A hashtag is a metadata marker commonly used on the Internet where it allows to mark content with a more or less shared keyword. Composed of the typo sign “#” (hash), followed by one or more words attached (tag), it … Read More
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
(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
(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
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
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
Social Television stands for technology that provides social interaction in the context of watching TV-programs or related to television content. It is a very active area of research and was named one of the 10 most important technologies by the … Read More
An area with huge growth potential is the use of social networks and/or social networking techniques for business whether it is for improving communications, for marketing or by deriving business intelligence. There are now many different solutions in the market … Read More
Although these may not be considered as pure social networks, special attention should be given to the social sites which are dedicated to vertical markets such as the travellers community (for example tripadvisor, travbuddy or ex-dopplr), films or music. These … Read More
Location-based social networks allow members to share their location through GPS, Bluetooth, email or text messaging. The member of the network may also add comments about restaurants, allow friends to know where you are going, share information, or find friends … Read More
Since the domination of social networking sites as the primary channel of communicating ideas and sharing media, new social search engines emerged. However, these search engines crawl the social networks and index the available content based only on text. Some … Read More
Identity algorithms are used to avoid the pollution of the social graph or provide easy access to potential users. In the process of opening their platforms to the outside world, SNSs embraced or build several APIs. Th e aims of … Read More
