© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Social Software Social Software and its...

© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin

Social Software

Social Software and its influences


Agenda

What is „Social Software“?

Weblogs and search engines

Wikis and handshakes

Summary


„Social Software“ – What is it?

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connectingconnectingpeoplepeople



support the inter-human communication, interaction and collaboration

mostly self-organising assist in developing and improving social

networks and communities



Wikis Weblogs Webforums instant messengers email, mailing lists groupware Lotus Notes, MS Exchange collaborative editors MoonEdit, Gobby Contact traders Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, OpenBC collect and categorise flickr, del.icio.us, CiteULike, Rollyo


Software with communication- Weblogs (Blogs)

combination of the words 'web' and 'log', also called 'blog'

display frequently added articles at the top older articles are available in an archive often devoted to special subjects

(e.g. for "Social Software" http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/)


aggregation of services to categorize content search in categories and content of other users. communication and integration of different services with

and among each other. (Mashup Matrix)

Software with communication- directory services


Software with communication- directory services - Rollyo

customised search engine allows users to take up to 25 URL's and create their

own search tool – called „Searchroll“s searchrolls could be edited or modified at any time powered by Yahoo http://www.rollyo.com


Software with communication- directory services - Rollyo

Advantages tagging of searchrolls for better retrieval only those sites that you know and trust are searched for

information Disadvantages

other important pages might not be listed search is limited to a specific part of a web

domain/specific site


Software with communication- wikis

„wikiwiki“ (Hawaiian) means „quick“. content management system which is easy to operate complex collections of text could be organised and

cross linked when saving everything is instantly visible to others everybody may edit a wiki page if it's configured for

anonymous editing


Software with communication- Wikipedia

Wikipedia is based on MediaWiki new articles and modifications are rated and possibly

declined by a team of moderators partly or completely vandalised texts are restored using

the integrated version control system similar articles are joined irrelevant pages are deleted


Software with communication- AI-Wiki

communication platform for students of our course contains supplementary information to provided scripts

notes from the lectures summaries

preparation for examination


Six handshakes - Six Degrees of Separation

studies indicated how many "handshakes" are needed to connect two arbitrary people.

six "handshakes" are needed in average social networks like openBC or LinkedIn are based on

these perceptions. possible adaptation to technical networks. (WP SixDeg)


Conclusion


Conclusion

The internet

as it exists today

wouldn't be what is is

without Social Software.

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