1. USF Department of Computer Science Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing

2. USF Department of Computer Science Associative Thinking Assistant

3. USF Department of Computer Science Problem withToday’s Desktop 3 Topic Hierarchies BookMark File ManagerInternal Links Manager WebSphinx (Miller, Bharat)

4. USF Department of Computer Science Desktop tools are outdated Computer is not a storage container Barrier between local and web Computer is a communication tool, a node in the knowledge base of the world

5. USF Department of Computer Science Interesting Information Sources Google Amazon OLD: Way-back machine NEW:Technorati– The World Live Web Domain Specific: – ACM Digital Library –Citeseer

6. USF Department of Computer Science www.technorati.com

7. USF Department of Computer Science CiteSeer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

8. USF Department of Computer Science ACM

9. USF Department of Computer Science Internet Archive, Wayback

10. USF Department of Computer Science WIKIs

11. USF Department of Computer Science Lawrence Lessig’s Blog http://www.lessig.org/ blog/

12. USF Department of Computer Science Associative Thinking Agent

13. USF Department of Computer Science Web Services Programmatic interface to web data Software agent access to data Helps separate View/Model More robust than “web scrapers” XML/Soap Rest-ful Interfaces

14. USF Department of Computer Science ACRONYM HELL XML/Soap WSDL UDDI

15. USF Department of Computer Science Associative Source API and Registry A common search/link info API A central UDDI registry Allows for meta-search clients with dynamic lists of sources. Clients can access even those sources created after the client itself.

16. USF Department of Computer Science Know more about yourself Analysis of file system –Linking between documents –inward links –characteristic words of documents –what people are referred to –what web pages

17. USF Department of Computer Science New Communication Tools Blogs Wikis

18. USF Department of Computer Science Let me out!

19. USF Department of Computer Science More hierarchies… Blog categories

20. USF Department of Computer Science The Personal Web 2 nd Degree 1 st Degree Nth Degree Personal Web Personal Space consists of highly interrelated files, i.e. a personal web The Web should be personalized to each user, i.e., a personal web. Personal Web-- local documents and “bookmarks” N-degree Neighborhood– can be reached with n clicks.

21. USF Department of Computer Science Connecting Personal Webs People create knowledge-- bookmarking, annotating, linking, synthesizing-- every day. People are lousy about taking the extra step to communicate this knowledge.

22. USF Department of Computer Science A Key Question How much of the information hidden within your personal web is hidden due to privacy concerns?