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© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
Social Software
Social Software and its influences
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
Agenda
What is „Social Software“?
Weblogs and search engines
Wikis and handshakes
Summary
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
„Social Software“ – What is it?
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© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
„Social Software“ – What is it?
connectingconnectingpeoplepeople
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
„Social Software“ – What is it?
support the inter-human communication, interaction and collaboration
mostly self-organising assist in developing and improving social
networks and communities
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
„Social Software“ – What is it?
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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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/)
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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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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
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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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
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)
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
Conclusion
© 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin
Conclusion
The internet
as it exists today
wouldn't be what is is
without Social Software.