Facebook: Social Cloud Computing
Kyle Chard and
Kris Bubendorfer have recently featured in the IEEE Spectrum Magazine on the development of a "social cloud," which would facilitate the sharing of information, hardware, and services by using the computing resources of a person's online network "friends."
The researchers say that existing friendships on social media sites like Facebook could provide a reliable framework for long-term, regulated resource sharing. However, social networking would have to be combined with certain market controls like financial payments, social ranking, or credit trading to encourage appropriate behavior in such a setup, they say. Sharing within a network of friends, according to the researchers, could cut down on privacy concerns and certain inefficiencies inherent to conventional cloud computing.
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