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Building Social Software for the Anti-Social

In November, I delivered the keynote presentation at Øredev 2011. It was the second and probably final presentation in the series I call Building Social Software for the Anti-Social. I’ve spent almost four years thinking about the Q&A format, and these two presentations are the culmination of

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Clay Shirky’s classic articles on social software should be required reading for all software developers working on web applications. As near as I can tell, that’s pretty much every developer these days. But I somehow missed Joel Spolsky’s related 2003 article on social software, Building Communities With

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