Intersting take on the subject. Open Source video on who should do what with respect to the the infrastructure of the internet (aka [tag-ice]Net Neutrality[/tag-ice]).

Only recently a new PEW Internet & American Life Projekt report was published: 28% of Online Americans Have Used the Internet to Tag Content (PDF). I’m actually surprised by that fast adoption. But as it is tagging supports the organization and findability, and the networking of digital information more easily than the traditional classification schemes that are deeply routed in the (physical) lack of space concept.

A good read over there on the cultural implications of Social Software (Web 2.0) on individuals and businesses

10 BIG effects of social software
3. Your professional competence will be more and more visible.

I’m particularily interested in the notion of [tag-tec]visibility[/tag-tec] as I think this is paramount to socializing and that in turn is an essential for forming knowledgeable communication acts and groups.

I lost a customer. It’s not the first time of course, that’s part of the business. What’s interesting though are the reasons: thus I gained some insights.

Without disclosing the organizations involved I can tell you that it was about a 2 year contract for an ASP-based social software solution. The software should support a project that involves several firms and organisations in several European countries so it’s about a collaborative effort to develop new insights and applications on a specific and innovative issue. Sounds like a perfect fit for an ASP (t d f)-based social software solution.

So you might ask, what did they decide upon? Well, the decided to use Confluence (t d f) – an excellent wiki-engine. Fine so far, but the interesting issue is the cause for their decision against my proposition.

Social computing technologies are intended to be easy to learn and use. Just as the PC took off inside the organisation with the arrival of the spreadsheet, and email took off with the arrival of the @, so social computing is expected to take off with the advent of easy-to-use tools. (The IT manager’s guide to social computing)