Contracting the Facebook API

How Did Facebook Outspace Myspace With Open Innovation? An Analysis Of Network Competition With Changes Of Network Topology

A social network service (SNS) is one of the most prospering social media platforms in the Web 2.0 era. In May 2007, Facebook implemented “Open API,” which allows a third-party to create its own APIs and facilitates group interactions. This innovation led to a radical increase in user growth of Facebook and surpassed leading SNS, Myspace at that time. There have been several laws of network val...

Facebook Linked Data via the Graph API

A cybernetics Social Cloud

This paper proposes a Social Cloud, which presents the system design, development and analysis. The technology is based on the BOINC open source software, our hybrid Cloud, Facebook Graph API and our development in a new Facebook API, SocialMedia. The creation of SocialMedia API with its four functions can ensure a smooth delivery of Big Data processing in the Social Cloud, with four selected e...

Places nearby: Facebook as a location-based social media platform

This article examines the growing importance of Facebook as a location-focused platform. Facebook’s approach has been cautious but deliberate. However, following the strategic acquisitions of location-sharing start-ups Gowalla and Glancee, Facebook has ramped up its location-based services: they launched their Nearby feature in December 2012, and adjusted their application programming interface...

Does "Like" Really Mean Like? A Study of the Facebook Fake Like Phenomenon and an Efficient Countermeasure

we had identified a series of flaws associated with the design and implementation of the Facebook Like system. We reported these flaws to Facebook in February 2013, and expressed our intention to collaborate on helping fix them. The Site Integrity Team of Facebook replied in March 2013 acknowledging the inherently insecure design, but they need to spend more engineering time than research colla...