Map of Online Communities | Social Capital Journal

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Map of Online Communities #

XKCD’s map of online communities is a bit inside baseball but it’s quite fascinating to see the relative size of a number of online communities. Look at the size of Facebook! And did you realize that the simple Facebook game Farmville is the world’s second-largest browser based online community? Be sure to click on the picture to see the large version.

Social Capital?

"The world is becoming too fast, too complex and too networked for any company to have all the answers inside," Yochai Benkler wrote in The Wealth of Networks.

We believe this to be increasingly true, you could interpret it so that you now need to crowdsource answers from clients, coworkers, suppliers and something even the general public.

For that to happen these groups need to have some sort of goodwill towards us and that's what we call Social Capital. Read more about how we define it.