T radit iona l organizations such as the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and Usenix have been encountering increasing competition from new ways of rapid publishing and dissemination, including social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+), blogs with enabled commenting, video posting (YouTube), Slashdot, and many other types of media. “Liking” is replacing traditional impact factor...

Latency and costs of Internet-based services are driving the proliferation of web-object caching. Memcached, the most broadly deployed web-object caching solution, is a key infrastructure component for many companies that offer services via the Web, such as Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube. Its aim is to reduce service latency and improve processing capability on back...

Soziale Netzwerke wie Facebook, LinkedIn und XING unterstützen den Aufbau von Kontakten und bieten Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten für Kooperationen. Allerdings bieten existierende soziale Netzwerke keine Koordinationsmechanismen für Kooperationen an. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Modell zur prozessorientierten Koordination von Kooperationen in sozialen Netzwerken vorgestellt. Der Ansatz basiert auf A...

METHODS Journals relevant to plastic surgery were identified from the 2014 Journal of Citation Reports and their impact factors were noted. Existence of journal websites and links to social media forums were recorded (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube). Twitter accounts for each journal were sought and account data noted. Profile influence was measured by calculation of the Klou...

Asserting that data is vital to business is an understatement. Organizations have generated more and more data for years, but struggle to use it effectively. Clearly data has more important uses than ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, data is being generated with greater velocity, due to the advent of new pervasive devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, etc.), social W...

Building on the extant research on branding and social media, this study examines the nature of an online brand community as a B2B brand communication platform through netnographic analysis of the CISCO LinkedIn Group discussions. The empirical analysis yielded four distinct themes characterizing B2B brand communication within the online community that contribute to the existing theory: company...

U ovom radu dat je opis, kao i pore­đenje interfejsa društvenih mreža kroz korisničko iskus­tvo. Na osnovu detaljne analize glavnih funkcionalnosti istraživanja svake od njih, izvedeni su zaključci o tome koliko za čega svaka njih pogodna korišćenje. Svrha čitave jeste doći do odgovora kojom strategijom uz pomoć koje društvene mreže korisnik može da ostvari svoj cilj.