Social networking federation: A position paper

  • Authors:

  • Wu Chao;Yike Guo;Bo Zhou

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK;Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper proposes the concept and the technology of social networking federation as a paradigm where information on various social network systems can be seamlessly integrated in order to provide users a uniform and semantic view of their social connections. Such a uniformly fused social network provides a single point of access where all information with respect to one's social networks can be queried and reasoned about. The goal of the research is to establish a foundation of integrating and assimilating information within multiple social network systems. We designed a reference model of social networking federation system in this paper, as well as some prototype application to demonstrate its paradigm. We believe our work would provide a novel vision of future online social network.