—Social network information is now being used in ways for which it may have not been originally intended. In particular, increased use of smartphones capable of running applicati...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
The difficulty of scaling Online Social Networks (OSNs) has introduced new system design challenges that has often caused costly re-architecting for services like Twitter and Face...
Josep M. Pujol, Vijay Erramilli, Georgos Siganos, ...
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strang...