Project Ideas

• Blogging and citizen media sites - Global Voices, reddit, spot.us, digg or slashdot, or a hyperlocal news organization
• Facebook groups
• Flickr groups
• Some aspect of microblogging: Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
• Bulletin boards, usenet groups, forums, or 4chan
• Education and tech organizations: OLPC or Sugarlabs or OpenEducation
• E-government and public engagement; e.g., FCC, open gov
• A government transparency organization
• An online political movement - moveon.org, online versions of the tea party
• A gaming site, eg World of Warcraft, Farmville, etc.
• A community exchange site such as couchsurfing.com or airbnb.com
• A music sharing site - Grooveshark, Soundcloud, MySpace
• A review and recommendation site such as Yelp
• Location services/games: FourSquare, Scvngr, etc.
• Question services: Aardvark, Quora
• Open knowledge consortium
• Different language communities on Wikipedia
• Conservapedia -- now that we've spent so much time on Wikipedia -- lots of nice normative/governance questions here

ChatRoulette project that Rob mentioned in class by Alex: http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/03/chatroulette/