I have been hard at work during the past few months, creating something very special. When José Luis Antúnez came to me with such a great idea I could not turn it down. YouAre is a global social network that lets you publish multimedia microcontents. It’s global because it takes on relations between people in different fields (personal, professional, interests, …). YouAre lets you publish from texts to multimedia files such as images and videos.

SOCIAL NETWORK

YouAre is a social network that represents a semantic graph. Nowadays we have implemented XFN (metaweb nivel), but the goal is to create a true semantic graph. We are developing a reasoner which will check the consistency of the relations between the differents nodes (or vertex) of the semantic graph. For example, in an ontology representing a basic familiar hierarchy, if a user A sets that he’s the user B’s father, and later the user B sets that he’s the user A’s father, an inconsistency will be produced, as the user cannot be father and son at the same time. In this case the system would indicate an error. In YouAre we want to go beyond simply giving an indication and be able to predict possible inconsistencies. For example, if the user A is male and he sets he’s homosexual, later if he sets that the user B (female) is his partner, the system would detect a possible inconsistency (a warning). We can create a true semantic graph with a well defined ontology. Now we can extract information from the established relations between the users.

MICROCONTENTS

We can publish microcontents in YouAre. There are three different typologies available: texts, images and videos. The texts will have a lenght of 140 characters. We will be able to publish images and videos from external services such as Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, … Also we will be able to upload ours pictures directly onto the system.

Now you can ask for an invitation in order to test YouAre. We will send out invitations in a few weeks. Whilst you are waiting, you can view a set of screenshots on Flickr. Stay tuned to YouAre.