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Social media such as Weblog and SNS are useful for information gathering purposes in Web 2.0 era. People visit others' personal websites with each other and form online social networks of acquaintances. As an efficient active media for information gathering, the social media require any functions for accelerating information diffusion in the online social network. The paper proposes a mechanism of...
Recently, micro-blogging sites such as Twitter have garnered a great deal of interests as an advanced form of blogging, where individuals can share their experiences, thoughts, feelings, etc, in real time. Additionally, mobile device based micro-blogging applications are now enabling the incorporation of extremely precise location information in the form of GPS-based coordinates. With the enormous...
Social network plays a major role in today's internet technology. FOAF, community, Blogs etc are the few top level social network today. Weblogs (blogs) are today's prominent social media on the internet which allows blogger and the user to interact efficiently with their knowledge, personal details, general information, views and experiences. Because of the popularity and easy access of blogs, most...
Many organisations nowadays are constantly seeking ways to improve their competitive edge and remain profitable. Organisations use new technology as a strategic tool which help create new ways of satisfying customer needs and working practices. Developments in internet technologies have led to the growing dependence on web-based technologies and more recently, collaboration software platforms. In...
Understanding the spatial distribution of people who author social media content is of growing interest for researchers and commerce. Blogging platforms depend on authors reporting their own location. However, not all authors report or reveal their location on their blog's home page. Automated geolocation strategies using IP address and domain name are not adequate for determining an author's location...
Weblogs, and other forms of social media, differ from traditional Web content in many ways. One of the most important differences is the highly temporal nature of the content. Applications that leverage social media content must, to be effective, have access to this data with minimal publication/acquisition latency. An effective Weblog crawler should satisfy the following requirements: low latency,...
Recently, video sharing sites that allow visitors to attach comments to video have attracted a lot of attention. Video also provides a means of communication on social network sites. This kind of communication is expected to become even more popular in the future. One problem is that discussion jumps from one topic to another as users add their viewpoints. Also, conventional video sharing sites show,...
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