Social Computing Chatter

[rdanner]

We need to get a discussion going in here on this… 

Below is John Newton's post on social computing – what do you think?  What does it mean to you?

A Manifesto for Social Computing in the Enterprise

Investment in the infrastructure of the internet has dramatically increased bandwidth to everyone in the developing world and created home computers that are not only inexpensive, but very powerful. This change has expanded the usage of the internet exponentially and introduced new demographics and generations of users that had not used computing prior to the expansion of the internet. These users have themselves created the content and applications that feed the internet and have set expectations of the applications that we use in web browsers and new mobile devices. The increased bandwidth has made this experience much more interactive and visual experience encompassing video and visual elements. Web properties such as YouTube, Google, Amazon, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr have set the benchmark for expression, accessibility and social interaction of computing systems.

Dubbed Web 2.0, this revolution in computing has shifted the face of software from a logical, linear, and introverted science to an expressive, graphical and social art. New designers of web sites, unschooled in traditional software techniques, are nonetheless able to create software that scales to millions of users and billions of objects of information and still meld those users into an artistically aware community. The next generation of enterprise employees who started using the internet in their early teens have only known this evolving culture of free and creative development of the internet and now demand better of the enterprise software that they meet. Older employees also know that that the software that they use on a day to day basis can be better. Enterprise 2.0 seeks to emulate the success of Web 2.0 in the creation of new software for the enterprise.

Social Computing

The shift of computing power from business logic and calculation to socialization and people-orientation has been dubbed by some as Social Computing. The term Social Computing has been used interchangeably with Enterprise 2.0 or Enterprise Social Applications, however, IBM and Microsoft have created Social Computing research centers and Forrester has started to use the term in describing next generation enterprise collaboration. Social Computing is the use of technology to support sharing of information and enabling collaboration through social networks and to tap into the value of the “Wisdom of Crowdsâ€

[rscheele]

I think it's a great view on social computing..

But i think people want to see how Alfresco is exactly going to implement social computing tools, and what it is going to look like and how information workers can interact with these tools through one single (RIA) interface.

I saw a screenshot of the upcoming Alfresco Networks UI, can someone please post hier more views so we can discuss about it?

[dmatejka]

I see a future of my company business model in social computing, so Im quite happy to see that alfresco is going that way,…..

Actually I would love to see some of it in alfresco websites,..

what about to implement social tagging and bookmarking into alfresco wiki and forum?… also comments allowed in alfresco wiki could be interesting feature (some users may not be on a level to write a wiki article, but they could post some interesting notes to the topic in the article)

BTW: Is there any way to register for all alfresco services in a one place?.. I have 4 different identities across alfresco's forum, wiki, jira and web client.. is there any reason why it is not single sign-on? … we are just trying to implement LDAP authorization .. so Im curious :roll:
Rolling Eyes

Best regards,

Daniel

[rscheele]

I do indeed think the best way to experiment with social services in Alfresco is to try them out on http://www.alfresco.com (wiki, forum, etc), and see how users react and interact on these changes.

[rdanner]

I see a future of my company business model in social computing, so Im quite happy to see that alfresco is going that way,…..

Actually I would love to see some of it in alfresco websites,..

what about to implement social tagging and bookmarking into alfresco wiki and forum?… also comments allowed in alfresco wiki could be interesting feature (some users may not be on a level to write a wiki article, but they could post some interesting notes to the topic in the article)

BTW: Is there any way to register for all alfresco services in a one place?.. I have 4 different identities across alfresco's forum, wiki, jira and web client.. is there any reason why it is not single sign-on? … we are just trying to implement LDAP authorization .. so Im curious :roll:
Rolling Eyes

Best regards,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

We learned last week that Single Sign On is on it's way.

[dmatejka]

thank you for your replay.

finally they have posted presentations from San Jose event.
Actually, there is much more than I have ever expected. They have posted whole event as a streamed presentations. GREAT! So many interesting news! The future of alfresco looks really wonderful.
I really appreciate all the the stuff they are planning to do and I cannot wait till august . If anybody interested look at the
http://hosted4.alfresco.com/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/02c191ad-f5e8-11dc-a154-a520a11ea1e1/...

but expect to spend a lot of hours watching.. because once you start. you cannot stop..  :wink:

[shmoula]

Hi Daniel,

We learned last week that Single Sign On is on it's way.

And what about something like OpenID?

[norgan]

Hi smoula,

And what about something like OpenID?

You could integrate Alfresco with Liveray and do it this way. Looked good with a prototype, I saw at some colleagues place.

Regards, Norgan

[suman4674]

What is current status for OpenID integration with Alfresco?
Our organization is looking for OpenID authentication for Alfresco.Please send some useful pointers for OpenID integration with Alfresco.

Thanks
Suman

[maxtsai]

Any updates on OpenID? Or, sharing guidelines on how to incorporate OpenID for Web Script development for authentications? I am in particular interested in the Google gadget. Thanks