Our mission in the Social Computing Group is to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping. Our work includes the Sapphire project
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).
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
Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics wonder how useful IM is in the enterprise.
social taging of bookmarks and pulications including bibtex and well formated output of publications. run by FG Wissensverarbeitung of Universität Kassel / L3S research center
The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback) by James Surowiecki "One day in the fall of 1906, the British scientist Francis Galton left his home in the town of Plymouth and headed for a country..." (more)
C. Li. Mcgraw-Hill Professional, (2008)Charlene Li works for Forrester Research, a company well-known for its research on social media. "Web-Strategist" Jeremiah Owyang whose blog is among the top50 ad-blogs world-wide (http://www.web-strategist.com/blog) also works there as an analyst. I heartily recommend his blog if you're interested in social media and its impact on the business world..