Communities Communities on the net and their evolution. Real world communities and features. Experts, Work, Family and Friends – The community as a web tool.

Communities History The first communities on the net were (prior to Geocities and such) IRC to its variables, where the participants acted as “ flat ” entities. Login only. Tripod and Geocities were the leaders to communities ’ added value, when each participant became entitled to some space on the community ’ s virtual land. Members could express more of their personality and fields of interest.

Communities History – Cont. From that point and forth, the communities started to supply web-tools to help their users create houses and profiles. The pace of growth and the wealth of different kinds of people brought the communities to specialize in specific issues and to build neighborhoods subjected to them.

Communities Nowadays Today Geocities, par example – supplies various information types and content. A message board to each neighborhood, current updating news, articles, community ’ s calendar, related links and a newsgroup. Different members of the same neighborhood share same information and content. Slash-dot to be the most advanced community, gives a podium to its crowds to state their opinions and to share their thoughts. But, all in all, it ’ s still “ F L A T ”.

Real communities In the real world existing communities experience dynamic changes. People come, leave, migrate, teach and learn. Communities change, expand, broaden issues of and in daily life, take different trails. Different members hold different statuses in different fields.

Flaws in nowadays Communities In the current format of communities, all these features can not occur. Different members of the same community don ’ t have to share the same general and specific information; Data and content. People can show interest in various kinds of things. They don ’ t need to maintain a web- page to each field. There is no platform that enables a real stream of information in a convenient way.

It is only a matter of time until a new kind of a community will evolve: Tree Community - Unix related

Tree Communities

An example

Tree Community Features Each added user gets a web-page that hides underneath his picture or details in the opening page of the community. He owns a multi-layer web-page where he can enter all his related information with multi-links to as many things as he wants. He has the ability to share information with several web-rings, while giving each ring a certain level of permission.

Tree Community Features- Cont. Like in a simple Genealogy chart page, when he reached a community home, if he chooses the view option, all the cards with lighted frame are an indication for users on-line. Multi-messaging to chosen groups within the community.

Tree Community Features- Cont. Dynamical formation of sub-groups. Real Time Updating News and Data. Easy to use GUI so that he can get all his s - several virtual locations - with priorities.

An Open Platform Permissions. Priorities. Multi-chatting. Multi-messaging. Web Calendar. Newsgroup efficiently managed. Multi-layer web-page. Pointers to related links and system preservation - pointers. Real synchronization. True multi-space access.