Title
A Study on Relationship Migration among Social Networking Providers
Abstract
User profiles backup and migration among social networking providers have become more urgent after the conflict between Tencent1, the largest Instant Messaging(IM) service provider in China, and Qihu3602, the largest antivirus company in China. So far, exchanging contact list among emails has been wildly used. Mainstream email service providers commonly make use of Comma Separated Value (CSV) files to export/import contact lists. Meanwhile, XML format is popular to transfer information among different platforms due to its rich hierarchical data structures. By using CSV files and XML files, we propose a new method to do relationship migration among social networking providers, which consists of three stages: 1) information retrieval from original social networking provider, 2) information storage and re-processing, and 3) relationship migration and recovery in the target provider. In order to evaluate our solution, we have designed and implemented a real experiment to test the migration from RenRen (the largest social network in China) to my Elgg (our test bed server).
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/MSN.2011.12
MSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
mainstream email service provider,social networking provider,largest instant messaging,information retrieval,relationship migration,original social networking provider,service provider,largest antivirus company,largest social network,social networking providers,information storage,social network,xml,data structures,computer viruses,electronic data interchange,test bed
Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Social network,XML,Electronic data interchange,Computer science,Computer virus,Comma-Separated Values,Computer network,Service provider,Hierarchical database model,Backup
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Suran Li1162.20
Lei Wang243364.21
Zhenquan Qin37614.43
Zhu Ming466.18
Shu Lei52927216.78