11. Discuss webcam communities.
Imagine if next to every GFY post, there was a live thumbnail of the person who just made that post. CitizenX.com, I site are created and ran for a few years, was like that. (except chat instead of boards.) It was bleeding edge and required a bit of patience to get up and running. While there are tons of webcam sites now, there is still none that have the many-to-many broadcast ability and love vibe that CitizenX had.
Its hard to explain, but it became a very important place to a lot of people. It was also innovative design -wise and functionally and was mentioned in a number of ?community Building? books. I even spoke at several web conferences about it.
There is something magic about telling a joke in chat or via streaming audio and seeing people laugh who are physically in Hong Kong or Denmark. I learned that it doesn?t matter where you feet are at?it matters where your head is at.
It looked kinda like this:
