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Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
In conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009)
Sanibel Island, Florida
8th February 2009
Like every industry, the social media industry is plagued with problems that for now, are slowly being solved. It’s important to note the challenges in our industry in order to first identify them and eventually overcome them. There is no indicator from our data that Social Media will go away, in fact the adoption rates of Generation Y, indicate this is a trend, but with that said, let’s first examine the issues in the industry:
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About
A decentralized unified messaging and data exchange project based on FOAF profiles.
Goals
* Decentralized Architecture
* Human Client (appropriate visualization, e.g. friends as avatars on desktop)
Usecases (Protocol and API)
* Find/Search a friend
* Invite a friend
* Authenticate (in order to see the details of a friend's profile)
* Register a new identity
* Become trusted
* Hand over a file to a friend
* Talk to a friend
* Leave a message
* Share Clipboard
Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails
Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”.
C. Cattuto, D. Benz, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008, Proc.Intl. Semantic Web Conference 2008, volume 5318 of LNAI, page 615--631. Heidelberg, Springer, (2008)
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the First Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, page 87-102. Aalborg, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, (2006)
H. Halpin, V. Robu, and H. Shepherd. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 211--220. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)