social computing

Over the weekend, Andrew Mcafee posted an excellent essay on what he calls the enterprise bullseye. Drawing on a previous post about enterprise social networks, he again relies on sociologist Mark Granovetter’s theory of the ‘strength of weak ties,’ an indispensable essay for anyone thinking about social computing today.
The enterprise bullseye consists of 4 concentric […]

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When I began using the phrase ’social computing’ in the mid 90s, I had in mind the tsunami of changes which, obviously, the Web would bring to personal
computing and of course to the people using personal computers.
Like most of us, by the late 90s I understood that the same forces that were driving us to […]

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Here’s a another post about OpenSocial from ning’s Marc Andriessen, a follow up of his post yesterday - which I linked to here.
The post includes an interesting screencast showing how OpenSocial applications will work on ning (and other social networks). The post also offers some screenshots and interesting analysis and commentary — very much recommended.

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TechCrunch reports that Google’s OpenSocial will go live tomorrow. I’ve been waiting for this kind of technology to emerge, and it’s no surprise that it comes from Google.
OpenSocial “is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work on any social networks (called “hosts”) that choose to participate.” In […]

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Socialtext notes that “according to Radicati, the business social software market is expected to be $920 million this year and blossom to over $3.3 billion by 2011.”
Here’s a summary of their research.

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Interesting figures on open source adoption in the enterprise.
There is an inherent connection between open source software, open APIs, etc., and the advance of social computing.

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Engineers Without Fears points us to Chieftech’s post on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration & Social Software reported by Socialtext (included on the Quadrant as a Visionary Company, and proud thereof).
This is useful, but its problem lies in a narrow vision of what “social software” is. Roping in the oxymoronic phrase “team collaboration” is […]

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Aloof raises an interesting question here, referring to Dion’s article on the current state of e2.0, here, along the way.
I’m not sure he even begins to answer his own question, but it’s an interesting read all the same.

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In the introduction to Google’s 3d Quarter earnings call, CEO Eric Schmidt says:
…we are now seeing a massive transition to web-based cloud computing at a consumer and enterprise level. … We are really on the cusp of a world where everyone can create, share, collaborate and find their content in the cloud anytime and anywhere.
Virtualization […]

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I am not much of a believer in the semantic web, Sir Tim’s vision of a network of machines that understands content without much input from people.
For one thing, this vision is as old computers — or at least as old as transistor-based computers! it may not have been current in the world of vacuum […]

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