During December I’m playing with dolls! Stardoll is a community where little girls (and boys) can play with “paper” dolls. As a user you create a me-doll that resembles (or doesn’t resemble) you, then you dress and accessorize your doll. Other than that, Stardoll has the common functionality found in most communites.
Judging by this description, Stardoll may not seem like the most interesting community out there. What puts it very high up on my list of places to work at is their 45 million users. 45 million!
I mostly do front-end there, but it’s extremely interesting to get an insight in all the technical details of such a large community and to see how they work; the server setup, release cycles …
community
Playing with dolls
Experimenting with social web
I’m really excited about all the fun ideas I’ll be able to build once I quit my full time job and start freelancing (it’s only a few weeks left now, weeeee!).
When I was a student a few years back, I had time to build feminetik.se (a feminist community) together with Josefine Alvunger. We didn’t do it for profit, we just had a vision. feminetik.se was our baby, and even if we listened to the users to some extent regarding smaller features, we basically did stuff our way.
Today I wouldn’t choose to work quite like that. feminetik.se never reached any larger amount of members, even if the ones that were there were quite productive (the forum has over 300 000 entries …
