A social software wiki page on design patterns for social software, categorised under trust and identity, collaboration, and communications. Click through twice to get to a longer list of patterns. Output from social software course.
MySpace could be headed into trouble with a thriving portion of its members. The aging kids talked about tiring of MySpace and moving on to other social networks or activities, much the way some kids have left AOL's instant-messaging service.
"I'm starting to get over it," said Juliana, a 21-year-old living in Orange County, who said she's now into Faceclick, another, newer social network for college kids.
I want to talk about what I now think is one of the core challenges for designing large-scale social software. Let me offer a definition of social software, because it's a term that's still fairly amorphous. My definition is fairly simple: It's software t
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
A quiet couple in Berkeley got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn changed the face of fundraising, brought P2P to political advertising, and reinvented grassroots activism.
Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site
ePlatform is the only software service that delivers, over the Internet, every application you need to effectively manage your life style and of your family .
Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways.
Smarking is a social bookmarks manager. * Save all your bookmarks online, ready to be accessed everywhere * Learn more about your favourite arguments * Make some of your bookmarks public, private or visibles only to your friends * T
Social Bookmarking According to Wikipedia: ...an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists, the practice of tagging, and meta-data infer
What's the Socializer? The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!
Walls of an auditorium were covered with thousands of sheets of paper — printouts from MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and other online sites that were filled with back-stabbing gossip, unflattering images, and details about partying and dating exploits.
"social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. (...) Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs. EVDB, Upcoming.org, and evnt focus on events as objec
I've been thinking about how social media works. For example, applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so, does it scale.
T. Anderson, and J. Dron. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, page 1-17. Information Science Reference, (2009)
A. Back, N. Grau, and K. Tochtermann. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, (2008)Collection of articles of several authors / Case studies
Table of Contents : http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/556752635.pdf.
A. Back, N. Grau, and K. Tochtermann. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, (2008)Collection of articles of several authors / Case studies
Table of Contents : http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/556752635.pdf.