Abstract Information is essential in our society and for organizations. But the flood of
information affects enterprises as well as individuals also in a negative way. This problem is …

A significant amount of research has focused on blogs, bloggers, and blogging. However,
relatively little work has examined blog readers, their interactions with bloggers, or their …

Microblogging environments such as Twitter present a modality for interacting with
information characterized by exposure to information “streams”. In this work, we examine …

Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, supplemented by other information
search portals like Wikipedia, have become the means for searching information on the …

Activity streams have become prevalent on the web and are starting to emerge in
enterprises. In this work, we present Streamz, a novel application that uses a faceted search …

Active users of social networks are subjected to extreme information overload, as they tend
to follow hundreds (or even thousands of other users). Aggregated social feeds on sites like …

The activity stream, which syndicates user activities across social media, has been gaining
popularity on the web. With social media infiltrating the enterprise and higher portions of the …

This paper presents a research project on the design of a cross-channel information
management tool for knowledge workers: we focus on IT services professionals in a large …

Information overload is an increasing challenge for the enterprise knowledge worker.
Traditional information retrieval, ie Search-based approaches for knowledge management …

Online social network services, such as Facebook and Twitter, have become increasingly
popular recently. More and more users are accustomed to regularly reading the latest news …