Social Web Report

Social web applications are swamping my feed reader inbox.

If I tell you my Google Reader has returned 6 items from the Feed My App website today already, each of them a new social application, then you start to get an idea of how many of these social applications are out there.

Go to the Feed My App website and you’ll see they featured 283 applications in the month of May 2008. Their archive reveals a total  of 2,964 featured since the site began back in June 2007.

No in case you’re new to the world of social applications let me recap: social applications (apps for short) are software tools which enable people to socialise in a variety of ways online. So the most commonly known ones today are social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, but alo recommendation sites like LastFM and Digg, bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us and wiki host collaboration services like Wikidot.

Hear “Social web apps” – think sharing, collaboration and participation.

Feed My App is a terrrific website. You can sign up for any of these applications – I have done and they’re fun. They’re all free (probably). But how many bookmarking sites can the online world support? Likewise with recommendation sites, and so on?

While I believe the social web is here to stay and will become a way of life for future generations, I do wonder what will happen to the housands of apps being sent to my inbox.