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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.
		Social network theory produces an alternate view, where the attributes of individuals are less important than their relationships and ties with other actors within the network.
		Social networking began to be seen as a vital component of internet strategy at around the same time: in March 2005 Yahoo launched Yahoo 360, their entry into the field, and in July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_networking (1814 words)

	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).
		Earlier generations of social software, from mailing lists to MUDs, were created when the network's population could be measured in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of millions, and the users were mostly young, male, and technologically savvy.
		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.
	www.shirky.com /writings/group_politics.html (1900 words)

	Read Darwin -Are You Ready for Social Software? - WHAT'S NEW - Magazine - Darwin Online for Informed Executives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 based on supporting the desire of individuals to affiliate, their desire to be pulled into groups to achieve their personal goals.
		Perhaps just as interesting as the way that social software is transforming group interaction — across different time zones or in the same room — social software is destined to have a huge impact on how businesses get at their markets.
	www.darwinmag.com /read/050103/social.html (1688 words)

	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).
		In that sense, the emphasis on social software today is (or ought to be, in my opinion) a reminder that the real capabilities of augmentation lies not in the hardware or software but in the thinking and communication practices these tools enable.
		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.
	www.plasticbag.org /archives/2003/05/my_working_definition_of_social_software.shtml (4785 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog
		Social software claims to put the citizen back at the center of political life, but in reality, such dumbed-down participation reduces citizenship to the mere consumption of information and services.
		Ross Mayfield, who runs a weblog devoted to discussing social software, argues: 'as the cost for forming issue groups falls, expect similar groups and coalitions to form around otherwise less fundable issues.' [Distribution of Influence] For Mayfield, low-cost engagement brings more diversity to the table.
		One where the only social ties you should form are with the state or one where you can freely associate at a low cost to engage with the state.
	radio.weblogs.com /0114726/2003/03/22.html (788 words)

	E-Performance Essentials
		Social software takes a bottom-up approach, Boyd says, and enables people to organize themselves into a network based on their preferences.
		Some social software tools are just around the corner—they’re being used already in the work world and are starting to be adopted for e-learning.
		Social software takes a bottom-up approach and enables people to organize themselves into a network based on their preferences.
	www.learningcircuits.org /2003/dec2003/kaplan.htm (2420 words)

	We Learning, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition, the previous article examined such social software tools as instant messaging, collaborative workspaces, blogs, and expert management software, which are currently being used by businesses and slowly spreading to the education sphere.
		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.
		Social software tools are truly a revolution because of the way they combine technology with personal interaction.
	www.learningcircuits.org /2004/jan2004/kaplan2.htm (3000 words)

	Headshift: Smarter, Simpler Social
		Social Software Management" product. If that was the case, we would all be talking about it, but there is too much legacy. Perhaps this is the opportunity, for major categories of enterprise software to be fundamentally revisited by new companies, but that depends upon the value proposition.
		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.
		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.
	www.headshift.com /moments/archive/sss2.html (9663 words)

	ETech: Lessons for social software design
		Software cannnot influence/control all social aspects; groups have their own mentality that cannot and should not be boxed in by software.
		Social software will have some people who care and contribute more than others and it's important to recognize the valuable contributors.
		Social software needs to have method for quantifying and recognizing the work of its members.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/3122 (594 words)

	A Whole Features: Social Software ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Software would dictate that I go directly up the 5 and 405 freeway to the 101, but that'd be murder during rush hour on a weekday and might take 4-6 hours to cut through three major metropolitan areas.
		Mapping software relies on simple mathematics and a conceptual map of the earth's surface that imaginary vectors can be plotted along.
	a.wholelottanothing.org /features/2003/12/social_software (2265 words)

	Social Computing Group Home
		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.
		We looked specifically at how the UI could be used to increase "social presence" or the feeling that users were participating together with their partners.
		Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces Workshop to be hosted at the CHI 2001 Conference, March 31-April 5, Seattle.
	research.microsoft.com /scg (3083 words)

	Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
		Or was it the social configuration of the group that founded it, where they simply couldn't stomach the idea of adding censorship to protect their system.
		And the act of hosting social software, the relationship of someone who hosts it is more like a relationship of landlords to tenants than owners to boxes in a warehouse.
		Assume these as a kind of social platform, and then you can start going out and building on top of that the interesting stuff that I think is going to be the real result of this period of experimentation with social software.
	www.shirky.com /writings/group_enemy.html (8599 words)

	Wiki: Social Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is not possible to discuss Social Software without discussing the phenomenon of weblogs (or blogs).
		The theory, which grew out of a work conducted by social psychologist [Stanley Milgram] in the 1960s, suggest that everyone is related to everyone else by at most six intermediaries.
		The software revealed that one of Cleland's close colleagues was friendly with a manager inside the semiconductor firm.
	james.seng.cc /wiki/wiki.cgi?Social_Software (2492 words)

