Henry Story talks about Open Distributed Social Networks
Speaker: Henry Story, Social Network Architect, Sun Microsystems
On current Social Networks every user has a limited view of his social graph. The provider on the other hand has a complete view of the network, access to all data, and often keeps ownership of it too. People who wish to link up with friends on different social networks need to convince them to join their network or they must join theirs. Open Distributed Social Networks, that allow participants to link across networks and...
From: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Related topics : global social network users / global social networking
Social Network Analysis meets the Semantic Web: What FOAF Reveals About LiveJournal
The Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) project was begun in 1999 to explore the application of semantic web technologies (RDF/XML) to people's personal details, such as their interests, occupations and personal affiliations, with the aim of facilitating social network data-mining.  We develop here an approach to visualizing FOAF data that employs techniques of quantitative Social Network Analysis, using the foaf:knows and foaf:interest relations extracted from a crawl of FOAF files....
From: Microsoft Research
Related topics : analysis of social network data / analysis of social networking sites / social networking visualization software / software for social networking site
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