Institute For The Future

New Startup Finally Brings Web 2.0 to Forums

Paul Bragiel, who built what was one of the more interesting mobile social communities around his Meetro IM platform, has now brought Web 2.0 sensibilities to the world of many-to-many discussion forums. His new startup Lefora launched today, provides an elegant hosted alternative to the terribly ugly, labor-intensive decade-old hodge podge of forum software out there like phpBB.

 

There's been so much buzz about the supposed many-to-many aspects of Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms. I think Lefora will provide a much-needed alternative to these generalized platforms, by proving some new plumbing for focused many-to-many conversations that can be conducted in relative self-imposed privacy.