It has been a very cool year hasn’t it? I am setting off for France now, and will be offline (gasp!) for the first time in 3 years for the entire duration of my 10 day holiday. That’s right, no email, blogging, reading news, Twitter, FaceBook, Linkedin, Twine, Last.fm…oh dear. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Social networks’
December 19th, 2008 - 7:45 pm § in Uncategorized
Submit a paper to SAW 2009!
The “3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009)” is calling for papers – you don’t have to be a die-hard academic or scientist to submit a paper. In fact I encourage those from other backgrounds to do so, as it’s really good for diversity at these conferences,[...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 2:13 am § in Uncategorized
Friend-of-a-friend (FOAF)
The FOAF project is all about building a machine readable web which describes people, the links between them, their interests, things they create and do and many more. It means that you can share and interconnect information from lots of different sources. It is an experimental project. It is a [...]
November 19th, 2008 - 8:24 pm § in Social networks
Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks
“Optimal Marketing Strategies over Social Networks” (www 2008) is a paper written by Jason Hartline (North-Western Uni), Vahab S. Mirrokni (MIT), Mukund Sundararajan (Stanford). It’s interesting because it gives an idea of how businesses can use social networks in an effective[...]
November 18th, 2008 - 9:38 pm § in Uncategorized
Predictions for 2008 – were they right?
The eLearn magazine from the ACM published an article where they had asked a number of scientists what they predicted in technology for 2008. This is focused on e-education but it’s good to see some of these predictions anyway as they concern us all really. This was in January, and seeing th[...]
November 13th, 2008 - 7:48 am § in Social networks
Social network analysis tool
Agna (Applied Graph & Network Analysis) is a tool built for social network analysis, sociometry and sequential analysis. With Agna you can study relationships between groups, relationships between people, and the structure of social networks. The results are graphed nicely so that you can [...]
November 9th, 2008 - 10:06 pm § in Social networks
The profile picture
We belong to at least one social network, and it requires you to have a profile picture. How do you choose? If you belong to lots of social networks do you use a different one in each? PhD comic suggests: Tweet This PostRelated Posts:SLNA: social network analysisHeat diffusion for Social net mar[...]
November 6th, 2008 - 6:47 am § in Uncategorized
Ranking in social media
A cool paper caught my attention today:”A few bad votes too many?: towards robust ranking in social media” – it’s written by researchers from Emroy University and the Georgia institute of Technology (ACM SIGIR ’08). People vote all the time in social networks, be it Dig[...]
November 3rd, 2008 - 10:56 pm § in Personalised search, Search engines
Personalisation: SEO will need to adapt
These are my (educated) speculations for personalisation in the future. It’s a really big area of research at the moment, and this is where I think it may well pop up: In word processing tasks You are writing a document, it identifies which type (i.e dissertation, thesis, blog post,…) [...]
October 22nd, 2008 - 6:56 pm § in Uncategorized
PageRank fails on quality – proved again
IR always belonged to the realm of digital libraries, then the search engines arrived and often IR is associated with this area, which uses a lot of technology and methods from digital libraries anyway. Some experts in digital libraries, Michael L. Nelson, Martin Klein, and Manoranjan Magudamudi di[...]
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