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Experiences running a prototype location-aware mobile social networking system

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Konstantinos Mourtzoukos,

Ioannis T. ChristouAuthors Info & Claims

MoMM '10: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1971519.1971579

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We report on lessons learnt from operating a location-aware mobile social networking application, and critical functionalities that are needed in order to provide a desirable user experience. As a result of user feedback, we enhanced our social networking system, G2G, with functionalities such as login with Facebook.com credentials without the need to sign up to our system first, and a much improved localization system that works across different mobile operators. These functionalities, combined with the ability of the system to upload/search/download location-aware multimedia notes, resulted in a significantly enhanced user experience as evidenced by higher user active participation in the system.

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Thomas LBriggs PLittle LDavis HHalpin HPentland ABernstein MAdamic LAlani HMonnin ARogers R(2013)Location tracking via social networking sitesProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference10.1145/2464464.2501852(405-412)Online publication date: 2-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2464464.2501852
Mourtzoukos KChristou IEfremidis S(2011)Experiences with G2G: a location‐aware mobile social networking systemInternational Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications10.1108/174273711111464007:2(98-113)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2011
https://doi.org/10.1108/17427371111146400

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Experiences running a prototype location-aware mobile social networking system
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Search engine architectures and scalability
      1. Distributed retrieval
      2. Peer-to-peer retrieval
  2. Information storage systems
    1. Storage architectures
      1. Distributed storage
      2. Storage network architectures

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ISBN:9781450304405

DOI:10.1145/1971519

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La Trobe University, Australia
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Monash University, Australia
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University of Bradford, UK

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Thomas LBriggs PLittle LDavis HHalpin HPentland ABernstein MAdamic LAlani HMonnin ARogers R(2013)Location tracking via social networking sitesProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference10.1145/2464464.2501852(405-412)Online publication date: 2-May-2013
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Mourtzoukos KChristou IEfremidis S(2011)Experiences with G2G: a location‐aware mobile social networking systemInternational Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications10.1108/174273711111464007:2(98-113)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2011
https://doi.org/10.1108/17427371111146400

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