Reno Social Media Think Tank

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The Movable Type Community Solution is a complete, out-of-the-box social media solution that lets site owners deploy community-oriented web sites, including forums, community blogs, and user-generated content communities, with just a few clicks.

Group Members does it all for you. Group Members will build, host, moderate, and manage your platform and community as your dedicated outsourced new media consultants.

it is launching Buzznet 2.0

Buzznet 2.0 was built from the ground up

The company also announced an exclusive partnership with event promoter Goldenvoice to create an interactive site for attendees of the 2006 Coachella Valley Music Festival. Leading up to, during and after the festival, event attendees will be able to post and share photos, video and stories at Buzznet.com by tagging their content 'Coachella'. This content will be available in real-time on their Coachella community site on Buzznet.com.

Buzznet distinguishes itself from traditional media sites and social networks that are focused on profile pages and communication tools by enabling Web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.

As a rising start-up, Buzznet is often compared to other social networking websites. However, Buzznet's Guides create daily music and pop-culture content that no other media-sharing site can rival. In addition to producing individual journals and video blogs, the on-staff curators deliver a live stream of relevant posts to the pages of Buzznet's music and pop-culture sections.

Plus, everything in your community is video-enabled, including message boards and blogs.

Viral Widgets Members can syndicate their favorite content from your community to some of the Web's most trafficked sites, including MySpace, iGoogle, WordPress and Blogger, with a simple mouse click. Or, they can easily copy/paste the embed code.

Essentially, media in Habari is about unifying all of your media sources inside your blog software so that you don't have to go running from place to place to assemble a post. In other words, making it easy for the user. I have a pretty common scenario that I use when I start into my diatribe about Habari media.

I am really excited about the progress we've made on the silos in the past week or two. I've managed to finally connect uploading to the simple file silo so that you can upload photos to your own server. With the back-end worked out, the Flickr upload should come very quickly next, and then shortly afterward, the Viddler embedded recording functionality.

Meanwhile, some travel suppliers are providing social networking products, and others plan to later this year.

It’s the software equivalent of Home Depot.

We wanted people to have the opportunity to create their own social networks and to make them whatever and whomever they wanted them to be. As a result, it didn’t make sense to build anything less than a platform.

MySpace is not a platform. MySpace doesn’t let you program it. MySpace doesn’t give you APIs.