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This page includes a distillation of the contents of the more detailed Demo App Functionality page.

The SocialPhysics App helps you manage your identity and social networks as you interact with co-workers, customers, business associates and friends using your everyday tools, websites, shared spaces, etc.

• Unified "buddylist" --shows a list of who you communicate with across all contexts (where each context can be a separate communications medium (e.g. email, IM, etc), or app, or shared space, or ...)
  
• UI for reviewing and editing your digital identities (profiles)
• Social network visualization; ability to overlay several networks to determine common relationships and characteristics.
• Includes a "Microsoft Outlook" plug-in that tracks your email communications and auto-populates a social network. Scans email and constructs a graph of relationships with relationship metrics such as connectedness, reciprocity, etc.
• Includes a Profile "Card" sharing plug-in that allows you to synchronize your profile and contact information with who ever you like. (uses Eclipse ECF and SDO)
  
• Includes a Jabber (XMPP) plug-in (works in conjunction with Eclipse ECF)
  

It allows you to create and update distinct personas for each of the various contexts in which you work. These contexts control what aspects of you, your interests, and your relationships will be visible to other individuals, groups, or the entire web. These identities are searchable through your network of trusted relationships, enabling you to find friends of friends with common interests, specific expertise, and so on.

The app can be extended with context plug-ins that support new and different "social protocols"--cultural conventions about who can see what about whom, what's measured, what's private, what's shared. Using a community-of-interest plug-in, for example, communities can share insights into "what's hot," and who's working on what, or what's not happening that should be. It might provide community-wide and/or individual metrics of trust, connectedness, centralization and so on.