.Ted’s Talk @ The Future of Web Apps Conference
Last week I gave a 45 minute presentation on the State, Future and Business of Passion-Centric Online Communities at the excellent Future of Web Applications Summit. The reviews of my talk we’re quite good.
People have been asking for a copy of my presentation. I’ve released the entire slide set under a Creative Commons non-commercial share alike licensense. You can view them:
- » UPDATE: Listen to the entire talk. Recorded by Carson Systems
- »PDF version suitable for downloading. (25Mb)
- »Flash version for web viewing. (25Mb Opens in new window)
Allen Stern of CenterNetworks prepared a bunch of audio files, took great notes and gives links to many of the sites I refer to.
Cameron Olthuis ‘floated’ some great notes he took in PostBubble which appears to be some wisdom-of-the-crowds site to forecast new trends in web dev.
Photo of Ted by Scott Beale. Sincerity photo by Brian Walsh
Awesome talk, and lovely to meet you.
[...] Audio and notes from Ted Rheingold’s talk at the recent Carson Workshops summit: The Future of Webapps. I’ve been well aware of the buzz surrounding the summit and have been patiently waiting for podcasts to appear on the sites of the various speakers or their entourages. Ted’s talk was titled ‘The State, Future and Business of Passion-Centric Online Communities‘ and explained much of the theory behind his site Dogster (and Catster), a free online community for dogs (and cats) with opposable thumbs, or presumably their owners. I dig the the buzz-word ‘Passion-centric’, it must be an instant hit as far as they go! “Passion-centric online communities are dedicated to a particular interest and allow users to become completely immersed in their own passion.” [...]
Ted,
Great presentation! I’ve been telling a bunch of people about dogster!
Thank you for posting the slides!
Jon
[...] Two months ago, John discussed what we perceive to be the four core components of passion-centric web communities: entertainment, sociality, services, and information. While preparing for my Future of Web Applications talk, I compiled a list of other commonalities that thriving communities often exhibit. [...]
Ted, You clearly have a vision for serving passionate interest groups and your enthusiasm for doing it right is infectious.
The links to the .pdf and the online viewing slides do not work right now. Can this be fixed?
Links are fixed. Sorry we moved our caching server :>
[...] Efter att bara ha lyssnat på två av Future of Web Apps-presentationerna dem vet jag att Ted Rheingolds är en av mina favoriter från den andra omgången av konferensen. Ämnet var �passionscentriska communityn vilket Dogster-grundaren talade engagerat om. [...]
Great perspective.
what about sites that cover many topics -not vertical oriented- (i village, marthat stewart) How do you think they can engage their users?
[...] Complete presentation here: http://blog.dogster.com/2006/09/19/teds-talk-the-future-of-web-apps-conference/ [...]
[...] Ted rocked the house at the Future of Web Apps conference on this topic. See his slides and listen to the presentation. Then you can check out his personal blog and the Dogster corporate blog. [...]