The Last of the Social Studies...

OK folks - my apologies for being a little behind the ball over the last few weeks, I can only offer the cries of a demanding infant as my excuse. Here are the last of the social community online presentation along with (hopefully all) of the Communities at Play studies. I am sure that you are all busy with your final assignments but if you can comment please do - in many cases interesting reactions have already begun to appear on the blogs.

Social Communities

Elizabeth MacLintock

Liz immerses herself in the (slightly murky) waters of online introduction sites.

Kym Badger

"This research presents information on two general Community systems created by the Microsoft Network. MSN Groups and MSN Spaces."

Claudia Valenzuela

Claudia looks at the Couch Surfing Project, "a social network designed to assist travelers worldwide who are seeking inexpensive accommodation".

Shabana Aishath

Shabz has been hanging out at Habbo Hotel, a social/play community for young people built on the Macromedia (or should I say Adobe?) shockwave technology.

Mamiko Aiko

Mamiko evaluates Meetup.com, a software tool designed to facilitate offline community.

Ying Tan

Ying examines yet another portal site, Hi5, concluding that trust is still a critical issue.

Syahrani Rahim

Yahoo 360 appears to be Yahoo's answer to the 'personalised services war' that brought up the EPIC 2014 link. Will it knock the competitors for six? Syahrani thinks so.

Belinda Wilkinson

Belinda offers another perspective on tribe.net.

Trevor Allison

Trevor takes another peek at social network analysis via Friendster.

As far as I can tell, that's all of the Social Community studies. If I've missed yours please email me and I'll correct that error! Next post is Communities at Play...