Introductory Task

1. In English what is social software about?

Working with other people who share your interests.

Using software to allow you to communicate with others.

Using the Internet for all these activities

 2. What is the web technology that allows us to do this?

Web 2.0

3. What was the first computer game?

Pong developed by Atari in 1972 was the first commercial game

4. What sport did it resemble?

Table Tennis

5. What social factor did we see emerging with computer games? What caused this to end?

At first it was rather isolating, but recent online games have created social communities of players