The SoNet Project

Slide 1: SoNet Michele Dalla Torre 16/4/2008

Slide 2: SoNet What is Web2.0 ● Web2.0 in FBK and SoNet project ● Research in SoNet: ● Theoretical ● Applied ● Case study: FBK social network ●

Slide 3: What is Web2.0 According to Tim O'Reilly: “ Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”

Slide 4: Web2.0 in FBK and SoNet Project

Slide 5: Theoretical research in SoNet Aim: studying characteristics of the networks ● Collaboration between scientific and humanistic ● sciences Purposes of SoNet: ● bring groundbreaking contributes to the – characterization of social networks and their evolution in time provide new advanced services to the users –

Slide 6: Applied research in SoNet Aim: developing a real social networking system ● Target: FBK researchers ●

Slide 7: Case study: FBK social network New way of researching and sharing knowledge ● Four words: ● aggregation – sharing – collaboration – dissemination –

Slide 8: Case study: FBK social network Strategies: ● “eat your own dog food” – champions and word of mouth – controlled viral spreading – “always in Beta” – prosumer (producer + consumer) – Purposes: ● create a social networking platform: a web based internal – portal collect data for theoretical research –

Slide 9: sonet.fbk.eu is already here... The future is already here – it's just not ● evenly distributed. William Gibson quoted in The Economist December 4, 2003

Slide 10: Credits Images: http://vismac2004.itc.it/foto/foto.htm ● http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2201/2100634092_ecaf9bae2a.jpg ● http://www.ikaro.net/articoli/img/428.jpg ● http://blog.imedexchange.com/images/LuckyOliver-1696379-blog-networking.jpg ● http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/social_network_id469214_size440.jpg ● http://www.stonesouptech.com/_files/img/img_24.jpg ● http://www.andreabelardi.it/wp-content/web2logo.gif ● Bibliography: [W20] Tim O'Reilly. “What Is Web 2.0. Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software” 2005 Avail- ● able at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/whatisweb20.html [LIN] Alberto L. Barabási "Linked: The New Science of Networks" (Perseus, Cambridge, MA, 2002) ● [WS] Tim BernersLee, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel J. Weitzner (August 2006). "Creating a Science of the ● Web". Science 313 (11). [TR] Paolo Massa "A Survey of Trust Use and Modeling in Current Real Systems" Chapter published in Book "Trust in Eservices: ● Technologies, Practices and Challenges", Idea Group, Inc. 2007 [REC] Paolo Massa, Paolo Avesani "Trust-aware Recommender Systems" Proceeding of ACM Recommender Systems Confer- ● ence, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - 2007 [PEW] Pew Internet Project. “Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview”. Available at ● http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp