The emergence of Web 2.0 has brought along the trend of community. It is also the trend that contributes to socialization of the Internet. The essence of Web 2.0 is creation and sharing which give rise to social networking communities such as Blog, Wikipedia and Facebook. Through Wikipedia, Blogs, Facebook and other kinds of social networking websites, interactive relationship and bridge of kno...

LinkedIn is one of the most popular social networking sites that is used for professional purposes and it is the world’s largest professional network as well. The aim of this study is to explore the uses and gratifications of LinkedIn among users in Turkey. For this, a two-stage approach was used. In the first stage, a total of 45 open-ended questionnaires were collected and 33 closed-ended ite...

Software defined networking (SDN) is a developing technology which completely changes the architecture and working of traditional networks. There has been growing urgency among networking developers to come up with a new set of devices to support Software Defined Networks and to implement better services in SDN compared to traditional networks. During these activities, security of the packets i...

This study combines the theories of international business and management with network theory in order to examines the networking activities of foreign affiliates. It focuses on a specific kind of network, which is taking place between firms based in geographic proximity. A comparative analysis between foreign and indigenous firms in selected professional service industries located in Central L...

Design and production of small series for specific customer target groups in collaborative networks can help companies to increase their competitiveness. This paper aims to describe a new framework of services for collaborative networking for on-demand productions. After describing the business processes that need to be supported by innovative tools for partner search and collaborative producti...

Can we apply the best of Web 2.0 principles to an educational context? More specifically can we use this as a means of shifting teaching practice to a culture of sharing learning ideas and designs? This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which aims to provide a mechanism for sharing, discussing and finding learning and teaching ideas and designs. We describe the developme...

Artificial Intelligence techniques have been instrumental in helping users to handle the large amount of information on the Internet. The idea of recommendation systems, custom search engines, and intelligent software has been widely accepted among users who seek assistance in searching, sorting, classifying, filtering and sharing this vast quantity of information. In this paper, we present a c...

This paper describes a design and development methodology used to facilitate the collection of information contained on Social Networking sites. It facilitates the ability to record data explicitly used by individuals, using Web 2.0 technology, to host their profiles and allows others to view, respond to, and share this information. The tool uses unobtrusive methods, to eleviate the problems of...

This study explored the use of social networking web technology for educational purposes. A social networking site, The Hive, made use of this technology in an ICT Futures course at the School of Education, Exeter University, UK. The views of a sample of undergraduate students and their teachers participating in this course were investigated during the spring term. The study adopted an interpre...

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number and scale of digital communities (e.g. peer-to-peer file sharing systems, chat applications and social networking sites). Unfortunately, digital communities are host to significant criminal activity including copyright infringement, identity theft and child sexual abuse. Combating this growing level of crime is problematic due to the ever increa...