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Chapter 1: Social Computing
T List of friends and colleagues who subscribe to communications from the user and who the user
subscribes to
T User profile and link to profile page
T Current or last status posting
T Ability to mark items as favorites
Figure 1-4
User Profiles
Each of the four major categories of social computing applications defined above contain a common
element, the user profile. A central piece of any social application, the ability to store information about
a user is critical to an application, which allows people to interact with each other.
SharePoint is no different from any other social application in that a user’s profile is an important piece
of the application. SharePoint already supports a central location to store this user profile information.
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), the free version of SharePoint, offers the User Information List.
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