The Internet has become a major sales platform, assuming a growing importance in increasing the economic growth of a company. Therefore it is of great importance to analyse the incorporation of Web 2.0 tools and their relation to the website success and its design. Through a systematic exploration of the 36 most visited Portuguese e-commerce websites, according to the ranking published by Markt...

A serious problem in eParticipation projects is citizen engagement – citizens do not necessarily become more willing to participate simply because net-services are provided for them. Most forms of eParticipation in democratic contexts are, however, dependent on citizen engagement, interaction and social networking because democratic systems favour the interests of larger groups of citizens – th...

Online Social Networks (OSN) of today represent centralized repositories of personally idenfiable information (PII) of their users. Considering their impressive growth they arguably are the most popular service on the Internet, both by technology savvy but even more by comparibly inexpert audiences, today. Being voluntarily maintained and automatically exploitable, they are a promising and chal...

Social networking is one of the most successful and popular tools to emerge from the Web 2.0 era. However, the increased interconnectivity and access to peoples’ personal lives and information has created a plethora of opportunities for the nefarious side of human nature to manifest. This paper categorizes and describes the major types of anti-social behavior and criminal activity that can aris...

A ndrew McAfee coined the term “Enterprise 2.0” in 2006, using it to describe how organizations could apply Web 2.0 technologies in their intranet and extranets.1 Enterprise 2.0 digital platforms focus on knowledge workers’ practices and output, offering components, such as search queries, that make it easier for them to discover information and create links between information items. Such plat...

Social networking has become one of the most popular communication tools to have evolved over the past decade, making it a powerful new information sharing resource in society. To date realising the potential of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) beyond their leisure uses has been severely restricted in a number of areas. This paper focuses on the application of SNSs in a learning environment and t...

The recent success of social networking sites like mySpace, Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn, Ecademy and openBC indicates that extending one's social network through a virtual medium is a popular proposition. The social networking paradigm can be integrated with the knowledge management field, in which sharing knowledge with others is a central issue. This paper investigates how the social networki...

In the world of e-marketing, new business models are frequently introduced, and new trends have started to emerge. One such latest trend is social networking websites, many of which have attracted not only large number of users and visitors, but also online advertising companies to place their ads on the sites. In this paper we explore online social networking as a new trend of e-marketing. We ...

“Social shopping” (or social commerce), combining shopping and social networking, is an application of Web 2.0 in electronic commerce to benefit from users’ social networks. This paper explores the development of the emergent “social shopping” and related perspectives. It incorporates comparisons between social shopping marketing and search engine marketing. For example, search engine marketing...

The practice of sex work or exchange (having in for money, drugs, shelter, other things) and the risks HIV sexually transmissible infections (STIs) associated with it differ based on venues where partners meet (e.g., streets, agencies, Internet). Although there is evidence that gay, bisexual, men who have (MSM) use social media dating/hookup applications websites to find sex, little known about...