Thanks for a great Hypertext conference!

I'd like to thank all the organizers for a great Hypertext conference! I thoroughly enjoyed it and meeting with lots of familiar faces and new ones. To remember the moments we shared together, I have placed all the photos that I took from the conference on my Flickr site. I had some people come to me to ask if I would put some notes from the talks on my blog. I'll do that when I have time and head back to Toronto.

See you all in Pittsburgh in Hypertext 2008!

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Hypertext conference starts next week

There's only 4 days until the Hypertext conference starts in Manchester, England. It looks to be a great programme of papers and events. I'll be presenting my paper on "Identifying Subcommunities in Social Hypertext" on September 12 at 12 pm, yes right before lunch!

I look forward to meeting with people from last year's Hypertext which I presented, and meeting with new people.

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Camera ready of Hypertext paper submitted and CASCON short paper accepted!

I just submitted the camera ready version of the short paper for the Hypertext conference called Identifying Subcommunities Using Cohesive Subgroups in Social Hypertext. It was a challenge to take the originally submitted 8 page full paper and cut it down to 4 pages, but I believe it's more focussed. The Hypertext conference is in Manchester, UK and goes from September 10 to 12. I will post the paper just right after the conference.

On another note, I also got another paper accepted to the CASCON conference in October in Toronto. It's also a short paper and I'm right now working on the camera ready version. So look for both papers towards September, as well as podcasts and slides from my talks. They will be nice additions of case studies to my PhD thesis.

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Paper accepted to Hypertext 2007 conference

I just got notified that my paper called "Structural Analysis of Virtual Community in Social Hypertext Networks" has been accepted at the Hypertext 2007 conference which is in Manchester, UK this year from September 10 to 12. I had a paper last year at Hypertext 2006 called "A Social Hypertext Model for Finding Community in Blogs" which was in Odense, Denmark.

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Facebook opens site to developers

Facebook has now opened its site to developers. What does this mean? Developers can add Facebook functionality and tools to their own web site, essentially tapping into the Facebook social network and community. I think what this will lead to is 'social mashup', adding social networking features to web sites and make web sites more 'social'. Web sites don't have to create their own social networking tools and features, when they can use Facebook. It will be interesting, perhaps there might be a logo on a web site that says "Facebook certified", or "Facebook approved", or "Facebook enabled", or "Facebook compatible". I believe this is the start of creating an open social networking platform for the web, and in essence, "socializing" the web. Perhaps, using Facebook on a web site, is a way of creating and maintaining a sense of community part of my PhD research.

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