Category Archives: Web

The Social Enterprise

With the widespread adoption of social (aka Web 2.0) technologies like social networks, blogs, and wikis, there is a growing interest in looking into how enterprises should capitalize on these technologies. The social enterprise is the one that on top … Continue reading

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Personal APIs: a new SM-related topic of research inquiry?

We have been using the term “Personal APIs” basically to refer to the use of Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) to programmatically access information about a person (e.g., personal basic info, health-related statistics, busy data) and/or trigger his/her human capabilities in a … Continue reading

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Moving Towards “Relationship-aware” Applications and Services: A Social Machine-oriented Approach

Paper published in the Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2013 , vol., no., pp.43,52, 9-13 Sept. 2013 Abstract The open, distributed approach of the Web and the relationship’s prevalence of applications and services is … Continue reading

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The Cost of Free (O Custo do Gratuito)

“free” é uma ilusão, a vida online é um comércio… Qual o custo que pagamos pelos serviços tidos como “gratuitos”? Já parou para se perguntar qual o modelo de negócio por trás disso? Por que o gmail e um monte … Continue reading

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