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Structural Characteristics of a Web 2.0 Portal

What makes a Web 2.0 Portal such as a social network successful? Ultimately, it's about content, relevance, zest of the founder(s) for the topic, and the ability to keep the site fresh. Of course, these are subjective criteria. Given two equally well-managed social networks targeting the same audience, are there some structural characteristics that make one site more successful than the other? A good place to start would to gain an understanding of the structure of successful Web 2.0 portals.

Information Architecture and the Economics of Social Media

I was reading a wonderful book by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld called Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. The book is a treatise on the philosophical underpinnings of information archiecture (IA) with emphasis on its political economy, for lack of a better term.

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