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Topickr: Flickr Groups and Users Reloaded

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators. Flickr.com is such an example of an onli ...

IDIAP2008

Analyzing Flickr Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

There is an explosion of community-generated multimedia content available online. In particular, Flickr constitutes a 200-million photo sharing system where users participate following a variety of social motivations and themes. Flickr groups are increasin ...

ACM2008

Analyzing Flickr Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

IDIAP2008

On Wireless Social Community Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Peter Marbach

Wireless social community networks are emerging as a new alternative to provide wireless data access in urban areas. By relying on users in the network deployment, a wireless community can rapidly deploy a high-quality data access infrastructure in an inex ...

2008

Friend-to-Friend Computing: Building the Social Web at the Internet Edges

Wojciech Galuba

The current Social Web is centralized. Large information silos store all the users’ profiles, their social links and much of the other personal data. In return for the reliable service the users allow their data and activities to be data mined by the servi ...

2008

Feed-oriented awareness services for e-logbook mobile users

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The e-logbook is a collaborative web-based environment deployed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It consists of an activity-oriented space where a community of educators, teaching assistants and students can form groups, con ...

2008

To Tag or Not to Tag ? Harvesting Adjacent Metadata in Large-Scale Tagging Systems

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Sebastian Michel, Adriana Budura

We present HAMLET, a suite of principles, scoring models and algorithms to automatically propagate metadata along edges in a document neighborhood. As a showcase scenario we consider tag prediction in community-based Web 2.0 tagging applications. Experimen ...

ACM2008

Annotations of maps in collaborative work at a distance

Mauro Cherubini

This thesis inquires how map annotations can be used to sustain remote collaboration. Maps condense the interplay of space and communication, solving linguistic references by linking conversational content to the actual places to which it refers. This is a ...

EPFL2008

Open source corporate strategy (OSCS)

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

This doctoral dissertation defines and sheds light on a nascent phenomenon in management, informally referred to as "crowdsourcing". I term this concept Open Source Corporate Strategy, or OSCS, which borrows insights from the open source innovation literat ...

EPFL2008

Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

Despite the extreme diversity of Web applications, one can find similarities among them. This paper proposes an answer to the question of knowing whether it is possible to conceptually represent different Web applications in a common manner such that they ...

2008