard Rheingold
Fay Sudweeks
Sherry Turkle
Barry Wellman
Daniel Casal
Derek Liu
Long Vo
Philip Rosedale
See also
Community Portal
Bulletin board system
Chat room
Computer-mediated communication
Discourse community
Internet activism
Internet forum
Internet social network
Massively distributed collaboration
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
Network of practice
Online deliberation
Online wedding
Social network
Social software
Social evolutionary computation
The Virtual Community
Virtual Community of Practice
Virtual ethnography
Virtual reality
Web community
Web of trust
Yahoo! Groups
GeoCities
Category:Virtual reality communities
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Notes
Tuomi, Ilkka
Internet, Innovation and Open Source:Actors in the Network
2000
First Monday
Further reading
Virtual communities and domestic violence crimes committed by
their users - A detailed discussion about whether popular
virtual communities should be held legally responsible for
online domestic violence crimes committed by their users.
References and
external links
Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London:
Verso.
Farmer, F. R. (1993). "Social Dimensions of
Habitat's Citizenry." Virtual Realities: An Anthology of
Industry and Culture, C. Loeffler, ed., Gijutsu Hyoron Sha,
Tokyo, Japan
Hafner, K. 2001. The WELL: A Story of Love, Death and
Real Life in the Seminal Online Community Carroll & Graf
Publishers ISBN
Hagel, J. (1997). Net Gain: Expanding Markets
through Virtual Communities. Boston: Harvard Business School
Press (ISBN)
Jones, G. Ravid, G. and
Rafaeli S. (2004) Information Overload and the Message
Dynamics of Online Interaction
Spaces: A Theoretical Model and Empirical
Exploration, Information Systems Research Vol. 15 Issue
2, pp. 194-210.
Kim, A.J. (2000). Community Building on the
Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities.
London: Addison Wesley (ISBN)
Kim, A.J. (2004). “Emergent Purpose.” Musings of
a Social Architect. January 24, 2004. Retrieved April 4, 2006
[2].
Kollock, P. 1999. "The
Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in
Cyberspace," in Communities in Cyberspace. Marc Smith and
Peter Kollock (editors). London: Routledge.
The author has made available an
online working draft
Kosorukoff, A. & Goldberg, D. E. (2002) Genetic
algorithm as a form of organization, Proceedings of Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2002,
pp 965-972
Morningstar, C. and F. R. Farmer (1990) "The Lessons of
Lucasfilm's Habitat", The First International Conference on
Cyberspace, Austin, TX, USA
Neus, A. (2001). Managing Information Quality
in Virtual Communities of Practice; Lessons learned from a
decade's experience with exploding internet communication
[3] IQ 2001: The 6th International Conference on Information
Quality at MIT.Mchughjc
22:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Preece, J. (2000). Online Communities:
Supporting Sociability, Designing Usability. Chichester:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (ISBN)
Rheingold, H. (2000). The Virtual Community: Homesteading
on the Electronic Frontier. London: MIT Press. (ISBN)
The author has made available an
online copy
Sahat
online
Smith, M.
"Voices from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons"
UCLA Department of Sociology.
Seabrook, J. 1997. Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in
Cyberspace Simon & Schuster ISBN (Hardcover) - ISBN
(Paperback)
Sudweeks, F., McLaughlin, M.L. &
Rafaeli,S. (1998) Network and Netplay Virtual Groups on
the Internet, MIT Press. Portions available online as:
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol2/issue4/ JCMC, VOLUME 2 ISSUE 4:
NETWORK AND NETPLAY.
Building Electronic Communities and Networks - free
e-learning module on designing, developing and facilitating
virtual communities.
The International Journal of Web-Based Communities
News Consumption in Online Communities
Online Community Report - news and trends in online
collaboration.
Wildbit (2005)
Social Networks Research Report 35 page report on preparing,
maintaining, and supporting a social network.
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Guide to Building an Online Community
Virtual Community Network
www.insna.org -
International Network for Social Network Analysis, with
links to journals, annual conference, etc.
Organizational Network Mapping - SNA applied in business
organizations
Virtual Center for Supernetworks
VisualComplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping
complex networks
Dynamic Centrality in Social Networks
WhatIs.com has a thorough entry on the origins of the term,
along with other helpful information.
Sim6D is an online experiment based on the six degrees of
separation where individuals can attempt to contact a stranger
in another part of the world through their connections.
Knover.com - a site that works to connect notable people to
other notable people online. It has a Six Degrees feature.
Network for Good - a nonprofit organization where users can
donate to more than one million charities and search from among
more than 36,000 volunteer opportunities.
The Million People Page - modern social networking
experiment started in Feb 2006
Six Degrees of Wikipedia - links Wikipedia articles in six
degrees fashion
E-mail Study Corroborates Six Degrees of Separation - a
study by the journal Science.
Six Degrees Black - Social networking site built on concept
of Six Degrees of Separation. The site is "black" oriented.
The Six Degrees of Kasparov - the six degrees of separation
tested with Chess results.
playtxt mososo - was the first mobile social network
incorporating six degrees of separation.
Could it be a big world? - 2001,
Judith Kleinfeld,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Connecting with people in six steps- BBC article contesting
its existence
Pumpthemusic Oracle- The 6 degrees theory applied to the
musical universe
Knock, Knock, Knocking on Newton's Door, by Dan Ward -
Journal article published by Defense Acquisition University,
applies principles from Duncan Watts' book
Six Degreesto technology innovation and scientific research.
MySpace Page a new page to try and test out the theory of
six degrees of separation whereby users add themselves to see if
they come across someone they know and the author will calculate
the degrees of separation.
Newman, Mark, Albert-László Barabási, and Duncan
J. Watts. 2006. The Structure and Dynamics of Networks.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Karinthy, Frigyes. Chain-Links.
Translated from Hungarian and annotated by Adam Makkai and Enikö
Jankó.
a
b
Barabási, Albert-László. 2003.
Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What
It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. New
York: Plume.
Memorable quotes from Six Degrees of
Separation. Accessed Nov. 11, 2006 from
IMDB.com.
Jan. 18, 2007 press release from
Network for Good.
[1].
Billion To One website
Find Satoshi project
[2]
[3]
The Oracle of Bacon, with an automated Bacon calculator
provided by the
University of Virginia
Band To Band, links any band to any other band using albums,
similar to the Kevin Bacon game
Cinema FreeNet Movie Connector finds links between film
stars, and can also use directors and producers. (Note: Only
current through 1/31/99, according to its
Database Info page.)
Knover.com a site that works to connect notable people to
other notable people online. It has a Six Degrees feature
similar to this Kevin Bacon game.
Omnipelagos, finds the shortest (or most obscure) paths
between any two terms in the Wikipedia.
Six degrees tool - Finds the shortest path between any two
Wikipedia articles in the main namespace using wiki links. The
source is also available.
The Oracle of Kasparov - shows the shortest path by which a
chess player beats Kasparov.
Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg - Suggests that Bacon connects
to many actors because he acts in many different kinds of roles
and films.
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The Oracle of Music- a site that connects artists in the
musical universe
http://www.msnbc.com/onair/nbc/dateline/KBacon/Kevin.asp
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/misc/news-bacon.html courtesy
copies at the U Virginia Bacon site
http://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.html The Center of the
Hollywood Universe: Note that the order and parenthetical
average personality numbers are not current but reflect when the
page was created or last updated. accessed 2006-10-11
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