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Generalizing the "like" button: empowering websites with monitoring capabilities

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Jon Iturrioz,

Iker Azpeitia,

Oscar DíazAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 743 - 750

https://doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555026

Published: 24 March 2014 Publication History

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Increasingly, a user's action in a website might have an impact in other websites. The Like and ShareThis buttons are forerunners of this tendency whereby websites strive to influence and be influenced by the actions of their users in the websphere. The term Web Radar is coined to denote software that serves to impact a website (the host) from what is happening somewhere else in the websphere (i.e. the target). Current approaches provided limited expressivity in either the reactions (e.g. the Like button is limited to write entries on the user's wall in Facebook), or the range of participating sites (pre-set in the Radar platform, e.g. Ifttt). We believe supporting Radars as configurable services might account for more domain-specific Radars, i.e. Radars where the monitoring sites, the tracking conditions and the reactions are not fixed by the Radar platform but rather determined by the Radar host. This vision is confronted with three main challenges: API heterogeneity, scalability and technical complexities. We address these matters in RadarThis, a service that permits webmasters to set Web Radars for their websites. We capitalize on YQL to hide API complexity, and use trigger-like syntax to specify custom radar strategies. A case study is presented using the website Instapaper as the Radar host.

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Aldalur IWinckler MDíaz OPalanque P(2017)Web Augmentation as a Promising Technology for End User DevelopmentNew Perspectives in End-User Development10.1007/978-3-319-60291-2_17(433-459)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2017
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Generalizing the "like" button: empowering websites with monitoring capabilities
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web

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ISBN:9781450324694

DOI:10.1145/2554850

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Seoul National University, Korea
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Kyungpook National University, Korea
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Southern Polytechnic State University
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Soongsil University, South Korea

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