Call for Paper: Special Issue on Social Web and Identity

Special Issue on Social Web and Identity
Identity in the Information Society, a Journal published by Springer
Guest Editor: Thierry Nabeth, INSEAD, France

 

Important Dates:

  • Submission of full papers – 31 October 2008
  • Review returned – 7 February 2009
  • Submission of revised papers – 17 April 2009
  • Final decision by editors – May 2009

The social web refers to an important constituent of the latest Internet revolution (also termed Web 2.0), which is the result of the transformation of the Internet from an information space into a social space. … Key to this social process is the development the online identity of the participants that consists of a patchwork of information of diverse origins and quality and which includes both the information explicitly provided by the users (in their home pages, social networking profile), information that can be inferred from their actions (people can express their opinion, and leave traces that are easily available), or generated by others explicitly (for instance when they provide an opinion) or implicitly (when people “vote with their feet” in favour of something or someone).

… Given the growing importance of this online identity, we would like in this special issue of JIDIS to investigate the identity aspects related to this social web.

 

See more details at:  Call for Paper: Special Issue on Social Web and Identity; Identity in the Information Society

Albert A. Angehrn talks about the importance of multicultural collaboration

Making Sense 2007 - Stockholm

Social Attention analysis

The following presentation was done by Nicolas Maisonneuve in the context of the AtGentive Project, (a research project investigating the use of Agents to support people attention) and in this case social attention in virtual community platforms.

Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers

A New York Times article re. a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer, this low-cost network model offers the prospect of broadband service reaching inside many more households.

An additional vector for Rural Wings?

_ José

IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations

IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization Permalink
By Tim O’Reilly on January 23, 2007

IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. Martin Wattenberg, who developed the original version of the treemap we use for our book market visualizations as well as the awesome baby name voyager, and Fernanda Viegas, who worked with him on the equally awesome history flow visualizations of Wikipedia, are the geniuses behind this project.

I found this interesting new on O’Reilly Radar, that I read from time to time.

I remember several years ago we did at CALT some project jointly with IBM (Surf and Buy), related to data-mining for electronic commerce.

— thierry

European Flag images + Fleck

Country flag images for use in any variety of our work (project platforms, reports, etc.) are at: http://europa.eu/abc/governments/index_en.htm
Note: a “Fleck” annotated version is available at:
http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=8ad065892d194359ed1fa81c54b63902b04ae6ea

I am more interested in your feedback on the use of Fleck (1) for our collaborative work. Please let me know here. Thanks!

José

(1) Fleck = “Add a note to any page, then send it to your friends or use it in your blog.” http://fleck.com/

Bubble 2.0 ?

1999 all over again? VCs setting funding records

 A short posting in the Silicon Valley Watcher commenting the return of VC capital in the Valley.

– thierry

AroundMe free social networking platform

Scott suggested me this interesting tool for finding people by skill profile.

Check out AROUNDMe; the ONLY free social networking and group collaboration platform available today and play if you like.

enjoy the week!

eleni

Calendar Synchronization - Outlook & Google

First one to get Google Calendar to sync with Outlook wins! 

-José

Tool for sharing ideas and organizing projects for distributed team

Kerika

Kerika is the smarter alternative to email for sharing documents, ideas and projects within distributed teams

-pradeep