Picnic - a platform for sharing pictures and socialize people

• Main Author: Putz, Daniel Robert
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Växjö universitet, Matematiska och systemtekniska institutionen 2007
• Subjects: Personalization; Pictures; File Sharing; Socializing; Metadata; Computer Sciences; Datavetenskap (datalogi)
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1388

The internet itself is continuously changing. Since it was widely introduced, the users’ main focus has shifted from a communication tool, to a huge file sharing pool, to a marketing tool, to an information gathering and information reproducing tool. Nowadays the way of sharing files needs to be reconsidered, because more and more private information is shared over the internet. The common file sharing applications are no longer appropriate for today’s purposes. Also the common way of socializing people is not up to date anymore. Sharing files already implies a communication between users. But why do we not use the given information of shared data in order to socialize them? This thesis discusses the problematic domains of sharing images and socializing and introduces a tool named Picnic that has been conceived and implemented in order to overcome those problems.