Ein PDF-Dokument, das 10 verschiedene Dienste vergleicht bei denen man kollaborativ Bookmarks anlegen kann.

»Where It's At: Mapped Flickr Photos« [via del.icio.us/revtan]Diese Flash-basierte Anwendung erlaubt es die Bilder der Flickr-Community auf einer Landkarte zu sehen. Leider sieht man derzeit nur die USA. Mir ist auch nicht ganz klar, woher die Geodaten stammen...

MapTribe is a software application for mobile phones. It enables group of users:
~ to see each other's position on a city map on the screen display
~ to add on this shared map a certain number of objects that will positioned on the map according to the user's real position in the city.

»BJ Fogg and the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, which studies how technology changes behavior, have created BuddyBuzz. It helps you find the most interesting articles to read, based upon your friend's ratings -- and allows you to read 300 to 800 words per minute from your mobile phone. Reading works by having a single word blinked at you at a rate you control, similar to other experiences on the web, but it simply makes more sense with mobile form factor and lifestyle.
I got a demo at the Accelerating Change conference two weeks ago and it seemed that if you can teach yourself to read this way (or if it can teach you to read this way), it could be downright fun. Now all it needs is to source text via RSS.« [via Corante: Social Software]

»del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser (see below). When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others.
You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.
What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.«Es gibt auch einen MacOS X Client: http://www.scifihifi.com/cocoalicious/

Mit der Umbenennung von Workspace zu Virtual Office versucht Groove einen Neuanfang. Die Vorgängerversionen waren als langsame Ressourcenverschwender verschrieen. In der neuen Version wurde die Oberfläche radikal entrümpelt und passt sich nahtlos in Windows XP ein. In der einfachsten Nutzungsform verbirgt sich Groove nun hinter gewöhnlichen Windows-Ordnern, die automatisch zwischen verschiedenen Rechnern abgeglichen werden.

»Die AOL-Tochter ICQ will laut Wall Street Journal am heutigen Donnerstag ihren Dienst für so genannte soziale Netze offiziell eröffnen, das ICQ Universe. Soziale Netze, oder allgemein "soziale Software", sind neue Buzzwords der Branche. An allen Ecken des Web entstehen neue Dienste, mit denen sich neue Freunde oder Geschäftspartner finden lassen sollen.« [Quelle: heise online]

George Siemens: »I'm almost finished my current run of social network tool links...Social Networking Software-Free Online Collaboration .« [George Siemens (elearnspace)]

Vor etwa einem Jahr hatte ich in der Interface-MailingListe schon mal drauf hingewiesen:

Aber ist es nicht so, dass wir inzwischen eigentlich eine ganz andere Generation von Interfaces die Entwicklung bestimmt, die weniger darauf setzen, dass der Benutzer die Bedienungsoptionen aus dem Gedächtnis erinnern kann, sondern die sehr viel mehr mit visuell variantenreichen Oberflächen an Stelle der Standard-GUI-Elemente funktionieren werden?

Damals verwies ich auch auf die HelloWorld Applikation von CooprativeSystems (siehe http://www.cooperatingsystems.com/). Es ist mir etwas aus dem Blickfeld geraten - sicherlich weil es zuerst für das falsche Betriebssystem entwickelt wurde. Inzwischen gibt es aber eine Preview-Release.

Aber auf der Seite wird Steve Wozniak zitiert, der sich auf HelloWorld auf seinem Macintosh freut. Das Zitat ist nun auch schon ein Jahr alt und im FAQ steht an letzter Stelle was von Versionen für OS X und Linux.

»While social software may be the internet revolution du jour among venture capitalists, as a user I'm still waiting for the killer social software app that lives up to all the market hype. Recently I've been thinking about how the current crop of options could be improved upon, or at the very least, how they could be leveraged to be something useful for users. I've come up with a few ideas, some half-baked, others fully baked. I offer them here in the hopes that someone, somewhere already built it or would like to build it.« [via Corante: Social Software]

Microsoft has introduced Wallop, an invitation-only social software tool that combines a photo album, blog, and ways to "interact with your friends" - which, according to a Wiredarticle, makes it sound kind of like Friendster, IM, and blogs all rolled into one: ""What we are interested in is the whole blossoming of blogs, which let people express themselves, and social-networking software, like Six Degrees or Friendster," she said. "It's a really easy way to author things, a really simple blogging tool that lets you add pictures." [alterego]

Hier eine Google-Suche zu dem Begriff.

»Another entry in the fusion of the BBS and Blog patterns, JournURL, an attempt to create a CCMS (that'd be Community Content Management System to you and me.) The focus here is improving on the model of simple comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs: "Robust threaded and linear discussion that encourages extended conversations and debate. No simplistic comment system here, folks. No anonymous spam."«

As I've said in the past, blog comment systems generally suck. They're fine for "me too" responses and the occasional one-liner, but they quickly show their limitations when put to the task of managing large, intense discussions. ... Meanwhile, here I am, sitting on what is probably the most robust, blog-friendly discussion app anywhere, and all of those people out there using Movable Type and similar apps can't take advantage of it. ... I've decided to see what I can do to make this thing more useful to people using "foreign" blogging apps. Enter ping2talk. ...

[Corante: Social Software] [owrede_log KHM]

Doug Oard und Jinmook Kim haben eine Liste von frei verfügbaren Softwareprodukten zusammengestellt, welche das das kollaborative Filtern von Infornmationen ermöglichen sollen.