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
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..