1. Socializing BOINC
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Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez
University of Extremadura
September 1, 2010
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2. 1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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3. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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4. Social Networks
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5. Flickr
40 Million of users at the end of
2009.
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6. Twitter
75 Million of users at the end of
2009.
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7. Facebook
More than 500
Million of users.
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8. First Efforts
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9. First efforts
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10. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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11. Harnessing the power of sociability
Publishing automatically to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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12. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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13. 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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14. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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15. Integrating Indenti.ca in Jarifa
Jarifa is a
system for grid computing on organizational resources, using BOINC.
Identi.ca is an
open source microblogging service similar to Twitter.
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16. Why Identi.ca?
Open source!!!
Updates automatically:
Twitter and
Facebook
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17. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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18. A Real case
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19. Identi.ca
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20. Twitter
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22. Outline
1 Background
2 Motivation
3 Proposal
4 Jarifa and social networks
5 Experiments & Results
6 Conclusions
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23. 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 those
communities.
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24. Questions
daniellg@unex.es
fcofdez@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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