OMPlanet/Description

The Planetary System

We use the planetary system analogy to help explaining the architecture of the OMPlanet network ecosystem.

Here the nodes of the network are the OMPlanet platforms which are the planets. Each user, organization or a community can have its own hosted planet and it will belong to its community. In their planet the users can control their private data and applications of interaction.

Users will be able to interact with each other within their planet and as well with the users of other planets. OMPlanet has 1 to 12 different dimensions of interaction: such as social networking, file sharing, offering services, banking, etc. Users can interact as well cross-dimension wherever such interoperability will be made possible.

In order to increase the flow within the communities and enable seamless interaction, maximum number of such dimensions must be made interoperable within the OMPlanet ecosystem and whenever possible also with other open systems in the Web.

The advantages of the OMPlanet planetary system is that it is community-centric - each group of users controls its planet with their data and services, it is poly-centric - all the ecosystem is federated between different communities, and that it is interoperable - there are agreements between different dimensions of interaction within and between the planets and there are neutral bodies helping to create such agreements. This model contrasts with the cloud computing model where the data, applications and services are centralized in external cloud servers and millions of users are reduced to dependent controllable clients of few corporate cloud service providers.

Of course achieving interoperability of such complex community-based ICT platforms is a complex process involving various actors and challenges far beyond technical issues. We offer as a solution first to keep the space open for creativity and experimentation and second to invest in creating stronger and neutral standardisation bodies within the ecosystem and externally (such as W3C, ISO, etc).

Again using the planetary analogy here the standardisation body is the sun of the planetary system . The sun holds all the planets in the system in their orbits (provides the standards and common protocols of interaction). As the sun is only giving and not taking anything - the one who has the most weight and who decides the rules should not be the one who benefits from it. (In contrast the rules of existing major social networking or cloud computing services are made differently for each service provider by itself and as we know competing companies are not motivated creating rules that is beneficial for all parties, rather they create closed markets with rules beneficial only for them).

• 12 Dimensions - The technical description of the 12 dimensions of the OMPlanet platform

The Real-time Social Radar

The migration of web services from the PC to mobile devices brings new dynamics into social network interactions. New dimensional parameter has entered into the scene - the real time location information.

To use the full potential of GEOlocation information the OMPlanet is developing its own social radar called FreeSonar. It provides real-time GEOsocial networking and activity sharing mobile application which has several innovative features:

1. it is a real GEOsocial network with special user interaction scenarios of GEOmetric pattern projections onto the GEOgraphic map.
2. it has special selective visibility feature based on keywords which provides better way to solve users privacy concerns (users can choose to become visible to each other if they are sharing common interests).
3. it is interoperable with maximum number of dimensions of web services (in the OMPlanet ecosystem it connects People, Places and Events).

• FreeSonar - Free Software Mobile GeoSocial Networking Application for GEOgraphic interaction of People, Places and Events of OMPlanet ecosystem.

The New Taxonomy System

OMPlanet offers a new taxonomy system of collaborative tagging (a folksonomy) called Flower of Life. Each user or community creates a user centric tag-cloud of its own domain called Seed of Life which is then integrated into the main taxonomy called Flower of Life. This is a new way of content organisation, visualisation and navigation:

1. The integrated Flower of Life taxonomy is a combination of all "Seed of Life" taxonomies. Such organisation of tags provides cross-domain linking of people, places, events and other dimensions across the network.
2. The Flower and Seed of Life user interfaces are tag-clouds with new intuitive content visualisations arranged in geometric 2D and 3D patterns.
3. The tag-based content navigation and thematic search of social media from carefully collected content contributed by members.

• Flower of Life - A new type of folksonomy system with geometric user interfaces to serve as a semantic core shared between different dimensions of OMPlanet ecosystem.