Title: Implementation of a social widget system for enhancing the interaction among social networking websites

Authors: Yi-Hsing Chang; Kai-Xiang Chang

Addresses: Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 1, Nan-Tai Street, Yungkang Dist., Tainan City 710, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 1, Nan-Tai Street, Yungkang Dist., Tainan City 710, Taiwan

Abstract: Social networking websites are more and more prosperous and with the development of Web 3.0, social interaction is becoming easier and more widespread. To effectively enhance the interaction among social networking websites, a social widget system is proposed in this paper. The features of the system include: simplification of social networking website operation, cross-platform interaction and maintenance of users' custom operating platform, two-way interaction of real friends, document search functions, collection, discussion, and individual recommendations. To assess the performance of the proposed system, we first conducted a questionnaire analysis based on the technology acceptance model. The results show that the research scale is highly reliable and that all assumptions made are valid. That is, the users are satisfied with the interaction among the social websites supported by the system and therefore the system can effectively enhance the interaction among social networking websites.

Keywords: Web 3.0; social networking sites; SNS; social interaction; technology acceptance model; TAM; scale reliability analysis; social networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2016.078438

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2016 Vol.13 No.2, pp.183 - 196

Received: 17 Sep 2012
Accepted: 06 Apr 2013

Published online: 19 Aug 2016 *

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