Computer-supported Collaboration - Major Applications

Major Applications

Applications that imply certain kinds of collaboration include:

  • electronic meeting rooms or other live group support systems
  • desktop conferencing and videoconferencing systems,
  • large public wikis employing collaborative authorship
  • weblogs ("blogs") as small-group collaboration tools, along with e-mail, text-chat
  • SMS messaging, audio and video chat, audio and video "podcasting"
  • the "blogosphere" - weblogs as large-scale collaboration tools
  • web-broadcast syndication tools (RSS and Atom)
  • web-broadcast aggregation tools (automated notification, clipping services, filtering, weighting)

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