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May 8, 2003
Tom Coates, defining social software
Posted by Clay Shirky
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Tom Coates piece on defining social software. Jumping off from Doug Englebart's ideas of software as human augmentation, Coates says:
Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation.
More important than the overview, though, is his list of categories this augmentation might take.
As usual on Plasticbag, the comments are often longer than the post itself, and also well worth reading.
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