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The Realm of Sociality: Notes on the Design of Social Software

This articles discusses social software systems, where it mentions that it is not software as such. Wenger say that sociality can not be designed, can only be designed for, talks of a conceptual model based on the sociability which mentions what is the importance of social software systems to trigger social behavior.

Social software enables social relations in cyberspace, for example people who participate in social activities, some examples are: LinkedIn, del.icio.us, Flickr, Wikipedia, Facebook and Last.fm. These serve to proportional services Communication, interaction or relationships in one way or another, is also there are people who use the services such as blogs, forums or wiki to create groups where you can have a share at any time.

This article allows us to open more the panorama of software systems sociability, not to see that not only is creating a system to create, if not based on an investigation into the behaviors and interests of users and the organization is creates systems. The conceptual model helps us to understand and describe how this areas that each one of the different mechanisms leading social behavior, not simply develop a design framework if we were in the domains of design, design criteria and design parameters design dilemmas with the goal of providing professional guidance in the field of social software. The article also mentions that social groups are characterized by a single dimesion focused on a particular social group or multidimensional social relations as more complex business processes; within sociability guy we mentioned examples like Last.fm, Twitter.com, LinkedIn and Friendster that its purpose is the interaction between people to interact members.

This article mentions the framework designs of social software which should be taken into account for the creation of these systems, this frameworks were considered for the realization of websites Twitter.com, Last. fm, LinkedIn and Friedster, describes each of the frameworks of design domain, domain criteria, design principles, dilemmas designs and design parameters.

The article makes us the mention of which were seen examples where there is one account that each network is different and is focused on different users like LinkedIn that goes to those interested dirijido professionals who seek a relationship with another contact of the same profession or good use of organizations.

Instead Friendster and Twitter.com are social networks where users can meet people openly post any comment. Last.fm is a social network where people know the same kind of music you hear and know that friends are listening to, is a social network directly to the musical taste of the people.

All this is done based on a design framework, in the conceptual model for designers to know what kind of development will make your software.