Primates have social intelligence, and some say autonomous agents have social intelligence (see: Getting to Know Each Other - Artificial Social Intelligence for Autonomous Robots.)
Cantor and Kihlstrom (1987) redefined social intelligence to refer to "the individual's fund of knowledge about the social world."
And, at that intersection of social software, social networking, and knowledge management, one of the topic areas at The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology will be:
Social Networks and Social Intelligence
* Entertainment
* Knowledge Community Formation and Support
* Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
* Intelligent Wireless Web
* Social Networks Mining
* Theories of Small-World Web
* Ubiquitous Computing
* Ubiquitous Learning Systems
* Virtual and Web Communities
* Web-Based Cooperative Work
* Web Site Clustering
In the phenomenological dimension of social understanding - you could be me, but then again, I could be you. (^:
K-Collector