Integration of social networks and recommendation of social activities (II)

Abstract

Nowadays, the Internet users own multiple accounts on different Social Networking

Sites (SNSs). 90% of Internet users know at least one social network [Brown, 2010].

They are also active in connecting with people in SNS. Facebook statistics shows

that average Facebook user creates 90 pieces of content each month, has 130 friends,

and is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events. Knowing that each

user has great possibility of having more than one accounts, the number of activities

viewable by one person multiplies dramatically. As a result, the Internet users

experience information overload. For the above reasons, there is need of a tool to

integrate and recommend contents relevant to user interest.

In this report, the author describes related works, especially emerging web or

mobile applications that are close to both providing integration social networks and

recommendation of social activities. The author also explains architectures and

technical details on a prototype implementation of such web application, namely

SocConnect Web. Finally, the author concludes with strengths of the implementa-

tion and possible future improvements.