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MediaGuardian reports on the BBC's foray into the world of Web 2.0 - blogs, podcasts, bookmark sharing et al.: "The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com."

The Web is now packed with numerous examples of useful, potent, and widely used social software including well-known examples like Wikipedia, del.icio.us, digg, and Wordpress. There is also a growing body of next-generation social software exemplars such as AllPeers, RubHub, Squidoo, and Wink. For a fairly new and more objective top 10 social software list, see here by Ross Mayfield.

Many folks are working towards getting at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. I agree that visualizations such as Tim O'Reilly's or Dion Hinchcliffe's are not simple enough — they're too jargon-filled and don't do much to describe the big picture in human-readable terms. I really like Richard MacManus's breakdown: "Web 2.0 is really about normal everyday people using the Web and creating things on it - forget the acronyms." Susan Mernit also captures this well: "The heart of Web 2.0 is the user… The tools power it, but the people do it."

Social software.

近年來社會軟體的發展頗受重視，好比我每天在使用的flickr。 搞好社會關係，不妨從學習使用社會軟體開始做起！