Understanding venue popularity in Foursquare

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, COLLABORATECOM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 409-418

  Long, Xuelian ^a   Jin, Lei ^a   Joshi, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Foursquare; Location based Social Network; Venue Popularity

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OWNERS; FOURSQUARE; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; MARKETING STRATEGY; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VENUE POPULARITY; WEB PRESENCE;

COMMERCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MOBILE DEVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

MARKETING;

EID: 84893622432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2013.254258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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