On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Perelman, Michael wrote:
Robert Naiman wrote:
Relatedly, I'm curious why, given the popularity of the social
networking sites, some group of folks have not come up with an open,
not-for-profit competitor. Such a site could fulfill the same
functions, and redirect the rents now being collected by the
commercial sites to socially beneficial purposes.
I respond:
Ravi is the one with that kind of expertise.
I remain as always ready to do the technical part. That's the easy
part, unfortunately. As to generating worthwhile content, I can do
little. That's where the rest of you come in! ;-) Also, Julio upstaged
me a few months ago with a public Wiki that he had set up. Not sure if
he is still actively working on that project. There are various sites
today that let you setup a Wiki or equivalent collaboration tool:
Google Sites, Zoho Wikis, WetPaint, Ning, etc. Elgg is an open source
application that can be used to set up a Social Networking site for
any domain. A while ago, based on interest on LBO I setup a couple of
domains (wikileft.com, leftiki.com) with Wikis, etc. Unfortunately,
the interest petered out.
--ravi
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