social computing

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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