Ning is the new free and easy way for you to create your own Social Web Apps - so let the fun begin! - Discover thousands of new Social Web Apps on Ning. - You can get your own copy of any App on Ning in a few seconds! - Share your App with your f
The Social Web: Creating An Open Social Network with XDI Drummond Reed, Marc Le Maitre, Bill Barnhill, Owen Davis, and Fen Labalme New open standards introduce long-term, trusted links between people, groups, and bits over the Net. The Networking Imper
GMD-FIT, the Institute for Applied Information Technology, is a research unit of GMD, Germany's National Research Center for Information Technology. It is located on GMD's Schloss Birlinghoven campus near Bonn. FIT is committed to inventing and designing
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
Der Begriff "Web 2.0" beschreibt eine Reihe aktueller Trends und Technologien im WWW, die wegführen vom traditionellen Betrachten statischer Inhalte im WWW hin zu dynamischen, untereinander kombinierbaren Diensten. Eine wichtige Rolle spielen dabei
NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop - FP6-027705 Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develo
My main research interests are in the design and implementation of collaborative systems (CSCW), computer mediated communication (CMC), personal information management (PIM) and interfaces for information retrieval, in particular for speech data. I am hea
PROLEARN - Social software - often connected to older forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online communities - can be defined as a cluster of activities performed by digital social networks. Under the assumption of a
Use One "Bookmarklet" to tag one page for all these services: Blinklist Blogmarks Blogmemes del.icio.us Feedmelinks Furl Jots Linkroll ma.gnolia Maple OpenBM Rawsugar Shadows Simpy Spurl Wink
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
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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).
AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse. Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maxim
AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse. Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maxim
With the caveats that Alexa’s data is not comprehensive—and even if they had perfect stats, “Alexa Rank” is still just one definition of popularity (a combination of reach and pageviews)—here’s the 10 most popular social media sites (with corr