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CMSC 491/691S: Social Web Technologies

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Spring 2008 Course Schedule (tentative)

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Click the title to download the lecture slides

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Assignments

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Topic 1: Social Web

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Week 128-Jan-2008MThe Social Web

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30-Jan-2008WOur Social Web History, Business and Culture

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Week 24-Feb-2008MGnizr -- an open source social bookmarking and mashup application

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6-Feb-2008WSocial Network Technologies

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Breakout

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Week 311-Feb-2008MDeveloping Java Web ApplicationsAssignment #1 Out

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13-Feb-2008WIntroduction to the Semantic Web

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Topic 2: Folksonomy and Tagging

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Week 418-Feb-2008MFolksonomy and Tagging in the Social Web

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20-Feb-2008WDebate: 'The social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook,Twitter, etc.) has made us worse off as a society.'

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Breakout

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Week 525-Feb-2008MGnizr ArchitectureAssignment #1 Due

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27-Feb-2008WMachine Tags

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Topic 3: Mashups

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Week 63-Mar-2008MWeb 2.0 MashupsAssignment #2 Out

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5-Mar-2008WAjax Programming

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Week 710-Mar-2008MRSS and Atom in the Social Web

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12-Mar-2008WOpenSearch

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Week 817-Mar-2008MSpring Break -- No Class

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19-Mar-2007WSpring Break -- No Class

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Topic 4: Geospatial Web

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Week 924-Mar-2008MVisualizing the Semantic Web by Andrew Winder(Student Presentation)

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Geospatial Web

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26-Mar-2008WEvolution of GIS Technologies in a Web 2.0 World by Paul Swenson

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Model-View-Controller: The Design
Pattern Behind Web 2.0 by Alice Carback

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Google Maps APIAssignment #3 Out

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Week 1031-Mar-2008MCollaborative/social Visualizations by Sarah Stanger

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Enabling the Semantic Web by Joe Roden

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Advanced Goolge Maps API

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2-Apr-2008WExtracting Relations in Social Networks from the Web using Similarity between Collective Contexts by Uday Acharya

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Web 2.0: Service and Technology by Jason Braun

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Geonames

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Week 117-Apr-2008MSentiment Analysis for Blogs by Justin MartineauAssignment #3 Due

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Wearable Computing and Social Networking by Byran Hurley

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9-Apr-2008WAccessibility & Web 2.0 by Anthony VarnerAssignment #4 Out

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Wiki by Yuriy Sverchkov

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Topic 5: the Semantic Web

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Week 1214-Apr-2008MSecurity and Privacy Issues in Social Networking Sites by Kishor Datar

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Mash Maker by Wesley Griffin

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16-Apr-2008WJoomla by Michael Tavener

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Faceted Browsing for Semantic Web by Audumbar Chormale

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Week 1321-Apr-2008MSemantic Web 2.0Assignment #4 Due

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23-Apr-2008WSemantic HTMLAssignment #5 Out

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Topic 6: Blogs

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Week 1428-Apr-2008MBlogs and Business

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30-Apr-2008WInvited Talk: Social Media Analytics by Akshay Java

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Week 155-May-2008MGroup Project PresentationAssignment #5 Due

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Presentation/Demo: snewzr

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7-May-2008WGroup Project Presentation

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Presentation/Demo: Reco-Gnizr

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Presentation/Demo: gnizr-feed

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Week 1612-May-2008MGroup Project PresentationGroup Project Due

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Presentation/Demo: gniviz

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Presentation/Demo: gnimark