Thursday, April 27, 2006

Citadel, MySpace, and BBS

So, I'm wanting to find out more about this projected called Citadel. It's a groupware package for lots of important stuff like calendars, email, and chat. I actually found it while looking for a good calendar server solution. Citadel is more than a calendar for sure, the site says it can be used like a BBS.

While learning more, I ended up reading this blog post. It is a must read, particularly for anyone who remembers the BBS scene (or is still involved). The idea that MySpace is just another BBS is completely accurate. I'll quote another good point:
Even the "BBS's are from yesteryear" groupthink over at Slashdot is particularly ironic, considering that Slashdot itself is basically just a big BBS optimized for the reporting and discussion of tech news.
So for all you peeps who ran a BBS in your basement purely for the joy - you can now build one on the Internet and sell it for over half a billion dollars. I'm sure, forum centric products like vBul are not the answer. A forum is but one small aspect for a virtual community. Custom baked community software rules until something more modular and diverse than our typical forum software comes along.

Perhaps Citadel is a good foundation for something like that. I will be checking into it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

fyi ... that blog post has since been moved; it is now at http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/weblog:ignatiustfoobar:2006-01-17_messaging_is_messaging

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