Tribe.net (often shortened to "Tribe") is a website that hosts an online community of friends, similar to Orkut or Friendster. Anyone may register as a new Tribe user, and may then define his or her immediate network of friends, either by choosing from existing members or by inviting new members to join. Each of these users may in turn define their own network of friends. (This process results in a type of user-driven viral marketing on behalf of Tribe.net.) Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A virtual community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet. ... Orkut logo orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. ... Friendster is an internet social network service. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Word of mouth marketing. ...

As more and more people and their friends join Tribe, it results in an elaborate social network with many thousands of members. Tribe users leverage the small world phenomenon as a way to enhance their own immediate social network. As of March 2004, the population of Tribe is skewed heavily towards people living in San Francisco, though the geographic distribution is gradually normalizing as people from other places join. As of June 2005 it had over 300,000 members. A social network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. ... The small world phenomenon (also known as the small world effect) is the hypothesis that everyone in the world can be reached through a short chain of social acquaintances. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Deaths • 08 Abu Abbas • 20 Queen Juliana • 28 Peter Ustinov • 30 Alistair Cooke More March 2004 deaths Ongoing events EU Enlargement Exploration of Mars: Rovers Haiti Rebellion Israeli-Palestinian conflict Occupation of Iraq Same-sex marriage in... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in June June 27: Shelby Foote June 27: John T. Walton June 26: Richard Whiteley June 25: John Fiedler June 25: Chet Helms June 24: Paul Winchell June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin June 20: Jack Kilby...

Tribe.net features many "tribes," a kind of topical forum. A new tribe may be created by any registered Tribe user. When a user creates a new tribe, that user is the moderator of the tribe. Any user may in principle join any tribe, although some tribes are private or require permission from the tribe moderator to join. In addition to threaded messages, members can use tribes to announce upcoming parties, concerts, business icebreakers, or other events easily and reach select audiences. Currently there are thousands of tribes, with more being added daily. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

The company behind Tribe is privately owned, financed largely with venture capital. Tribe has partnered with the Washington Post and Knight Ridder. Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ... ... Partial list of newspapers The following is a partial list of newspapers owned by Knight Ridder: Contra Costa Times Detroit Free Press Kansas City Star The Miami Herald Philadelphia Inquirer Saint Paul Pioneer Press San Jose Mercury News The State External link Knight Ridder corporate website Categories: Companies traded on...

In a controversial move, on December 20, 2005, Tribe.net decided to prohibit sexually explicit content, partially in response to 2257. Coincidentally, shortly before the rule change, Tribe hired a new CEO, who was a regular churchgoer, and somewhat socially conservative. This move disappointed many users, as Tribe to that point had been notable for an exceptionally permissive content policy. (22nd century - 23rd century - 24th century - other centuries) The 23rd century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises the years 2201-2300. ...

On January 19th, 2006 Tribe.net changed its layout and User Interface (UI). The management of Tribe claimed that they received approximately 40% positive feedback during a small beta phase with 3000 users (a relatively small percentage of their user base). A large and outspoken group of current members of Tribe have repeatedly expressed that the new design, layout, and overall feel of the new website go against many of their original reasons for joining the site. Tribe's original "grassroots" approach to member-based forum monitoring and the focus of many tribe.net participants on alternative lifestyles and the arts was appealing to those who found other sites like MySpace or Friendster to be rather broad based and commercial.

Tribe.net has repeatedly stated that they have no intention of reverting to the previous look or interface of the site. However on September 21 2006 Tribe posted an announcement on their website that the not-so-new or improved interface was suspended in favor of an easier and more customizable user interface. One obvious change was a return to the more popular orange logo and the removal of the much-complained about interface bubbles in their huge upper bar. In typical technopirate fashion, they posted a temporary splash logo stating that the site was down. For several minutes they replaced that logo with a tribe logo dripping blood and explaining that the employee designers were taking over the site now that the stuffy CEO was no longer with the company. Somebody must have got in trouble for that lack of discretion, because the original temporary splash logo was returned. However in keeping their tongues in their cheeks, and continuing to move forward, the original temp splash was modified with a "Tribe is Dead" link pointing to this article on the left. That link included the deep red tribe logo. To the immediate right of that link was the statement "Long live Tribe" which included the original orange tribe colors. Underneath that line was a small, parenthetical 'wheeeeeeee'. Clearly the departure of the CEO did not lead to mass suicide at Tribe's SF offices.

See also

• List of social networking websites

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External links

• Tribe.net website
• A recent interview with Tribe.net's former less-than-beloved CEO, Jan Gullett
• A photo of Tribe.net's former CEO, Jan Gullet