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November 7, 2003
Biz 2.0 names social networking tools the "Technology of the Year"
Posted by Clay Shirky
Via Dave Pollard, at _How to Save the World_:
The November edition of Business 2.0 (only available on-line to subscribers) has selected Social Networking Applications as the Technology of the Year. Mentioned in the survey are Ryze, LinkedIn, Friendster, Zero Degrees, Tribe.net, Spoke Connect, and Visible Path. The magazine should be commended for this insightful choice, but they missed the companion technology that will provide the data essential to the functioning of future Social Networking Applications. That technology: Personal Content Management and Publishing Applications (notably Blogs and RSS). You can't have one without the other.
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1. Anil on November 8, 2003 12:50 AM writes...
Perhaps not coincidentally, the same issue has a feature on Ben and Mena and Six Apart:
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,52911,00.html
Permalink to Comment2. Anon on November 8, 2003 6:12 AM writes...
> Content Management and Publishing Applications
>(notably Blogs and RSS). You can’t have one
> without the other.
Of course you can.
Permalink to Comment3. Alexander Knorr on November 11, 2003 8:30 AM writes...
Jim Milne, Anthropology-student in Florida, does a dissertation on "Technology adoption in weblogs". You can download a paper he prepared for a colloquium and read the draft of his dissertation online. See:
Permalink to Commenthttp://sonner.antville.org/stories/578266/
4. Ross Mayfield on November 11, 2003 11:16 AM writes...
Great contribution Alexander.
Here is what he is talking about, its a nice read:
"The outcome of this study is a redefinition of technological innovation. The study shows that the tools and techniques that come to be known as a technology follow the creation and adoption of the practices they contain. If technology is not just artifacts and production processes, but also the contexts of the use of that object, and the practices engaged in by people using it, then the complex of emergent meanings that describe and explain it precede the technology itself. Paradoxically, the practices come to exist, and then the tools are developed to accomplish them. This redefinition of technological innovation is meant to refute the notion that technology ?causes? social change. More correctly, social practices change, and technology shifts accordingly."
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