Comments on: Open letter to Matt & Toni: Three ways for WordPress to become more of a social network

By: christina

christina — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:46:12 +0000

David, Vox has this… so what? You have many more users on typepad and MT… why not bring the social to everybody? You are throwing away growth and traffic.

By: Shanker Bakshi

Shanker Bakshi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:53 +0000

The way Matt and his gang are preceding is no doubt commendable. Automatic certainly have some plans. Their indispensable tool for publishing blog has its own social media thru its publishers.

But if they will implement (what you are suggesting here) then it will exactly look like stumble upon. It has its own uniqueness. It’s not necessary for all social media to look like twin brothers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:53:17 +0000

I just posted my startup’s business plan (it’s marked private) to SlideShare … odd that I just stumbled here soon after.

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Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:24:46 +0000

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By: Three ways for Wordpress to become more of a social network

Three ways for Wordpress to become more of a social network — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:03:47 +0000

[...] Three ways for WordPress to become more of a social network WordPress does have the basic ingredients for social network. Spaces for individuals (their blogs) within a larger social system (WordPress.com) and ways for people to connect with each other (by linking, commenting, blogrolls). What WordPress does not have is the social glue to pull the disparate community together and give it more of a community feel. Here are three ways that WordPress can get more social glue. [...]

By: Scabr

Scabr — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:52:55 +0000

Interesting Wiki feature for WP.To develop and promote joint blogs.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:14:05 +0000

There have been several wordpress MU sites that incorporate similar features, as dr mike pointed out in an earlier comment. There have even been a couple sets of plugins specifically made to turn a wordpress installation into more myspace like look.

I think there are a few single instance wordpresses running with multiple authors and contributors registered, that share similar pages to the ones you described aren’t there?

I do look forward to more unique blends of wordpress to shine across the internet for a while to come, it is constantly improving and there are many people using it in many different ways. I can’t wait to see what the community creates over the next couple of years, and I am sure you will see many more social networks using wordpress as a core. We are currently testing an MU based social network (or two ;)

I appreciate your points and suggestions for ways to make it function more like a facebook-like social network, I believe your ideas are valid.

The comments here have made me think what it would be like to create a custom page theme template (for the about page) that would add the author information into the top of the about page. This would be a simple easy way to get the author info shown, now to just get everyone to fill it all in.

As open Id and data portability continue to grow as well, I hope that it becomes easier for internet authors to fill in their info quickly, accurately, and with choice of which information to propagate and share.

Social networks and the software that runs them will continue to grow and evolve, and people like you sharing your comments about ways to improve will constantly make it better.

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Enfim » Blog Archive » Alhos com bugalhos — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:13:28 +0000

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By: Louis James

Louis James — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:19:16 +0000

Yesterday I closed both my Facebook and MySpace accounts. It’s kind of an experiment. I was hardly using either, and I want to see of a can actually do without them. But blog I must, so I use the WordPress app to run a blog. I had tried Radioland on Salon, then Blogger, but came across WP and feel it’s a great match for me. I’ll never dump my Flickr account though. I can see Flickr getting more social in the near future, and it might actually be a good thing for Yahoo to push right now. All they really need to do is trick out the Flickr profile page a bit.

Anyway, with Flickr, my WP blog, email and chat, I feel covered for cyber-socializing. Being a part of too many social networks can be fatiguing. It would be nice to see WP hosted blogs get a bit more social in nature; anything to attract more readers is a plus. But the WP core mission must not be compromised.

By: drmike

drmike — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:23:20 +0000

Author’s pages are theme based. Some of the themes at wp.com have them. Some (actually most) do not. There actually is a plugin for the software that will do this sitewide but the licensing for it specifically excludes wp.com.

There actually is a way to pull up a sort of profile page that would list the user’s blogs, personal tag cloud and latest posts but I can’t remember how to do it. It didn’t get mentioned that much. Let me go ask my spies over there.

Most of what you suggest is actually done on other WordPress Multiuser sites. The ones I host have those features. It’s just that wp.com doesn’t support them. (WordPress Multiuser being the software that runs wp.com)