[MGP-Forum Announce] Non-Profit Myspace.com

[steve at coanews.org]

Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know that FreeSpeechTV has  
launched a non-profit myspace style online community. See it here:  
http://community.freespeech.org

-this is important since it provides a non-commercial alternative to  
Fox/Myspace, google, yahoo etc... The corporate social networking  
communities for the most part invade your privacy, and slam ads in  
your face at every turn. I've transfered my main blog to the FSTV  
platform, and I've suggested to students and everyone else who uses  
one of the corporate platforms, make the switch.

Quoting myself from an upcoming article on web 2.0 and independent media...

"On the FreeSpeech TV community members can do most of the things one  
can do on Myspace; post videos, post blogs, upload pictures, join and  
create groups, create networks of “buddies” (called friends on  
myspace.com). One interesting feature is that once logged in, users  
automatically see their “buddies” recent content. This is a great tool  
for keeping up to date on your favorite bloggers, or just to keep tabs  
on what your “buddies” are up to.  FreeSpeech TV is also launching a  
V-Log platform where selected V-logs (citizen video reports) will be  
broadcast on the FSTV Television station; a satellite and public  
access TV station reaching 25 million homes."


The site needs more functionality, but in the past few weeks I've  
already seen progress in adding new features.  There is the  
possibility that in the future, websites will be able to link into  
this community and offer their audience the same features/login. This  
is something COA News and FSTV are working on right now. The site use  
Drupal software.

http://community.freespeech.org



Steve