Social Software Reader

Contributing to the Eventspace of the Bay Area Futurist Salon gave me an opportunity to go back and dig up some key posts from the past year. An enjoyable exercise I recommend for any blogger. By all means, this isn't an all encompassing reader for Social Software and Social Networking, but some highlights from a personal perspective.

Some stuff on Social Software

• Mayfield: Social Software 12/07/02
  
• Mayfield: Distribution of Choice 2/10/03
  
• Mayfield: Ecosystem of Networks 2/12/03
  
• Mayfield: Social Capital of Blogspace 4/9/03
  
• Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups
  
• Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
  
• Matt Webb: Defining Discussing Social Software
  
• Stowe Boyd: Are you ready for Social Software
  
• GBN/Shirky: Social Software and the Next Big Phase of the Internet
  
• David Weinberger: The Unspoken of Groups
  
• Kevin Werbach: Post-modern Knowledge Mangement
  
• Jerry Michalski: Dysfunctional Relationships
  
• Joi Ito (et. al.) Emergent Democracy, 1st draft, also see Emergent Democracy for links and resources.
  
• Lee Bryant: Smarter, Simple Social
  
• Seb Paquet's: wiki page on Social Software
  
• SocialSoftware on Meatball Wiki
  
• Topic Exchange: for Social Software

Some stuff on Social Networking

• The Blogmap Project
  
• Social Networking Models 3/30/03
  
• Web of Trust 5/9/03
  
• The Network is the Market 8/25/03
  
• The Value of Latent Ties 9/9/03
  
• The Weakening of Strong Ties 9/15/03
  
• The Forrest for the Trees 11/20/03

Comments

[Ross Mayfield]

Hey, this list isn't finished. Im planning on putting it in a wiki, but in the meantime, please contribute what you think I am missing here.

[jlori]

Very useful compilation Ross. Let me suggest for your Spanish speaking readers:
Redes sociales: un inventario de recursos y experiencias
http://www.ecuaderno.com/archives/000046.php

[dave]

Social software is the future.

[Sylvain Poirier]

See my plan of the Trust-forum project http://spoirier.lautre.net/trustedforum.html, an ambitious open source social software project to encompass many functions: a global login system to be authentified from one account all over the web, a use of private forums to replace email and solve the spam problem, a universal dating system, a trust system compatible with anonymity. Some code has been written but more contributors would be welcome, thanks.

[Katerina]

Hi,
I am Czech University student who is working on a big project about Social Software.
I would be very grateful if you could send me any helpful links, comments, recommend me books I should read or give me contacts!
I want my project to be the best:-)
Thank you very much
Katerina Horova
Prague ,FHS UK