Social Software
What is Social Software?
Introductory Videos:
- Michael Wesch - The Machine is Us/ing Us
- Web 2.0 - An Introduction
- Social Networking - in Plain English
- Blogs - in Plain English
- Alec Couros - Computers in the Classroom
The Blog: User Generated Content and The Culture of Comment
- Individual Blog: Infocult
- Group Blog: Lifehacker
- Blogs with Audio (podcasting)
- Blogs with Video (vlogs)
- Micro-blogging: Twitter
- Ranking and Rating: Digg
- A critique of blogging
Data and Media Centered Sharing
- Data Sharing: Wikipedia
- Resource Sharing: del.icio.us
- Presentation Slide Sharing: Slideshare
- Screencast Sharing: Screencast-o-matic
- Photo Sharing: Flickr
- Video Sharing: YouTube
- Viral Video Tracking: ViralVideoCharts
- Streaming Video Sharing: UStream
- Audio Sharing: Yodio, Odeo
- Book Sharing: LibraryThing
- Geographic Sharing: Google Maps
- Statistics Sharing: Swivel
- Mindmap Sharing: Mindomo
Re-mix and “Mashups”
- Video Mixes: Star Wars Mashups
- Subtitle Yourself: BombayTV
- Machinima: Red vs Blue;
- Geo-enabled: Rottenneighbor.com, Real-Time Earthquakes, Prop 8 Donors
- Sprout The mashup widget: Howard Rheingold example
Anything-Sharing Person-Centric Networks
- Roll Your Own Social Network: Ning, example: UPS Pacific Rim Ning
- The “Walled Garden” Social Network: Facebook
- The Professional Social Network: LinkedIn
- Aggregation: FriendFeed, Netvibes
- Online Virtual Spaces: Second Life, Lively
Online Productivity Applications with Social Features
- Google Docs, Zoho (productivity suites)
- Box.net (file storage)
- Basecamp, Remember the Milk (task management)
- SurveyMonkey (survey creator)
- Gliffy (charts & flowcharts)
- JayCut (video editing)
- EyeJot (video email)
Lists and Directories
Here is a short list of most useful directory sites which list and/or review social software tools.
- Top 100 Tools for Learning (2008)
- Map of the World 2.0
- The Complete Web 2.0 Directory
- Web 2.0 Photo Logos
- Digital Story Telling Tools Wiki (cogdog)
- Digital Story Telling Resources (courosa)
- Mashable.com
- ReadWriteWeb.com
- Gmaps Directory
- Wesleyan U’s Web 2.Xpo
- Connecticut College’s YouPub
- Alec Couros’s Open Thinking Wiki
