Social Software

Is there a future to blogging? Well, here’s an article that suggests that blogging has room to innovate and evolve. The author suggests that it’s time for blogs to begin digging into niche topics and narrower markets of people: local discussions or just relevant, timely information about specific topics. Like cancer? Maybe. Like Relay? Maybe. And technology is not standing ...

This link will take you to a map that shows where the users of Orkut live, based on their zip codes. My understanding is that this is not an Orkut sanctioned activity. The value in this can be the visualization of RFL volunteers using Seibel as a database for the same type of information. On the same note if this ...

This article is a look at the process and prospectus of a decentralized social software scheme. The author wants individuals to design their own profiles, and host them locally. This eliminates the feeling that the social software sites are forcing profiles to fit into a mold. The connectivity of the new system comes in the form of a search function ...

Here is a view of the Social Software Industry form the point of view of the Venture Capital firms.