Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

A blogosphere is a set of blogs or all of its editors. The phrase blogosphere thus refers to all of the blogs. It is a subset of the World Wide Web. The term blogosphere can be qualified: one can thus … Read More

In December 2016, the Romanian government decided to introduce the registration and annual maintenance of the .ro TLD as a prerequisite for aligning “.ro” domains to policies adopted all around the world. Currently, Romania is the only country in Europe … Read More

There was once a lord and a lady who had been married for several years, without having children: they believed that they lacked only that to be happy, for they were rich and esteemed by everybody. At length they had … Read More

A draft of an emergency ordinance of the Romanian government (to amend the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, decriminalizing the abuse of power) and a bill for pardon of detained persons, sparked the anger of people. Sunday gathered … Read More

(Facebook headquarters in 2014) On January 14, 2014, Facebook bought Branch Media, a specialist in content management and content sharing, for $15 million. On February 24, 2014, a Facebook spokesperson announced to AFP the removal of his e-mail system: @facebook.com. … Read More

There was once a little girl in a village, the most enlightened one that one could have seen: her mother was crazy, and her grandmother was still more crazy. This good woman made her a little red hood that suited … Read More

(Diagram describing different types of social media, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conversationprism.jpeg) The term “social media” is increasingly used and tends to replace the term Web 2.0 and covers the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and content creation. Social media uses collective … Read More

  There were two long hours that we were walking in the fields under the sun that fell from the sky like a rain of fire; the sweat dripped on my body and the thirst, a burning thirst, devoured me. … Read More

See bellow selected open research challenges that are currently being investigated by the research community. These are only few of the dozens of research challenges that the research community faces towards the quest for a ubiquitous, intuitive and secure social … Read More

Jacques judged himself simply ignoble. It was odious to remain there, in the darkness, like a sacrilegious spy, while this woman, so completely unknown to him, confessed herself. But then it would have been necessary to leave at once, as … Read More

There are signs that Mark Zuckerberg has politically ambitious, but he denied in a interview with BuzzFeed News: ”No, I’m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.” Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a US … Read More

Social Gaming is a term for games that are based on social interaction. By augmenting the game logic with social aspects players have to deal with each other in various ways to advance throughout the game. While social aspects have … Read More