So if you're reading this, it's likely you've already stumbled across the Community pane of Impulse and have experienced the exceptionally clean, inviting, and user-friendly interface of ImpulseDriven (the engine behind the blogging feature of Impulse).
There have been some discussions of why some articles posted to JoeUser.com don't show up here on ImpulseDriven. The answer from on high is that, while similar engines, only certain categories are shared between the two, confining ImpulseDrive...
ImpulseDriven.net is an alternative virtual community site much like JoeUser.com. There is a lot of overlap between the two in terms of content but ImpulseDriven has more game and software categories and excludes the political and religious categories.
The two have considerably different UIs as well.
So which UI do you prefer?
a) JoeUser.com
or
b) ImpulseDriven.net
Now, I'll admit that I'm definitely on the outside looking in of the blogging/web 2.0 community. While I manage very large sites with a ton of users and reach, I'm still on the periphery. Why? Well, I live in Michigan. Not exactly a state known for it's thriving IT industry. If you go beyond IT services that support manufacturing companies, you can probably count on one hand the number of companies doing anything significant with online communities or digital media.
Yes, I'm a bit of a victim of geography here, and even though it's all online now, it's all IM, Twitter, email and blogging, proximity is still important. So when I see events like Gnomedex coming up, I'm interested because it could be one of the few opportunities I have this year to actually network with other people working in my field. And in this nebulous profession, professional networking is king.
I've become quite a twitterholic the past few days. In fact, let's check the stats. Yeah, I've been pretty much addicted the past few days. Why? Well, there's a few things I love about Twitter:
- Twitter is short, sweet, and easy to use.
The concept is simple: 140 characters to tell the world what you're
doing. I don't think you can get more simple than that. No complex
forms, no huge commitments, just a simple request, and your simple
answer. It has a wonderful web interface, and the settings allow you
completely customize your page's background along with colors for
fonts. It's just a breeze to use and easy to look at, which is a
welcome change compared to Facebook or MySpace.
I recently came across this post about a user who decided he had enough of the user-generated news community, Reddit.
I've been a Reddit user for a quite some time now, and I've done my
share of down voting Ron Paul stories as well submitting silly pictures
that have made it onto the front page. Lately though, it's become more
than a habit to check this site.
We're back again with another set of questions asked by you, and answered by members of the WinCustomize moderation team. Today we hear from WOM, Koasati, Zubaz, Elvee, Erk, Jafo, Starone, Quentin94 and Fuzzy Logic.
Remember to check back again next Friday for Part 3!
Question 1 -
What is the best thing about being a moderator? The worst? (Zubaz)
Wizop WOM Being able to contribute to WC. I spend hours a day modding and watching the general forum.&nbs...
I've tried a few of the virtual community type services and social networking. None of them impressed me much. Then, I came across this in RSS.YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web as a 3D world where you can: Browse the web in 3D with your avatar Build a 3D version of your website Have your own room in 3D Meet people and hang out with them It's barely in Beta and they are accepting preregistration for beta testers. I decided to sign up and thought that there may be o...
For all who don't know, there is a new website out there called Skillfights.com! This website allows you to compete with your artwork, your photography, your music-making, your videos, your flash animations, and your writings. You submit your entry into a fight of a specific category, and once the entry peroid is up, voting amonst the users of the site take place. Whoever gets the most votes wins!
Why am I posting this? This website, believe it or not, is REALLY fun! It's like an olympics for...
The other day I happened to pop on over to my WinCustomize profile page to see if there was any action on my guest book, and I glanced past my "Member Since" date. You know what I saw? That I was coming up on my 5 year anniversary as a member of the Stardock community.
November 30, 2002.
Five years ago I came across a game called Galactic Civilizations. There was a beta test going for anyone who bought the game so I signed up for an account, sent over some cash and was so...
Hi all!
Those of you who have a MySpace account, post here if you'd like and maybe we can add some friends to our networks.
My account is www.myspace.com/draginol
What's yours?
So there I am . . two tabs open and next to each other. Facebook and my site on Wincustomize. (In the background is the DX Skin checker I use.)
I'm thinking to myself . . wouldn't it be cool if I could display my gallery on my Facebook profile? What about my favorite skins? Oooo what about my watchlists?
Has anyone ever tackeled a Facebook app? Is there any interest?
As I get older (read more experienced socially) I have gotten a lot better in determining whether someone is a winner or a loser. Without knowing how much they make, how well they get along with their families, how in order they have their lives, I can usually tell in the course of a conversation whether the person is basically a winner or a loser.
So how can you tell? Here's some things I look for:
A Winner…
Leaves a given situation better than they found it. If you loan them someth...
In our ongoing efforts to improve WinCustomize and make participating and contributing more fun and fulfilling for our skinners, we're looking at changing around how certain systems related to user reward work. The first one is the Medals system.
Currently automatically award Medals to users for hitting any number of milestones here on WinCustomize. We track who's the top skinner across the entire site, who is the best in any particular gallery, how many downloads are achieve...
To kick off our recently revived "Featured Skinner" series, we've sat down with well-known member of the skinning community, vStyler, to ask him a few quick questions about his thoughts on skinning, how he got started, and a little bit about his skinning studio, MaxStyles, which has recruited community members such as I.R. Brainiac, messiah1, J. Aroche and others.
I'd like to thank vStyler for taking the time to answer these questions in such depth and for providing a great preview shot of hi...