The City
November 24, 2007 – 3:52 pmThis sort of thing intrigues me:
- MySpace – first massively successful social network (I know about the others, but that’s just an aside), but MySpace was focused on the individual. Customization was highly emphasized in the context of the individuals page, with the individual’s tastes, etc.
- Facebook – this took it the next step by generating social graphs around large physical communities (colleges, at first). This was actually a very productive step in the sense of the Gospel in that the emphasis subtly shifted to the physical and away from the virtual community.
- The City – Radically physical social network of intentional and missional small communities (think Community Groups and Service Groups) within a large community (the campus, then the church, then a network of churches).
(FYI, this is the same guy that built that online Greek Bible that I talk about sometimes.)
-Ben
