Describes author's vision of what will be the next step in social networking

1. F+
Next Generation Social Network
Sergiy Gladkyy
Platform Architect

2. Goals:
• Have a look on 3-5 years ahead
• Discuss the F+ project

3. Presentation plan
1. IT industry
2. F+ project
2.1. Idea and it’s applicability
2.2. Business analysis and architecture
2.3. Conclusions
3. Presentation end notes, Q&A

4. Innovations
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of
so much to so many in so short a time
Bill Gates, 2001 г.

5. Innovations
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of
so much to so many in so short a time
Bill Gates, 2001 г.
10 years passed from than...

6. Today

7. Tomorrow

8. Tomorrow
“Mobility”
Flexible displays
3D device UI

9. Tomorrow
“Mobility” “Socialization”
Flexible displays
3D device UI

10. Tomorrow
“Mobility” “Socialization”
Flexible displays
3D device UI
Clouds

11. Tomorrow
“Mobility” “Socialization”
Flexible displays
Augmented Reality
3D device UI
Clouds

13. What’s the plan?
Make today what the others will
think about tomorrow
Winston Churchill

14. What’s the plan?

15. Facts
1. Every1.5 years the amount of Internet content is doubled
2006 − 137 Bill Gb
2009 − 500 Bill Gb
2012 − 2500 Bill Gb

16. Known theory

17. Known theory
and what if there were only 5, 4, 3....?

18. Facts
Social network accounts superseded email ones

19. Facts
3. Social networking activity overgrown any other acitivity

20. Facts
3. Social networking activity overgrown any other acitivity

21. So,
Social networking - is a clear trend,
it’s not a short-term toy

22. Are the modern social
networks fulfill the real
user needs?
• Surely, the “gossip” needs are fulfilled
• We asked people about other needs they
might have

23. Needs-analysis
split in sections:
• Goals, Ideas, Motivation
• Information management
• Team work (collaboration)
• Rewards (incl. earnings)
• User Experience
• Integration (external systems)
• Security

24. Goals, Ideas, Motivation
• Limited knowledge on the start
• Many people have similar goals

25. Information management
• I need more info but dunno what...
• Some knowledge is hard to learn
• ... and I have no time for that
• Search is not all. Discovery of relevant -
that’s what I need
• Real practical experience can’t be
transferred by spoken word....

26. Information managment
• People are over-spammed by the info. How
to define the main?
• I need a “universal basket” for all my things
• I want “Broadcasting” - Facebook, Twitter...
• I want attribute anything to: people, places,
events, dates....
• Let the system put it in order somehow....

27. Collaboration
• There are goals that can only be achieved by the
team, not the person
• Let the system tell me, who’s the best to help me
• There are many different methods of
communication: chat, voice/video conf, offline
messages. There is no “the best” method
• I need a platform for public activities (eg political)
• >3 members? We need a PM
• Everyone has own qualifications and own demands

28. Rewards
• Every work must be paid. People are willing
to do so and sometimes money is not the
best method
• Where is a crowd, there are opportunities
for business
• Everyone likes to be praiced
• Everyone needs some more money

29. User Exprience
• No-pain registration is the must
• All updates are invisible (like with Google
Chrome). Who cares?
• The tool must be appropriate for all-day
usage.
• Tablets, smartphones - supported
• Multilingual UI

30. External Systems
• I want to put this piece on my site...
• I want to have a “wall” on my site as well
• Single click for throwing anything in my
“basket”. Web link, photo, note - all in one
click.
• Integration with the corporate systems (such
as ERP). This is for business usage

31. That’s some needs.
-
How would the system
look like?

32. F+ network
•
General Logical Structure
•
Problem Statement & Analysis
•
Architecture (a glimpse)

33. F+ network
acts as
• Data collection & classification system
• Knowledge base (information provider)
• Human-to-human communication system

34. Logical model
• Stores the information and makes it available as necessary
• Keeps the registry of participants and lets them interact

35. Logical model
• Stores the information and makes it available as necessary
• Keeps the registry of participants and lets them interact

36. Logical model
• Stores the information and makes it available as necessary
• Keeps the registry of participants and lets them interact
• Data exchange with the outside world

37. Logical model

38. Logical model

39. Logical model

40. Analytical Facilities

41. Analytical Facilities
There is a need in a tools,
capable to strive the forces in
a right direction

42. Analytical Facilities

43. F+ for the user is...
• Data storage and Knowledge Base
• One can put there virtually everything
• Discovery - intellectual retrieval by relevancy
• Analyze
• Retranslate
• Instrument for a daily work
• Tool for earnings

44. Facilities

45. F+ is different form any
social network
• It’s a real Knowledge Base
• “Social” aspect is collaboration, not buzz
• Full lifecycle - from idea to end result

46. Typical processes

47. Архитектура
some sketches

48. Architecture

49. Architecture, more detailed

50. Finally
• The next-gen social network is nothing like the ones we
can see today
• When the people get enough of buzz, the next idea will be
start doing something (in 3 years max)
• By that time also the Web will evolve to Semantic Web
• The winner will be the first who will manage to combine:
social idea + knowledge management
+ collaboration tools + rewards

51. Somewhat similar
projects
• Witoloby www.witology.com
• MTurkey (amazon)
• Quora (www.quora.com)
• Stackoverflow

52. F+
sergiy.gladkyy@gmail.com

53. Thanks for coming!
Q&A