Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar.

Abstract: An extended collaboration event monitoring system monitors users' interactions with computer software applications and detects and extracts events. The system intelligently determines whether the extracted events trigger undetected events or other action items. The system provides the extracted events to a social networking client that translates the extracted events and returns the translated data to the system. The system publishes the translated data to a social networking/collaboration interface embedded into the interface of the computer software application being utilized by one of the users. The system not only publishes the translated data corresponding to a user's interactions with the computer software application to that user's interface, but also publishes the user's interactions with the computer software application to interfaces corresponding to other project team members as well.

Abstract: A process-enabled collaboration system integrates the collaboration tools and applications needed for a remote project into a single portal. The collaboration system identifies the type of project to be performed, and generates a custom collaboration site tailored to the specific project. The custom collaboration site provides a convenient and direct relationship between remote members of a project team and the collaborative tools and information they will use.