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The State of the Art of Social Networking Services. KnowDive: Hao Xu. Contents. Introductions of well-known SNSs Key Web 2.0 Services and Applications Demos for Individual Specific Features Standards and Organizations servicing on Web 2.0 Trends and Challenges of Semantic SNSs.
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The State of the Art of Social Networking Services KnowDive: Hao Xu
Contents • Introductions of well-known SNSs • Key Web 2.0 Services and Applications • Demos for Individual Specific Features • Standards and Organizations servicing on Web 2.0 • Trends and Challenges of Semantic SNSs
Introductions of well-known SNSs • FaceBook, founded in Feb. 2004, Microsoft hold its 1.6% stocks, focuses on college students, famous in America and Europe. Advantage: photos sharing • MySpace, founded in 2003, powered by Google, focuses on teenagers, famous in America and Europe. Advantage: music sharing
Introductions of well-known SNSs • LinkedIn, founded in 2003, powered by SUN, focuses on professionals, famous in America and Europe. Advantage: professional relationships • Bebo, founded in 2006, powered by Yahoo, famous in Ireland and UK. Advantage: open media
Introductions of well-known SNSs • FriendSter, one of the earliest SNS sites in the world, founded in 2002, famous in Southeast Asia. Advantage: stable user groups in Southeast Asia. • Orkut, founded in 2004, belongs to Google, famous in Brazil and India. Advantage: integration tool (SocialStream)
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • foundational concepts of Web 2.0 Blogs, Wikis, Multimedia sharing, Tagging and social bookmarking Folksonomy and collabulary, Audio blogging and podcasting, RSS and syndication
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 1. Social Networking Professional and social networking sites facilitate meeting people, finding like minds and sharing content—uses ideas from harnessing the power of the crowd, network effect and individual production/user generated content.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Social Networking http://www.siphs.com/aboutus.jsp http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.zoominfo.com/ http://www.myspace.com http://www.facebook.com http://fo.rtuito.us/ http://www.spock.com/ (test beta only) http://www.flock.com/ http://www.bebo.com/
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 2. Aggregation services Gather information from diverse sources across the Web and publish in one place. Includes news and RSS feed aggregators and tools that create a single webpage with all your feeds and email in one place—uses ideas from individual production/user generated content.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Aggregation services SocialStream http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en http://www.blogbridge.com/ http://www.suprglu.com/ http://www.netvibes.com/
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 3. Data 'mash-ups' Web services that pull together data from different sources to create a new service (i.e. aggregation and recombination). Uses, for example, ideas from data on epic scale and openness of data.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Data 'mash-ups' http://www.housingmaps.com/ http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ ispecies/ http://www.rrove.com/set/item/59/top-11-us-universities http://www.blears.net/weather/ (world weather from BBC RSS feed)
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Data 'mash-ups' http://www.housingmaps.com/ Housingmaps is a search engine for renting houses. The houses could be showed on the maps through it implements the Google maps API and accesses the Craigslist Database.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 4. Tracking and filtering content Services that keep track of, filter, analyze and allow search of the growing amounts of Web 2.0 content from blogs, multimedia sharing services etc. Uses ideas from e.g. data on epic scale.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Tracking and filtering content http://technorati.com/about/ http://www.digg.com/ http://www.blogpulse.com http://cloudalicio.us/about/
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Tracking and filtering content http://www.digg.com/ More users digged it, more topped it appears. The importance of the information is up to users’ votes.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 5. Collaborating Collaborative reference works (like Wikipedia) that are built using wiki- like software tools. Uses ideas from harnessing the power of the crowd.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Collaborating http://www.squidoo.com/ http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia http://vyew.com/always-on/ http://www.systemone.at/en/ http://www.37signals.com/
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Collaborating http://www.squidoo.com/ “Everyone is an expert on something.” Squidoo encourage users to build their own personal valuable lens.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 6. Replicate office-style software in the browser Web-based desktop application/document tools. Replicate desktop applications. Based on technological developments.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Replicate office-style http://www.google.com/google-d- s/tour1.html http://www.stikkit.com/ http://www.backpackit.com/tour
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Replicate office-style http://www.stikkit.com/ Based on AI and NLP technology, it could classified the content what you input into notes, calendar, events, or bookmarks.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Newer Web 2.0 services and apps 7. Source ideas or work from the crowd Seek ideas, solutions to problems or get tasks completed by outsourcing to users of the Web. Uses the idea of power of the crowd.
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Source ideas or work from the crowd http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome http://www.innocentive.com/
Key Web 2.0 Services and Apps • Source ideas or work from the crowd http://www.innocentive.com/ There assembled numerous Seekers to organize challenging problems and countless Solvers to create solutions.
Demos for Individual Features • FaceBook • LinkedIn • SocialStream
Standards and Organizations servicing for Web 2.0 • Foaf (reusable profiles) • OpenID (reusable identities) • OpenSocial (reusable APIs)
Trends and Challenges of Semantic SNSs • Nepomuk social semantic desktop (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) Semantic: give information a well defined meaning Social: supports the interaction and exchange with others
Trends and Challenges of Semantic SNSs • SIOC-the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities initiative To create an ontology that describes the content of SNSs. To create new more meaningful links between the connections.
References 1.Paul Anderson “What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education”, Technology & Standards Watch 2.John Breslin and Stefan Decker “The Future of Social Networks on the Internet-The Need for Semantics” Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway 3. https://www.linkedin.com/ 4. http://www.myspace.com 5. http://www.facebook.com 6. http://www.spock.com/ 7. http://www.bebo.com/ 8. http://www.friendster.com
References 9. http://www.orkut.com 10.http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org 11.http://www.sioc-project.org 12.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_ MediaWiki 13.http://www.openid.net 14.http://www.foaf-project.org 15.http://hcii.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2006/SocialstreamProject/index.php 16.http://groupme.org/GroupMe/ 17.http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
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