Introduction
The Mobile Social Semantic Web Client (mssw) is an Android-based social web client as well as a contacts provider, which integrates your distributed FOAF/WebID social network into your mobile phone.
Smartphones, which contain a large number of sensors and integrated devices, are becoming increasingly powerful and fully featured computing platforms in our pockets. For many people they already replace the computer as their window to the Internet, to the Web as well as to social networks. Hence, the management and presentation of information about contacts, social relationships and associated information is one of the main requirements and features of today's smartphones.
We present a social network client which is able
- to read your friends FOAF/WebID based data starting from your own WebID,
- to transform the information into Android contacts (based on customizable rules),
- to merge your FOAF contacts with your existing contacts,
- to add new friends by searching for WebIDs via
Sindice or by scanning QR-encoded WebIDs
- to browse your friends friends (and maybe add them to your network)
News
AKSW at TU Dresden PLT
On June 8, I (Jens) visited the process control engineering research group (PLT) of Leon Urbas at the Dresden University of Technology. We first met on the Leipziger Semantic Web Day where Leon Urbas presented interactive Linked Data applications and decided to have a longer meeting later on. I first gave a talk on the [...]
AKSW Conference participation this spring: ESWC, ICWE, WIMS
Members of AKSW are actively participating in some key (Semantic) Web conferences this spring. AKSW was already involved in the organization of 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011 with Jens being one of the PC Chairs of the Linked Data track and a number of other AKSW researchers serving as members of the PC of [...]
OntoWiki Mobile ? knowledge management in your pocket
The AKSW research group is pleased to announce the first prototype of OntoWiki Mobile, which allows users to collect instance data and refine structured knowledge bases on-the-go. The development of OntoWiki Mobile was triggered by users aiming to gather data in field conditions (e.g. bio-diversity surveys). It allows accessing OntoWiki on a mobile device, even [...]
Screenshots
Screenshots of the Mobile Social Semantic Web Client, the FOAF Browser and the Android components which integrate the WebID account.
(A) The client as well as the triple store can be found in the official Google application market.
(B) After installation, users can add a WebID account the same way they add an LDAP or Exchange account.
(C) The account can be synchronized on request or automatically.
(D) A contacts profile page merges the data from all given accounts.
(E) By using the FOAF browser, people can add contacts or browse the contacts of their friends.
Information
Last Modification: 
2011-07-11 10:40:08 by Sebastian Dietzold