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.
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.
Posted in access by jose.pietri on February 4th, 2007
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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.
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).
