The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics
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Fundamental problems with today's social networking services block their potential to access the full range of available content and networked people online. A possible solution is to build semantic social networking into the fabric of the next-generation Internet itself, interconnecting both content and people in meaningful ways. The authors argue that, rather than building a separate social networking layer into tools, information space and application architects need to fold it into the technology stacks of clients (the desktop) and the Internet.
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Index Terms:
peering, social networking, social network services, SNS, object-centered networks
Citation:
John Breslin, Stefan Decker, "The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 86-90, Nov./Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.138
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