Technology comparision table

From JITT

Generic social software systems

Not yet added as dimensions but what about: Ownership and control (trust your users)? Ease of use (low or high threshold) and equity of access? And within 'time' is there not an issue about how quickly these technologies appear, evolve and fade (always beta)?

	Genre / structure	Time	Memory / recording	Public -- private	Migratory	Spatial
Blogs	chronological, narrative				uses RSS feeds to push posts to other locations.	use of Themes for displaying content
Mailing Lists					multiple recipients
Social reference systems				Used both as a personal (but exposed) memory aid, and a collaborative tool. But what drives collaboration? In digg it may be reputation, and a desire to influence. In del.icio.us it may be more driven by the personal use.	via RSS feeds, hyperlinked texts, tagging and other folksonomies
Wikis Semantic Wikis	hierarchical organising, informative, evolving knowledge libraries, encyclopaedic	evolving		public access/controlled contribution	RSS feeds, hyperlinked texts, tagging	hierarchical, expanded menu system
RSS Feeds	time-ordered, subscribed, hyperlinked	regularity	summary texts		pulls information in from diverse sources	use of Themes for displaying content
Social networking	huge network of links among users	users tweak their profiles regularly, changing photos and music files to reflect current interests and recent events	profiles are fairly transient, but comments from other users usually remain for some time.	varying levels and understandings of privacy from private messaging to public comments and images; public searches and private profiles;	migration within network and often across through IM and email; informed of updates to personal pages	layout and content customised on personal profile pages; display of certain friends, etc.
Personal Learning Environments				Private with public aspects	Possibly uses RSS feeds to push posts to other locations.

Technologies for social software systems

Specific social software systems

Wikipedia list of social networking sites with user counts.

Sooner or later we might categorise these

Bibsonomy	To share links and bibliographic references.
Elgg	Billed as a personal learning environment, and, also, newly integrated with Moodle (a virtual learning environment). Features Interesting roadmap showing future integration of web resources.
Rojo	xxx
SuperGlu	SuprGlu provides a way to gather content from sites like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc.
Netvibes	Great example of an Ajax interface to create a personalized page that allows you to "modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc."
Gregarius	Free, open source, web-based RSS aggregator.