Social Networks and Web 2.0 Papers at WWW 2009

[updated with Tagommenders paper – thanks Shilad.]

The organizers of the World Wide Web conference recently announced the list of accepted papers for this year’s event. In the Social Networks and Web 2.0 track (chaired by Elisa Bertino and Lada Adamic) the following papers are listed (where the paper is available online, I’ve provided a link to the PDF):

• Sharad Goel, Roby Muhamad and Duncan Watts. Social Search in "Small World" Experiments
• Ulrik Brandes, Patrick Kenis, Juergen Lerner and Denise van Raaij. Network Analysis of Collaboration Structure in Wikipedia
• Yutaka Matsuo and Hikaru Yamamoto. Community Gravity: Measuring Bidirectional Effects by Trust and Rating on Online
• Shilad Sen, Jesse Vig and John Riedl. Tagommenders: Connecting Users to Items through Tags
• Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichtein and Hongyuan Zha. Learning to Recognize Reliable Users and Content in Social Media with Coupled Mutual Reinforcement
• Jérôme Kunegis, Andreas Lommatzsch and Christian Bauckhage. The Slashdot Zoo: Mining a Social Network with Negative Edges
• Dietwig Lowet and Daniel Goergen. Co-browsing dynamic web pages
• Anon Plangprasopchok and Kristina Lerman. Constructing Folksonomies from Userspecified Relations on Flickr
• Jose San Pedro and Stefan Siersdorfer. Ranking and Classifying Attractiveness of Photos in Folksonomies
• David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel Huttenlocher and Jon Kleinberg. Mapping the World's Photos
• Munmun De Choudhury, Hari Sundaram, Ajita John and Doree Seligmann. What Makes Conversations Interesting? Themes, Participants and Consequences of Conversations in Online Social Media
• Thomas Karagiannis and Milan Vojnovic. Behavioral Profiles for Advanced Email Features
• Cristian Danescu Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee. How opinions are received by online communities: A case study on Amazon.com helpfulness votes
• Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove and Krishna Gummadi. A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network

Comments

[Derek]

Hello matthew hurst,

My name is Derek and I live in South Florida, USA. I'm having difficulty emailing you through microsoft outlook, so I am writing this in attempt to ask you a question regarding a visualization network analysis project I came across a while ago. It was the best visual mapping application for my needs. I found it through a blog about 6 months ago. I used it twice and then thought I put it in my favorites, but it's no longer there. I've been scouring the internet from a long time trying to relocate it, but can longer find this one particular mapping application. It seems like a very basic and simple mapping tool. I'm hoping you can help me find it if I describe it accurately enough. I hope you are okay with me writing you through the comment section of your blog; I do apologize for that. The visual network mapping project is described as follows:

I enter the site. The site explains the program as a university project (unfortunately, i do not remember which university either) and that it's free to use. Then it explains how to use the application. Basically, it's a visual network mapping tool that allows you to create connections between people, companies, organizations, schools, government bodies, and things of that nature. It's like an all in one mapping tool. You start by typing, say, a person's name. Then, automatically, a bunch of branches sprout from the name into a circular web of related entities. If I remember correctly, you can choose the type of connections you want to create before the branches sprout. Then you can choose any of the sprouted connections and extend the web into a more complex, interrelated connection. This tool allowed me too see all the connection of people with affiliated companies, groups, governments, institutions, organizations..etc. It had a similar format to "theyrule.net", but it was magnitudes more broad in scope. I remember all the companies showing up with their respective logos and the organizations showing up with their respective logos...etc. I don't remember what the people showed up, but it was probably just little generic icons or something simple like that. For instance, I vaguely remember, for fun, I typed in marvin minsky (MIT AI Lab Founder) which created a web which containted "the singularity institute"..so I clicked "the singularity institute" which sprouted branches of everyone in "the singularity institute" so I clicked on "ray Kurzweil" then the web of branches extended to include many many branches, so I clicked on some name I did not recognize and it branched to the U.S. Senate...and then I clicked on the U.S. senate and it branched out to show all the senators...etc.

So, does this sort of mapping application sound familiar? I used it before, and would really like to locate it again.

Thank you. If you like, you could feel free to email me at Delatorre305@yahoo.com or I can follow up in this comment section. Either way, I would appreciate your help so much. Thank you.
Derek from South Florida.

[Marti]

Thanks for the helpful list!