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| | Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Research in a number of academic fields have demonstrated that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. | | | Many social network tools for scholarly work are available online (like "UCINet") and are relatively easy to use to present graphical images of networks. | | | The rule arises from cross-cultural studies in sociology and especially anthropology of the maximum size of a village (in modern parlance most reasonably understood as an ecovillage). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking
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| | Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups |
| | Social software, software that supports group communications, includes everything from the simple CC: line in email to vast 3D game worlds like EverQuest, and it can be as undirected as a chat room, or as task-oriented as a wiki (a collaborative workspace). | | | Social software has progressed far less quickly than single-user software, in part because we have a much better idea of how to improve user experience than group experience, and a much better idea of how to design interfaces than constitutions. | | | This means that designing software for group-as-user is a problem that can't be attacked in the same way as designing a word processor or a graphics tool. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html
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| | My working definition of social software... (plasticbag.org) |
| | Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation (this mediation may be distributed or centalised, top-down or bottom-up/emergent). | | | Social software is a technology-driven conception although it tries to overcome this techno-centrism (a paradox). | | | My own sense of 'social software' is that it emerges from a realization of something you and Howard and I have known for years, that the real value of computer networks is in their ability to bring people together and facilitate collaboration. |
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http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/05/my_working_definition_of_social_software.shtml
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| | Ross Mayfield's Weblog |
| | Social - Software - Softwarenews und Praxistipps für soziale... | | | The technology behind social software is not the problem. | | | Its one thing to say that Social Software, like all technologies, could be skewed for malicious ends. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2003/03/22.html
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| | Meatball Wiki: SocialSoftware |
| | A different approach to the definition of Social Software was taken by Tom Coates in a post about [cyborgisation and augmentation] when he argued that a useful working definition might simply constitute the aumentation of human's socialising and networking abilities by software, complete with ways of compensating for the overloads this might engender. | | | Social software is simply software that humans create to ease contacting each other. | | | No reason to confuse social software and cyberspace -- both http://meetup.com and http://bass-station.net/ are both examples of social software that has nothing to do with the idea of cyberspace. |
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http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SocialSoftware
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| | We Learning, Part II |
| | Social software tools are truly a revolution because of the way they combine technology with personal interaction. | | | Hewlett-Packard will be including There software with many of its new computers. | | | Perhaps privacy in social software will be a case of two steps forward and one step back until we end up with strategies that allow us to reap the benefits of these new social technologies while retaining our comfort level. |
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http://www.learningcircuits.org/2004/jan2004/kaplan2.htm
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| | E-Performance Essentials |
| | A new breed of software is attempting to change that. | | | Social software takes a bottom-up approach and enables people to organize themselves into a network based on their preferences. | | | Social software takes a bottom-up approach, Boyd says, and enables people to organize themselves into a network based on their preferences. |
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http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/dec2003/kaplan.htm
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| | Wiki: Social Software |
| | Social Software is another community driven emerging technology. | | | Social Software tools depend more on social convention than on software features to facilitate interaction and collaboration. | | | Social Software and the Politics of Groups : http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html |
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http://james.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Social_Software
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| | Headshift: Smarter, Simpler Social |
| | A crucial differentiator for social software is the notion of adaptability to human behaviour, which means we will have to progress beyond existing information search, tagging and classification systems to enable computers to understand more about us, the way we think and what is relevant to us in any given context. | | | If social software is to live up to its name, it must be borne out of a partnership between stakeholders, purchasers, developers and users, and this should ideally involve de-mystifying and making more accessible the design and development process. | | | Software designers use this at different stages of iteration to ensure that what they build is usable for the target audience, and by observing how users go about certain tasks when faced with a visual interface they are able to learn something about whether the system they are building meets its requirements. |
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http://www.headshift.com/moments/archive/sss2.html
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| | Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Social Software is the Platform of the Future |
| | Social software is any software that enables people to interact with one another. | | | Interacting with the aforementioned forms of software is the bulk of the computing experience for a large number of computer users especially the younger generation (teens and people in their early twenties). | | | Social Software is the Platform of the Future |
