What is social software?

02-October-2006

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More on the blogtalk Reloaded conference in Vienna

As promised - live blogging from the Blogtalk Reloaded confernce (I love the title by the way).

After spending the last two weeks in a number of academic and education conferences, it is interested to be in a meeting comprised mainly of geeks working in small private companies.

Lots of discussion around what social software is or means. seems to be a bit of a split between those of us - who like me - see the only use of the term to describe software which supports social processes - there are others who seem to be referring to things like MySpace as social software - or as phenomenon or artifact - independent of the social processes or activities taking place.

Having said this, there is at last some very useful case studies, particularly form the german speaking countries who have a tradition of accompanying research.

More later.

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Graham Attwell; 02-October-2006 10:17:43; forum (0) help

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