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Social scientists refer to the craving for online contact as “Ambient awareness”. They liken the feeling to being similar to being physically near someone and sensing their mood by their body language, mood and comments.
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Chess goes web2.0

Submitted by User Imageifarmer on Sunday, 15 July 2007One Comment

Joining social networking and the popular game of chess is Chesspark, which runs the game in a flash interface, but also includes many social networking elements that no doubt encourage it’s visitors to keep coming back.

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Perspective: Social niche networks like this will continue to grow, and Advertisers won’t be far behind. Determining which products to sell to these demographics is one challenge, but I believe specialised new product categories will emerge that directly target these niches such as customised chess boards.

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  • no imagepfm (Check me out!) said:

    hey thanks for the post!

    just one issue to mention: we don’t use flash. chesspark’s webclient is a special recipe of ajax, django, twisted and jabber.

    if you want, i can send you the link for our new webclient, which should be released to public beta in a few days.

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