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=06ff2206-27a3-4d55-81d8-bbee37073d6d
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| | A Whole Features: Social Software ideas |
| | While social software may be the internet revolution du jour among venture capitalists, as a user I'm still waiting for the killer social software app that lives up to all the market hype. | | | Mapping software relies on simple mathematics and a conceptual map of the earth's surface that imaginary vectors can be plotted along. | | | Suggest the routes to be taken as dictated by the software's GIS information, but also list user suggestions, and to ensure quality, also add ratings of user suggestions by others. |
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http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features/2003/12/social_software
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| | ETech: Lessons for social software design |
| | Social software needs to have method for quantifying and recognizing the work of its members. | | | Social software will have some people who care and contribute more than others and it's important to recognize the valuable contributors. | | | Just like in open source software, members respond to being recognized for their good work. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3122
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| | Social Software panel at PC Forum 2003 |
| | Businesses buy software that matches management goals: locked down and centralized, but social software is the reverse. | | | Clay Shirky: Social software is everything from chat to group email to games. | | | Social communication -- how groups gather -- has no analog except the table. |
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http://craphound.com/socialsoftware.html
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| | Social Computing Group Home |
| | Social Computing Group: An Update This presentation gives an overview of SCG's research and projects. | | | 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. | | | Bridge is a collaboration between the MIT Architecture Schools iCampus project, the Social Computing Group and the Systems and Networking Group. |
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http://research.microsoft.com/scg
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| | Ross Mayfield's Weblog |
| | The value proposition of Social Software must be more than intuitive (if software adapts to me and my relationships, I will spend less time adapting to it, or not using it). | | | Social Software will initially arise offering new functionality that is appealing to innovators. | | | It would appear that software is, to some degree, shaped by the sub-cultures of data relations from which they are composed... |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/categories/socialNetworks/2002/12/07.html
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| | User-centric Distributed Social Software |
| | Current architectures make it difficult for new social software technologies to be leveraged on the large user-base of social software users. | | | User-centric distributed social software is an abstract architecture characterized by ontologies for the sort of data currently managed by centrialized services. | | | The goal of user-centric distributed social software is to mirror the functionality of current social software services in a way that overcomes the four major problems outlined above--scalability, fragmented user-base, inconsistency of information, and inflexibility of services. |
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http://www.gradman.com/projects/dss/final
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| | Social Software |
| | Social software is likely to come to mean the opposite of what groupware and other project- or organization-oriented collaboration tools were intended to be. | | | Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation. | | | I think Roger's software is one of the most 'socially aware' examples of social software I've seen, and not because it uses lightspeed technology, or AI, or even RDF (horrors!). |
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http://many.corante.com/20030501.shtml
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| | Course Description - Social Software for the 21st-century Organization |
| | Other social software tools will be used both in demonstration and as an integral part of course work and course learning. | | | The Social Computing Alliance promotes the growth of social software through a variety of courses, programs and publications. | | | Participants will create and share their notes on social software learning via a course weblog and other tools. |
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http://www.socialcomputing.org/programs/april04course.html
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| | How to Save the World |
| | The blog software would automatically abstract and categorize the document or message, using the enterprise's taxonomy, and would also allow the user to categorize (up to three levels deep) and annotate the document or message according to his/her own style and preferences. | | | Following is a high-level specification for commercial development of such software. | | | As the table above suggests, the key technical elements of Social Networking Enablement (SNE) are business weblogs (the repositories of personal knowledge) and social software (the tools that connect people and mine their knowledge). |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/06/18.html
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| | on social software (28 April 2004, Interconnected) |
| | Social software's purpose is dealing with with groups, or interactions between people. | | | The single most useful piece of thinking I've been using is Stewart Butterfield's March 2003 post on the devices in social software, mechanisms successful pieces of social software tend to have. | | | To design effective social software, you should have some awareness in a number of areas. |
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http://interconnected.org/home/2004/04/28/on_social_software
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| | Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy |
| | Now, software that supports group interaction is a fundamentally unsatisfying definition in many ways, because it doesn't point to a specific class of technology. | | | I'd say, if you are going to create a piece of social software designed to support large groups, you have to accept three things, and design for four things. | | | They may be there on hardware and software paid for by you, but the users are there for one another. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
