Dushyant Vaghela http://explorequotes.com Department of Computer Engineering RK University, Rajkot, India. Abstract—Internet is fast becoming critically important to commerce, industry and individuals. Search Engine (SE) is the most vital component for communication network and also used for discover information for users or people. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process that is mostly...

We analyze the results of a survey distributed to heavy users of social networking website on current mobile communications practices regarding location disclosure. We discovered that deception on location disclosure is a common practice amongst this demographic. We also discovered privacy issues of location are reduced in line with cue accuracy. We discuss the social behavior of deception in l...

Epidemic Intelligence is being used to gather information about potential diseases outbreaks from both formal and increasingly informal sources. A potential addition to these informal sources are social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. In this paper we describe a method for extracting messages, called “tweets” from the Twitter website and the results of a pilot study which collect...

In the era of Web 2.0, social networking sites play an important role in generating online information. People create billions of shares such as web pages or videos with friends on these sites every month. The share on the social networking site is visible to all of her or his friends and could be clicked by them and generates traffic back to the website where the information is from. In order ...

BACKGROUND The Internet has become a popular venue for facilitating sex networking for men who have sex with men (MSM). OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet popular opinion leaders (iPOL) in disseminating information about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), increasing the frequency of HIV testing, and reducing risky behaviors among MSM in Taiwan. METHODS ...

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...

Bookcrossing is a unique website where books are shared among members and travel around the world. In this paper, we study several features of Bookcrossing regarding book flows, book genres and social networking. We first examine the direction, density, length and speed of book flows and find that the US is the biggest source of book flows, while Finland and Australia are two largest sinks and ...