User-Centric Social Networks

Aswath Rao

www.enthinnai.com

User-centric Social Networks?

User-centric Social Networks

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http://myspace.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://hi5.com/

http://www.ning.com/

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SN – What Is It?

Profile

Buddies

Relationships

Social Graph

Sharing Digital Content

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Presence

Real-Time Communication

Chat

Voice

Video

What’s wrong with them?

Within Network

No Cross Network

No Migration

“People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a network, it’s

called the Internet.”

Gary McGraw

What is Desirable?

Just like SNs

Profile

Buddies

Relationships

Social Graph

Sharing Digital Content

Presence

Real-Time Communication

Chat

Voice

Video

But …

Across Internet

No Cross Network

No Migration

Social Networks

User-centric Social Networks

Technologies

Internet-wide Identity

OpenID

Information Exchange

Standardized API

Secure Authentication

OAuth

We can rebuild SN, we have the technology. We have the

capability to make the worlds first UC SN. Better. Secure. Portable.

Can you spare Six Million Dollars?

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