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Firefox Extension for Applied Social Networking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grinding-out-the-documentation-of-relationships dept.

wanderingstan writes "Outfoxed is my masters thesis project about trust. (Nutshell overview) The extension uses a social network for personalized searching, phishing/spyware protection, file/process validation and more. It's related to del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and those Kevin Bacon things, but goes a lot further. Mathematically, it's based on the network behavior of small world networks (pdf). Built with Javascript, Python, SQL, and XSLT. 366 testers so far, but we need the network to grow!"

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  1. did he say... by bad_outlook · · Score: 5, Funny

    he wanted the network to *grow* or get slashdotted to death?

    bo

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  2. Re:I wish there was a Firefox extension for... by octalman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... filtering stupid posts.

  3. kevin bacon things by xtermin8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried googling "kevin bacon things" and "extensions" the results I got were really disturbing. Please, we don't need any more of these on the net!

  4. more links please by joey_knisch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he needed more random links.

  5. Re:Using social networks for personalization by joepeg · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the one hand, you trust your friends, so things your friends clicked on might be interesting for you to know about.

    Obviously, you've never had a friend relentlessly forward you email chain letters insisting "I know you hate these ... but this one is funny/great/interesting/etc..."

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