Since we all debated what it is, I thought I might throw up the original coining of the term. Clay Shirky, the perosn most responsible for the term said in 2002: "Social software lets people rendezvous, connect or
collaborate by use of a computer network" and social software is "stuff that gets spammed," though that last definition seems much less useful as my email box will tell you.
Definition of social software
by artgirl88 on January 12, 2006

