Monthly Archives: May 2012

Shared interests on social networks

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Amir AryaArjmand

As we proposed earlier, sharing interests is the core part of our social network. Users express their interests in order to find others with the same tastes. There are researches available on the topic of interest-based social networking that we … Continue reading →

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APIs – Fetching User’s Interests from Existing Sites

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

To help make the process of adding interests to the user’s interest list easier, a number of APIs from other websites will be considered to fetch the user’s interest information if they are members of the other websites. Facebook To … Continue reading →

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Usability Evaluation

Posted on May 10, 2012 by pt4g11

Usability is a measure of interface quality that refers to the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which users can perform tasks with a tool. Evaluating usability is now considered an essential part of the system development process. Evaluating a system’s … Continue reading →

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Recommendation System of Hive

Posted on May 10, 2012 by pt4g11

One of Hive’s most amazing features is the recommendations that users will get. Hive recommends users other users who are likely to be similar based on their interests. Also, a user will get interest recommendations based on their past behavior … Continue reading →

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Hive – The Features

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

Registration/Adding Interests At registration, the user will be prompted to add their interests and optional details such as real name, location, gender and D.O.B (this personal information will not be shared with any third parties without the user’s permission, and … Continue reading →

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What Makes Hive Different?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

Hive is a place for people to connect with each other through the things they love. It is a place where people can share, discuss, and discover. It is a place people can be passionate about their favourite things together, … Continue reading →

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Use Case Diagrams

Posted on May 4, 2012 by pt4g11

In this post, we show some of the main functionality of Hive, in a series of Use case diagrams: Sign Up Sign In Edit Interest Information Post Comment Find Friends

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Making conversations, not just connections!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Amir AryaArjmand

Watch Sherry’s “Connected, but alone?” TEDTalk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html Sherry Turkle studies how technology is shaping our modern relationships – our relationships with others, ourselves, and with technology itself. In this talk, “Connected, but alone?”, she states that “technology is so … Continue reading →

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Similarity breeds connection

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Amir AryaArjmand

In the 1950s, sociologists introduced the homophily principle, explaining the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others. Marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, co-membership, and other types of relationship structures network ties of every type. … Continue reading →

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