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2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...
CORR
2007
Springer
132views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study
—Established in 2005, YouTube has become the most successful Internet site providing a new generation of short video sharing service. Today, YouTube alone comprises approximately...
Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale, Jiangchuan Liu
NSDI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thwart Unwanted Communication
Online communication media such as email, instant messaging, bulletin boards, voice-over-IP, and social networking sites allow any sender to reach potentially millions of users at...
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel, P. Kris...
FUN
2010
Springer
263views Algorithms» more  FUN 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Fighting Censorship with Algorithms
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...
Mohammad Mahdian
ETS
2000
IEEE
220views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
13 years 4 months ago
Law On-Line: A Collaborative, Web-Based Journey in the Law and Social Sciences
During Spring 1998, we embarked on pedagogical journey into unknown terrains -- the terrains of collaborative teaching and World Wide Web instruction. In this paper we present a j...
Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh