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Monetizing blogs: revenue streams of individual blogs

The growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications and social computing has fuelled many interesting phenomena surrounding these technologies. This study examines the value creating potential of blogging – one of the most popular Web 2.0 applications, from an individual blogger’s perspective. Drawing from previous research and recent practical developments, different revenue streams that bloggers c...

Members: Division of Medicinal Chemistry Abstracts-234 th ACS National Meeting

Towards Improved Music Recommendation: Using Blogs and Micro-Blogs

With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web and the rise of social media, new approaches in Music Recommendation evolve. The current study investigates how blogs and micro-blogs can improve the perceived quality of music recommendation. A literature review and expert interviews are conducted to identify important topics regarding (micro-) blogs and Music Recommendation. Subsequently, the pr...

The X - Ray Photoionized Wind in Cen X - 3 / V 779 Cen

We analyze the ASCA spectrum of the Cen X-3 X-ray binary system in eclipse using atomic models appropriate to recombination-dominated level population kinetics in an overionized plasma. In order to estimate the wind characteristics, we first fit the eclipse spectrum to a single-zone photoionized plasma model. We then fit spectra from a range of orbital phases using global models of photoionized...

Opinion Mining From Blogs

With the growing popularity of the Web 2.0, we are more and more provided with documents expressing opinions on different topics. Recently, new research approaches were defined in order to automatically extract such opinions on the Internet. Usually they consider that opinions are expressed through adjectives and they extensively use either general dictionaries or experts in order to provide th...