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CoEvolution > Oimp > Socialannotating

Social annotating

The tool for efficient "inter-preneurs"

Team
Initiator : Fabien

Goal

The goal is to provide a simple way to safely write and keep crucial information about your contacts.

In situ example

Facebook indicates that Michelle birthday arrives in 3 days. Now is the time to think about an original present. Instead of writing in on a piece of paper why not write on her profile but without her knowing it ?

When you go on LinkedIn and see her profile again you can see that she has amongst her contact a co-worker. By seeing that you are actually looking for a present for her you decide to contact her co-worker.

Targeted Market

Serious social networkers who are technology savy.

Proposed solutions

• Browser script for Firefox/Safari that displays on top of each profile of the most famous social network websites (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) a small box to :
  • associate the current profile to an existing contact you have
  • add information as a text note about the current profile
    • propose completion to facilitate networking (detect when you type a name using caps)
  • search on different search engine for the current profile
  • add the current profile to a pre-defined category (example : artist, professional, etc)
  • import/export Outlook profile with notes

Prototype visualization

Sites to overlay

• LinkedIn (for professional contact)
• Facebook (for professional and personal contacts)
• any site based on user-personalized list of websites
• Gmail (email and for online chat, icing on the cake)
• Meebo (for online chat, icing on the cake)
• Twitter

Technical propositions

• Using GreaseMonkey for Firefox overlay and simple SN detections based on URL patterns.
• Use directly § ShiftSpace for layer management

bold text represents ID of each table.

• Functionnality X us request Y on tables A and B

API interface (default type=string):

• Read
  • possible_ids[persons_ids] = possible_person_names(DB:ref,user_typed_text);
  • interface:HTML = display_person_from_DB(DB:ref,current_url);
  • person_id = url_to_person(current_url);
• Write
  • DB:ref = modify_person_from_DB(DB:ref,person_id, newdata);
  • DB:ref = add_person_to_DB(DB:ref,current_url, newdata);

Abstraction of the problematic

Social networks provide online way to publish personal information and connect with contacts but usually no way to write a personal note about someone without publishing it.

• You visit the profile page of X on a SocialNetwork SNn
• X is also on SNa SNb and SNc
• you want to write a personal note Nx on X without restricting it to SNn but seing also Nx when you see X on SNa SNb and SNc
• you want to contact X with a contact Y of yours

How do you cope with such situations ?

Inspirations

• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

References

• Le peuple des connecteurs : Ils ne votent pas, ils n'étudient pas, ils ne travaillent pas... mais ils changent le monde by Thierry Crouzet

To integrate

• The Emergence of The Relationship Economy: The New Order of Things to Come
• Don Steiny (personal website) during AIMeetup94 (Emergence in Social Networks) said similar projects already exist, references?
• ClaimID
• OpenSocial http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
• SIOC : Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
  • provides a Semantic Web ontology for representing rich data from the Social Web in RDF.
  • To use with FOAF, etc

Potential alternatives

• Reframe It reviewed by RWW, April 2009