An article by Mario Sixtus in the German version of Technology Review entitled “Wir sind das Web [We are the Web]” discusses how social software in making the web less an anonymous space and more of a connected space.
“Zu den Heavy-Usern des Netzes gehören immer mehr ‘normale Menschen’, der Anteil der Computerfreaks wird permanent kleiner”, sagt Ito. Das Resultat dieser Entwicklung: “Es macht keinen Sinn mehr, zwischen Online- und Offline-Welt zu unterscheiden.”
(my translation from German)
["As more "normal people" become heavy Internet users, the portion of computer freaks becomes permanently smaller", says [Ito], The result of this trend: “It doesn’t make sense anymore to distinguish between the online and offline world.”]
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Relevance: Provides a German perspective on social software and an excellent summary of existing applications online.