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Global Heritage Network

GHN features an online community for networking and discussion of possible solutions, while critical support and software for the platform have been donated by Google, DigitalGlobe, Autodesk, Ashtech, Exelis Visual Information Solutions and ESRI.

New Paradigm Broadcast Network

, NPBN.com will serve “to enlist visitors in shaping NPBN programming and encourages visitors to share ideas, thoughts, videos, and other materials through innovative tools to create a vibrant, engaged and active online community,” according to the press release.


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Adam Kuban

In October 2006, Kuban sold Slice and A Hamburger Today to Serious Eats, a start-up food site founded by food writer Ed Levine that is focused on sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community.

Allen Bukoff

He was one of the original founders of the Fluxlist, an online community of Fluxus artists and writers launched in 1996, along with other Fluxus artists Dick Higgins, Ken Friedman, Owen Smith, Joe De Marco and Jon Van Oast.

Artist Underground

Artist Underground (formerly known as American Idol Underground) was founded by Justin Beckett in 2006 and was an online community and internet radio station where unsigned artists where able to get their music heard.

BigSoccer

In 2003, BigSoccer partnered with News Corporation's Fox Sports World (now Fox Soccer Channel) to become the network's official online community provider.

Blogger

BlogHer, a group blog, online community, and annual blogging conference for women

Davey Winder

After experiments with Prestel, he found an early British online community, CIX in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life.

Winder was contacted through CIX email over the internet by technological culture writer Howard Rheingold, a habitué of The Well, another early online community based in the United States, and eventually the two met in person at Winder's home; the meeting is described in Rheingold's book, The Virtual Community.

Indiaplaza

Other investments of IMG include Sulekha.com, a leading online community for Indians integrating social media with local commerce and EShakti.

James N. Farmer

James is currently based in Australia, where he has been the Online Community Editor of The Age, and Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University.

Kilkenny Music

The group's primary activities are split between working with bands in a live environment and working with bands in an online capacity, boasting an online community in the region of 1,00 members (KilkennyMusic.com, December 4, 2008), a sign of the times for music in Kilkenny, a city home to the likes of Kerbdog, My Little Funhouse, Kaydee, Engine alley, Wilt and more.

Montcuq

In 2007, Hasbro, the company that manufactures the Monopoly game in France, had the idea to have the online community choose the cities that will appear on the new version of the game.

Peoplefund.it

KEO digital was set up around the online community of River Cottage (a UK-based television programme).

Securax

Securax (1998–2002) was considered as one of Belgium's strongest hacking movements in the past twenty years and was founded by Filip Maertens and co-founded by Davy Van De Moere as an online community in order to combine skills and experiences in the domain of vulnerability identification, zero-day exploit creation and penetration testing methods.

Sharanya Haridas

Sharanya Haridas (Born 2 November 1990) is an Indian poet and entrepreneur, best known as the Founder, C.E.O. and Editor-in-Chief of That's So Gloss, India’s first web magazine and online community exclusively for teenage girls and young women.

StayFriends.de

Since January 2004, StayFriends GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Classmates Online (Renton, USA), the operator of the online community Classmates.com, which is a subsidiary of the U.S. internet company United Online.

Tekken 6

On October 23, 2009, Namco Bandai released a Tekken 6 themed game space in the North American version of the PlayStation 3's online community-based service, PlayStation Home.

YOYOW

In the book "The Well: A story of love, death and real life in the seminal online community," historian Katie Hafner quotes Brand as saying, "I was doing the usual thing of