Social Web Related Projects at MIT

WWW 2009 Social Web Bar Camp
24 April 2009

Oshani Seneviratne

Tabulator FOAF Pane

• Allows you to:
  • Browse publicly available FOAF profiles
  • Make or set Web IDs
  • See connections: e.g: mutual friends, QDOS reverse links
• More information:
  • Tabulator home page
  • FOAF pane
  • MSNWS position paper

Tabulator FOAF Pane Example

Respect My Privacy

• This is a Facebook application which allows to express the user's rights to the information provided on the Facebook profile.
• Provides the following usage restrictions:
  • No Commercial
  • No Depiction
  • No Employment
  • No Financial
  • No Medical
• Only expression of rights. No enforcement!
• Allows the user to export the data as FOAF+RMP

Respect My Privacy Facebook Application

Social Computing Agent

• Objective: Find valuable connections w.r.t. social computing by making use of publicly available social data.
• Implementation: Crawler based
• Requirements: The agent needs a seed URI and a rule written in N3 logic
• Use cases:
  • Find a group of people with the same interst
  • Wishlist discovery
• Try it! (Implementation by Kenny Lu)

Social Computing Agent Example