Recommender System for the Social Web

The emergence and deployment of new digital communication technologies (3G mobile networks, digital television, xDSL, home automation networks, etc.) has led to a gradual increase in speed while a steady decline in prices at Internet connections. Moreover, since much longer ago, the continuing advances in electronic technology have led to a steady rise in computer performance at a price increasingly smaller, which has turned the computer into a product accessible to everyone, at least in developed countries. More recently, again advances in electronic technology have made possible the emergence of new Internet devices (game consoles, mobile phones, PDAs, tablets, etc.) that paint a scenario in which ubiquitous access to the Information Society is no longer an illusion.