socialmedian: Userplane Re-Invents the Message Board

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Aug 12, 2008

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Long before there was a Facebook, MySpace, or even Friendster, message boards were the de facto online communities. And while there are still thousands of popular boards scattered around the Web, there has been little innovation in terms of the software that powers them, minus a few upstarts we recently profiled.

This week, community software builder Userplane is throwing its hat in the ring with an innovative new message board product – Userplane Boards. The service combines aspects of Userplane’s other services like chat and IM with threaded message board discussion, creating a real-time environment that makes following conversations much easier.

For example, let’s say you’re in an active message board discussing the Olympics. In a traditional message board, by the time you finish typing your post, a dozen other people may have already posted similar ideas, making your post repetitive and creating all sorts of noise on the board. With Userplane Boards, which are Flash-based, the new messages (which can include photo and video) stream in real-time, mea

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Aug 12, 2008

The service combines aspects of Userplanes other services like chat and IM with threaded message board discussion, creating a real-time environment that makes following conversations much easier.