What is Social Software?

Since I started writing this blog, I've moved between lots of different industries and issues. A couple of months ago, the content here was aggregated into Full As A Goog, a community of readers that are more technical/programmer-oriented than anything else.

In that time, I've never really bothered to define what SNS is. Part of the delay has been a time constraint, the other part blurriness on defining the thing itself. Reading the Radiant Marketing blog, I came across a definition that I like:

Essentially, social software (or as they refer to it, social media) represents a new generation of tools that bring companies and users into a dynamic, ongoing conversation. They include blogs, digital stories, RSS feeds, wikis and social networks.

Source: Radiant Marketing Blog, "Social Software: What Is It?"

This is a summary of a definition from SocialMedia.biz.