Monthly Archives: April 2011

Personas and Scenarios

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Sumair

In this post I have captured some possible scenarios of our project, since its targeting both the end users and the social enterprise; I have considered scenarios from both perspectives. Let’s name some of the potential users of our product, … Continue reading →

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Establishing ownership of a domain

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Jonny

In order to allow a site owner to control settings about tagging on their site/images, we first need to establish who they are. To do this we decided to follow the same model used by Google Apps and a number … Continue reading →

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Decentralisation through the help of Semantic Web Technologies.

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Deep

Social networking sites now are limited to the management of user accounts that are present in their own network. But there is a need to address the cross networking linkage where a user doesn’t have to bother about the multiple … Continue reading →

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What’s being Researched on Decentralised Social Networking

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Bharat

1. Decentralisation: The Future of Online Social Networking Problems Addressed:- Potential privacy and Information access limited to respective social networking sites. Suggested Solution: – A decentralised social networking framework. Advantages:- High level of user interaction. Users have higher control of … Continue reading →

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What’s new with Decentralised Social Networking

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Bharat

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook Diaspora is what they call it. Four college geeky students thought of developing a decentralised social network which will not be centralised to any business giant like Facebook. They say “We … Continue reading →

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Peer to Peer

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Jonny

Peer-to-peer is “The sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems” (Ding, et al., 2004). This was initially created to allow for higher performance by connecting computers together directly without needing to be coordinated by a central … Continue reading →

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Privacy settings

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Privacy is a big concern when grouping photographs of people together. Facebook has very complex privacy settings to decide who can see which photos and we need to consider this carefully. First to be considered is the privacy of the … Continue reading →

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Week 8

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Today we were joined by Richard Gomer, who is acting as a critical friend to Tag4Fun and provides an external viewpoint on the project. This week we started by discussing and finalising the scope of idea. There were some concerns … Continue reading →

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