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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005  



The SocialPhysics Initiative
http://www.socialphysics.org/

SocialPhysics is a new program affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School. The SocialPhysics initiative has two primary goals:

1. Create a robust, multi-disciplinary, multi-constituency community for addressing, vetting and conducting experiments in such issues as privacy, authentication, reputation, transparency, trust building and information exchange.
2. Develop a reusable, open source software framework based on the Eclipse platform that provides identity and social network related services; and leverage this framework to provide a platform for trusted exchange. Framework capabilities include:

* Ability to manage and protects an individual's profile and social network data within their multiple social and professional contexts
* Ability to capture and organizes profile and relationship data from existing communications and transaction systems via plug-ins, integrates with directory and identity systems via plug-ins
* Ability to discover other groups and individuals based on shared affinities

Currently we are in our start-up phase and are in sponsorship discussions with a number of academic, industry and government communities. Code for the open source software platform and an initial identity management / social networking application are under development. The code is not yet ready for public release. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM
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