This study investigated Social Network Sites and the Professional development of lecturers in Kwara State, Nigeria. The purposes this are to investigate correlation between Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu professional three selected universities. A quantitative research design was used study. purposive sampling technique select 120 participants from sample researcher looks into popul...

Social Network Sites (SNS) as a part of Web 2.0 gain increasing importance in social life. There are different types of SNS being more or less adapted to the requirements of professionals. For a selection of six SNS features and services were regarded in respect to the applicability in the professional life, using medical physicists as an example. Services as groups, calendar, literature servic...

Confidentiality and data handling are important issues for social network users. Ideally, access control enforcement should not depend on the social networking provider but should be under the control of the user. In this paper, we propose a practical, SNS platform-independent solution, for social network users to control their data. We develop concepts that are general enough to describe acces...

A social digital photo frame has been developed. This frame displays automatically the pictures of social network site friends. This way social network sites are integrated in the living area of a person. To check this concept, social network sites, photo frames, privacy, sharing and connectedness are questioned in interviews involving five people in the age 20-30. Also some small assignments f...

Social Networks Sites (SNS) such as Facebook, MySpace, Skyrock.com or Linkedin have become new fields of investigation for marketing. Even though the phenomenon has met with an amazing popular success, only a few scientific works have been published on this subject. This article proposes initially to evaluate the situation by a review of the experts' discourses and, then, a an analysis of the t...