SocialSoftware

Software to enable and encourage social networking

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• SocialSoftwareBusinessModel
• SocialSoftwareTheTerm

• SebPaquet is building an encyclopedia : (note 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?ImportantConceptsInSocialSoftware
  • 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/thesignificanceofsocialsoftware.php

• SocialSoftwareTriangles

TypesOfSocialSoftware

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
• NetoCracy / NetworkSociety
• CreatingCommunities

NetworkEpistemology

(understanding the flow of knowledge within networks)

• KnowledgeManagement
• OnNetworks

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?SocialSoftwareAlliance_Wiki

Counterargument

• CommunityOrGenre

• AgainstSocialNetworkingSoftware

Thoughts

There's a close connection with TheUserIsThePlatform

CategoryInformationalism, CategoryPolitics, CategorySocialSoftware