Cracking the doors on the next new media powerhouse soon
Written March 16th, 2007 by Paul in Tech
Ok, by new media, I don’t by any means mean (ugh) that this new site I’m working on is going to be a technology innovation. It’s definitely not. I’ll be the first to squelch that assumption.
I’m using SimpleMachines (SMF), an out of the box, open source forum software with a free template, slightly modified with a sprinkling of web 2.0, URL rewriting and new media stuff for the main community aspect. There’ll also be a wordpress blog that feeds off of/into the forum. Nothing groundbreaking there.
But! As with most of these newfangled new media/web 2.0/uber geeky sites - it’s how you envision the userbase using them, and watching in awe at how wrong you were with those visions that makes it live and grow.
Look at Twitter.com (my twitter stream) as an example. Glorified shoutbox. Definitely not a new concept, but it’s the way it’s been adopted and currently being used by the geek and tech influencers that makes it awe inspiring.
TalkNewMedia.com is mere hours from opening to the public in it’s fragile, WTF, BETA form, and it will be big (crosses fingers & toes).
