Social Software

A friend of mine on the ASP.NET team forwarded me this:

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

It’s an interesting read – albeit incredibly dense – but interesting nonetheless.

The term ‘social software’ is an interesting idea. I guess you could call the www.asp.net/forums/ a ‘social software package’.

Speaking of the forums we’re making great progress over at http://forums.asp.net/ we’ll be working on integration with DotNetNuke shortly.

I’ve also promised (again) to start blogging some more… I’ve just finished all of my chapters for the upcoming MSPress book ‘Inside ASP.NET with the ASP.NET Team’ as well as chapters for a secret new title due in late October with Addison-Wesley. Here’s clue, it doesn’t discuss ASP.NET 1.0 or 1.1 🙂