Category: Social Computing

I just updated my Ryze page to include some friends – or at least people I met. I think I would pay $9.90 for the Gold membership, but Ryze is far from showing my social network – 99% of the people I work and communicate with are not in the Ryze database. I think a…

Bei Microdoc News denkt man darüber nach, wie eine Linkstruktur innerhalb der Blogsphere entsteht und wie diese sich als ein soziales Netzwerk verstehen läßt.

I just discovered these three weblogs (apparently maintained by these people): »Radical Innovation & Social Software«, »Collective Intelligence« and »Community Blogging«. It seems these blogs contain a mix of very interesting pointers and totally fogging pile of hotwords.

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…