Joel Amoussou's Adventures in Computing: Semantic Social Computing

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The Web 2.0 revolution has produced an explosion in social data that is fundamentally transforming business, politics, culture, and society in general. Using tools such as wikis, blogs, online forums, and social networking sites, users can now express their point of view, build relationships, and exchange ideas and multimedia content. Combined with portable electronic devices such as cameras and cell phones these tools are enabling the citizen journalist who can report facts and events faster than traditional media outlets and government agencies.

One of the challenges posed by this explosion in social data is data portability between social networking sites. But the next biggest challenge will be the ability to harvest all that social data in order to extract actionable intelligence (e.g. a better understanding of consumer behavior or the events unfolding at a particular location). In addition, in a world where security has become the number one priority, ...

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