Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software

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Rpeckham on 2008-05-13 - Tags social , software , networks , history
Peter_johansson on 2008-04-30 - Tags social.network , education , social.software
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Telekas on 2008-04-10 - Tags social_software , web2.0
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on 2006-07-16 by nannaner

By examining the many terms used to describe today's 'social software' we can also explore the origins of social software itself, and see how there exists a very real life cycle concerning the use of technical terminology.

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"augmentation of human's socializing and networking abilities by software, complete with ways of compensating for the overloads this might engender"

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Meanwhile, the term 'virtual community' became associated with discredited ideas about cyberspace as an independent polity, and failed dotcom ideas about assembling community in the shadow of a mass-market brand such as forums on the Coca Cola site.

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