links for 2009-02-23

"BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact."

"As Howard Rheingold says on the video teaser we published some days ago, he has been working on the creation of development of a lot of on line communities. Based on this experience (and with the security that not all of them are going to be successful), Rheingold explained the keys to build up a community with high probabilities to succeed. In my opinion, this video (this master class) is useful not only for those professionals interested on the field of e-Learning, but for any smart Internet user too."

"It is in fact impossible to account for the structure and functioning of the social world unless one reintroduces capital in all its forms and not solely in the one form recognized by economic theory."