Where the blogs tip: Connectors, mavens, salesmen and translators of the blogosphere

SOMA 2010 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Media Analytics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 106-114

  Budak, Ceren ^a   Agrawal, Divyakant ^a   El Abbadi, Amr ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectors; Heuristics; Information cascades; Mavens; Salesmen; Social networks; Translators

Indexed keywords

CONNECTORS; HEURISTICS; INFORMATION CASCADES; MAVENS; SALESMEN; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRANSLATORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BLOGS;

EID: 79956023385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1964858.1964873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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