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A person more is likely to lie on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and online dating portals than in a face-to-face conversation, suggest experts.

Solar as a Social Network?

By Stephen Lacey

Patrick Crane knows a thing or two about building networks. As the Former VP of Marketing for the popular business networking website LinkedIn from 2007 to 2010, Crane helped dramatically expand the site’s reach and influence at a time when Facebook was beating down competitors like Friendster and Myspace.

Today, LinkedIn has become the go-to place for business networking – racking up more than 85 million users, 900 employees and, according to Bloomberg, growing to an estimated $2.9 billion in worth. The company is currently positioning itself for an IPO.

Now Crane is taking his understanding of building business around online networks and applying it to the solar industry. Last week, the web-based solar-services company Sungevity announced that Crane had joined on as Chief Marketing Officer – beefing up the company’s already internet-savvy team. (More Information)

This document, Facebook and SOTON Student Connect, is available to download from DropBox. In case of any modification, please update all the versions. You have to update word document, PDF document in DropBox Folder and Also this post.

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By: Amir Sezavar Keshavarz

Facebook and SOTON Student Connect

These days, a lot of people have Facebook account and a lot of them check their profile almost every day. They add their old friends, find friends and use a lot more features that this social network site provides.

Facebook is aimed for broader group of people and has not restricted on specific group of people. However in our case, we are designing and implementing a social network site only for students of the University of Southampton.

If we want to compare our features with Facebook:

Feature	Facebook	SOTON Student Connect
Personal Profile	Almost every social network site has some kind of profile for their users in which they can share specific information based on how much information they want to share. The items here might be different for every social network sites because they might target different kind of users and as such there are different needs.
Field of Study Enrolled modules	Facebook only allows the users to add their education history.		In our social network site, we are going to add more features. After a user adds his field of study and enrolled modules, he is able to participate in course related activities arranged and facilitated by the system. The system will generate a list detailing all students who have registered for each module. Students will then be able to identify their potential friends who have registered for the same modules and can proceed to create study and project group which will facilitate collaboration and will provide the students with enhanced study experience.
Accommodation	Facebook has nothing regarding accommodation because the market is different.		Accommodation is an important section of our website. This section provides a good facility for students who will stay in university accommodations. The system can generate friend suggestion based on living in the same halls of residence. In addition the system will provide a facility for students to write reviews and rate their halls of residence
Groups Communities	There are some similarities between Facebook and our proposed system. In both systems, users are able to create new groups and invite their friends.
Calendar	No calendar feature in Facebook		The calendar section is another important section of our website which could be very handy for users. Each student will be provided with a personal calendar by which users can organize their lives and add personal or university events.
Events	The event feature is similar in both systems in which everyone can add events.

As noted earlier, the market is different for these two systems. The needs for university students are different. We are going to research more on these needs, such as questionnaire and interview, to find out more about these needs and then design a system for them.

App Watch: Ning Tries to Turn Smartphones Into Social Networks

By Geoffrey A. Fowler

Ning, the startup backed by Internet entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, is known for hosting social network-style websites. Now it’s seizing on smartphones, hoping to move users past conventional texting, email and instant-messaging.

On Monday evening, the company unveiled an app for Apple iOS, Android and other mobile devices that is designed to turn a phone’s contact list into a social network that lets users live chat, share photos and video and even do goofy things like play videogame tennis with cartoon sheep. (More Information)

By Kanan Farzaliyev

Watch and Learn:

• How to Build a Community Website: A series of videos hosted on YouTube for teaching how to build a communite Website. This is the first part. This part is about how to build a dynamic member based portal, community web site, or social network using PHP, MySQL, and Flash ActionScript 3.0.
• Web Intersect Friend Add System: Another series of tutorial hosted in YouTube for learning how to build a custom friend adding and management application system using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery.

Read and Learn:

• Create a Social Networking Site with Ning: With this tool, once can build a social destination to create a community. Ning is the leading online platform for the world’s organizers, activists and influencers to create their own social network.

BBC – The Virtual Revolution

In this series, Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how the World Wide Web is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. She explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise. (More Information)

Similar case of our project in Korea.

There is a community on internet before enroll University.

I do not know when it’s started but at least it has had around 10 years in Korea. ( I used this kind of community before I started university in 2003.)

It is limited in university such as students of Uni of Soton, students of Oxford Uni. They do not care about degree, because they would be separated themselves and be made by manager (fresher or existed students) a specific board.

They are sharing simple information like who they are, where they live, what is their contact no.

It will helpful to make close each other. So they can be a group before start university and reduce an embarrassing if they don’t know where the lecture room

And have a meeting themselves (occasionally their senior will participate in that group meeting for helping them about university life.)

Usually, fresher will make a question and senior answer them.

They can ask what they will learn. Which module will be got easy point, which professor is good for students and how to make a timetable.

Of course, it all happens before start University.

Taekyun Will Kim
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
1	Social Networks, the Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement in Innovation	Download	Download
2	Similar case of our project in Korea	Download	Download
3	Online Social Networking Issues Within Academia and Pharmacy Education	Download	Download
4	SOCIAL NETWORKING AND DOPA	Download	Download
Shahin Jahromi
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
5	The benefits of Facebook “Friends:” social capital and college student’s use of online social network sites	Download	Download
6	Social network sites: definition, history and scholarship	Download	Download
7	A model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social network	Download	Download
Kanan Farzaliyev
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
8	Introducing Web 2.0: social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians	Download	Download
9	What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software	Download	Download
10	Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship	Download	Download
11	Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook	Download	Download
12	Facing the Facebook	Download	Download
Botong Li
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
13	A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States	Download	Download
14	‘Screw Blackboard… do it on Facebook!’: an investigation of students’ educational use of Facebook	Download	Download
15	College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook	Download	Download
16	Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook	Download	Download
17	Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?	Download	Download
18	Student Life on the Facebook	Download	Download
Amir Sezavar Keshavarz
Row	Title	Original Paper	Review
19	Legal Issues in Social Networking	Download	Download
20	Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace	Download	Download
21	Motivations for Social Networking at Work	Download	Download

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6. A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States Susan B. Barnes, First Monday Vol 11, 2006
7. ‘Screw Blackboard… do it on Facebook!’: an investigation of students’ educational use of Facebook Neil Selwyn, University of London, 2007
8. College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook Tiffany A. Pempek, Yevdokiya A. Yermolayeva, Sandra L. Calvert, Journal Of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
9. Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook Anne Hewitt and Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
10. Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? John Thompson, Journal of Online, 2007
11. Student Life on the Facebook Fred Stutzman, University of North Carolina, 2006
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13. Dwyer, C., Hiltz, S.R. and Passerini, K., Trust and Privacy Concern Within Social Networking Sites: A Comparison of Facebook and MySpace. In Proc AMCIS 2007 (2007)
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