1. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Social Software Social Software and its influences

2. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Agenda What is „Social Software“? Weblogs and search engines Wikis and handshakes Summary

3. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin „Social Software“ – What is it? ?

4. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin „Social Software“ – What is it? connectingpeople

5. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin „Social Software“ – What is it? support the inter-human communication, interaction and collaboration mostly self-organising assist in developing and improving social networks and communities

6. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin „Social Software“ – What is it? Wikis Weblogs Webforums instant messengers email, mailing lists groupware Lotus Notes, MS Exchange collaborative editors MoonEdit, Gobby Contact traders Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, OpenBC collect and categorise flickr, del.icio.us, CiteULike, Rollyo

7. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - Weblogs (Blogs) combination of the words 'web' and 'log', also called 'blog' display frequently added articles at the top older articles are available in an archive often devoted to special subjects (e.g. for "Social Software" http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/)http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/

8. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin aggregation of services to categorize content search in categories and content of other users. communication and integration of different services with and among each other. (Mashup Matrix)Mashup Matrix Software with communication - directory services

9. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - directory services - Rollyo customised search engine allows users to take up to 25 URL's and create their own search tool – called „Searchroll“s searchrolls could be edited or modified at any time powered by Yahoo http://www.rollyo.com

10. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - directory services - Rollyo Advantages  tagging of searchrolls for better retrieval  only those sites that you know and trust are searched for information Disadvantages  other important pages might not be listed  search is limited to a specific part of a web domain/specific site

11. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - wikis „wikiwiki“ (Hawaiian) means „quick“. content management system which is easy to operate complex collections of text could be organised and cross linked when saving everything is instantly visible to others everybody may edit a wiki page if it's configured for anonymous editing

12. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - Wikipedia Wikipedia is based on MediaWiki new articles and modifications are rated and possibly declined by a team of moderators partly or completely vandalised texts are restored using the integrated version control system similar articles are joined irrelevant pages are deleted

13. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Software with communication - AI-Wiki communication platform for students of our course contains supplementary information to provided scripts  notes from the lectures  summaries preparation for examination

14. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Six handshakes - Six Degrees of Separation studies indicated how many "handshakes" are needed to connect two arbitrary people. six "handshakes" are needed in average social networks like openBC or LinkedIn are based on these perceptions. possible adaptation to technical networks. ( WP SixDeg) WPSixDeg

15. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Conclusion

16. © 2006 Jan-Paul Nachtwey & Enrico Schnepel, FHTW Berlin Conclusion The internet as it exists today wouldn't be what is is without Social Software.