Cloudbrain, LLC was started in the summer of 2003 and is a privately held company based in Charlottesville, VA. The mission is to create revolution through networked social interaction. Check out the Products to see what we have been up to. Cloudbrain builds “social media applications” - websites and programs that get better as more people use them.

Our philosophy is summarized nicely in this excerpt from J.C. Herz’s, The Lonely Crowd (The Industry Standard, Feb. 26, 2001):

…The most successful of them have always known that social networks are the real dimension along which units move: You put your energy into getting people to dance with each other and the records jump off the racks…In a highly networked world, doing business well means more than adopting online promotion, viral marketing or any of the conventional wisdom about selling the same thing in a different way. It means designing media whose primary value lies in its ability to connect people. The transition is from architecture to urban planning, from storytelling to world-building, from individual experience to social experience. A small picture of a clover shape is meaningless. The same picture, with 51 other pictures and four people around a table, is the ace that wins the game.

We want people to dance.

About The Blog

The Cloudbrain.com website is mostly a blog chronicaling our adventures, discoveries and missteps in creating, building, running and marketing social media applications. We will post thoughts, lessons learned and interesting bits we find around the web related to social networking, Web2.0, networked media etc. etc. Hopefully we can spark some discussion, or at least some interest.