Ask HN: What do you think of the idea – the social network for education

Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the idea – the social networ... by kuvkir on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @02:52PM (#1398948)

Seems very promising. I like the slogan – "explanatory social learning".

How many users do you have at this moment?

Have you contacted content owners to ask them for permission to place the videos directly on your website? It'd be awesome if you can do so.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the idea – the social networ... by imp on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @03:07PM (#1399012)

Thanks, there's over 1200 registered users, but I wouldn't quote that as active users. The site got redditted when it launched and there's some people who signed up initially and haven't been back. I don't have a number for active users off the top of my head, but there's always someone submitting homework, writing a comment, or starting a discussion every day.

I haven't looked into hosting content yet. I feel that others do that pretty well already, but it would be more convenient to have it all in one place. What type of content do you think would be most beneficial to be hosted on Curious Reef? Embedded videos, PDFs, etc? Or are you thinking of something like replicating the content of all of OCW's classes?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the idea – the social networ... by kuvkir on Thursday June 03, 2010 @02:40AM (#1400645)

Maybe not hosting content yourself, but embed it somehow into your website.

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