A Wide Open World of Social Networking: Monica Lam, Stanford Engineering
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Stanford Engineering Professor Monica Lam discusses her lab's work in developing an open social network aimed at giving users better control of their data and greater privacy.
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A Wide Open World of Social Networking: Monica Lam, Stanford Engineering
- 1. A Wide-Open World of Social Networking Monica Lam MobiSocial Computing Laboratory Stanford University MobiSocial is supported by AVG, Google, ING Direct, Nokia, Sony Ericsson. Part of the NSF Programmable Open Mobile Internet (POMI) 2020 project.
- 2. Goals of This Class ž Early results in research in social networking architectures ž University computer science research ž Demos of ongoing research ž Android market: DungBeetle ž Stanford Wifi ž ID = eday ž Password = stanford
- 3. Motivation ž Who owns the data on Facebook? ž How many Facebooks do we need?
- 4. Who Owns the Data on Facebook? ž You ž Facebook “You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook”.
- 5. Personalized Search +
- 7. Companies Come and Go ...
- 8. How Many Facebooks? A monopoly exists when a specific enterprise has sufficient control over a particular service to determine the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
- 10. Monopolies When not legally coerced to do otherwise, monopolies typically produce fewer goods & sell them at higher prices than under perfect competition to maximize their profit at the expense of consumer satisfaction.
- 12. Social Internet ž No single owner of users’ data or app platform ž No need to join the same network
- 13. Focus: Social Internet for Personal Interactions Application Platform
- 14. Idea 1: Mr. Privacy Social application platform ž Use our email identities ž Data stored by the mail provider of our choice
- 15. A Social App on Email
- 16. Social Browsing http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/socialbar/ [M. Fischer, T. J. Purtell, M. S. Lam, mobisocial.stanford.edu 2010]
- 17. Email Messages --------------14061063155814361411115211210721210 Content-Type: application/json; charset="us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vYmV0YS5uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9ibG9ncy91cHNob3QvbWNkb25hbG QtaGFwcHktbWVhbC1yZXNpc3RzLWRlY29tcG9zaXRpb24tc2l4LW1vbnRocy5odG1sIiwidGl0 bGUiOiJNY0RvbmFsZOKAmXMgSGFwcHkgTWVhbCByZXNpc3RzIGRlY29tcG9zaXRpb24gZm9yIH NpeCBtb250aHMgfCBUaGUgVXBzaG90IC0gWWFob28hIE5ld3MiLCJjb21tZW50IjoiYXQgbGVh c3QgeW91IHdvbid0IGdldCBzaWNrIGZyb20gcm90dGVuIGZvb2QgYXQgTWNELiIsImNvbnRlbn QtdHlwZSI6InRleHQvaHRtbCIsImlkIjoiMUYxREUzREMtMjE0NS00NUExLThGMUYtODJCMkE4 RjY3MjExIn0=
- 18. Mr. Privacy Applications ž Users do not need to sign up ž Interact with anybody with an email address (university and corporate) ž As private as email ž Looks nothing like Email ž Social apps: glorified mail clients ž Leverage email’s identity, protocol, database ž Instantly usable by > 1 billion people
- 19. Idea 2: DungBeetle Your heart-to-heart conversations are yours. Phone-to-phone communication.
- 20. Demo: DungBeetle ž Please download from Android Market DungBeetle ž Create a new group on the fly using NFC or GPS locations ž Real-time feed ž Social applications ž wePaint ž weTube
- 21. Today’s App Platform Global Social Graph
- 22. Challenge Peer-to-peer (phone-to-phone) applications Can we make them as easy to write as centralized applications e.g. Facebook app?
- 23. Phones Can’t Write to Each Other!
- 24. Talk Through a Messaging Service Messaging Service How to keep the messaging service in the dark? Cryptography.
- 25. NFC: Near Field Communication ~800 kbit/s
- 26. Trusted Sharing of Public Key (NFC) Ian’s Secret Key (s) 1024 bits Ian’s Public Key (p)
- 27. Send Secret Message Ian’s Ian’s Public Key (p) Secret Key (s) Encrypt “I Am “I Am Decrypt p Bored!” Bored!” with s p p, 00101011010… 00101011010… Messaging Service
- 28. Today’s App Platform Global Social Graph
- 29. DungBeetle P2P Platform My Ian’s Backup Backup Encrypted Messaging Service
- 30. Application Platform ž Access to friends ž Group management ž Multi-party applications ž App communicates to friends ž App keeps info about users -- while protecting users from spam, etc. -- without a central server!
- 32. Demos: Micro-interactions with NFC
- 33. Summary Issues ž Data ownership and Monopoly Social Internet ž No need to join a proprietary network Mr. Privacy: email based platform ž SocialBar: social browsing DungBeetle: P2P mobile social platform ž wePaint ž weTube Technology exposure: NFC, cryptography
- 34. Getting Involved ž Tell your friends ž Join the beta user community ž Help develop apps ž Help develop the infrastructure Applications on http://mobisocial.stanford.edu ž SocialBar ž DungBeetle (Android Market)