Welcome to NewsCloud!

NewsCloud is a free, open source software platform for building Facebook applications and Facebook Connect web sites that encourage user generated content and foster online community.   

• To see an example of our open source Facebook community platform, visit The Needle, Your Boston or Carolyn Hax's Community

• Feature summary of the NewsCloud Facebook application

• How Easy and Affordable is a NewsCloud Community Site Right Now?

• Our series on our approaches to online community building

• Our research on engaging youth in news inside Facebook conducted by Dr. Christine Greenhow of the University of Minnesota, including our Hot Dish Climate Change Community research report (pdf), sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

• How NewsCloud's founder Jeff Reifman used our Facebook application to help capture Wired Magazine's missing writer, Evan Ratliff, in the Vanish contest

• Frequently Asked Questions

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