group cognition on social cloud

1. What is the definition of Social Cloud?

A Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing relationships established between members of a social network.

The social network is at least partly based on real world relationships.It do have different type like Enterprise, public science, collaborative, and covers computation and storage.

The resources exchanged need not be symmetric and can represent vastly different capabilities. A cloud-based usage model is used to enable virtualized resource sharing through service-based interfaces.

A Social Cloud leverages pre-existing trust relationships between users to enable mutually beneficial sharing within the context of a social network.

2. What are the possible applications of a Social Cloud?

The potential application scenarios that benefit from Cloud models are immense (from scalable web servers through to data intensive scientific applications).

These are our group cognition, we all have our own opinion, and it seems different.After discussion, we can make a conclusion, i think this is a group cognition.

Since all these years, as cognitive phycology develops, different methods are being used for group cognition, like brain storm, Collective Intelligence and etc. It need much more expertise and time and other tough conditions, than social cloud. Social cloud enables people to get in a group and start to think about questions anywhere anytime. Further more, it enable us to record and share at the same time.

So, social cloud is making a different in group cognition