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Social software going mainstreem
Posted by Rene Jansen
Looking around on the internet I see more and more attention for web 2.0 or the so called for social software. Many blogs are discussing tagging, and quite some people are getting used to working with sites like Flickr, delicious, furl or last.fm.The main concept of these site is: a low barrier way of sharing information with others. For flickr you share photo's, with delicious and furl you share bookmarks, with last.fm it is about music. Just to make sure: last.fm is not just another napster / kazaa like sharing environment, no, instead you only share your favorite playlists: what music and what artists do you like.
Looking at the vast amout of users who wanna share tagged "things", it seems reasonable that we indeed grow more and more to a knowledge economy where information is the means of exchange, as economics would say. You could say: "knowledge is power" is old and boring, "tagged sharing" is hot.
If I'm right by saying that tagged sharing is hot, we are very much on the right track with bPerform. Only thing I hope is that we will be quick enough to win our share of this interesting market. Why should I doubt? Well, most recent development regarding social software is of course ning. Ning is the new venture from Marc Andreessen, remember, co-founder of Netscape, who brought web browsers to the mass.
Ning offers a kind of meta-meta approach to social software: it offers a social software based environment to create... social software! The trashhold for creating shared environments is vastly reduced with ning. They have an interesting weblog about ning as well. Interesting!