Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Furht, Borko. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer network architectures.; Information systems.; Multimedia systems.; Social sciences > Data processing.; Information Systems.; Computer Science.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7142-5

Social networking is a concept that has existed for a long time; however, with the explosion of the Internet, social networking has become a tool for people to connect and communicate in ways that were impossible in the past. The recent development of Web 2.0 has provided many new applications, such...

Table of Contents:

• Web and software technologies for social networks
• Social network analysis
• Communication and P2P infrastructures for social networks
• Standards for social networks
• Web-mining techniques for social networks analysis
• Visualizing online social networks
• Mobile social networks
• Social networks and semantic Web
• Intelligent social network modeling
• Privacy and security issues for social networks
• Social network case studies
• Social network applications
• Online advertising on social networks
• Future of the social networks on the Internet.