Abstract: Offline social facilitation systems, interactions, interfaces, and methods are disclosed for identifying and generating conversation topics, social behaviors, or other interpersonal interactions. An interpersonal network manager determines a set of social suggestions, such as conversation topics, based on current events and user interests. The interpersonal network manager maintains a set of matching values corresponding to each social suggestion, and further maintains information on characteristics of users in an interpersonal networking system. At an offline social activity, the interpersonal network manager scores the set of social suggestions against a group of guests based on the matching values and characteristics. Guests in the group are provided social suggestions based on the score.

Abstract: Offline social recommendation systems, interactions, interfaces, and methods are disclosed for utilizing user interests and characteristics in the generation and selection of recommendations for offline social networking. An interpersonal network manager maintains data on user characteristics and interests, and updates this data based on direct feedback and inferences drawn from various kinds of user-associated information. The interpersonal network manager generates characteristics or other matching scores associated with a set of interpersonal interactions, such as offline networking activities, and selects interpersonal interactions to recommend to a user based on relationships between the matching scores associated with each interpersonal interaction and any characteristics and interests associated with the user.

Abstract: Data management systems, interactions, interfaces, and methods are disclosed for utilizing metadata in the storage, management, organization, and retrieval of items through a visual interface. An associative interface component corresponds to an associative element of metadata including an associative category and one or more elements of associative data corresponding to the associative category. A user may interact with a data management system interface to associate a piece of selected data with a metadata element by dragging and dropping or otherwise adding a corresponding associative interface component to an interface panel associated with the piece of selected data. The user may access the piece of data by causing a search for data elements responsive to dragging and dropping or otherwise adding an associative interface component to a search interface panel.

Abstract: Data management systems, interactions, interfaces, and methods are disclosed for utilizing metadata in the storage, management, organization, and retrieval of items through a visual interface. An associative interface component corresponds to an associative element of metadata including an associative category and one or more elements of associative data corresponding to the associative category. A user may interact with a data management system interface to associate a piece of selected data with a metadata element by dragging and dropping or otherwise adding a corresponding associative interface component to an interface panel associated with the piece of selected data. The user may access the piece of data by causing a search for data elements responsive to dragging and dropping or otherwise adding an associative interface component to a search interface panel.