Social software

Social software is any software that supports group communications. The dynamics of social software are significantly different from traditional interactions.

See also: Debian, Usenet, Wikipedia's implied constitution, wiki

External Links

• Social Software and the Politics of Groups, Clay Shirky, First published March 9, 2003 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list (http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html).
• Many-to-Many: a group weblog on Social Software (http://www.corante.com/many/)
• Social Software Alliance: Wiki on Social Software taskforces (http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/)