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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
SP
2008
IEEE
285views Security Privacy» more  SP 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks
Decentralized distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where a malicious user pretends to have multiple identities (called sy...
Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, ...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Secure Secret Sharing in Distributed Online Social Networks
—We study a new application of threshold-based secret sharing in a distributed online social network (DOSN), where users need a means to back up and recover their private keys in...
Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer, Sonja Buchegger, Anwitama...
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Listen to me if you can: tracking user experience of mobile network on social media
Social media sites such as Twitter continue to grow at a fast pace. People of all generations use social media to exchange messages and share experiences of their life in a timely...
Tongqing Qiu, Junlan Feng, Zihui Ge, Jia Wang, Jun...
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PeopleNet: engineering a wireless virtual social network
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
Mehul Motani, Vikram Srinivasan, Pavan Nuggehalli