Social Networking Software-Free Online Collaboration

One of the key stories of 2003 was social networking software, as documented in this article. As usual Dave Pollard has an excellent "big picture" article on social networking.

TJ's Weblog featured a great link to social networking software for the English speaking world.

A while back I did a story that I called Virtual AGM software, and another story I did  was about Internet groupware.

Before we jump in, for a quick and easy way of maintaining online disucssions, try QuickTopic. or for document review, try QuickDoc.

Ryze , Zero Degrees and Spoke are business oriented. (Note Spoke is integrated with MS Outlook and can import contact lists from Outlook.)

A business analysis article is found here.

Meetup gained fame in the Dean campaign in the US. And even Google got in the act, with their Orkut service.

LinkedIn to Tribe.net and Friendster, Tickle social-networking, Evite

Speciality Networking:

Advogato: more of a web of trust-software developer network

BigBlueBall is an attempt to merge instant messaging with social networking

Dating Services:

Matchup

Social Network

Friendster-could be used for more than dating

Social Networking Experiments:

Friend of a Friend-FOAF

NY VC blog has an article on this. Ideas for social software, another blog considers this type of software, and yet another "Thoughts on Social Software", yet another blog, only this time all it covers is social networking software

OK, now for some more software for you to consider:

Humanity

Robin Good also has a good run down on this software.

from their website:

Huminity is an instant messaging chat software that combines in it full social networking capabilities. It can be installed on any Windows running PC.
After installing Huminity and creating a personal contact-tree, Huminity becomes your 6-degree chat software. You can navigate your global map of personal connections, have private chats and chat in chat rooms.

Robin Good's article on online collaboration and web conferencing alternatives, is certainly worth checking out.

from a review of the above article I have identified some highlights:

Videoconferening:

WaveThree-has Mac and Windows clients

WebDEmo:

from their website:WebDemo offers three innovative browser-based Web conferencing solutions - WebDemo Express, WebDemo Professional, and WebDemo Enterprise. Each product was formed to deliver simplicity and a different cost model based upon your budget and meeting needs to the online meeting world.

Viditel

VidiTel is an Internet-based communications service that delivers rich voice, video, text messaging and application sharing to multiple participants from any desktop in the world.

VoiceCafe:

for a list of their products.

Realtime/Non-realtime Collaboration Tools:

Groove-one of my personal favorites is Ray Ozzie's Groove

Cata web conferencing

WebTrain

VoiceCafe

eBLVD

WebConfernce.Com

Glance-for software support, you see the other person's screen

VoxWire for Voice Over IP

Streaming Flash:

from Robin's article he references a CBC pilot test of the use of a Flash Communications server, built on

for Flash streaming for educational purposes, try these demos.

"CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has used the Macromedia Flash Communication Server to stream all of the audio and full-screen video for its own trial of CBC Home Delivery, an electronic magazine that delivers rich-media stories to its subscribers every week. Home Delivery is produced by CBC Radio 3 and you can access all of the trial issues archive free.

To get a fresh taste of this Flash-based live communication technology I invite you to pay a visit to the good experimental and prototyping work the great team at BridgeConference in South Africa has been doing with this technology."

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