Defining social software

By Oliver Wrede | Published: May 13, 2003

Tom Coates on defining social software (jumping off from Doug Englebart’s ideas of software as human augmentation):

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.

His brief introduction sparked an interesting conversation in the comments section of that page.

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