This article explores the various stances and ideas that firms must both heed and consistently adapt to in the perpetuation of the Web 2.0 phenomenon of online social networks (OSNs). Within the article, the sociological implications of OSNs are explored before discussing various strategies, opportunities, and problems that are associated with the continued growth of OSNs within and outside of ...

Ten years have passed since the appearance of the first major online social networks as well as the standardization of Semantic Web technology. In this presentation, we will look at whether Semantic Web technologies have fulfilled their promise in improving the online networking experience, and conversely, the extent to which online networking helped improve the Semantic Web itself.

In this paper, we propose to investigate three main social ontological schools – practice theory, assemblages theories and actor-network theory – to focus on the assemblage theory, and to clarify social ontology underlying the last one, for finally discussing its contribution in the debate on the philosophies of the (social)Web, in order to specify what social ontology for social web.

We present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the Nexus site we were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body. We observed and measured social network phenomena such as the small world effect, clustering, and the strength of weak ties. Using the rich profile data provided by the users we were able to ded...

The focus of this paper is a social web site, Udderly Fantastic, that has been developed and implemented for the Australian dairy farming industry with the overarching goal of providing ‘a place for dairy-minded people to creatively celebrate the business.’ The aim of the study is to examine how an industry-wide social web site contributes to the creation of a sense of community amongst its mem...

The Web services paradigm has enabled an increasing number of providers to host remotely accessible services. However, the true potential of such a distributed infrastructure can only be reached when such autonomic services can be combined together as parts of a workflow, in order to collectively achieve combined functionality. In this paper we present our work in the area of automatic workflow...

Scholars have argued that online social networks and personalized web search increase ideological segregation. We investigate the impact of these potentially polarizing channels on news consumption by examining web browsing histories for 50,000 U.S.-located users who regularly read online news. We find that individuals indeed exhibit substantially higher segregation when reading articles shared...

The web content in present scenario is mainly comprised of Social media systems such as blogs, photo and link sharing sites and on-line forums. . Web Usage Mining is the application of data mining techniques in the field of social networks to discover exciting usage patterns from SNS data and to serve the needs of SNS applications in a better manner. The major use of web usage mining techniques...

The existence of online social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community organization. On the other hand, security and privacy concerns need to be addressed for creating such applications. Improving social network access control systems appears as the first step toward addressing the existing ...