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50 Forums for Web 2.0
The traditional forum software hasn’t changed that much over the years, but the rest of the web is changing, and it’s time for forums to change too. The term “Web 2.0″ get’s thrown around a lot as a buzzword, and…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Hosted Software
There was a day when the only way to buy software was in a box. You had to figure out if you had the right version of the operating system, if your hardware was compatible, then try to complete a…
Read MoreWhy We Built Qanda
I didn’t set out to build another forum or Q&A platform. In fact I really wanted to use one that was already built. I’ve run several sites with customer support forums or general community Q&A, so I’ve been a customer…
Read MoreForums for Web 2.0
The traditional forum software hasn’t changed that much over the years, but the rest of the web is changing, and it’s time for forums to change too. The term “Web 2.0″ get’s thrown around a lot as a buzzword, and there are probably 100′s of definitions of it. For me, it’s about the “socialization” of software. There are really two things that make software social.
- Open Communication – social software makes it easy for the users of the site to post their thoughts for others to respond and comment.
- Viral – Sharing what’s interesting to you is easy. Things that lots of people think are good get spread more easily.
Forum software is probably the last to get re-envisioned because it (and email) were the closest things we had to social software in Web 1.0. It did a pretty good job of letting people communicate, but it didn’t do a good job of promoting the best conversations and content, and making that easy to share.
On the web now, your community is no longer on a single site. You have to build a site that spans many of the places your users spend time online. You have to connect your community’s content to their social graph.
