re: social software
Steven Warburton
As [W]web 2.0 has come to represent more of a marketing term than a set
of technologies the meaning of social software also seems to be
evolving and shifting - one only has to track the additions on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software
I have always quite liked:
"Where normal software links to the inner workings of a computer or
other network, social software links people to the inner workings of
each other’s thoughts feelings and opinions" (Coates and Butterfield,
2002)
or others might see something in Clay Shirky's more recent appraisal of
social software as:
"Any arbitrary collection of algorithms, protocols and metadata that
allows friendless agoraphobics to pretend otherwise."
Steve
------------------------------------------- Dr Steven Warburton
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