NDLI: How social is social bookmarking?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ram, S. Wei Wei
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 (Ram, S.; Wei Wei)
Abstract	Social bookmarking services allow a user to make her personal collection of favorite web resources accessible by the public. The content of this collection can attract users of “similar minds” and therefore has tremendous potential to enable networking and collaboration. In this research, we analyzed a large dataset collected from one of the most popular social bookmarking services. To understand why there is a large gap between a user's explicit network and her implicit user-user association networks based on common resources or common tags, we compared a users' bookmark resources and tags to those of her explicit network members. Our results suggest that a typical social bookmarking service user does not create her explicit network based on common interests. We discuss the implications behind the gap between a user's explicit network and implicit network and propose solutions to enhance and improve the “social” functions of social bookmarking services.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
File Size	842608
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424489992
e-ISBN	9781424490004
DOI	10.1109/BASNA.2010.5730302
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-12-15
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fans Social network services Image edge detection Communities Clustering algorithms Collaboration Tagging Resource Social network Tag Social bookmarking Delicious
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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