List of social software explained

This is a list of notable social software: selected examples of social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact.

Blogs

See also: List of content management systems.

• Apache Roller
• Blogger
• IBM Lotus Connections
• Posterous
• Telligent Community
• Tumblr
• Typepad
• WordPress^[1]
• Xanga

Clipping

• Diigo
• Evernote

Instant messaging

• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• IBM Lotus Sametime
• Live Communications Server 2003
• Live Communications Server 2005
• Microsoft Lync Server

Internet forums

• Comparison of Internet forum software

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

• Internet Relay Chat^{[2] [3]}

Massively multiplayer online games

See main article: List of massively multiplayer online games.

Media sharing

• blip.tv
• Dailymotion
• Flickr^[4]
• Ipernity
• Metacafe
• Putfile
• SmugMug
• Tangle
• Vimeo
• YouTube^[4]
• Zooomr
• IBM Lotus Connections

Media cataloging

See main article: Social cataloging applications.

Online dating

See main article: Comparison of online dating websites.

Web directories

See main article: List of web directories.

Social bookmarking

Web widgets

• AddThis
• AddToAny
• ShareThis
• Social bookmark link generator

Websites

See main article: List of social bookmarking websites.

Enterprise software

• Altova MetaTeam
• IBM Lotus Connections
• Jumper 2.0 Enterprise

Social cataloging

See also: Social cataloging applications.

• aNobii
• Goodreads
• Knowledge Plaza
• Librarything^[5]
• Readgeek
• Shelfari
• KartMe

Social citations

See also: Comparison of reference management software.

• BibSonomy
• CiteULike
• Connotea
• Jumper 2.0 Enterprise
• Knowledge Plaza
• Mendeley
• refbase
• Zotero

Social evolutionary computation

See also: Human-based computation.

• Knowledge iN
• Quora
• Yahoo! Answers

Social networks

See main article: List of social networking websites.

Social search

See main article: Social search.

• Jumper 2.0
• Knowledge Plaza

Social customer support software

See also: Live support software and Customer relationship management.

Virtual worlds

• Active Worlds
• Google Lively (now defunct)
• Kaneva
• Second Life
• There
• Meez

Wikis

See main article: Wiki software.

Notes and References

1. Book: Rettberg , Jill Walker . 2008 . 57 . Blogging . registration . Digital media and society . Polity . 0-7456-4134-2 .
2. Book: Bainbridge , William Sims . Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. 2. October 30, 2004. Berkshire Publishing Group. 0-9743091-2-5. 517. Online Education: Social Software.
3. Book: Gervasi , Osvaldo . Gavrilova. Marina. Marina Gavrilova. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26–29, 2007. Proceedings, Part III. limited. 1st. September 14, 2007. Springer. 3-540-74482-7. 725. A Survey of Revenue Models for Current Generation Social Software's Systems.
4. Book: Cook, Niall . 2008 . 56 . Enterprise 2.0: how social software will change the future of work . Gower Publishing, Ltd . 0-566-08800-2 . registration .
5. Book: Farkas, Meredith G. . 141 . 2007 . Social software in libraries: building collaboration, communication, and community Online . Information Today, Inc . 1-57387-275-X .