A Mobile-Based Service for Building Social Networks for Mobile Users

Abstract

Nowadays, social networks become popular with the emerging of web-based social networking services. Recently, several mobile services are developed to connect users to their favourite social networks such as Face book, Twitter, Flickr, etc. However, these services depends upon the existing web based social networks. In this paper, we present a mobile service called Mobilink for joining groups across communities. The originality of the work is that the framework of the service allows creating and joining social networks that are self contained for mobile company servers. The service consists of several sub-services such as users invitation, group finding and others. Users can use Mobil ink and its sub-services without the need to create their own accounts on social web sites and thus their own groups.