Jacob Borgeson

Their stated mission is to "explore the future of human networks."

Here are the leaders by market share, with a few example brands for each:

Probably the most popular by number of installations is the VBB open source software (Virtual Bulletin Board)

There are actually about a dozen platforms designed to fill this need - and they make up about a $2-3B annual market for brand community platforms today. Community-building is nearly as old as the internet, and so much has been developed since the advent of message boards and forums. 

"First, we need to explain the shortcomings of existing earning models. Traditional corporate employment is rapidly becoming outdated as a means for coordinating activity in the Information Age — we already see this in the emergence of alternative forms of earning such as influencers, contractors, creators, gig economy participants, and more. These... See more

 - Khoros (fka Lithium) - Samsung, Sephora, Microsoft, Airbnb, Powerschool, eBay, Etsy  - Higher Logic (Acq. Vanilla Forums) - Tesla, Electronic Arts, and a lot of nonprofits. They also have good onboarding - Salesforce Experience Cloud - Farmers Insurance (Agents), UC BerkeleyAnd there are a few new entrants that might be interestingPayments... See more

"By building a peer-to-peer overlay on top of git, we find not only a performant solution, but one that is better adapted for code collaboration. Issues, comments and reviews become local artifacts that are cryptographically signed and interacted with offline."