A Social Bookmarking-Based People Search Service Building Communities of Practice with Collective Intelligence

Web Search Service In People Search And Resource Search

The various social networking websites can be roughly categorized into two types (Guo & Zhao, 2008). One is human-centered which refers to the websites such as MySpace, FaceBook, etc. These websites emphasize online connection between people. The so-called “connection” here refers to the interaction such as “Electronic Mail”, “Chat”, “Blog”, etc. These kinds of interaction will leave some records. By analyzing these records, researchers will have the information that shows the interrelationship between people. Early in 1993, Schwartz et al. had made use of the interactive records of interpersonal electronic mails along with Heuristic Graph Algorithms to explore people with shared interests or other relevant resources(Schwartz & Wood. 1993). Furthermore, Adamic & Adar (2005) pointed that interpersonal relationships can be analyzed by investigating the interactive process of electronic mail. Besides, Ali-Hasan and Adamic (2007) also indicated that the interests and specialties shared among people could be identified by analyzing the interactive records between bloggers and readers.