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Social Climbers

Jack Schofield, May 08, 2003

Is social software the next big thing or just so much hype? The answer is, of course, "both." In a certain sense, there's nothing really that new about social software. "Shirky concedes that software for group interaction has been around for decades. These include mailing lists, bulletin boards and multi-user games such as Mud (Multi-User Dungeon)." What's new, I think, is the capacity for these small, nimble platforms to begin to interact. So what does that have to do with the story's suggestion that online community will begin to parallel offline community? Well, nothing. Because the story misses the point.

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