Abstract—Web 2.0 websites provide a set of tools for internet users to produce and consume news items. Prominent examples of news production sites include Issuu (issuu.com) and FlippingBook (page-flip.com) which allows users to upload publication files and transform them into flash-animated online publications with integrated socialmedia- sharing and statistics-tracking features. A prominent example of news consumption site is Google News (news.google.com), which allows users some degree of control over the layout of the presentation of news feeds, including trusted news sources and extra category keywords, but offers no real editing and social sharing components. This proposed project bridges the gap between news production sites and news consumption sites in order to offer to any user - including non-profit organizations, student or professional news media organizations, and the average Internet user - the ability to create, share, and consume social news publications in a way that gives users complete control of the layout and content of their paper, the facilities to share designs and article collections socially, as well as provide related article suggestions all in a single easy to use horizontally scaling system.

Index Terms—web 2.0, web engineering, cloud computing, news, social networking, recommendation systems  

Cite: Jeff Luo, Jon Kivinen, Joshua Malo, and Richard Khoury, "Architecture of a Cloud-Based Social Networking News Site," Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 227-233, August 2012. doi:10.4304/jetwi.4.3.227-233