What can pervasive computing learn from social networking?
Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal • Simon Hay, Andrew Rice and Joseph Newman • Monday 23 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 • FW26, William Gates Building. If you have a question about this talk, please contact Andrew Rice. Social networking has become a hugely popular Internet service and many aspects of it mirror that of pervasive computing. Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) can be thought of as providing a publish/subscribe service for contextual information, users of Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) update their status to indicate if they are at work or at home (or single!). We presented a position paper at W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking introducing these parallels to the social networking community. This meeting will comprise a presentation on the feedback we got from the paper followed by a discussion/brain-storming session on what pervasive computing might learn from social networking. As preparation please read the position (http://www.cl.cam.ac
