Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular - this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.
The shift to Social Computing Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe There's been a lot of interest recently in the social aspects of Web 2.0 experiences because of their tendency to alter the communities that use them.
Most software applications ever written belong to the so-called single-sink category. Interestingly, some of the applications that are starting to emerge in the age of web are being dubbed Social Software. Here we compare the two, and then look beyond the
Rubhub is a lookup engine for determining the relationships between people who author personal websites. The relationships are based on XFN, the first offering of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG).
I want to talk about what I now think is one of the core challenges for designing large-scale social software. Let me offer a definition of social software, because it's a term that's still fairly amorphous. My definition is fairly simple: It's software t
As most of my readers know, social software is enablement of groups of people to collaborate using computer mediation. It's a surprisingly sophisticated field that's been around for almost 40 years now. Two famous examples of social software include the
Taggound is a social search engine mashup. What does that mean? Tagground searches various social web applications (ex. yahoo my web 2.0, del.icio.us, raw sugar, flickr, You Tube etc) repositories to retrieve relational data (ie tags, urls) that other use