Vision:True Social Network

We want to design the True Social Network and define a new standard about what Social Network means.

We will enhance the social network concept in several ways.

=Social Network With Wiki Collaboration Modell= First we will fully integrate the state of the art wiki collaboration modell in our social network. This gives us the opportunity of a brand new quality of user profiles. While platforms like XING just provide a better adressbook, where everybody advertises for themselves, the wiki collaboration model enables the creation of a balanced profile containing both, self-perception and other persons point of view.

Of course the implementation of this modell in a social network will be a challenge because most people are not used to it at present. But on the other hand it allows all kinds of social interaction between the users, maybe some that we cannot even imagine right now.

=Integration Of Cutting Edge Semantic Web Technologies And Tools=

The basis of the platform is the famous mediawiki platform hosting Wikipedia, the 7th biggest internet platform on earth. It is enhanced by the semantic mediawiki extension probably the most common semantic web tool. This technology in combination with semantic forms and header tabs extensions allows us to build the first social network that fully integrates:
 * machine readable and searchable data
 * lowest possible entry barrier for people used to platforms like XING
 * the richness, precission and emotion of natural language
 * a network connecting people AND wisdom

To get an idea of the difference between current platforms like XING and what we build, look at the Personal Information section in this profile Patrick Sbrzesny and compare it with the information in XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Patrick_Sbrzesny

Our solution provides better machine readable data for searching people and substancially better human readable data to get an impression about the character of a person than XING does.

Of course we will build a userinterface that lets every user decide themselves, if they want to enhance free text by semantics or just fill out a form.

=Open Source Distribution Modell=

All this will be available for free. We hope that thousands of interest groups will use this software to build their custom social networks. They will all be interoperable automatically because they support semantic web, FOAF and vCard standard. They will also all be accessible by single sign on because we will implement the openID extension in our software. The sum of all the True Social Network instances in the internet will build THE SOCIAL NETWORK 3.0.

=Use Cases=

To make these vision more concrete everybody can write use cases here:
 * Use Case:What the heck a "Semantic Social Network" shell be good for?

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 * Article in different language::Vision:Das wirklich soziale Netzwerk