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1. The future of the social networks
January 2013
Autors:
Antonio Valdivia
Yanna Stefanu
Mitka Yanakieva

2. There are 2 important questions to start with
What will provoke changes in the social
networks?
New technological discoveries or
people’s creativity?

3. And the answer is...
Both factors alternate depending on the situation we are
in
In the very beginning of the research, IT
experts showed confidence that now is the
time for the human creativity to blossom and
find amazing applications of the already
existing technologies

4. Which technologies and trends can be used as tools
of the human creativity and in what direction will people`s ideas develop?
During the research we detected 6 important technologies
that will be crucial for the social networks evolvement in
the next 3 to 5 years. The majority of them are in an
advanced stage of their development and can be put into
practice without serious professional IT knowledge.

6. Image Recognition
• Image recognition is in a stage of development
that allows it to be already put into practice.
Imagine that a group of friends takes a photo in
front of the Westminster Abby in London. The
social network they upload the photo to will
automatically recognize and tag the friends and
will also recognize the Westminster Abby and
add its location on the picture.

7. Geolocation
• Geolocation is quite developed as a
technology, it just needs to be
refined when putting it into practice
in applications and web software
that is aiming at everyday users.
Imagine that you are taking a walk in
the centre of your city and you receive a notification on your smart phone
that a couple of your friends are in a restaurant 20 meters away. If you join
them you receive 10 % discount of the menu.

8. Internet of things
•Still in development and needs to be
further improved. Internet of things will
further convert the web into a mist that
surrounds us completely.
We can put the turkey inside the cooker
and the oven will know when to increase the temperature and when to lower
it. We won`t have to do this manually because the oven will be connected to
internet, it can check the recipe and download the software for cooking the
food.

9. What changes will the users bring to the web
and social networks?
How will we behave in the future social
networks?
How future social networks will change
business?
Do you want to see the check list of the most
probable changes that will occur in the web
and the online networks in the next 3- 5 years?

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