List of social software

This is a list of notable social software: selected examples of social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact.

Blogs

Apache Roller
Blogger
IBM Lotus Connections
Posterous
Telligent Community
Tumblr
Typepad
WordPress^[1]
Xanga

Clipping

Diigo
Evernote

Instant messaging

Comparison of instant messaging clients
IBM Lotus Sametime
Live Communications Server 2003
Live Communications Server 2005
Microsoft Lync Server

Internet forums

Comparison of Internet forum software

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Internet Relay Chat^[2]^[3]

eLearning

Massively multiplayer online games

Media sharing

Media cataloging

Online dating

Web directories

Social bookmarking

Web widgets

Websites

Enterprise software

Social cataloging

Social citations

Social evolutionary computation

Social login

Social networks

Social search

Social customer support software

Virtual worlds

Wikis

References

^ Rettberg, Jill Walker (2008). Blogging. Digital media and society. Polity. p. 57. ISBN 0-7456-4134-2.
^ Bainbridge, William Sims (October 30, 2004). "Online Education: Social Software". Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Vol. 2. Berkshire Publishing Group. p. 517. ISBN 0-9743091-2-5.
^ Gervasi, Osvaldo (September 14, 2007). "A Survey of Revenue Models for Current Generation Social Software's Systems". In Gavrilova, Marina (ed.). Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26–29, 2007. Proceedings, Part III (1st ed.). Springer. p. 725. ISBN 3-540-74482-7.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Niall (2008). Enterprise 2.0: how social software will change the future of work. Gower Publishing, Ltd. p. 56. ISBN 0-566-08800-2.
^ Farkas, Meredith G. (2007). Social software in libraries: building collaboration, communication, and community Online. Information Today, Inc. p. 141. ISBN 1-57387-275-X.