SocialSoftware

Software to enable and encourage social networking

This is all happening so fast and confusedly. (TrackingSystemForLocustSwarms)

• Now it's going corporate : http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/01/welcome-ibm-to-the-corporate-world-of-social-networking
• /TheTerm
• /BusinessModel
• SebPaquet is building an encyclopedia : http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/LinkRank.html (note that flat site that comes from the very wonderful EmacsWiki)

important concepts : http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/om.cgi?Important_Concepts_In_Social_Software

OperatingManualForSocialTools

• AdinaLevin adds some good comments : http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/001492.html#001492

Maybe worth linking to PatternLanguageForTheSocialNetwork at this point

• http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/05/08/the_significance_of_social_software.php

• /Triangles

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Communicating

(tools for personal and group publishing, and group communication)

• OnlineWriting, OnWeblogs, OnWiki
• Connecting sites : TrackBack, RSS
• MicrocontentClients
• TomCoatesTwoDimensions
• Syncato
• Dogger: the DebateBlog
• Glancing

Connections between documents / blogs

• TechnoRati
• Googlemining? : http://www.teledyn.com/mt/archives/001311.html

BottomUp classification

• FolkSonomies
• TechnoratiTags
• DistributedMarkets

Social Networks

(tools for analyzing or documenting social relationships)

• GroupFormingSoftware
• SocialNetworkAnalysis
• RyzeNetworking
• FriendOfAFriend
• Investers' angle : http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/001821.html
• Skype as social network software : http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000377.html

MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRoleplayingGames?

(massively multiplayer games are increasingly scritinized to understand social activity)

• SocialGames
• EconomiesInVirtualPlaces

Political

(the politics of software mediated social networks, how they interact with current politics)

• EmergentDemocracy, SecondSuperpower,
• NetoCracy / NetworkSociety
• CreatingCommunities

NetworkEpistemology

(understanding the flow of knowledge within networks)

• KnowledgeManagement
• OnNetworks

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The classic ClayShirky essays

• "A Group is it's own worst enemy" (See CreatingCommunities)
• SituatedSoftware
• GamesOfGovernance
• GroupAsUser

Classic RossMayfield

• RossMayfield's Social Software Reading List : http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/social_software.html
• RossMayfieldsThreeScalesOfNetwork

• Social Software Aliance : http://www.socialtext.net/ssa-edit/index.cgi?Social_Software_Alliance_Wiki

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Counterargument

• CommunityOrGenre
• AgainstSocialNetworkingSoftware

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Thoughts

There's a close connection with TheUserIsThePlatform

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Link Bin

• http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/09/30.html, http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/08/08.html#a390, http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/06/18.html#a275

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CategoryInformationalism, CategoryPolitics, CategorySocialSoftware