SOCNETS in ASIA

Comparison of leading SNS

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How 2 evaluate SOCNETS

SOCIAL NET QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to include APPLICATIONS to spread information
• Ability to set up and customize a PERSONAL PROFILE
  
• Ability for members to COMMENT
• Ability to BLOCK unwanted members
• CONTROL on who sees what
• Possibility to have:
  
  1. Webpage (bloglike) entries
  2. Notes
  3. Picture Albums

SOCIAL NETWORKING

SOCIAL Networks have encouraged new ways to communicate and share information through the use of proprietary encapsulated services.






They include:

• A category of divisions (an ontology).
• Means to connect with friends (user's profile).
• A recommendation system linked to TRUST

THE SEMANTIC WEB

The SW is an evolving development of the World Wide Web that tries to understand and satisfy the content requests of people and machines. It comprises:

• A set of design principles.
• Collaborative working groups.
• A variety of enabling technologies.

Humans use the Web to carry out tasks that computers cannot accomplish without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines.

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