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IFIP
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Semantics of Trust
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Tim Muller
ICWSM
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Privacy as a Fundamental Construct for Social Networks
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
MM
2009
ACM
147views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
Wearing a YouTube hat: directors, comedians, gurus, and user aggregated behavior
While existing studies on YouTube’s massive user-generated video content have mostly focused on the analysis of videos, their characteristics, and network properties, little att...
Joan-Isaac Biel, Daniel Gatica-Perez
HICSS
2008
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Mobile Social Networking: An Information Grounds Perspective
Information grounds are places where people exchange information. Here we examine use of a mobile device-based social networking service as an information ground. The service allo...
Scott Counts, Karen E. Fisher