Web ideas

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Contents 1 Web Ideas 1.1 Social networking, virtual communities 1.2 Future studies 1.3 Next generation community site 1.4 Principles 1.5 Comparisons with other platforms 1.5.1 Principia Cybernetica Project 1.6 Technology 1.6.1 Information 1.6.2 Wikipedia 1.6.3 Platforms and tools 1.6.3.1 Geotagging, coordinates 1.6.4 Social networking software 1.6.5 Visualization 1.6.6 Maps 1.6.7 Networks 1.6.8 Topic Maps 1.6.9 Mediawiki 1.6.10 Other

Web Ideas

Social networking, virtual communities

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Communities

Future studies

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_studies

Next generation community site

• Open, graphic index (topic map?) of relevant sites

  Index other sites using Google (or other) search engine with a number of keywords from ADB database. Extract meaning using e.g. semantic signature (http://www.semantichacker.com/), which can be used as internal description of site => automatic unique content and traffic.

• A vision of unity as the central goal
• Email hosting, email as messaging engine
• Email integrated with Wiki
• Integrated with Google Earth
  • Google Earth Outreach
  • Servlet-based Google Earth tours - Java World

Principles

• openness: Open up all information and underlying DB for different perspectives and direct access
• *user-friendliness*: Make all actions simple and obvious -- and fun!

Comparisons with other platforms

Principia Cybernetica Project

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be

• Rigid/structured, top-down control, not dynamic/living
• Technological ontology ditto?
• Deterministic?
• Finite (reachable end goal)

Technology

Information

• Topic Maps-Based Digital Libraries
• W3C: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability
• W3C: Semantic Web Activity
• Google News: social networking
• Social Computing Group Home
• The TAO of Topic Maps
• Information swarming
• The mission of MINDMAKERS.ORG is to further development of large integrated artificial intelligence systems, with a strong focus on real-time human-humanoid interaction, collaboration and human-like intelligence.

• How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
• The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites

Wikipedia

• Artificial neural network
• Computer-supported collaboration
• Folksonomy
• List of social networking websites
• Self-organizing map
• Media_wiki Semantic Media_wiki
• Semantic Web
• Social network
• Category:Social networks for social change
• Social search
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• Topic map
• Web 2.0
• Web 3.0

Platforms and tools

• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Wordie - "Like Flickr, but without the photos."
• Swoogle - Semantic web search engine
• SIOC: Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project
• FOAF: Friend Of A Friend Project
• XHTML Friends: An XFN search engine/crawler/visualiser
• Google Trends
• Semantic_hacker.com: Semantic discovery

Geotagging, coordinates

• Open Source GIS
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

Social networking software

• Comparison of social networking software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_social_networking_software
• Open_link Data Spaces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_link_Data_Spaces - A Distributed Collaborative Web Application Platform, Social Network and Content Management System written using VSP, VSPX, JSP, and Ajax, atop Open_link Virtuoso.
• Elgg (software): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgg_(software)

Visualization

Maps

• NASA World Wind
• Google Earth Community

Networks

• visualcomplexity.com A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
• visualcomplexity.com Spheres - Spherical Surface of Dialogue
• Valence by Ben Fry
• Universe - Revealing our modern mythology
• http://www.socialgraphcentral.com/: Collection of social graphs.
• Spring_graph Flex Component

' http://www.simonf.com/amfperl/ - AMF::Perl - Flash Remoting in Perl and Python

• [[1]] - Morcego is a 3D network browser written in Java and released under LGPL license.

Topic Maps

• TM4J - Open source Topic Maps for Java

Mediawiki

• WikiViz: http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/urs/SemanticWiki.html - WikiViz is a Mediawiki-extension to visualize semantic Mediawiki-content.
• MediaWiki extractor: http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki_extractor - Extractor converts MediaWiki's XML exports to topic map.
• WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki: http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/
• Semantic MediaWiki Property:Coordinates: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Property:Coordinates
• Extension:IRC Chat: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IRC_Chat
• Extension:SocialProfile: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile
• CSS enhancements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
• Various customizations: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Changing_the_interface

Other

• Boids
• processing.org: Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.

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