For many Americans, digital media is a way to share personal news. But some indigenous communities in Latin America have harnessed its potential as a means of survival. In the book “Digital Activism, ...

Any server capable of running LAMP applications can be built into a complete community discussion, and information hub in just a few hours -- and with completely free software. Both the forum and ...

MANILA--Although the global Internet infrastructure is not in immediate danger of collapsing from "near exhaustion" of the IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) standard, the online community must ...

The ThirdVoice concept just will not die. Reframe It lets you highlight a piece of a Web page, comment on it, and discuss those comments with other visitors. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It has become an accepted truism of the digital era that social media ...

The webapp that lets you create your own social network - Ning - has relaunched with new features that make starting and customizing your new community a snap. Wendy posted about Ning before but I ...

Rubicon Consulting's web practice team recently conducted a broad survey of US web users to understand better how people in the US use the web, with a special focus on web community and its effect on ...