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: 4.7507393e-05
Overall Rank: 7,346 | 48.95%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,645	CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning	2009	SIGMOD	4.6847503e-05
8,547	Entangled Transactions	2011	VLDB	4.4893996e-05

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