DocumentCode
508032
Title
No hotel in D.C.
Author
Bolici, Francesco
Author_Institution
OrgLab - DIAM, Cassino Univ., Cassino, Italy
fYear
2009
fDate
11-14 Nov. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
CouchSurfing.com (CS) is an online non-profit network that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries around the world. The project was lunched in 2004 and presently there are more than one million of registered CouchSurfers. CS community is a nexus of online and face to face relationships where most of Web 2.0 and social network externalities, privacy, security, etc. This is a first, brief, in progress and interpretative analysis of the SC system based on a participatory observation study started in August 2008.
Keywords
Internet; interactive programming; social networking (online); CouchSurfing community; Reality 2.0; Web 2.0; online non-profit network; social network; Business communication; Facebook; Information management; Intelligent networks; Organizing; Privacy; Production; Social network services; Tin; Twitter; CounchSurfing; collective intelligence; component; distribured social networks; network effects; web 2.0;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, 2009. CollaborateCom 2009. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN
978-963-9799-76-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-963-9799-76-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8389
Filename
5364830
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