Here are a few links that provide some framework for discussing the term "social software."
As I research the term, I am not sure I like it. Of course I didn't like the term blogging or weblog or weblication when I first heard them either. Some of the defintions try and make too much of "social software", turning it into a panacea that will spread democracy and peace on earth. I think that is asking too much of software.
It reminds me of the hype people spread about the internet in 1996 or so, before the bubble really started. There was a myth that the world connected by IP addresses would suddenly link arms in one anarchic but peaceful demonstration of techno libertarianism that would cause the ultimate revolution in world affairs. It didn't quite happen that way.
I'll have to keep thinking about this.
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