The Communities That Web 2.0 Forgot

Ghost-town forums. Sounds creepy.

Movable Type: The Communities That Web 2.0 Forgot

On cluttered bulletin boards, ghost-town forums, and decrepit old message boards, a lot of conversations that have nowhere else to live are puttering along. We've all seen them -- you do a quick Google search on some esoteric topic and end up poking around a community that seems to have been left behind by the advances in usability, conversation, and interactivity that we're used to in blogs and social media sites. There's no sign of the rich media or social profiles we're used to seeing today. Or maybe that out-of-date community is powering the forums on your company intranet, looking like The Community That Web 2.0 Forgot. Though the currently-popular phrase "User-Generated Content" isn't very elegant, at least it has the word "user" in it

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