It is thought that the social computing wars have begun. I agree, and I feel that the noise some of these technologies have been making is certainly making big timers notice and attempt to get a piece of the pie. Yahoo is preparing to launch Yahoo 360, which will be their social computing venture. Google acquired Blogger a few years back, Microsoft began a social computing model which was rejected – but I believe they are going back to the drawing board on that one – and we can’t forget about our favorite people Sixapart – the creators of MovableType -. I think this is going to get exciting, especially from a developers perspective. I am also interested to see which idea goes the furthest. Will it be hosted services such as Typepad and Yahoo 360, or will it be development environments such as MT or WordPress. Any which way it goes, you can not deny the impact social computing has had on the Internet within the past year. Some universities are even creating Social Computing programs for their IT and MIS students.

Sign up for the Yahoo 360 Beta if your interested, it is said to launch next month.