Presented to TMC editors

1. User-Centric Social Networks Aswath Rao www.enthinnai.com

2. User-centric Social Networks?

3. User-centric Social Networks

10. SN – What Is It?

11. Profile

12. Buddies

13. Relationships

14. Social Graph

15. Sharing Digital Content

19. Presence

20. Real-Time Communication

21. Chat

22. Voice

23. Video

24. What’s wrong with them?

25. Within Network

26. No Cross Network

27. No Migration

28. “ People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a network, it’s called the Internet.” Gary McGraw

29. What is Desirable?

30. Just like SNs

31. Profile

32. Buddies

33. Relationships

34. Social Graph

35. Sharing Digital Content

36. Presence

37. Real-Time Communication

38. Chat

39. Voice

40. Video

41. But …

42. Across Internet

43. No Cross Network

44. No Migration

45. Social Networks

46. User-centric Social Networks

47. Technologies

48. Internet-wide Identity

49. OpenID

50. Information Exchange

51. Standardized API

52. Secure Authentication

53. OAuth

54. We can rebuild SN, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the worlds first UC SN. Better. Secure. Portable. Can you spare Six Million Dollars?

55. EnThinnai Demo

56. OpenID for authentication

57. Identification of a buddy

58. Buddy is a unilateral relationship

59. Granting visa to enter your space

60. That too a restricted one

61. Managing the buddy list

62. Availability status

63. Not your brother’s presence

64. Aggregated from multiple inputs

65. Ability to set a value specific to a buddy

66. Pull, not push

67. Only buddies can pull

68. Track the tracker

69. Contact information

70. Dynamically updated

71. Permission based

72. Not your father’s address book

73. Sharing a note

74. Not sending it

75. Again permission based

76. Only buddies can share

77. Pull, not push (mostly)

78. Whitelist based email?

79. File sharing

80. End of demo

81. Marketing Strategy

82. Consumer market?

83. Enterprise market!

84. Need your input