Social Browsing on Flickr

摘要: The new social media sites—blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others—underscore the transformation of Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating distributing information. photo-sharing site for example, allows upload photographs, view photos created by others, comment on those photos, etc. As is common other sites, Flickr designate others as "contacts" track their activ- ities real time. contacts (or friends) lists form network backbone sites. These networks facilitate ways interacting with information, e.g., through what we call browsing. inter- face enables see latest images submitted friends. Through an extensive analysis data, show that browsing contacts' photo streams one primary methods find Flickr. This finding has implications creat- ing personalized recommendation systems based user's declared lists.