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Social Software needs to Not Suck

What I want for Christmas
or
Hope Springs Eternal

  • tags (or non-strict-hierarchical organization system–allow nodes to have multiple parents)
  • fuzzy or partial membership to tags/groups (do we dare? would it work?)
  • fuzzy relationships in social networks
  • an rss reader that isn’t just a read-only email client
  • threads/branching in blog post comments (right now, entries themselves are the only branches)
  • merge of blog/wiki/email list paradigm
  • real, rigorous usability studies on social software
  • wikis that are Not Ugly
  • unification of communication across mulitple blogs (merging commentary and comment streams)
  • tags in wikis
  • and a pony