{"id":320,"date":"2003-04-22T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2003-04-22T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2003-04-22T15:04:02","slug":"are-you-social-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Are you social software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think SSW is a style of application, rather than a category of applications.<br \/>\n(from a discussion on the definition of social software, over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.net\/ssa\/index.cgi?social_software_alliance_wiki\">mailing list<\/a>)<br \/>\nExamples:<br \/>\nYou could build a recommendation engine that was social software &#8212; such a recommendation engine would enable recommendees and recommenders to meet each other. If AllConsuming.net added a collaborative filter that showed blogs reviewing books that I was interested in, that would be a recommendation engine as social software.<br \/>\nYou might be able to build a CRM system that was social software &#8212; if customers and salespeople were able to see the information, and collaborate with each other.  By contrast conventional CRM systems are based on assumptions of structured workflow and hiding the sales-person&#8217;s intent from the customer.   These assumptions are so deeply embedded that they&#8217;re hard to see.<br \/>\nfrom a response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterkaminski.com\">Pete Kaminski<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think SSW is a style of application, rather than a category of applications. (from a discussion on the definition of social software, over at the mailing list) Examples: You could build a recommendation engine that was social software &#8212; such a recommendation engine would enable recommendees and recommenders to meet each other. If AllConsuming.net &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you social software?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}