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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Social tagging revamped: supporting the users' need of self-promotion through persuasive techniques
People share pictures online to increase their social presence. However, recent studies have shown that most of the content shared in social networks is not looked at by peers. Pr...
Mauro Cherubini, Alejandro Gutierrez, Rodrigo de O...
HICSS
2011
IEEE
182views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
The "S" in Social Network Games: Initiating, Maintaining, and Enhancing Relationships
Social network games embedded within social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook facilitate play with “Friends” within the SNS. In this study, we look at different dimensions...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Nicol...
KDD
2010
ACM
215views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
On the quality of inferring interests from social neighbors
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin
ICWSM
2009
13 years 5 months ago
MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...
WEBI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Monetizing User Activity on Social Networks - Challenges and Experiences
—This work summarizes challenges and experiences in monetizing user activity on public forums on social network sites. We present a approach that identifies the monetization pot...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kamal Baid, Amit P. Sheth, Sh...