A Few Definitions
- Social Software
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- Social Network Software / YASNS
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- Social Networks
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- Socialware
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“A folksonomy is an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. A folksonomy is most notably contrasted from a taxonomy in that the authors of the labeling system are often the main users (and sometimes originators) of the content to which the labels are applied. The labels are commonly known as tags and the labeling process is called tagging.” —
Wikipedia
Making content and information available from a web site, most commonly using an XML based format such as RSS, Atom, RDF, and OPML, but any readable format including HTML, Javascript, JSON, and others may be used. The standardization of feed formats means easier, more integrated ways of accessing content and creates the ability for social software sites and applications to “talk to” one another.
As social software sites amassed data and information, developers quickly realized that the real value was not the application, but the data… the user generated content including: artifacts, tags and links. Providing standard syndication helps get the word out, but what about providing for custom channels to add, modify, and read from those storehouses of information?
Google’s PageRank feature revolutionized web search by taking into account “incidental” meta-content such as number of links to a page, the authority of those links, etc. The Attention Economy is based on the idea that our attention is a scarce— and valuable— commodity. Using technological means we can transparently quantify the attention and activities of users as not only a potentially saleable resource, but a mechanism to greatly enhance information search and access.
The Internet of Things
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_4/goldhaber/