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The Four "Co"s I have over the past years talked about the four "Co"s that make up social tools: Communication: instant messaging, e-mail, Web conferencing, streaming video and voice tools, and other messaging solutions Coordination: calendaring, task and project management, contact management, and related technologies Collaboration: file and application sharing, discussion, wikis, blogs and other shared-space technologies Community: social networking, swarmth (digital reputation, also called karma or whuffie), group decision and other explicit community supports. Increasingly, these technologies just won't stay put. The features of specific products are beginning to expand with greater functionality and transcend any single "Co" to the point that each "Co" is no more than a convenient handle rather than a distinct market niche. This convergence will lead to a collision of many sorts of products, with widely varying starting points and orientations, and could lead to a wholesale recasting of product categories that we almost take for granted. A Blurrage of Instant Messaging Past Social Commentary Columns: · The Ethics and Etiquette of Social Networks · Handicapping Social Networking Business Models · Wikis are Wicked Good · The Barriers of Content and Context · The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking You could take any social technology as an example to poke at, as a way to make my case. I am picking out instant messaging: first, because I have been doing a lot of research in that space, but also because it is being rapidly pulled way beyond the communication area and into the other three "Co"s. Consider just a few examples of how instant messaging has been elaborated with features to support far more than basic communication: In Microsoft's 3degrees, the core MSN instant messaging technology has been extended to support social groups sharing streamed music and digital photos. The sharing of digital pho
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