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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