	Meatball Wiki: SocialSoftware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Near the end of 2002, the term "social software" was gaining ground due mostly to the efforts of ClayShirky, the [iSociety] project, and the [The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003].
		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.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?SocialSoftware (2201 words)

	Many-to-Many: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn’t realize it has an experimental wing.
		But for social software, value is almost wholy generated by the contributions of the group and imposed adoption is marked for failure.
		Social software should be able to help but there are so many barriers to this.
	many.corante.com (3584 words)

	The excesses of "Social Software" (plasticbag.org)
		Social software of one form or another has formed the core of most of the stuff I've worked and played with for the last several years, and I expected myself to find this resurgence of interest in these kinds of interactions fascinating and useful.
		The other aspect of the whole situation that I find interesting (to go off at a tangent) is this repeated assertion that social software, message-boards and the like, are over-complex paradigms that confuse the general public.
		In Clay Shirky's inspired piece that touched on the failings of early community software he talked about the assumptions that had led us to our current unsatisfactory 'social software' (this was before the definition of social software became victim of the urge to split it so commensurately from earlier, more familiar 'community' definitions).
	www.plasticbag.org /archives/2003/01/the_excesses_of_social_software.shtml (2143 words)

	Social Software panel at PC Forum 2003
		Clay Shirky: Social software is everything from chat to group email to games.
		The unit of social software is small groups.
		Businesses buy software that matches management goals: locked down and centralized, but social software is the reverse.
	craphound.com /socialsoftware.html (988 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog
		It would appear that software is, to some degree, shaped by the sub-cultures of data relations from which they are composed...
		Software drift is the continuous structural change evidenced as software seeks to both sustain and re-define an appropriate ontogeny.
		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).
	radio.weblogs.com /0114726/categories/socialNetworks/2002/12/07.html (828 words)

	SSL \| Home
		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.
		Social Software uniquely brings together in-depth knowledge and skills from a range of relevant backgrounds.
		We have considerable experience of social welfare practice, management and information technology - in particular designing high-quality software and achieving excellence in information management.
	www.socialsoftware.co.uk (184 words)

	User-centric Distributed Social Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Current architectures make it difficult for new social software technologies to be leveraged on the large user-base of social software users.
		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.
		User-centric distributed social software is an abstract architecture characterized by ontologies for the sort of data currently managed by centrialized services.
	www.gradman.com /projects/dss/final (787 words)

	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.
		This social software would identify people with expertise in a subject specified by the inquirer.
		This software would create a map that would show all people both inside and outside the organization identified as having expertise in that subject, as well as group and enterprise-wide databases with significant content on that subject, and the links between them.
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/2003/06/18.html (980 words)

	Social Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ISociety urges companies to embrace social software, warning that failure to do so could be damaging as it is likely that such applications are already being used by its employees -- subverting the official distribution of information and ultimately undermining the authority of the organisation.
		Social software could facilitate group commitment and action: individuals could take unpublicized positions of the form I will publicly commit to X if Y other people do so at the same time.
		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.
	many.corante.com /20030501.shtml (10244 words)

	on social software (28 April 2004, Interconnected)
		Social software's purpose is dealing with with groups, or interactions between people.
		There is a different mechanism to exert social pressure in a peer-to-peer small group (of 6 people, say) than a broadcast larger group (a classroom type situation).
		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.
	interconnected.org /home/2004/04/28/on_social_software (1606 words)

	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).
		This foray by Google into building the social software platform is definitely an interesting challenge to Microsoft both in the short term (MSN) and in the long term (Windows).
	www.25hoursaday.com /weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=06ff2206-27a3-4d55-81d8-bbee37073d6d (1037 words)

	Course Description - Social Software for the 21st-century Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They will share their experiences with you, giving you exposure to a portfolio of practical social software solutions, including a full range of elements and opportunities that you will be able to adapt to your own requirements.
		The Social Computing Alliance promotes the growth of social software through a variety of courses, programs and publications.
		Other social software tools will be used both in demonstration and as an integral part of course work and course learning.
	www.socialcomputing.org /programs/april04course.html (713 words)

	Social Software : Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Our first goal is to entice this sector to a major Social Software conference towards the end of this year.
		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.
	socialsoftware.org /Home (293 words)

	OpenP2P.com -- In-Room Chat as a Social Tool
		This fall, I hosted a two-day brainstorming session for 30 or so people on the subject of social software.
		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.
	www.openp2p.com /pub/a/p2p/2002/12/26/inroom_chat.html (503 words)

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