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| | Many-to-Many: |
| | Social software should be able to help but there are so many barriers to this. | | | There are two ways to go about encouraging adoption of social software: fostering grassroots behaviours which develop organically from the bottom-up; or via top-down instruction. | | | International companies will be far better positioned to create new social technologies because they won’t have to abide by American laws even if American citizens use their technology (assuming the servers are hosted outside of the US). |
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http://many.corante.com
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| | Social Software : Home |
| | Social Software is a group of volunteers based in the UK which hopes to find ways of bringing the benefits of Open Source Software to the voluntary / community sector. | | | A group of people interested in or actively working with a Free Software philosophy or Open Source methodologies attended a Social Software Pioneers Day in April in preparation for the Conference. | | | present the Free Software approach and Open Source methodologies to the sector as a viable alternative to the proprietary model imposed by Microsoft and others. |
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http://socialsoftware.org/Home
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| | OpenP2P.com -- In-Room Chat as a Social Tool |
| | Most social software is designed as a replacement for face-to-face meetings, but the spread of permanet (connectivity like air) provides opportunities for social software to be used by groups who are already gathered in the same location. | | | In this note, I want to detail what worked and why, what the limitations and downsides of in-room chat were, and point out possible future avenues for exploration. | | | We hosted the chat using Greg Elin's modifications to Manuel Kiessling's lovely ARSC (A Really Simple Chat) software. |
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http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/26/inroom_chat.html
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| | BookBlog: Social Software: What's New |
| | Social software tools make it easy to create content in little, addressible chunks, and they add semantic meaning (wikis names) and social meaning (the weblog of a person or group). | | | But, the statement sounds more like describing social computing than social software. | | | We are in the middle of (at the beginning of) a revolution, yes; but, it's not a revolution in software, it's a revolution in a wide range of information (viz. |
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http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/001492.html
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| | Turns of Phrase: Social software |
| | Others would like to limit it to newer software in which the emphasis is on the community, not on the technology that makes it possible, and which is adaptable to the ways in which people want to interact rather than imposing a structure on them. | | | Some use it as a term for any computer software that supports group communications across networks. | | | The term has been around for more than a decade, though not always with the meaning that is now evolving (it seems to have first been used in the early 1990s as the name of a software company). |
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-soc1.htm
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| | The Social Software Weblog |
| | The Social Software Weblog is a member of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. | | | The Social Software Weblog is part of the Weblogs, Inc. Network, a network of more than 90 blogs. | | | "Employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages." |
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http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com
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| | Social Software News |
| | Social Software news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. | | | Delicer 0.5.2.0 is a new version of the free del.icio.us windows client tool. | | | TechCrunch claims AOL is working on a MySpace-like social network called "Head On". |
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http://www.topix.net/business/social-software
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| | SSL Home |
| | We have considerable experience of social welfare practice, management and information technology - in particular designing high-quality software and achieving excellence in information management. | | | Social Software uniquely brings together in-depth knowledge and skills from a range of relevant backgrounds. | | | We specialise in the provision of up-to-the-minute software application designs and tools as well as support services to the social welfare community. |
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http://www.socialsoftware.co.uk
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| | Social software |
| | It's the new name for collaborative software, I guess. | | | Many-to-Many is a new Weblog (appropriately, written by a group of writers) covering the field: |
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http://www.networkworld.com/compendium/archive/002688.html
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| | Social Work Software - Client management software for social service agencies |
| | Social Work Software - Client management software for social service agencies | | | When your organization orders ClientTouch, Social Work Software will also provide up to four hours of pre-installation consulting and phone-based training at no additional charge. | | | ClientTouch® is software that can help social service agencies get the client and service statistics that can lead to success when seeking money from funders. |
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http://www.socialworksoftware.com
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| | O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003 |
| | The Game Context as a Testing Ground for Social Software | | | Social Software and Social Capital: Designing a Platform for Civic Participation for the BBC | | | We're All in this Together, Kid: Social Software in School Reform |
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http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/22/track_ssoftware.html
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