Cross-linking Folksonomies

Harith Alani

Multiple SNS Accounts

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Open Social Networks?• Strong push towards opening up social networking to support portability of data

across various sites

• The race is on:– Google:

• Open Social API: a common API for all social networking sites to use• Social Graph API: for tracing public connections between people across various sites• Friend Connect: code for fast and easy deployment of social networking spaces on websites

– MySpace: Data Availability • Allows users to select other sites to share their MySpace profiles with• In partnership with eBay, Yahoo!, Twitter, and Photobucket

– Facebook: Connect• Allows users to connect their profiles to other sites using various authentication and privacy controls

– Data Portability: • to promote openness and sharing of identity, photos, tags, videos, etc.• Develops protocols, standards, best practices,• Supported by Facebook, Google, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and many others

Social Network Aggregators

folksonomy folksonomy

• Cross-folksonomy analysis for:– Community identification

– Tag evolution tracking

– Influence of folksonomies

– Richer user profiling

– Personalised Recommendations

– Security!