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Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends?

Summary: Presents CourseRank, a course-evaluation/planning social system, using its implementation to reveal social-site-specific design and data-management issues. Argues such systems pose novel DB research challenges—privacy, trust, incentives, heterogeneous social data, and UI/analytics—that deserve DB community attention. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
134
Venue
CIDR
Year
2009
Pagerank
4.755301e-05
Overall Rank
7,349 | 48.88%
DOI
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7,646 CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning 2009 SIGMOD 4.689182e-05
8,550 Entangled Transactions 2011 VLDB 4.4937074e-05
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