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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Facebook ride connect
Ride Connect is a tool integrated into the social networking site Facebook's (www.Facebook.com) event planning feature. Ride Connect helps people coordinate transportation t...
John M. Booher, Balakrishna Chennupati, Nina S. On...
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
RIDE
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Exploiting Planned Disconnections in Mobile Environments
We present the notion of a distributed database made up entirely of mobile components. Since disconnections will be frequent in such an environment, we develop a disconnection and...
JoAnne Holliday, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
P2P
2008
IEEE
102views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Free-Riding, Fairness, and Firewalls in P2P File-Sharing
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algor...
Jacob Jan-David Mol, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J....
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users
Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is equally “social” and its impact the same for all users, we examine how Facebook ...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, Cameron Marlow