Harvesting with SONAR: the value of aggregating social network information

  • Authors:
  • Ido Guy;Michal Jacovi;Elad Shahar;Noga Meshulam;Vladimir Soroka;Stephen Farrell

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Web 2.0 gives people a substantial role in content and metadata creation. New interpersonal connections are formed and existing connections become evident through Web 2.0 services. This newly created social network (SN) spans across multiple services and aggregating it could bring great value. In this work we present SONAR, an API for gathering and sharing SN information. We give a detailed description of SONAR, demonstrate its potential value through user scenarios, and show results from experiments we conducted with a SONAR-based social networking application. These suggest that aggregating SN information across diverse data sources enriches the SN picture and makes it more complete and useful for the end user.