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Socializing BOINC
Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez
University of Extremadura
September 1, 2010
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1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Social Networks
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Flickr
40 Million of users at the end of2009.
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75 Million of users at the end of2009.
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More than 500Million of users.
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First Efforts
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First efforts
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Harnessing the power of sociability
Publishing automatically to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Integrating social networks in BOINC
The goal:Promote updates and news in Twitter, Facebook, etc.Obtain more volunteers thanks to the “followers”.
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Integrating Indenti.ca in Jarifa
Jarifa is asystem for grid computing on organizational resources, using BOINC.
Identi.ca is anopen source microblogging service similar to Twitter.
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Why Identi.ca?
Open source!!!Updates automatically:
Twitter andFacebook
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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A Real case
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Identi.ca
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http://www.twitter.com/xtremadurathome
http://identi.ca/extremadurathome
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Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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Interacting with the community
It is important to keep informed your users.Internet users have usually a profile in a social network.Thus, it is important to promote the BOINC community in thosecommunities.
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Questions
[email protected]@unex.es
Icons from Tango and Gnome Desktop projects (Creative Commons & GPL License)Twitter Followme icon by Milos Mirkovic (Creative Commons Attribution)
Opensocial icon by Google (C)
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