A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). It provides a free limited version.
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vodpod
Vodpod is a community that allow you to create your own video channels, to collect the best music videos, funny videos, politics and video clips from around the web and shre it on blog, Facebook and Twitter.
BoonEx
Boonex provides free, open-source, downloadable community-building software for websites. Its mission is all about Uniting People. Its free community software Dolphin 7 is open-source, downloadable, scalable, customizable, full-featured, independent and free software package for building social networks, dating sites and niche communities.
Locr
locr is a revolutionary geotagging photo community. According to the slogan “Geotag, Print & Share – Show your World in Photos”- locr offers users the possibility of visualizing photos with the aid of street maps, satellite images and location information. locr has specialized in geo photography and geo-related printproducts. Furthermore locr provides geotagging software solutions for Windows PCs, Apple Macintosh, Windows Mobile, Symbian and the iPhone.
locrExplorer app allows you to browse photos published on locr.com. View nearby photos, locate photos on a map, browse friends’ photos, post to Twitter. It also allows you to geocode photos and to upload them to locr.com. At locr.com users can share geotagged photos and create physical travel photo albums with high quality map data.
LiveShare
LiveShare is an easy photo sharing application for you and your friends to snap photos at parties, get-togethers and other shared experiences, and enjoy them all in one place, in real-time. You don’t need to hunt through emails, social networks and photo sites to see everyones photos.
Scoop.it
Scoop.it is provides users an easy place to compile all of their favorite resources on a topic that they feel passionately about.
See reviews by Dr. Alan Cann and by AppAppeal.
Google+ Social Networking
When I tried to name my blog, I had a couple of names that had a sense that the theme of this blog stands on – information and people connections on the web. I was thinking so-called Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0… Web N… people sharing… linked… connected… like a circle… Therefore, I called it WebN.+circle, and eventually it became Webn’Circle.
I’m happy to see that Google’s facebook competitor, the Google+, arrives. Unlike Facebook, Google+ is built from the ground up around the concept of sharing material with groups of people, called “Circles.”
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction is a community-based platform designed to foster honest communication and build trust between a company and its customers. Get Satisfaction provides a public space where people can ask questions, share ideas, report problems, and give praise about a particular company or product.
Social networking platforms – BuddyPress
BuddyPress is a open source platform that adds social network like abilities to the acclaimed CMS WordPress. In a sense, it likes the IBM Connections. However, BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, it allows you to stay in control of your site, more individual and in a more socialised way.
Buddy Dev is a community of enhancing the buddypress/wordpress user experience. It provides many BuddyPress and WordPress discussion and resources.
MPMU.org provides reviews, apps information and resources of using BuddyPress and WorkPress.
“Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom” is an essay written by Matthew K. Gold and is published on the “Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy” website, which is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media.
“The Beginner’s Guide to BuddyPress (Open Source Social Networking)” can be viwed on the 1WD website, which is contributed by a group of bloggers, freelancers, web-developers and designers. It shares tutorials, inspiration, articles, roundups, case studies, interviews and products using experience.
“BuddyPress, Facebook, Social Bookmarking, VoIP on the iPhone 3G, Disqus” on the YouTube gives an idea of some social networking platporms.
Connect journalism and technology
Storify.com is a tool to tell stories/news and also a resource of creative real-time content by journalists, bloggers and experts.
The founder of Storify also created Hacks/Hackers, a community of the journalism and technology. As they said, the original idea is to create “a network of people interested in Web/digital application development and technology innovation supporting the mission and goals of journalism”.
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