Social information processing

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. According to Jimmy Wales, its mission is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to every person in the world.

Facebook is an American social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The name Facebook derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.

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online platform that facilitates the building of social relations

intangible asset consisting of ownership of ideas and processes

Flickr ( ) is an image and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was for a time a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. Flickr was owned by Yahoo! from 2005 and has been owned by SmugMug since 2018.

theoretical concept in sociology

information assets characterized by such a high volume, velocity, and variety to require specific technology and analytical methods for its transformation into value

online discussion site

Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, stylized as G+ or g+) was a social network owned and operated by Google until it ceased operations in 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products like Google Drive, Blogger, Google AdSense, and YouTube. The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics varied, depending on how the service was defined. Three Google executives oversaw the service, which underwent substantial changes that

World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites

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form of society

approach to generating value

social network of individuals who interact through specific social media

software framework for real-time collaborative editing online

online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents

national reputation system being developed by the Chinese government

information filtering system to predict users' preferences

conspiracy theory about the World Wide Web

Digg (stylized in lowercase as digg) is an American social bookmarking news aggregator, with a feed that displays the internet's most popular content (Most Dugg), Newest, Trending, and content that’s "Heating up." It was re-launched in its current form in June 2025.

collection of names and addresses used to send material to multiple recipients

American systems scientist

Volunteer project using software to search for Mersenne prime numbers

new practices aimed at solving social challenges

use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials

information system approach to facilitate and manage multi-dimensional data analysis

virtual community that exists online

distributed social network based on software of the same name

type of software

Time Person of the Year

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analysis of social structures using network and graph theory

algorithm

worker whose main capital is knowledge

micro-work service subsidiary of Amazon

exchange where participants trade contracts based on the outcome of real-world events, with prices reflecting implied probabilities

type of organization

form of optimization

process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization

that a group is able to make far better decisions than any individual in the group

2004 non-fiction work by James Surowiecki

Datafication is a technological trend turning many aspects of our life into data, which is then converted into information, thereby manifesting as a new form of value.

contamination of information supply with irrelevant, redundant, unsolicited and low-value information

software agent that communicates on social media

process of gathering and analyzing data from social media

social network

activity of monitoring the output of the print, online and broadcast media

digital-communication coordinated group

FriendFeed was a real-time feed aggregator that consolidated updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and microblogging updates, as well as any type of RSS/Atom feed. It was created in 2007 by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh. It was possible to use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share, as well as originate new posts-discussions, (and comment) with friends. Friendfeed was built on top of Tornado. The service was shut down at about 21:00 GMT on April 10, 2015, though the service blog announced

the act of influencing, controlling, enhancing, or concealing of an individual's or group's reputation

interdisciplinary academic research area regarding influences & impacts of technologies

term of technology that enabled social interactions

community rating algorithm

freely available source code, design documents or content source for possible modification and redistribution to the public

Sociotechnology (short for "social technology") is the study of processes on the intersection of society and technology. Vojinović and Abbott define it as "the study of processes in which the social and the technical are indivisibly combined". Sociotechnology is an important part of socio-technical design, which is defined as "designing things that participate in complex systems that have both social and technical aspects".

Numbeo is a Serbian crowd-sourced online database of perceived consumer prices, real property prices, and quality of life metrics. The website was founded in April 2009 by former Google employee Mladen Adamović, to enable users to share and compare information about the cost of living between countries and cities. Since 2012, the website has been operated by NUMBEO DOO Beograd-Palilula, a Serbian private limited company run by Adamović. According to Adamović, the website earns money through advertising and the sale of subscriptions to its API.

Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributors to select a user license type for the designs that they share. 3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines and many other technologies can be used to physically create the files shared by the users on Thingiverse.

system that removes redundant or unwanted information at a semantic level

Evaluation of social media metrics