The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics

  • Authors:
  • John Breslin;Stefan Decker

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Fundamental problems with today's social networking services block their potential to access the full range of available content and networked people online. A possible solution is to build semantic social networking into the fabric of the next-generation Internet itself, interconnecting both content and people in meaningful ways. The authors argue that, rather than building a separate social networking layer into tools, information space and application architects need to fold it into the technology stacks of clients (the desktop) and the Internet.