W3C organized a Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, with a high level goal of bringing together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation in a neutral and objective environment where the social networking history to date could be examined and discussed, the risks and opportunities analyzed and the state of affairs accurately portrayed.
Social search, which may be the defining quality of Google's next generation of search products, is any search that is aided by a social interactions or connections.
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