Software to enable and encourage social networking
This is all happening so fast and confusedly. (TrackingSystemForLocustSwarms)
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Now it's going corporate : http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/01/welcome-ibm-to-the-corporate-world-of-social-networking
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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?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
Communicating
(tools for personal and group publishing, and group communication)
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Dogger: the DebateBlog
Connections between documents / blogs
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Googlemining? : http://www.teledyn.com/mt/archives/001311.html
BottomUp classification
Social Networks
(tools for analyzing or documenting social relationships)
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Investers' angle : http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/001821.html
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Skype as social network software : http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000377.html
MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRoleplayingGames
(massively multiplayer games are increasingly scritinized to understand social activity)
Political
(the politics of software mediated social networks, how they interact with current politics)
NetworkEpistemology
(understanding the flow of knowledge within networks)
The classic ClayShirky essays
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"A Group is it's own worst enemy" (See CreatingCommunities)
Classic RossMayfield
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RossMayfield's Social Software Reading List : http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/social_software.html
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Social Software Aliance : http://www.socialtext.net/ssa-edit/index.cgi?Social_Software_Alliance_Wiki
Counterargument
Thoughts
There's a close connection with TheUserIsThePlatform
CategoryInformationalism, CategoryPolitics, CategorySocialSoftware