Abstract: An online system and a method for a web-based people picture directory provides collaborative identification of people pictured in the directory. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information and publishing the public profile information in the web-based people picture directory. Next, retrieving a first person's own profile template, uploading the first person's personal pictures and identifying and tagging images of other persons depicted in the first person's personal pictures. Next, cross-correlating and matching the identified images of the other persons depicted in the first person's uploaded personal pictures with profile templates corresponding to the other persons and when there is a match uploading the first person's pictures depicting the identified persons' images into the corresponding profile templates of the depicted persons.

Abstract: An online system and a method for a web-based social networking database that allows collaborative updating of the social network information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person within a group and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information and then publishing the public profile information in the web-based social network application. Users login into the social network application, update their profile information and upload their personal social network information. The system then cross-correlates and matches the social network information from the users' personal profiles to the social network information listed in other persons' profiles. The personal social network information includes names, contact information, pictures and stories of the users' personal contacts.

Abstract: An online system and a method for a web-based people directory provides for collaborative updating of the directory information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database (202). Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information (204) and publishing the public profile information in the web-based directory (206). Users login into the directory website and update their own or other person's profile information (208). The updated information is added to the person's published profile (210).

Abstract: An online system and a method for a web-based address book that allows collaborative updating and synchronization of the listed persons' contact information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person within a group and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information and then publishing the public profile information in the web-based address book. Users login into the address book website, update their own profile information and upload their personal address book. The system then cross-correlates and matches contact information retrieved from users' personal address books to the contact information listed in other persons' profiles.