Abstract :
The past decade has seen a massive rise in Web services and applications that let users create, collaborate, and share various forms of data including articles (blogs), pictures (Flickr), video (YouTube), and status updates (Twitter). Social bookmarking Web sites such as Delicious.com, Slashdot.org, and Digg.com let users submit links to Web content they find interesting along with a short description. Users in these online communities can comment on the posted content (initiating discussions) and rate the articles they find interesting. Thus, social bookmarking sites serve as data aggregators, Web-based discussion forums, and an online collaborative filtering system that can collectively determine popular online content.
Keywords :
Web services; information filtering; social networking (online); Digg; Web content; Web services; Web-based discussion forum; article; coparticipation network; data aggregator; online collaborative filtering system; online community; social bookmarking Websites; status updates; Behavioral science; Learning systems; Social network services; Web and internet services; Digg; Slashdot; intelligent systems; social learning; social network analysis;
